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The Moderate Party is a centre-right

Centre-right

The centre-right or center-right is a political term commonly used to describe or denote individuals, political parties, or organizations whose views stretch from the centre to the right on the left-right spectrum, excluding far right stances. Centre-right can also describe a coalition of centrist...

, liberal conservative

Liberal conservatism

Liberal conservatism also known as progressive conservatism is a variant of political conservatism which incorporates liberal elements. As "conservatism" and "liberalism" have had different meanings over time and across countries, the term "liberal conservatism" has been used in quite different...

political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives

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...

in the Swedish parliament

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...

. The party has had two other names during its history: the National Organization of the Right (1938–1952) and the Rightist Party (1952–1969).

Following the 2010 general election

Swedish general election, 2010

A general election to the Riksdag, parliament of Sweden, was held on . The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance and the oppositional centre-left Red-Greens coalition A general election to the Riksdag, parliament of Sweden, was held on . The main...

, where the party gained 30.06% of the vote, the party is the major component of the governing

Government of Sweden

The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden is the supreme executive authority of Sweden. It consists of the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers appointed by the Prime Minister. The Government is responsible for their actions to the Riksdag, which is the legislative assembly...

centre-right

Centre-right

coalition, the 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...

, along with the 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...

, the 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...

and the 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...

. The current chairman of the party is Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt

John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council...

, who is also Prime Minister of Sweden

Prime Minister of Sweden

The Prime Minister is the head of government in the Kingdom of Sweden. Before the creation of the office of a Prime Minister in 1876, Sweden did not have a head of government separate from its head of state, namely the King, in whom the executive authority was vested...

. Reinfeldt has been credited for having moved the party more towards the centre in Swedish politics, which is also reflected by its own claim of being the "New Moderates".

Early history

The party was founded on 17 October 1904 in a restaurant called Runan in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

. The intention was to start a campaign organization in support of the group of Conservatives which had emerged in the Riksdag

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...

. During the 19th century conservatives

Conservatism

had organised themselves in the Riksdag but there was no party to support them. The Swedish right-wing were also threatened by the rise of the Social Democrats (founded in 1889) and the Liberals

Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

(1902). The party was called the General Electoral League .
At first the party was clearly nationalist and staunchly conservative. The importance of a strong defense was underlined and other societal institutions embraced by the party were the monarchy and the state of law. The party held initially a protectionist

Protectionism

Protectionism is the economic policy of restraining trade between states through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas, and a variety of other government regulations designed to allow "fair competition" between imports and goods and services produced domestically.This...

view towards the economy, tariffs were widely supported as well as interventionist economical measures such as agricultural subsidies. In the defence policy crisis in 1914, which overturned the parliamentary Liberal government, the party sided with king Gustav V of Sweden, but stopped short of accepting a rightist government by royal appointment, instead opting for an independent-conservative "war cabinet" under Hjalmar Hammarskjöld

Hjalmar Hammarskjöld

Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld was a Swedish politician, scholar, cabinet minister, Member of Parliament from 1923 to 1938 , and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1914 to 1917....

, eventually overturned in favor of a Liberal-Social democratic majority coalition government and breakthrough of parliamentary rule, albeit reluctantly embraced by the right.

Arvid Lindman

Arvid Lindman

Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...

(often called "The Admiral") became influential in the party and served two terms as Prime Minister of Sweden

Prime Minister of Sweden

, before and after the enactment of universal suffrage

Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage consists of the extension of the right to vote to adult citizens as a whole, though it may also mean extending said right to minors and non-citizens...

. In 1907 he proposed universal male suffrage to the parliament

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...

and in 1912 he was formally elected leader. But the party voted against universal suffrage and the party again voted against women's right to vote. It was only because the party was in minority that Sweden was able to grant the right to vote for all, pushed through by the Liberals and the Social Democrats (the left), against the objections of the right. Although not one of the founders of the party and not a prominent ideologist, Lindman and his achievements as a leader are often appreciated as being of great importance for the new party. His leadership was marked by a consolidation of the Swedish right, and by transforming the party into a modern, effective, political movement. Lindman was a very pragmatic politician, but without losing his principles. He was a formidable negotiator and peace-broker. For this he was widely respected, even by his fiercest political opponents and when he resigned and left the parliament in 1935, the leader of the Social Democrats, Per Albin Hansson

Per Albin Hansson

Per Albin Hansson , was a Swedish politician, chairman of the Social Democrats from 1925 and two-time Prime Minister in four governments between 1932 and 1946, governing all that period save for a short-lived crisis in the summer of 1936, which he ended by forming a coalition government with his...

, expressed his "honest thanks over the battle lines".

