This article lists political parties in Sweden.

Sweden has a multi-party system

Multi-party system

A multi-party system is a system in which multiple political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition, e.g.The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition in the United Kingdom formed in 2010. The effective number of parties in a multi-party system is normally...

 with numerous political parties, in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition government

Coalition government

A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament...

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The parties

The letter or letters in brackets after each Swedish party name are the abbreviations commonly used for those parties in the Swedish media

Media in Sweden

Swedish media has a long tradition going back to the 1776 law enacting freedom of the press.The press is subsidized by the government and is owned by many actors, the dominant owner being Bonnier AB. Swedish TV and Radio was until the mid 1980s a government monopoly, which slowly has been eroded...

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Parties with official representation

Parties represented in the Parliament of Sweden

Parliament of Sweden

The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...

 or the European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

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Name			Ideology	MPs Parliament of Sweden The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...	MEPs Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...	Membership
	Swedish Social Democratic Party Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889... Sveriges Socialdemokratiska arbetarparti	S	Social democracy Social democracy Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism... , Democratic Socialism Democratic socialism Democratic socialism is a description used by various socialist movements and organizations to emphasize the democratic character of their political orientation...	112	5	103,027 (2009)
	Moderate Party Moderate Party The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament... Moderata samlingspartiet	M	Conservatism Conservatism Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism... , Corporatism Corporatism Corporatism, also known as corporativism, is a system of economic, political, or social organization that involves association of the people of society into corporate groups, such as agricultural, business, ethnic, labor, military, patronage, or scientific affiliations, on the basis of common...	107	4	55,612
	Green Party Green Party (Sweden) -External links:**... Miljöpartiet de Gröna	MP	Green politics Green politics Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...	25	2	10,635 (2009)
	Liberal People's Party Liberal People's Party (Sweden) The Liberal People's Party is a political party in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right coalition The Alliance, which achieved a majority in the general election of 17 September 2006... Folkpartiet Liberalerna	FP	Social liberalism Social liberalism Social liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It differs from classical liberalism in that it believes the legitimate role of the state includes addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding... , Pro-Europeanism	24	3	17,875 (2009)
	Centre Party Centre Party (Sweden) The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social... Centerpartiet	C	Centrism Centrism In politics, centrism is the ideal or the practice of promoting policies that lie different from the standard political left and political right. Most commonly, this is visualized as part of the one-dimensional political spectrum of left-right politics, with centrism landing in the middle between... , Green Liberalism Green liberalism Green liberalism is a term used to refer to liberals who have incorporated green concerns into their ideology.- Philosophy :Green liberalism values the Earth very highly, and this philosophy highly values the planet being passed down to the next generation unharmed... , Agrarianism Agrarianism Agrarianism has two common meanings. The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values...	23	1	37,340 (2009)
	Sweden Democrats Sweden Democrats The Sweden Democrats is a political party in Sweden, founded in 1988. SD describes itself as a nationalist movement although others use the term far-right. Since 2005, its party chairman is Jimmie Åkesson, while Björn Söder is the party secretary and parliamentary group leader. An Anemone... Sverigedemokraterna	SD	Nationalism Nationalism Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what... , National conservatism National conservatism National conservatism is a political term used primarily in Europe to describe a variant of conservatism which concentrates more on national interests than standard conservatism as well as upholding cultural and ethnic identity, while not being outspokenly nationalist or supporting a far-right...	20	0	5,846 (2010)
	Pirate Party Piratpartiet	PP	Intellectual property Intellectual property Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...  reform	0	2	10,457 (2011)
	Christian Democrats Christian Democrats (Sweden) The Christian Democrats ) is a political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1964 but did not enter parliament until 1985 in an electoral cooperation with the Centre Party and on the Christian Democrats' own accord in 1991. The leader since April 3, 2004 is Göran Hägglund. He succeeded Alf... Kristdemokraterna	KD	Christian democracy Christian Democracy Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching... , Social conservatism Social conservatism Social Conservatism is primarily a political, and usually morally influenced, ideology that focuses on the preservation of what are seen as traditional values. Social conservatism is a form of authoritarianism often associated with the position that the federal government should have a greater role...	19	1	22,320 (2009)
	Left Party Left Party (Sweden) The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations... Vänsterpartiet	V	Socialism Socialism Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,... , Feminism Feminism Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...	19	1	8,706 (2009)

