Uppsala County () is one of the 29 multi-member constituencies of the Riksdag, the national legislature of Sweden. The constituency was established in 1970 when the Riksdag changed from a bicameral legislature to a unicameral legislature. It is conterminous with the county of Uppsala. The constituency currently elects 12 of the 349 members of the Riksdag using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 general election it had 292,255 registered electors.
Electoral system Uppsala County currently elects 12 of the 349 members of the Riksdag using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. Constituency seats are allocated using the modified Sainte-Laguë method. Only parties that reach the 4% national threshold and parties that receive at least 12% of the vote in the constituency compete for constituency seats. Supplementary levelling seats may also be allocated at the constituency level to parties that reach the 4% national threshold.
Prior to 1997 voters could cast any ballot paper they wanted though it had to contain the name of a party and the name of at least one candidate nominated by that party in the constituency. It was common for parties to hand out ballot papers with their name and list of candidates at the entrance of polling stations. Voters could delete the names of candidates or write-in the names of other candidates but in practice these options weren't used enough by voters to have any significant impact on the results and consequently elections operated as a closed system.
Since 1997, elections in Sweden follow the French model in having separate ballot papers for each party/list in a constituency. There are two ballot papers for each party - a party ballot paper () with just the name of the party and a name ballot paper () with the name of the party and its list of candidates. There are also blank ballot papers (). Voters can initially pick as many ballot papers as they wish and then, in the secrecy of the voting booth, they select a single ballot paper of their choice. If they chose a name ballot paper they have the option of casting a preferential vote for one of their chosen party's candidates. If they chose a blank ballot paper they can write the name of any party including unregistered parties and, optionally, they can write the name of any person as their preferred candidate, even one that does not belong to their chosen party. They then place their chosen ballot paper in an envelope which is placed in the ballot box, discarding all other ballot papers they picked.
Seats won by each party/list in a constituency are allocated to its candidates in order of preference votes (a personal mandate), provided that the candidate has received at least 8% of votes cast for their party in the constituency (5% since January 2011). Any unfilled seats are then allocated to the party's remaining candidates in the order they appear on the party list (a party mandate).
Election results Summary Election LeftV / VPK SocialDemocratsS GreensMP CentreC LiberalsL / FP / F ModeratesM ChristianDemocratsKD / KDS SwedenDemocratsSD colspan=3 colspan=3 colspan=3 colspan=3 colspan=3 colspan=3 colspan=3 colspan=3 Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats2022 19,543 7.85% 1 72,499 29.13% 3 16,750 6.73% 1 18,040 7.25% 1 12,465 5.01% 1 45,457 18.26% 2 14,766 5.93% 1 45,237 18.18% 22018 21,102 8.74% 1 65,168 26.99% 3 13,404 5.55% 0 22,246 9.21% 1 15,071 6.24% 1 45,790 18.96% 2 16,661 6.90% 1 37,297 15.44% 22014 14,363 6.29% 1 65,926 28.87% 3 19,080 8.36% 1 15,827 6.93% 1 14,141 6.19% 1 52,071 22.80% 3 10,776 4.72% 0 24,091 10.55% 12010 11,845 5.51% 0 58,862 27.37% 3 18,993 8.83% 1 17,838 8.30% 1 16,878 7.85% 1 64,750 30.11% 4 12,265 5.70% 1 10,003 4.65% 02006 11,240 5.72% 0 60,674 30.89% 4 12,312 6.27% 1 19,340 9.85% 1 17,929 9.13% 1 52,016 26.49% 3 12,976 6.61% 1 4,483 2.28% 02002 14,372 8.15% 1 66,035 37.43% 4 10,062 5.70% 0 12,002 6.80% 0 27,594 15.64% 2 26,482 15.01% 2 15,646 8.87% 1 2,423 1.37% 01998 18,620 10.95% 1 58,503 34.39% 4 9,658 5.68% 0 9,855 5.79% 0 10,616 6.24% 1 40,546 23.84% 3 18,135 10.66% 1 1994 10,333 5.85% 0 75,620 42.85% 5 10,816 6.13% 0 13,895 7.87% 1 15,803 8.95% 1 39,479 22.37% 3 6,743 3.82% 0 1991 7,560 4.52% 0 58,981 35.26% 4 7,257 4.34% 0 15,107 9.03% 1 18,771 11.22% 1 36,878 22.05% 2 9,633 5.76% 0 1988 10,022 6.24% 0 65,580 40.82% 5 9,148 5.69% 0 19,765 12.30% 1 21,854 13.60% 1 29,516 18.37% 2 3,224 2.01% 0 1985 9,070 5.57% 0 70,602 43.32% 4 2,850 1.75% 0 20,629 12.66% 1 25,133 15.42% 2 33,377 20.48% 2 with C 1982 9,777 6.11% 0 71,368 44.58% 5 3,248 2.03% 0 27,027 16.88% 2 10,086 6.30% 0 35,693 22.30% 2 2,353 1.47% 0 1979 10,156 6.60% 0 65,153 42.34% 4 30,614 19.90% 2 16,415 10.67% 1 28,863 18.76% 2 1,756 1.14% 0 1976 8,037 5.38% 0 63,017 42.20% 4 37,407 25.05% 3 16,807 11.26% 1 21,392 14.33% 1 1,818 1.22% 0 1973 7,677 5.49% 0 60,090 42.96% 4 37,581 26.87% 2 13,318 9.52% 1 18,037 12.90% 1 2,257 1.61% 0 1970 4,726 3.60% 0 60,182 45.84% 4 29,501 22.47% 2 19,319 14.72% 1 14,120 10.76% 1 2,554 1.95% 0 (Excludes levelling seats. Figures in italics represent alliances/joint lists.)
