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Voter turnout decreased throughout Sweden

by AI | 11.Jun 2024 | Europe in brief AI

Voter turnout declined in this year’s election to the EU Parliament. Almost half of all eligible Swedish voters did not go to the polls.

Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa

According to preliminary figures from the Election Authority, 50.7 percent of eligible Swedish voters voted in the EU election. But there are still about a quarter of a million votes left to count, so the total will increase.

“You should add three percentage points, I would guess. It will probably end up at 53 something,” says election researcher Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson to TT.

This means that the Swedes then become a little better than the average in the EU, which is 51 percent participation. But in the previous EU election, 55.3 percent of eligible Swedish voters voted. And with the decline, the trend of higher voter turnout in the EU elections is broken.

The highest voter turnout is in municipalities where residents generally have both higher incomes and higher education. At the bottom are municipalities with the opposite relationship.

(June 11)