Since the beginning of the 20th century, socialism and the socialist labour movement rose to replace liberalism as the major political force for radical reforms. The party intensified its opposition to socialism during the leadership of Lindman - the importance of continuance and strengthening national business were cornerstones. But at the same time, recent social issues gained significant political attention; by appeasing the working class, the party also hoped to reduce the threat of revolutionary tendencies. During the governments led by Lindman, several reforms for social progress were made, and it was his first government that initiated the public state pension

Pension

In general, a pension is an arrangement to provide people with an income when they are no longer earning a regular income from employment. Pensions should not be confused with severance pay; the former is paid in regular installments, while the latter is paid in one lump sum.The terms retirement...

.

In 1928 the party achieved its best election result to date at the time, bested only 82 years later - 29,4 % of the votes. At this time, the Swedish right had slowly started to move towards a classical liberal

Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism is the philosophy committed to the ideal of limited government, constitutionalism, rule of law, due process, and liberty of individuals including freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets....

view on economic issues, under influence by mainly the liberal economist Gustav Cassel

Gustav Cassel

Karl Gustav Cassel was a Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University.Cassel's perspective on economic reality, and especially on the role of interest, was rooted in British neoclassicism and in the nascent Swedish schools...

, but the economic downturn following the Great Depression

Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

frustrated the possible liberal transition of the economic policy. Despite that the party gained success in the general election of 1928, often called the Cossack Election

Swedish general election, 1928

Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag were held 15 September–21 September 1928. This election is often called the "Cossack Election" due to the harsh tone and aggressive criticism on both sides....

, on a clearly anti-socialist program, the government later formed by the party did not respect the concept of market economy, but continued the protectionist policy by generous financial aid. The government also started a complete regulation of the agriculture. Producation associations, with the objective to administer the regulations and to run monopolies on imports, were also established during the period. All leading up to a corporate control of the Swedish economy unpassed since the popularisation of liberalism at the end of the 19th century. The government under Lindman fell in 1930 after the Social Democrats

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...

and the Freeminded People's Party

Freeminded People's Party (Sweden)

The Freeminded People's Party was a political party in Sweden represented in the Riksdag from 1924 to 1935. It was formed in 1924 by the pro-ban majority of the Liberal Coalition Party as a consequence of the split over the issue on alcohol prohibition...

had blocked a proposition for raised customs duty on grain.

The 1930s saw also the party in conflict over how to relate to the rising threat of National Socialism and Fascism

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

. Its loosely affiliated youth organisation, the National Youth League of Sweden was openly pro-Nazi and set up uniformed "fighting groups" to combat political enemies on the streets. The mother party did not like this development, with Lindman clearly stating that pro-nazi views were not to be accepted in the party, and in 1933 the National Youth League was separated from the party. While the party set up a new youth league, which came to be called The Young Swedes

Moderate Youth League

The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...

(currently the largest youth league in Sweden in terms of membership), the core of the old one (in spite of some districts, such as Young Swedes-Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

joining the new one) set up its own party - the National League of Sweden

National League of Sweden

The National Youth League of Sweden was the first youth organisation of the General Electoral Union of Sweden. It was dislodged from its mother party in 1934 due to its pro-Nazi stance. It was then reconstructed as a separate political party, the National League of Sweden...

- which fought elections as an openly pro-Nazi party and temporarily gained parliamentary representation in shape of three rightist MP

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

s.

The party participated in the Third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson

Third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson

The third cabinet of Per Albin Hansson was the cabinet of Sweden between 13 December 1939 and 31 July 1945. It consisted of members from the Social Democratic Party, the Farmers' League, the People's Party and the National Organization of the Right....

during the Second World War. It was a grand coalition

Grand coalition

A grand coalition is an arrangement in a multi-party parliamentary system in which the two largest political parties of opposing political ideologies unite in a coalition government...

including all major parties, only excluding the pro-Stalinist Communist 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...

and the pro-Nazi 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...

, both parties being members of the parliament as late as 1940.

The Rightist Party

In 1934 the Social Democrats formed a new government, and except for the World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

era, would stay in power until 1976. From having been a ruling party, the General Electoral League turned into a bastion of right-wing opposition, and in 1938 it was renamed the National Organization of the Right , a name that in 1952 was changed in favor of simply the Rightist Party . Outside of Sweden, the party was typically called the Conservative Party.

After the Second World War, the party gradually lost support and the Liberal People's Party

Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

rose to become the second party after the Social Democrats, but at the beginning of the 1950s, the Rightist Party reemerged. Under the leadership of Jarl Hjalmarson

Jarl Hjalmarson

Jarl Harald Hjalmarson , was the leader of the conservative Swedish Rightist Party , today known as the Moderate Party, between 1950 and 1961.-Family:...

