Västra Götaland County North () is one of the 29 multi-member constituencies of the Riksdag, the national legislature of Sweden. The constituency was established as Älvsborg County North () in 1970 when the Riksdag was changed from a bicameral legislature to a unicameral legislature. It was renamed Västra Götaland County North in 1998 when the counties of Älvsborg, Gothenburg and Bohus and Skaraborg were merged to create Västra Götaland. The constituency currently consists of the municipalities of Åmål, Bengtsfors, Dals-Ed, Färgelanda, Lysekil, Mellerud, Munkedal, Orust, Sotenäs, Strömstad, Tanum, Trollhättan, Uddevalla and Vänersborg. The constituency currently elects eight of the 349 members of the Riksdag using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 general election it had 208,144 registered electors.

Electoral system Västra Götaland County North currently elects eight 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 8,953 5.16% 0 54,311 31.28% 3 6,318 3.64% 0 9,938 5.72% 0 6,311 3.63% 0 30,443 17.53% 2 10,711 6.17% 1 44,165 25.43% 22018 11,029 6.32% 0 53,328 30.55% 3 6,349 3.64% 0 13,809 7.91% 1 8,124 4.65% 0 30,794 17.64% 2 11,347 6.50% 0 37,391 21.42% 22014 9,895 5.53% 0 58,289 32.55% 4 11,219 6.27% 0 12,335 6.89% 1 9,472 5.29% 0 35,979 20.09% 2 9,099 5.08% 0 27,027 15.09% 22010 9,907 5.73% 0 56,060 32.43% 3 12,003 6.94% 1 11,449 6.62% 1 13,393 7.75% 1 46,582 26.95% 3 11,092 6.42% 0 10,513 6.08% 02006 9,386 5.78% 0 62,574 38.52% 4 7,789 4.80% 0 14,471 8.91% 1 12,095 7.45% 1 34,427 21.19% 2 13,123 8.08% 1 4,532 2.79% 02002 13,298 8.54% 1 64,050 41.15% 4 6,687 4.30% 0 11,915 7.65% 1 19,200 12.33% 1 18,860 12.12% 1 18,203 11.69% 1 2,169 1.39% 01998 20,219 12.85% 1 57,002 36.24% 4 7,612 4.84% 0 10,181 6.47% 0 6,863 4.36% 0 28,117 17.88% 2 23,828 15.15% 2 1994 10,178 6.09% 0 75,632 45.25% 5 9,562 5.72% 0 16,627 9.95% 1 11,835 7.08% 1 31,391 18.78% 2 8,715 5.21% 0 1991 6,753 4.08% 0 59,476 35.94% 3 5,284 3.19% 0 18,242 11.02% 1 15,164 9.16% 1 31,559 19.07% 2 15,375 9.29% 1 1988 7,840 4.88% 0 66,949 41.70% 4 10,014 6.24% 0 24,546 15.29% 2 21,045 13.11% 1 24,265 15.11% 2 5,543 3.45% 0 1985 6,914 4.20% 0 70,275 42.66% 4 2,585 1.57% 0 27,152 16.48% 1 27,182 16.50% 2 30,319 18.41% 2 with C 1982 6,920 4.25% 0 69,461 42.70% 4 2,554 1.57% 0 32,269 19.84% 2 12,393 7.62% 1 35,601 21.88% 2 3,309 2.03% 0 1979 6,356 4.02% 0 63,481 40.16% 4 36,952 23.38% 2 19,338 12.23% 1 29,218 18.48% 2 2,393 1.51% 0 1976 4,627 2.98% 0 61,029 39.29% 4 47,153 30.35% 3 19,509 12.56% 1 20,611 13.27% 1 2,248 1.45% 0 1973 4,856 3.35% 0 58,258 40.24% 4 43,498 30.05% 3 17,115 11.82% 1 18,028 12.45% 1 2,651 1.83% 0 1970 4,095 3.01% 0 56,206 41.30% 4 33,736 24.79% 2 25,648 18.85% 2 13,361 9.82% 1 2,881 2.12% 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 % SeatsÅmål Bengts-fors Dals-Ed Färge-landa Lysekil Melle-rud Munke-dal Orust Sotenäs Ström-stad Tanum Troll-hättan Udde-valla Väners-borg Swedish Social Democratic Party S 2,606 1,903 667 1,137 3,224 1,501 1,818 3,070 1,864 2,113 2,136 12,872 11,070 8,330 54,311 31.28% 3 0 3 Sweden Democrats SD 2,228 1,735 910 