The 2002 Stockholm municipal election was held on Sunday, 15 September 2002. The election used a party-list proportional representation

Party-list proportional representation

Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation in elections in which multiple candidates are elected...

 system to allocate the 101-seats of the Stockholm

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...

 City Council (Stockholms stadsfullmäktige) to the various Swedish political parties. This election was held concurrently with the 2002 Swedish parliamentary election

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 .-...

. Voter turnout

Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

 was 77.7%.

This election marks the first time since the election of 1976

Stockholm municipal election, 1976

The Stockholm municipal election of 1976 was held on 19 September 1976 concurrently with the 1976 Swedish parliamentary election. This election used a party-list proportional representation system to allocate the 101 seats of the Stockholm city council amongst the various Swedish political parties...

 that the 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...

 failed to win any seats, ending their 23-year streak of representation on the City Council.

Results

Party		Votes			Seats
		#	%	+ –	#	+ –
	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... Socialdemokraterna (s)	149,871	32.1%	+6.5%	35	+6
	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... Moderaterna (m)	121,405	26.0%	–6.9%	28	–8
	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)	73,736	15.8%	+8.0%	17	+8
	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)	52,325	11.2%	–1.1%	11	–2
	Green Party Green Party (Sweden) -External links:**... Miljöpartiet (mp)	24,965	5.3%	–0.6%	6	±0
	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... Kristdemokratiska samlingspartiet (kd)	20,746	4.4%	–1.9%	5	–1
	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 (sp)	9,137	2.0%	–2.4%	0	–3
	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)	5,939	1.3%	–0.8%	0	±0
Other parties		8,772	1.9%	–0.8%	0	±0
Total		466,896	100%	—	101	±0
Invalid ballots		8,469

See also

• Elections in Sweden
  Elections in Sweden
  Elections in the Kingdom of Sweden are held every four years, and determine the makeup of the legislative bodies on the three levels of administrative division in the country. At the highest level, these elections determine the allocation of seats in the Riksdag, the national legislative body of...
  
  
• Swedish Election Authority
• 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 in Sweden