Detailed
2020s 2022 Results of the 2022 general election held on 11 September 2022:
Party Votes per municipality Totalvotes % SeatsÄlvkar-leby En-köping Håbo Heby Knivsta Öst-hammar Tierp Uppsala Swedish Social Democratic Party S 2,164 8,146 3,432 2,528 3,020 4,450 4,641 44,118 72,499 29.13% 3 1 4 Moderate Party M 881 6,325 3,330 1,355 2,542 2,714 1,953 26,357 45,457 18.26% 2 0 2 Sweden Democrats SD 1,887 7,206 3,968 2,710 2,358 3,964 3,624 19,520 45,237 18.18% 2 0 2 Left Party V 283 1,232 538 448 562 544 642 15,294 19,543 7.85% 1 0 1 Centre Party C 203 1,954 731 726 939 789 969 11,729 18,040 7.25% 1 0 1 Green Party MP 174 978 387 264 748 388 445 13,366 16,750 6.73% 1 0 1 Christian Democrats KD 264 1,858 837 751 1,025 1,166 805 8,060 14,766 5.93% 1 0 1 Liberals L 148 1,065 609 220 680 491 347 8,905 12,465 5.01% 1 0 1 Nuance Party PNy 11 133 12 2 23 1 6 744 932 0.37% 0 0 0 Alternative for Sweden AfS 18 75 51 24 51 42 48 321 630 0.25% 0 0 0 Citizens' Coalition MED 1 66 25 24 33 20 11 407 587 0.24% 0 0 0 Pirate Party PP 13 21 14 7 19 8 7 295 384 0.15% 0 0 0 Christian Values Party KrVP 4 18 2 18 16 7 7 185 257 0.10% 0 0 0 The Push Buttons Kn 19 34 9 31 11 24 22 74 224 0.09% 0 0 0 Independent Rural Party LPo 3 4 1 10 1 15 30 138 202 0.08% 0 0 0 Human Rights and Democracy MoD 7 22 18 11 12 13 9 74 166 0.07% 0 0 0 Feminist Initiative FI 1 10 2 4 11 3 12 103 146 0.06% 0 0 0 Socialist Welfare Party S-V 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 122 124 0.05% 0 0 0 Communist Party of Sweden SKP 3 15 6 3 3 3 5 69 107 0.04% 0 0 0 Direct Democrats DD 3 12 7 4 3 0 4 59 92 0.04% 0 0 0 Climate Alliance KA 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 50 64 0.03% 0 0 0 Unity ENH 0 8 3 4 2 1 3 22 43 0.02% 0 0 0 Nordic Resistance Movement NMR 0 3 7 0 0 4 4 22 40 0.02% 0 0 0 Basic Income Party BASIP 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 33 38 0.02% 0 0 0 Turning Point Party PV 0 2 0 2 1 1 0 30 36 0.01% 0 0 0 Donald Duck Party 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 9 12 0.00% 0 0 0 Classical Liberal Party KLP 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10 11 0.00% 0 0 0 Hard Line Sweden 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 8 10 0.00% 0 0 0 Freedom Party 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 7 0.00% 0 0 0 Volt Sweden Volt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.00% 0 0 0 Sweden Out of the EU/Free Justice Party 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 0.00% 0 0 0 Free Choice 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.00% 0 0 0 National Law of Sweden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.00% 0 0 0 Change Party Revolution 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Electoral Cooperation Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Evil Chicken Party OKP 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Freedom of the Family 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Green Democrats 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 KSP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 The Anarchists 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 The Least Bad Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0Valid votes 6,088 29,193 13,992 9,149 12,065 14,657 13,600 150,144 248,888 100.00% 12 1 13Blank votes 65 304 130 125 77 190 187 1,087 2,165 0.86% Rejected votes – unregistered parties 0 6 2 1 3 4 8 31 55 0.02% Rejected votes – other 3 21 2 5 7 14 18 120 190 0.08% Total polled 6,156 29,524 14,126 9,280 12,152 14,865 13,813 151,382 251,298 85.99% Registered electors 7,312 34,998 16,323 10,903 13,626 17,497 16,185 175,411 292,255 Turnout 84.19% 84.36% 86.54% 85.11% 89.18% 84.96% 85.34% 86.30% 85.99%
The following candidates were elected: Constituency seats (personal mandates) - Lina Nordquist (L), 732 votes; Mikael Oscarsson (KD), 1,306 votes; and Ilona Szatmári Waldau (V), 1,087 votes. Constituency seats (party mandates) - Catarina Deremar (C), 636 votes; Gustaf Lantz (S), 916 votes; Sanne Lennström (S), 1,301 votes; Stefan Olsson (M), 689 votes; David Perez (SD), 157 votes; Jacob Risberg (MP), 648 votes; Jessika Roswall (M), 1,874 votes; Ardalan Shekarabi (S), 3,157 votes; and Lars Wistedt (SD), 36 votes. Levelling seats (party mandates) - Inga-Lill Sjöblom (S), 304 votes.