Note: the four cabinet

Cabinet (government)

A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...

 parties (the Centre Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberal People's Party and the Moderate Party) have formed Alliance for Sweden

Alliance for Sweden

The Alliance , formerly Alliance for Sweden , is a political alliance in Sweden. It consists of the four centre-right parties in the Riksdag...

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Other parties

• Feminist Initiative
  Feminist Initiative (Sweden)
  Feminist Initiative is a feminist political party in Sweden. The party was formed in 2005 and announced on 9 September 2005 that it would put up candidates for the 2006 parliamentary elections in Sweden...
  
   (Feministiskt initiativ) (fi) – represented in the European Parliament 2006–2009 through defection by Maria Robsahm
• June List
  June List
  The June List is a Swedish, eurosceptic political party. Founded in 2004, it received 14% in the European Parliament election of the same year - gaining three seats. In the elections of 2009, however, it saw an 11% slump in support and lost all of its seats...
  
   (Junilistan) (jl) – represented in the European Parliament 2004–2009

Note: Any party having broken the 1% threshold in the last two EU-parliament or Riksdag elections respectively will have their ballots printed and distributed by the authorities.

Minor parties

• Aktivdemokrati
  Aktivdemokrati
  Aktiv Demokrati is a Swedish political party that wants to enable direct democracy mixed with representative democracy based on demand by each individual through safe digital solutions like the Internet, telephones or automated teller machines....
  
   (Direct democratic party)
• Centre Democrats
  Centre Democrats (Sweden)
  The Centre Democrats is a minor political party in Sweden, founded in 1974. While the party has described itself as a "centre alternative," it has been described externally as a right-wing populist party. It agitated against immigration from the 1980s, but toned down the issue in the 2000s,...
  
   (Centrumdemokraterna)
• Classical Liberal Party, (Klassiskt Liberala Partiet) (KLP)
• Communist Party
  Communist Party (Sweden)
  The Communist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in Sweden.1970-1977 it was known as the Communist League Marxist-Leninists and during 1977-2004 it had the name Communist Party Marxist-Leninists ...
  
   (Kommunistiska Partiet)
• Communist Party of Sweden
  Communist Party of Sweden (1995)
  The Communist Party of Sweden is the continuation of Workers' Party – The Communists .- History :...
  
   (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti)
• European Worker's Party (Europeiska Arbetarpartiet)
• Health Care Party
  Health Care Party
  The Health Care Party is a political party in Sweden that concentrates on healthcare issues. It regards itself as cross-political single-issue party.The party is constituted by six regional parties;*Health Care Party of Dalarna...
  
   (Sjukvårdspartiet) (svp)
• National Democrats
  National Democrats (Sweden)
  The National Democrats is a minor political party in Sweden, formed by a faction of the Sweden Democrats in October 2001. The party describes itself as a democratic nationalist and ethnopluralist party....
  
   (Nationaldemokraterna)
• Party of the Swedes (Svenskarnas Parti)
• Right-wing Party the Conservatives
  Right-wing Party the Conservatives
  Högerpartiet de konservativa , a minor Swedish political party, founded in 2003....
  
   (Högerpartiet de konservativa)
• Socialist Party
  Socialist Party (Sweden)
  The Socialistiska Partiet is a Swedish political party, the Swedish section of the Fourth International. The party was formed at a congress in 1971, through the merger of the Revolutionary Marxists and the Bolshevik Group . Initially it was called League of Revolutionary Marxists...
  
   (Socialistiska Partiet)
• Socialist Justice Party (Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna)
• Communist League
  Communist League (Sweden)
  Communist League . A small political communist party in Sweden, connected to the Socialist Workers Party of the United States, and distributor of the Militant and part of the Pathfinder organization....
  