(1950–1961) the party became an important voice against the rising levels of taxation and a defender of private ownership

Private property

Private property is the right of persons and firms to obtain, own, control, employ, dispose of, and bequeath land, capital, and other forms of property. Private property is distinguishable from public property, which refers to assets owned by a state, community or government rather than by...

from, what the party saw as, the growing tendences of state

Sovereign state

A sovereign state, or simply, state, is a state with a defined territory on which it exercises internal and external sovereignty, a permanent population, a government, and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states. It is also normally understood to be a state which is neither...

centralization

Centralization

Centralisation, or centralization , is the process by which the activities of an organisation, particularly those regarding planning and decision-making, become concentrated within a particular location and/or group....

.

The party had significant success in the elections during the 1950s and became the largest party of the opposition in 1958. But the next decade brought changes to the political climate ot Sweden. The election of 1968

Swedish general election, 1968

Elections to the second chamber of the Riksdag held 15 September 1968. Held in the wake of the crushing of the Prague spring, it resulted in a landslide victory for the Social Democratic government and Prime Minister Tage Erlander. Erlander would resign the following year after an uninterrupted...

gave the Social Democracts an absolute majority in the parliament and reduced the Rightist Party to become the smallest party of opposition. The turbulent year of 1968 had made the ideological agenda of the party seem extreme and the party renamed itself the Moderate Coalition Party in 1969.

Recent decades

In 1970 Gösta Bohman

Gösta Bohman

Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as Minister for the Economy during the three-party centre-right Swedish...

was elected leader. During his leadership the party continued its gradual movement from nationalist traditionalist conservatism

Traditionalist Conservatism

Traditionalist conservatism, also known as "traditional conservatism," "traditionalism," "Burkean conservatism", "classical conservatism" and , "Toryism", describes a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and...

towards internationalist liberal conservatism

Liberal conservatism

, calling for Swedish membership in the EEC

EEC

EEC is an abbreviation that usually refers to the European Economic Community, the forerunner to the European Union.It may also refer to;* The East Erie Commercial Railroad, a shortline in Pennsylvania...

since the 1960s and in practice adopting most policies affiliated with classical liberalism. The party's liberal stance on social issues is seen as a key factor in the foundation of Christian Democratic Gathering

Christian Democrats (Sweden)

in 1964, a Christian left

Christian left

The Christian left is a term originating in the United States, used to describe a spectrum of left-wing Christian political and social movements which largely embraces social justice....

/social conservative party currently a junior coalition partner. Bohman proved a successul leader and in 1976 the non-socialist opposition won the election. The Moderate Party joined the government under Thorbjörn Fälldin

Thorbjörn Fälldin

Thorbjörn Fälldin is a Swedish politician. He was Prime Minister of Sweden in three non-consecutive cabinets from 1976 to 1982, and leader of the Swedish Centre Party from 1971 to 1985...

, with Gösta Bohman as Minister of Economy. The non-socialist parties managed to remain in power until 1982 in different constellations, but the election of 1979 again made the Moderate Party become the second party after the Social Democrats, a position it has held since then. Gösta Bohman was in 1981 replaced by Ulf Adelsohn

Ulf Adelsohn

Ulf Adelsohn is a Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party from 1981 to 1986 and landshövding of Stockholm County in 1992-2001...

.

In 1986, Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt

, Honorary KCMG is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006...

was elected leader of the party. A son-in-law of Bohman, he managed to lead the party to an election victory in 1991. The Moderate Party led a non-socialist coalition between 1991 and 1994 with Carl Bildt as Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Sweden

. The Cabinet of Carl Bildt

Cabinet of Carl Bildt

The cabinet of Carl Bildt was the cabinet of Sweden from 4 October 1991 to 7 October 1994 with Carl Bildt as the Prime Minister. It was a coalition government between the Moderate Party, the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the Christian Democrats.- Ministers :-External links:*...

did much to reform the Swedish government: cut taxes, cut public spending, introduced voucher schools, made it possible for counties to privatize health care, liberalized markets for telecommunications and energy, and privatized former publicly owned companies (further de-regulations and privatizations were carried out by the following Social Democratic Cabinet of Göran Persson

Cabinet of Göran Persson

Göran Persson served as Prime Minister of Sweden between March 22, 1996 and October 6, 2006. Persson took over after Ingvar Carlsson, who retired as party leader and Prime Minister...

). The negotiations for membership with the EU was also finalised.

The party gained votes in 1994, but the governing coalition lost its majority. Bildt stayed on as the Moderate party leader, failing to unite themselves with the Greens

Green Party (Sweden)

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the non-socialist parties failed to return to government after the election in 1998 as well. Bo Lundgren

Bo Lundgren

Bo Axel Magnus Lundgren is a Swedish politician. He is the former leader of the Moderate Party. Lundgren was born in Kristianstad in Skåne. Between 1991 and 1994, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance with special responsibility for taxation...

replaced him and led the party in the disastrous election of 2002

Swedish general election, 2002

The Swedish general election of 2002 was held on Sunday 15 September to elect the 349 members to the Parliament of Sweden. This election was hels along with other elections in Sweden to the Municipalities and the County Councils. 5,385,430 of the 6,722,152 eligible to vote voted in this election .-...