Permanent substitutions: Jessika Roswall (M) resigned on 29 August 2024 and was replaced by Fredrik Ahlstedt (M) on the same day. Lars Wistedt (SD) died on 25 November 2024 and was replaced by Kent Kumpula (SD) on 26 November 2024.
2010s 2018 Results of the 2018 general election held on 9 September 2018:
Party Votes per municipality Totalvotes % SeatsÄlvkar-leby En-köping Håbo Heby Knivsta Öst-hammar Tierp Uppsala Swedish Social Democratic Party S 2,360 7,422 2,831 2,641 2,349 4,579 4,676 38,310 65,168 26.99% 3 1 4 Moderate Party M 700 6,523 3,558 1,249 2,628 2,580 1,903 26,649 45,790 18.96% 2 0 2 Sweden Democrats SD 1,607 5,791 3,237 2,074 1,908 3,128 2,890 16,662 37,297 15.44% 2 0 2 Centre Party C 265 2,843 951 1,196 1,207 1,306 1,565 12,913 22,246 9.21% 1 0 1 Left Party V 410 1,343 696 502 611 749 912 15,879 21,102 8.74% 1 0 1 Christian Democrats KD 257 1,869 872 726 964 1,250 747 9,976 16,661 6.90% 1 0 1 Liberals L 206 1,304 717 270 816 604 430 10,724 15,071 6.24% 1 0 1 Green Party MP 133 885 375 213 613 378 376 10,431 13,404 5.55% 0 1 1 Feminist Initiative FI 15 107 23 54 58 44 59 1,096 1,456 0.60% 0 0 0 Alternative for Sweden AfS 20 110 34 40 37 51 65 502 859 0.36% 0 0 0 Independent Rural Party LPo 4 64 4 41 7 72 90 339 621 0.26% 0 0 0 Citizens' Coalition MED 2 59 22 16 29 14 21 389 552 0.23% 0 0 0 Pirate Party PP 3 44 9 12 15 11 14 183 291 0.12% 0 0 0 Direct Democrats DD 9 30 11 8 8 16 14 149 245 0.10% 0 0 0 Unity ENH 6 29 25 11 6 14 18 86 195 0.08% 0 0 0 Christian Values Party KrVP 2 9 5 3 5 6 6 101 137 0.06% 0 0 0 Nordic Resistance Movement NMR 6 11 13 2 4 2 6 43 87 0.04% 0 0 0 Classical Liberal Party KLP 1 4 2 0 4 1 2 67 81 0.03% 0 0 0 Communist Party of Sweden SKP 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 69 77 0.03% 0 0 0 Animal Party DjuP 3 3 4 5 5 4 5 45 74 0.03% 0 0 0 Initiative INI 0 3 0 1 0 1 0 15 20 0.01% 0 0 0 Basic Income Party BASIP 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 14 18 0.01% 0 0 0 Freedom of the Justice Party S-FRP 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0.00% 0 0 0 European Workers Party EAP 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.00% 0 0 0 Security Party TRP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Parties not on the ballot 0 2 2 0 1 3 2 21 31 0.01% 0 0 0Valid votes 6,009 28,462 13,395 9,064 11,276 14,814 13,802 144,667 241,489 100.00% 11 2 13Blank votes 73 225 124 127 70 147 139 882 1,787 0.73% Rejected votes – unregistered parties 0 9 2 3 4 4 7 43 72 0.03% Rejected votes – other 5 19 9 4 3 4 3 49 96 0.04% Total polled 6,087 28,715 13,530 9,198 11,353 14,969 13,951 145,641 243,444 88.88% Registered electors 6,955 32,735 15,185 10,607 12,429 17,275 15,945 162,767 273,898 Turnout 87.52% 87.72% 89.10% 86.72% 91.34% 86.65% 87.49% 89.48% 88.88%
The following candidates were elected: Constituency seats (personal mandates) - Lina Nordquist (L), 1,023 votes; Mikael Oscarsson (KD), 1,486 votes; and Ilona Szatmári Waldau (V), 1,255 votes.