   (Kommunistiska Förbundet)
• Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party
  Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party
  The Swedish Senior Citizen Interest Party is a political party in Sweden. , it holds no seats in parliament, but is represented in numerous local and regional councils.-External links:*...
  
   (Sveriges Pensionärers Intresseparti) (spi)
• Social Party (Sociala Partiet) (SP)
• Unique Party
  Unique Party
  The Unique Party was a minor Swedish political party founded by model and Big Brother participant Linda Rosing.The party was announced late July and officially founded following a press conference in Stockholm on August 3, 2006, a little more than a month before the upcoming election...
  
   (Unika partiet)
• Unity
  Unity (Sweden)
  Unity is a small political party in Sweden. The party was founded on April 6, 1990. The party is heavily influenced by New Age ideas, and claims to represent a spiritual alternative in politics....
  
   (Enhet)
• Liquor Party (Spritpartiet)

Local parties

• Alternative (Alternativet)
• Alvesta Alternative
  Alvesta Alternative
  Alvesta Alternative a local political party in Alvesta, Sweden. Founded in 1991 by 27 expelled member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. AA has been present in the municipal council since 1991...
  
   (Alvesta Alternativet)
• Axel Ingmar's List - Avesta Party
  Axel Ingmar's List - Avesta Party
  Axel Ingmar's List - Avesta Party , a local populist political party in Avesta, Sweden. AILAP was launched in 1994, just 12 days ahead of the elections...
  
   (Axel Ingmars Lista – Avestapartiet)
• Berg Party
  Berg Party
  Berg Party a local political party in Berg, Sweden, formed ahead of the 2002 elections. Party leader is Olle Nord, a former local leader of the Centre Party....
  
   (Bergspartiet)
• Bergas Bästa - partipolitiskt obunden lista
  Bergas Bästa - partipolitiskt obunden lista
  Bergas Bästa - partipolitiskt obunden lista a local political party in Ljungby Municipality, Sweden. It is based in the village of Berga.In the 2002 municipal elections the party got 288 votes of the votes in the entire municipality), and one seat . In Berga it got 12.2% in Berga East electoral...
  
  
• Bopartiet
  Bopartiet
  Bopartiet a local political party in Ludvika, Sweden. The party was founded in 1985. In its initial election programme it had two main demands:* Implementation of the Street Cost Law...
  
  
• Botkyrkapartiet
• Citizens Party: School - Health Care - Care
  Citizens Party: School - Health Care - Care
  Citizens Party: School - Health Care - Care a local political party in Hultsfred, Sweden. The party is led by Göran Berglund. The party was founded in 1998.M:svo has been accused of racism....
  
   (Medborgarpartiet: skola – vård – omsorg)
• Cooperation in Mullsjö
  Cooperation in Mullsjö
  Cooperation in Mullsjö a local political party in Mullsjö, Sweden. In the 2002 municipal polls SIM got 34 votes but failed to win any seat. The list of SIM had only one name, Leif Dencker....
  
   (Samverkan i Mullsjö)
• Drevviken Party
  Drevviken Party
  The Drevviken Party is a local political party in Huddinge Municipality, Sweden. The party advocates that Trångsund and Skogås should separate from Huddinge and form a separate municipality....
  
   (Drevvikenpartiet)
• Fair Democracy  (Rättvis Demokrati)
• Falu Party
  Falu Party
  The Falu Party a local political party in Falun, Sweden. Party leader is Ulf Elgemyr.In 1998 FP got 10.9% of the votes and six seats in the municipal council...
  
   (Falupartiet)
• Folkhemmet i Hofors-Torsåker
  Folkhemmet i Hofors-Torsåker
  Folkhemmet i Hofors-Torsåker is a local political party in Hofors, Sweden. The party was formed ahead of the 2002 elections. Pär Åslund founded the party after having been expelled from the Green Party. It got 379 votes and two seats in the municipal council...
  