, much owed to his alleged libertarian

Libertarianism

Libertarianism, in the strictest sense, is the political philosophy that holds individual liberty as the basic moral principle of society. In the broadest sense, it is any political philosophy which approximates this view...

stances, for which Lundgren continues to receive praise from younger members, however. Former head of the Moderate Youth Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt

John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council...

was elected as the new party leader in 2003.

With the general election of 2006 the Moderates formed a coalition government with the Centre Party

Centre Party (Sweden)

, the Liberal People's Party

Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

and the Christian Democrats

Christian Democrats (Sweden)

Ideology and political positions

The Moderate Party states that its ideology is a mix of liberalism

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

and conservatism

Conservatism

, and corresponds to what is called liberal conservatism

Liberal conservatism

. The term liberalism is in Sweden and most of Europe not used in the way that it is currently used in the United States to denote modern liberals and progressives

Progressivism

Progressivism is an umbrella term for a political ideology advocating or favoring social, political, and economic reform or changes. Progressivism is often viewed by some conservatives, constitutionalists, and libertarians to be in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies.The...

, but is closer to the traditional meaning of classical liberalism

Classical liberalism

.

The Party supports free markets and personal freedom

Freedom (political)

Political freedom is a central philosophy in Western history and political thought, and one of the most important features of democratic societies...

and has historically been the essential force for privatizations, deregulations, tax cuts and a reduction of the public-sector growth rate. However, it still embraces most of the social benefits introduced since the 1930s. Other issues emphasized by the party are such as actions against violent crime and sex crime, increasing and promoting the value of working, and quality in the educational system

Education in Sweden

Education in Sweden is mandatory for all children from year 1 to year 9 - generally from the year of the child’s seventh birthday to the year of the child’s 16th...

. The party supports the legalization of same-sex marriage in Sweden

Same-sex marriage in Sweden

Same-sex marriage in Sweden has been legal since 1 May 2009, following the adoption of a new, gender-neutral law on marriage by the Swedish parliament on 1 April 2009, making Sweden the seventh country in the world to open marriage to same sex couples nationwide...

and Sweden's membership in the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

.

The party campaigned for changing currency to the Euro

Euro

The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

in the 2003 referendum, but its more radical youth league

Moderate Youth League

The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...

did however in 2007 decide to say no to a Swedish membership in the monetary union. The official policy of Fredrik Reinfeldt on the issue, as of 2008, is that the result of the 2003 referendum has to be respected and that the issue will not be raised during the present term (-2010).

Since Fredrik Reinfeldt

Fredrik Reinfeldt

John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council...

became party leader, the party has slowly started to move further towards the political center

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...

and also adopted pragmatic

Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition centered on the linking of practice and theory. It describes a process where theory is extracted from practice, and applied back to practice to form what is called intelligent practice...

views. The party has abandoned several of its old key features such as a proportional income tax

Proportional tax

A proportional tax is a tax imposed so that the tax rate is fixed. The amount of the tax is in proportion to the amount subject to taxation. "Proportional" describes a distribution effect on income or expenditure, referring to the way the rate remains consistent , where the marginal tax rate is...

and increased military spending. Its former characteristic, according to some slightly neo-liberal, criticism of the labour laws has changed towards conserving the Swedish model
Swedish welfare
Social welfare in Sweden is made up of several organizations and systems dealing with welfare. It is mostly funded by taxes, and executed by the public sector on all levels of government as well as private organisations...

and a careful embracing of balance on the labour market.

The Party has postponed a decision on Swedish membership of NATO and will not push for NATO membership the next years. It also seeks to decrease, but make more effective, the spending on foreign aid.