  
• Free Democrats of Arjeplog
  Free Democrats of Arjeplog
  Free Democrats of Arjeplog a local political party in Arjeplog, Sweden.In the 2002 municipal polls it got 157 votes and three seats . The party forms part of a local government coalition consisting of the Social Democrats, Centre Party and AFD....
  
   (Arjeplogs Fria Demokrater)
• Free Norrland (Fria Norrland)
• Free Trade Party of Norrbotten
  Free Trade Party of Norrbotten
  Free Trade Party of Norrbotten a local political party in Haparanda, Sweden. The party is pro-European Union.In the 2002 municipal polls it got 248 votes and two seats....
  
   (Norrbottens Frihandelsparti)
• Frihetliga Ljusdalsbygden
  Frihetliga Ljusdalsbygden
  Frihetliga Ljusdalsbygden a joint candidature of Frihetliga Kommunalfolket and Rädda Ljusdalsbygden in Ljusdal, Sweden. FLB contested the 2002 municipal elections and got 551 votes and two seats...
  
  
• Future Party
  Future Party
  Future Party a local political party in Tingsryd, Sweden. Party leader is Ulf Nygren.In the 2002 municipal polls it got 420 votes and three seats....
  
   (Framtidspartiet)
• Future of Mullsjö
  Future of Mullsjö
  Future of Mullsjö a local political party in Mullsjö, Sweden, formed ahead of the 2002 elections.In the 2002 municipal polls MF got 374 votes and three seats.Category:Swedish local political parties...
  
   (Mullsjös Framtid)
• Health Care for Everybody
  Omsorg för Alla
  Omsorg för Alla is a political party in Dalarna, Sweden. It was formed in 2006 by Lars-Erik Skoglund, a highly regarded and former Social Democrat that got banned from his former party. The party claims to have 150 members. The party has representation in Borlänge municipal council....
  
   (Omsorg för Alla)
• Hedemora Party
  Hedemora Party
  Hedemora Party is a local political party in Hedemora, Sweden. It was founded in March 2002 by a group of former Social Democrats. The split was caused by the accusation that the local branch in Långshyttan controlled the entire party municipality, and thus the entire municipality...
  
   (Hedemorapartiet)
• Kiruna Party
  Kiruna Party
  Kirunapartiet is a local political party in Kiruna Municipality, Sweden. It was founded in 1994 as a splinter group of the local branch of the Social Democrats and was led by Lars Törnman from 1994 until 2010, when Törnman left the party for the Social Democrats...
  
   (Kirunapartiet)
• Kommunens Bästa - Ölandspartiet
  Kommunens Bästa - Ölandspartiet
  Kommunens Bästa - Ölandspartiet a local political party in Öland, Sweden. KBÖ is one of the older Swedish local populist parties, having had representation in the Borgholm municipality, the northern half of the island, for many years...
  
  
• Laholm Party
  Laholm Party
  Laholm Party a local political party in Laholm, Sweden. LP is one of many local parties that surged after the downfall of New Democracy...
  
   (Laholmspartiet)
• Leisure Time Party
  Leisure Time Party
  Leisure Time Party , is a local political party in Vallentuna, Sweden. In the 1998 municipal elections FTP won one seat in the council. Until the 2002 elections FTP took part in a centre-right coalition government in the municipality. In the 2002 elections FTP received 172 votes and lost their seat....
  
   (Fritidspartiet)
• Leksand Party
  Leksand Party
  Leksand Party a local political party in Leksand, Sweden. Party president is Jimmy Karlsson.In 1998 LP got 3.4% of the votes and two seats in the municipal council. In 2002 it got 360 votes and retained its two seats....
  
   (Leksandspartiet)
• Libertarian Municipal People
  Libertarian Municipal People
  Frihetliga Kommunalfolket is a candidature used by syndicalists in Sweden to contest municipal elections. FKF surged in the 1950s, mainly in municipalities in central Sweden ....
  
   (Frihetliga Kommunalfolket)
• Lidingöpartiet
  Lidingö Party
  The Lidingö Party is Swedish political party active only on the island of Lidingö, outside Stockholm.The party can be seen as belonging to the Green Right as it combines traditional centre-right policies, like lower taxation and choice in public services, with wide-reaching support for the...
  
  
• Life Quality in the Municipality of Högsby
  Life Quality in the Municipality of Högsby
  Life Quality in the Municipality of Högsby a local political party in Högsby, Sweden. LHK was launched ahead of the 2002. It substituted Årets Kommunlista that had contested the 1998 elections....
  
   (Livskvalité i Högsby Kommun)
• Mora Party
  Mora Party
  Mora Party is a local political party in Mora, Sweden. It was founded in 1993.In 1998 FP got 4% of the votes and two seats in the municipal council. In 2002 it got 399 votes and lost one of its seats. The present sole councilor of the party is Ingvar "Nille" Niilimaa....
  
   (Morapartiet)
• Municipal List
  Municipal List
  Municipal List a local political party in Älvdalen, Sweden.The party was founded as Särnalistan , to work for the interest of Särna village within the geographically large municipality. But to the surprise of the party itself, in the 2002 election a fourth of its vote came from outside of Särna...
  
   (Kommunlistan)
• Municipal Party VDM
  Municipal Party VDM
  Municipal Party VDM a local political party in Västervik, Sweden. Founded in 1976 as Västerviks Demokratiska Miljöparti . VDM had its roots in the association Miljö och Trafik i Västervik . The present name was adopted in 2000...
  
   (Kommunpartiet VDM)
• Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge
  Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge
  Popular Movement for the Good of Borlänge commonly referred to as FBB was a local municipal party in Borlänge. The party formed because new ideas among members that did not conform to Borlänge's Social Democratic Party board were not allowed by the Social Democratic Party...
  
   (Folkrörelsen för Borlänges Bästa)
• Ronneby Party
  Ronneby Party
  The Ronneby Party is a local political party in Ronneby Municipality, Sweden. It was founded in 1994 by Sune Håkansson, Göran Tidman and Per Thano. In 1994 it won four seats in the municipal council. In 1998 the part had got 6.3% of the votes and three seats in the municipal council. In 2002 the...
  
   (Ronnebypartiet)
• Social List Active Politics
  Social List Active Politics
  Social List Active Politics a local political party in Falkenberg, Sweden. The party was founded in 1966, through a split in the local division of the Centre Party.-Elections:...
  
   (Sociala Listan Aktiv Politik)
• Solidarity - Work - Peace - Ecology
  Solidarity - Work - Peace - Ecology
  Solidarity - Work - Peace - Ecology is a local political party in Nässjö, Sweden. SAFE was formed through a split in the Swedish Social Democratic Party, in connection with the referendum on nuclear power in 1980...
  
   (Solidaritet – Arbete – Fred – Ekologi)
• Stockholm Party
  Stockholm Party
  Stockholmspartiet is a Political Party in Sweden, registered for the Municipal and County Council elections. It was founded in 1979 and was represented in the Stockholm city council from 1979-2002. It failed to reach enough votes to return in the elections of 2006.The Party has a political base of...
  
   (Stockholmspartiet)
• Stop E4 West - Culture Party
  Stop E4 West - Culture Party
  Stop E4 West - Culture Party , a political party in Uppsala län, Sweden. Stoppa E4 väst was founded as a single-issue party in 1994, as a reaction to the plans to expand the E4 motorway from Uppsala to Gävle...
  
   (Stoppa E4 Väst – Kulturpartiet)
• Sölvesborg Party
  Sölvesborg Party
  The Sölvesborg Party a local political party in Sölvesborg, Sweden. Formed ahead of the 2002 election by a group of former Green Party members. Party councilors are Dan Boberg and Bo Sandquist....
  