Voter base

Moderate Party results by group,
*VALU 2010*
Group	Votes (%)	Avg. result +/− (pp Percentage point Percentage points are the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.Consider the following hypothetical example: in 1980, 40 percent of the population smoked, and in 1990 only 30 percent smoked... )
class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%">
Company owners Entrepreneur An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...	40	+
Civil servants Civil service The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....	34	+
Private sector Private sector In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state... employees	34	+
Males	32	+
Wage laborers	32	+
Aged 31–64	31	+
Members of TCO Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees The Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees is a national trade union centre, the umbrella organisation for eighteen trade unions in Sweden that organise professional and other qualified employees within both the private and the public sectors...	29	+
Aged 65+	28	+
Farmer Farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain... s	28	+
Members of SACO Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations is a confederation of 26 independent professional associations in Sweden. It gathers some 556,000 members, all of whom are academics or graduate professionals with a university or college degree. The members include economists, lawyers,...	28	+
Females	26
Government employees	24
Aged 18–21	23
Aged 22–30	23
Unemployed Unemployment Unemployment , as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks...	23
First-time voters	23
Public sector Public sector The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.Examples of public sector activity range... employees	22
Student Student A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English... s	21
Local government Local government Local government refers collectively to administrative authorities over areas that are smaller than a state.The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government... employees	21
Raised outside Sweden	20
Laborer Laborer A Laborer or labourer - see variation in english spelling - is one of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor, as opposed to skilled labor. In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act... s	19
Members of LO Swedish Trade Union Confederation The Swedish Trade Union Confederation , commonly referred to as LO, is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fifteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-collar" workers...	16
On sick leave Sick leave Sick leave is time off from work that workers can use during periods of temporary illness to stay home and address their health and safety needs without losing pay. Some workplaces offer paid sick time as a matter of workplace policy, and in few jurisdictions it is codified into law...	14
All groups (total)	27	0

class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 85%"> Moderate Party results by constituency,
2010 parliamentary election

Swedish general election, 2010

Constituency

National apportionment of MP seats in the Swedish Parliament

The electoral system in Sweden is proportional. Of the 349 seats in the national diet, the unicameral Riksdag, 310 are fixed constituency seats allocated to constituencies in relation to the number of people entitled to vote in each constituency...

Votes
(%) Avg. result
+/− (pp

Percentage point

Percentage points are the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages.Consider the following hypothetical example: in 1980, 40 percent of the population smoked, and in 1990 only 30 percent smoked...

) Stockholm County

Stockholm County

Stockholm County is a county or län on the Baltic sea coast of Sweden. It borders Uppsala County and Södermanland County. It also borders Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. The city of Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. Stockholm County is divided by the historic provinces of Uppland and Södermanland...

39.96 + Skåne County South 38.46 + Halland County

Halland County

Halland County is a county on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad....

34.71 + Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality or the City of Stockholm is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is the largest of the 290 municipalities of the country in terms of population, but one of the smaller in terms of area, making it the most densely populated...

34.29 + Skåne County West 33.80 + Västra Götaland County West 32.82 + Malmö Municipality

Malmö Municipality

Malmö Municipality is a municipality in Skåne County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Malmö.When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the old City of Malmö was made one of the country's 88 city municipalities and the first city council was elected...

32.62 + Skåne County North and East 32.04 + Gothenburg Municipality

Gothenburg Municipality

Gothenburg Municipality is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg....

30.37 + Uppsala County

Uppsala County

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30.11 +0.05 Kronoberg County

Kronoberg County

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29.84 Östergötland County

Östergötland County

Östergötland County is a county or län in southeastern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Västra Götaland to the west, Örebro to the northwest, Södermanland to the northeast, and the Baltic Sea to the east.Östergötland County has a population of...

28.65 Västra Götaland County South 28.33 Södermanland County

Södermanland County

Södermanland County is a county or län on the south east coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Östergötland, Örebro, Västmanland, Uppsala, Stockholm and to the Baltic sea....

27.94 Västra Götaland County East 27.91 Blekinge County

Blekinge County

Blekinge County is a county or län in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne, Kronoberg, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karlskrona...

27.34 Västmanland County

Västmanland County

Västmanland County is a county or län in central Sweden. It borders to the counties of Södermanland, Örebro, Gävleborg, Dalarna and Uppsala...

27.14 Västra Götaland County North 26.95 Kalmar County

Kalmar County

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26.90 Jönköping County

Jönköping County

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26.74 Värmland County

Värmland County

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25.72 Gotland County

Gotland County

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25.18 Dalarna County

Dalarna County

Dalarna County is a county or län in middle Sweden. It borders the counties of Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It is also bordered by the Norwegian counties of Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag in the west...

25.11 Örebro County

Örebro County

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24.01 Gävleborg County

Gävleborg County

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23.14 Jämtland County

Jämtland County

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22.20 Västernorrland County

Västernorrland County

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21.60 Västerbotten County

Västerbotten County

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17.69 Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

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16.38 Sweden (total) 30,06 0

The table to the left shows the Moderate Party's percentage of votes and difference compared to the overall result among some selected groups in the 2010 parliamentary election

Swedish general election, 2010

, according to a polling station survey (VALU 2010) conducted by Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

.

The table to the right shows the party's percentage of votes and difference compared to the overall result in the 2010 parliamentary election by geographic constituency, according to the official election result given by the Swedish Election Authority.

Those groups/areas where the party's support is higher than among the overall population are marked in green, while those groups/areas where the party's support is lower than among the overall population are marked in red.

As shown from the table, the five groups where the Moderate Party has its highest level of support are: company owners
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

(40%), civil servants
Civil service
The term civil service has two distinct meanings:* A branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations....

(34%), private sector
Private sector
In economics, the private sector is that part of the economy, sometimes referred to as the citizen sector, which is run by private individuals or groups, usually as a means of enterprise for profit, and is not controlled by the state...

employees (34%), males (32%) and wage laborers (32%). The five groups where the party has its lowest level of support are: people on sick leave
Sick leave
Sick leave is time off from work that workers can use during periods of temporary illness to stay home and address their health and safety needs without losing pay. Some workplaces offer paid sick time as a matter of workplace policy, and in few jurisdictions it is codified into law...

(14%), members of the Swedish Trade Union Confederation
Swedish Trade Union Confederation
The Swedish Trade Union Confederation , commonly referred to as LO, is a national trade union centre, an umbrella organisation for fifteen Swedish trade unions that organise mainly "blue-collar" workers...

(LO, 16%), laborer
Laborer
A Laborer or labourer - see variation in english spelling - is one of the construction trades, traditionally considered unskilled manual labor, as opposed to skilled labor. In the division of labor, laborers have all blasting, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act...

s (19%), people raised outside Sweden (20%) and local government
Local government
Local government refers collectively to administrative authorities over areas that are smaller than a state.The term is used to contrast with offices at nation-state level, which are referred to as the central government, national government, or federal government...

employees (21%).

Geographically, the Moderate Party has its highest level of support in the urban areas of Stockholm County

Stockholm County

, western and southern Sweden, while the support in sparsely populated areas (especially in northern Sweden

Norrland

Norrland is one of the three lands of Sweden , the northern part, consisting of nine provinces. The term Norrland is not used for any administrative purpose, but it is common in everyday language, e.g...

) is weaker. The five constituencies where the party has its highest level of support are: Stockholm County

Stockholm County

(39.96%), Skåne County South (38.46%), Halland County

Halland County

Halland County is a county on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad....

(34.71%), Stockholm Municipality

Stockholm Municipality

(34.29%) and Skåne County West (33.80%). The five constituencies where the party has its lowest level of support are: Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County

(16.38%), Västerbotten County

Västerbotten County

(17.69%), Västernorrland County

Västernorrland County

Västernorrland County is a county or län in the north of Sweden. It is bordered by the counties of Gävleborg, Jämtland, Västerbotten and the Gulf of Bothnia.- Province :...

(21.60%), Jämtland County

Jämtland County

(22.20%) and Gävleborg County

Gävleborg County

(23.14%).

The Moderate Party voters ranked the following issues as the five most important for their decision in the 2010 election:

Swedish economy
Economy of Sweden
The economy of Sweden is a developed diverse economy, aided by timber, hydropower and iron ore. These constitute the resource base of an economy oriented toward foreign trade...
Employment
Employment
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Private economy
School
School
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s and education
Education
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Tax
Tax
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es

The Moderate Party also has the largest share of voters who identify as "right-wing

Right-wing politics

In politics, Right, right-wing and rightist generally refer to support for a hierarchical society justified on the basis of an appeal to natural law or tradition. To varying degrees, the Right rejects the egalitarian objectives of left-wing politics, claiming that the imposition of equality is...

"; 83% of the party's voters identify as "right-wing", 2% as "left-wing

Left-wing politics

In politics, Left, left-wing and leftist generally refer to support for social change to create a more egalitarian society...

" and 14% as "neither right-wing nor left-wing".

Furthermore the Moderate Party, along with the Centre Party

Centre Party (Sweden)

, also has the largest share of voters (83%) who say that they have "big/relatively big confidence to Swedish politicians" (average was 70%).

Organization

The party is organized on national, county and municipal level. Currently the party has around 600 local party associations and 26 county or city associations Each county or city association sends delegates to the party congress

Party Congress

A party congress is a general conference of a political party. The congress is attended by delegates who represent the party membership. In most parties the party congress is the highest decision making body of the organisation and elects the party's leadership bodies such as the National Executive...

, which is held every third year. The 200 congress delegates elects a party chairman, two deputy party chairmen and members of the party board. The party board appoints a party secretary

Party secretary

In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader ....

.

In December 2009 the party's reported membership was 55,612 people, the second largest membership after the Social Democrats

Swedish Social Democratic Party

Affiliated organizations

The Moderate Party has the following affiliated groups and organizations:

Moderate Youth League
Moderate Youth League
The Moderate Youth League , officially known in English as the Swedish Young Conservatives, is the youth wing of the Swedish Moderate Party. It had 12 051 members in 2010...