   (Sölvesborgspartiet)
• The Island Party (Öpartiet)
• Uddevalla Party (Uddevallapartiet)
• Vimmerby Party
  Vimmerby Party
  Vimmerbypartiet a local political party in Vimmerby, Sweden. Founded ahead of the 2002 elections.Kjell Hemmingsson is the party president.In the 2002 municipal elections ViP got 594 votes , and three seats....
  
   (Vimmerbypartiet)
• Voice of the People - VOX humana
  Voice of the People - VOX humana
  Voice of the People - VOX humana is a local political party in Härjedalen, Sweden. The party was formed ahead of the 2002 elections. Party president is Pelle Persson.The party has 75 members as of 2005....
  
   (Folkets röst – VOX humana)
• Youth List (Ungdomslistan)
• Åsele Party (Åselepartiet)
• Älvdalen Party
  Älvdalen Party
  The Älvdalen Party is a local political party in Älvdalen, Sweden. In 1998, the party received 9.3 percent of the votes and five seats in the municipal council. In 2002, it garnered 345 votes and three seats....
  
   (Älvdalspartiet)
• Öpartiet
  Öpartiet
  Öpartiet is a local political party active in Ekerö kommun in Sweden. The party mainly works with a platform of democracit issues, and is seeking to bring about a new political culture in the municipality . The party received four seats on the municipal council in the elections of 2006 ....
  
   (The Island Party)

Historical

• Caps
  Caps (party)
  The Caps were a political faction during the Age of Liberty in Sweden. The primary rivals of the Caps were known as the Hats. The Hats are actually responsible for the Caps' name, as it comes from a contraction of Night-cap, a name used to suggest that the Caps were the soft and timid party...
  
   (Mössorna, 18th century)
• Hats
  Hats (party)
  The Hats were a Swedish political faction active during the Age of Liberty . Their name derives from the tricorne hat worn by officers and gentlemen. They vied for power with the Caps. The Hats, who ruled Sweden from 1738 to 1765, advocated an alliance with France and an assertive foreign policy,...
  
   (Hattarna, 18th century)
• Social Democratic Left Party of Sweden (Sverges Socialdemokratiska Vänsterparti, 1921–1923)
• Communist Party of Sweden
  Communist Party of Sweden (1924)
  Communist Party of Sweden was a political party in Sweden led by Zeth Höglund. Höglund broke away from the main SKP in 1924, following disagreements concerning ComIntern policies and functioning. He then set up his own SKP...
  
   – Höglund Faction (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti, 1924–1926)
• Socialist Party
  Socialist Party (Sweden, 1929)
  The Socialist Party , initially known as the Communist Party of Sweden , was a political party in Sweden active from 1929 to 1948. The party was founded in 1929 by the major faction of the Communist Party of Sweden, led by Karl Kilbom and Nils Flyg, as the party split into two parties with the same...
  
   (Socialistiska Partiet, 1929–1945)
• Clerical People's Party
  Clerical People's Party
  Kyrkliga Folkpartiet a minor pro-fascist party in Sweden founded in 1930; not to be confused with the mainstream Liberal People's Party. The party was formed a led by Ivar Rhedin, a priest in the Church of Sweden. Rhedin was the editor of Göteborgs Stiftstidning , in which he wrote many pro-German...
  
   (Kyrkliga Folkpartiet, 1930s)
• Left Socialist Party
  Left Socialist Party
  Vänstersocialistiska Partiet was a political party in Sweden that existed between 1940 and 1963.Albin Ström was a leftwing Social Democrat from Göteborg that broke out of the Social Democratic Party in 1934. With him followed thousands of other Social Democrats from the West Coast-region...
  
   (Vänstersocialistiska Partiet, 1940–1963)
• Revolutionary Socialist Party
  Revolutionary Socialist Party (Sweden)
  Revolutionära Socialistiska Partiet , a Swedish political party founded in 1945, as the Independent Labour Party . It was founded by a group that had split from the Left Socialist Party , when VSP had developed in a pro-Western direction...
  
   (Revolutionära Socialistiska Partiet, 1950–1951)
• Communist Labour League of Sweden
  Communist Labour League of Sweden
  The Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetarförbund was formed in 1956 by a group of Stalinist hardliners who left or were expelled from the SKP during the 1950s. This group had earlier formed "Marxist circles", in which some SKP militants participated secretly...
  
   (Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetareförbund, 1956–1967)
• Communist League Marxist-Leninists/Communist Party of Sweden/Solidarity Party (Kommunistiska Förbundet Marxist-Leninisterna/Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti/Solidaritetspartiet, 1967-199?)
• Marxist-Leninist Struggle League for the Communist Party of Sweden (m-l)
  Marxist-Leninist Struggle League for the Communist Party of Sweden (m-l)
  Marxist-Leninistiska Kampförbundet, MLK , full name Marxist-leninistiska kampförbundet för Sveriges kommunistiska parti , was formed in 1970 by Vänsterns Ungdomsförbund , the youth organization of VPK...
  
   (Marxist-Leninistiska Kampförbundet, 1970–1981)
• Communist Unity Groups
  Communist Unity Groups (Sweden)
  Kommunistiska Enhetsgrupperna was a section that left Kommunistiska Partiet Marxist-Leninisterna in 1975. KEG considered that KPML:s politics towards the trade unions was ultra-leftist and sectarian...
  
   (Kommunistiska Enhetsgrupperna, 1975–1977)
• Communist Workers' League of Sweden
  Communist Workers' League of Sweden
  Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetarförbund was formed out of a split from KPML in 1977.The group no longer exists....
  
   (Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetarförbund, 1977-?)
• Communist Party of Sweden (marxist-leninists)/Communist Workers Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti (marxist-leninisterna)/Sveriges Kommunistiska Arbetarparti, 1980–1993)
• Communist Party in Sweden
  Communist Party in Sweden
  Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige was a pro-Albanian communist party in Sweden. KPS was formed in 1982. It was dissolved in 1993....
  
   (Kommunistiska Partiet i Sverige, 1982–1993)
• The Marxists (Marxisterna, 1990s)
• New Democracy
  New Democracy (Sweden)
  New Democracy was a political party in Sweden, founded in 1991 and elected into the Swedish Parliament in its first election, falling equally fast out again in 1994....
  
   (Ny Demokrati, 1991–2000)
• National Socialist Workers Party
  National Socialist Workers Party (Sweden)
  Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarpartiet was a Swedish political party which initially espoused Nazism before adopting a more indigenous form of Fascism....
  
   (Nationalsocialistiska Arbetarpartiet, 1933–1945)

Joke parties

• Donald Duck Party
  Donald Duck Party
  The Donald Duck Party is a Swedish joke political party named after the Disney character Donald Duck, that gets votes without really existing. For a long time, it was unregistered and had neither leaders nor members, until Bosse Persson registered it...
  
  
• Ezenhemmer Plastic Bags and Child Rearing Utensils Party
• The Viking Party
• Cheaper Beer Party

See also

• Politics of Sweden
  Politics of Sweden
  Politics of Sweden takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic constitutional monarchy. Executive power is exercised by the government, led by the Prime Minister of Sweden. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament, elected within a multi-party...
  
  
• List of political parties by country
• European Union
• European Parliament
  European Parliament
  The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
  
  
• County Councils of Sweden
  County Councils of Sweden
  A county council, or landsting, is an elected assembly of a county in Sweden. A county council is a political entity, elected by the county electorate and typically its main responsibilities lie within the public health care system. In each county there is also a county administrative board which...
  
  
• Municipalities of Sweden
  Municipalities of Sweden
  The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...
  
  
• Liberalism and centrism in Sweden
  Liberalism and centrism in Sweden
  This article gives an overview of liberalism and centrism in Sweden. It is limited to liberal and centrist parties with substantial support, mainly proved by having had a representation in parliament. The sign ⇒ denotes another party in that scheme...
  
  
• List of Swedish politicians

External links

• NSD: European Election Database – Political parties of Sweden