(Moderata ungdomsförbundet, MUF), organizes young members
Moderate Seniors (Moderata seniorer), organizes senior members
Moderate Women (Moderatkvinnorna), organizes female members
Open Moderates (Öppna moderater), organizes LGBT
LGBT
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members

The Moderate Party is a full member of the European People's Party

European People's Party

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(EPP) and the International Democrat Union

International Democrat Union

The International Democrat Union, abbreviated to IDU, is a centre-right international alliance of conservative and liberal-conservative political parties. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, the IDU comprises 45 full or associate members...

(IDU).

Chairpersons

Gustaf Fredrik Östberg, 1904–1905
Axel G. Svedelius, 1905–1906
Hugo Tamm, 1907
Gustaf Fredrik Östberg, 1908–1912
Arvid Lindman
Arvid Lindman
Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...

, 1912–1935
Gösta Bagge
Gösta Bagge
Gösta Adolfsson Bagge was a Swedish professor of economics and conservative politician.Born on 27 May 1882 in Stockholm, Gösta Bagge was declared leader for the National Organization of the Right after the sudden retirement of Arvid Lindman in 1935, and remained its leader until 1944...

, 1935–1944
Fritiof Domö, 1944–1950
Jarl Hjalmarson
Jarl Hjalmarson
Jarl Harald Hjalmarson , was the leader of the conservative Swedish Rightist Party , today known as the Moderate Party, between 1950 and 1961.-Family:...

, 1950–1961
Gunnar Heckscher
Gunnar Heckscher
Professor Gunnar Edvard Heckscher was a Swedish political scientist and leader of the Rightist Party , which later became the Moderate Party.-Biography:...

, 1961–1965
Yngve Holmberg, 1965–1970
Gösta Bohman
Gösta Bohman
Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as Minister for the Economy during the three-party centre-right Swedish...

, 1970–1981
Ulf Adelsohn
Ulf Adelsohn
Ulf Adelsohn is a Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party from 1981 to 1986 and landshövding of Stockholm County in 1992-2001...

, 1981–1986
Carl Bildt
Carl Bildt
, Honorary KCMG is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006...

, 1986–1999
Bo Lundgren
Bo Lundgren
Bo Axel Magnus Lundgren is a Swedish politician. He is the former leader of the Moderate Party. Lundgren was born in Kristianstad in Skåne. Between 1991 and 1994, he served as Deputy Minister of Finance with special responsibility for taxation...

, 1999–2003
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Fredrik Reinfeldt
John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council...

, 2003–present

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First deputy party chairpersons (since 1935)

Bernhard Johansson i Fredrikslund, 1935
Martin Skoglund i Doverstorp, 1935–1956
Leif Cassel, 1956–1965
Gösta Bohman
Gösta Bohman
Bo Gösta Bohman was a Swedish politician and the leader of the Swedish liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1970 to 1981, during a period in which the party strengthened its position in Swedish politics. He served as Minister for the Economy during the three-party centre-right Swedish...

, 1965–1970
Staffan Burenstam Linder
Staffan Burenstam Linder
Hans Martin Staffan Burenstam Linder was a Swedish economist and conservative politician. He was Swedish Minister for Trade from 1976–78 and from 1979-81....

, 1970–1981
Lars Tobisson, 1981–1999
Chris Heister
Chris Heister
Chris Heister is a Swedish Moderate Party politician and Leader of the Opposition on Stockholm County Council. She was elected to the Riksdag in 1991 and served until 2002. From 1999 to 2003, she was deputy chairman of the party. In 2002, she chose to step down from the Riksdag to pursue a career...

, 1999–2003
Gunilla Carlsson
Gunilla Carlsson
Anna Gunilla Carlsson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician, since 2006 Minister for Development Cooperation and a member of the Riksdag and deputy chairman of her party.- Early life :...

, 2003–present

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Second deputy party chairpersonss (since 1935)

Karl Magnusson i Skövde
Skövde
Skövde is a locality and the seat of Skövde Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 34 446 inhabitants .Skövde is situated some 150 km northeast of Gothenburg, between Sweden's two largest lakes, Vänern and Vättern. It sits on the eastern slope of a low mountain ridge Billingen ,...

, 1935
Fritiof Domö, 1935–1944
Jarl Hjalmarson
Jarl Hjalmarson
Jarl Harald Hjalmarson , was the leader of the conservative Swedish Rightist Party , today known as the Moderate Party, between 1950 and 1961.-Family:...

, 1944–1950
Knut Ewerlöf, 1950–1958
Gunnar Heckscher
Gunnar Heckscher
Professor Gunnar Edvard Heckscher was a Swedish political scientist and leader of the Rightist Party , which later became the Moderate Party.-Biography:...

, 1958–1961
Rolf Eliasson, 1961–1965
Yngve Nilsson i Trobro, 1965–1970
Eric Krönmark, 1970–1981
Ella Tengbom-Velander, 1981–1986
Ingegerd Troedsson
Ingegerd Troedsson
Ingegerd Troedsson is a former Swedish Moderate Party politician. She served as the first female Speaker of the Riksdag.She was born in Vaxholm and was elected to the Riksdag in 1974. She had a junior role in the first non-socialist government of 1976...

, 1986–1993
Gun Hellsvik
Gun Hellsvik
Gun Birgitta Hellsvik is a politician for Moderate Party.A lawyer by training, she worked as a civil law lecturer at Lund University before becoming a full-time politician....

, 1993–1999
Gunilla Carlsson
Gunilla Carlsson
Anna Gunilla Carlsson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician, since 2006 Minister for Development Cooperation and a member of the Riksdag and deputy chairman of her party.- Early life :...

, 1999–2003
Kristina Axén Olin
Kristina Axén Olin
Anna Kristina Axén Olin is a Swedish Moderate Party politician. She held the post of Mayor of Stockholm between 2006-2008, being the city's second female mayor. She also serves as deputy chairman of the party since 2003.- Career :...

, 2003–present

Party secretaries (since 1949)

Gunnar Svärd, 1949–1961
Yngve Holmberg, 1961–1965
Sam Nilsson, 1965–1969
Bertil af Ugglas
Bertil af Ugglas
Gustaf Samuel Bertil Oscarsson af Ugglas was Party Secretary of the Swedish Moderate Party between 1969 and 1974 and a member of the Swedish Riksdag. He was married to Margaretha af Ugglas, Swedish foreign minister 1991-1994. She was also a sister of businessman Jan Stenbeck...

, 1969–1974
Lars Tobisson, 1974–1981
Georg Danell, 1981–1986
Per Unckel
Per Unckel
Per Carl Gustav Unckel was a Swedish former Moderate Party politician and at the time of his death the Governor of Stockholm County....

, 1986–1991
Gunnar Hökmark
Gunnar Hökmark
Anders Gunnar Hökmark is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Moderate Party; part of the European People's Party....

, 1991–1999
Johnny Magnusson, 1999–2003
Sven Otto Littorin, 2003–2006
Per Schlingmann
Per Schlingmann
Per Schlingmann was the secretary-general of the Swedish Moderate Party between 28 September 2006 and 1 October 2010 , and a prominent figure in its political reorientation following the 2002 election defeat and leading to its 2006 election success.He is since 11 October 2010 serving as State...

, 2006–2010
Sofia Arkelsten
Sofia Arkelsten
Sofia Arkelsten is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party. She is the current secretary-general of the Moderate Party since 1 October 2010. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2007, replacing Beatrice Ask. From 2006 to 2007 she was a substitute member of the Riksdag...

, 2010–present

National ombudsmen (1909–1965)

Gustaf Gustafsson, 1909–1913
Karl Hammarberg, 1913–1915
Jonas Folcker, 1915–1920
Lennart Kolmodin, 1920–1949
Nils Hellström, 1949–1965

Prime Ministers

Christian Lundeberg
Christian Lundeberg
Christian Lundeberg was a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 2 August to 7 November 1905....

, 1905
Arvid Lindman
Arvid Lindman
Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...

, 1906–1911
Carl Swartz
Carl Swartz
Carl Johan Gustaf Swartz was a Swedish right-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 30 March 1917 to 19 October 1917...

, 1917
Ernst Trygger
Ernst Trygger
Ernst Trygger was a Swedish jurist professor and conservative politician. He served as Prime Minister of Sweden from 1923 to 1924. He also served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1928 to 1930 in the government of Arvid Lindman...

, 1923–1924
Arvid Lindman
Arvid Lindman
Salomon Arvid Achates Lindman was a Swedish Rear Admiral, Industrialist and conservative politician...

, 1928–1930
Carl Bildt
Carl Bildt
, Honorary KCMG is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. Formerly Prime Minister of Sweden from 1991 to 1994 and leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 1986 to 1999, Bildt has served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs since 6 October 2006...

, 1991–1994
Fredrik Reinfeldt
Fredrik Reinfeldt
John Fredrik Reinfeldt is the Prime Minister of Sweden, leader of the liberal conservative Moderate Party and former President of the European Council...

, 2006–present

External links

Moderata samlingspartiet, official website
The Moderate Party, at the Swedish parliament
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...

's website

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Early history

The Rightist Party

Recent decades

Ideology and political positions

Voter base

Organization

Affiliated organizations

Chairpersons

First deputy party chairpersons (since 1935)

Second deputy party chairpersonss (since 1935)

Party secretaries (since 1949)

National ombudsmen (1909–1965)

Prime Ministers

See also

External links