1,627 2,431 1,866 2,121 2,795 1,612 1,861 2,108 7,504 8,790 6,577 44,165 25.43% 2 0 2 Moderate Party M 1,236 833 481 552 1,566 993 1,043 1,947 1,470 1,254 1,893 6,853 6,271 4,051 30,443 17.53% 2 0 2 Christian Democrats KD 452 380 312 279 502 391 529 703 506 470 652 1,720 2,337 1,478 10,711 6.17% 1 0 1 Centre Party C 392 347 248 288 439 427 403 701 373 419 733 1,931 1,807 1,430 9,938 5.72% 0 0 0 Left Party V 413 260 86 134 486 195 293 505 199 357 359 2,211 2,021 1,434 8,953 5.16% 0 0 0 Green Party MP 246 192 46 72 420 153 160 531 216 324 396 1,263 1,435 864 6,318 3.64% 0 0 0 Liberals L 230 141 73 117 421 134 163 472 366 349 386 1,211 1,304 944 6,311 3.63% 0 0 0 Nuance Party PNy 33 2 1 2 18 21 13 3 6 5 2 175 332 72 685 0.39% 0 0 0 Alternative for Sweden AfS 16 23 14 11 46 23 18 30 30 17 22 87 107 72 516 0.30% 0 0 0 Citizens' Coalition MED 7 1 0 6 10 14 10 10 7 20 14 63 44 31 237 0.14% 0 0 0 Christian Values Party KrVP 2 5 24 3 9 9 14 12 1 6 5 12 69 22 193 0.11% 0 0 0 Pirate Party PP 2 2 5 7 11 9 5 8 2 13 10 48 26 21 169 0.10% 0 0 0 The Push Buttons Kn 9 4 1 6 11 7 3 29 1 4 4 23 43 20 165 0.10% 0 0 0 Human Rights and Democracy MoD 13 3 0 3 7 8 3 15 5 12 14 19 24 22 148 0.09% 0 0 0 Feminist Initiative FI 5 2 2 1 4 3 6 8 2 17 7 13 21 12 103 0.06% 0 0 0 Climate Alliance KA 2 2 0 1 4 3 2 3 1 5 3 9 8 7 50 0.03% 0 0 0 Independent Rural Party LPo 2 0 0 9 3 1 8 0 0 7 4 2 5 7 48 0.03% 0 0 0 Nordic Resistance Movement NMR 0 1 1 1 4 2 9 3 4 0 3 5 2 4 39 0.02% 0 0 0 Direct Democrats DD 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 11 7 6 33 0.02% 0 0 0 Socialist Welfare Party S-V 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 22 5 31 0.02% 0 0 0 Unity ENH 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 7 2 1 4 3 4 2 28 0.02% 0 0 0 Communist Party of Sweden SKP 0 0 1 0 2 2 1 5 1 0 1 4 0 0 17 0.01% 0 0 0 Basic Income Party BASIP 0 2 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 9 0.01% 0 0 0 Classical Liberal Party KLP 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 0.00% 0 0 0 Sweden Out of the EU/Free Justice Party 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 7 0.00% 0 0 0 Donald Duck Party 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 5 0.00% 0 0 0 United Democratic Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 0.00% 0 0 0 Electoral Cooperation Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0.00% 0 0 0 Hard Line Sweden 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0.00% 0 0 0 Turning Point Party PV 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.00% 0 0 0 Evil Chicken Party OKP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Freedom of the Family 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Peace Party 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.00% 0 0 0 Volt Sweden Volt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.00% 0 0 0Valid votes 7,895 5,840 2,875 4,256 9,629 5,766 6,630 10,860 6,668 7,256 8,759 36,047 35,755 25,419 173,655 100.00% 8 0 8Blank votes 79 61 38 39 103 72 97 109 67 102 110 368 370 268 1,883 1.07% Rejected votes – unregistered parties 0 2 1 0 3 1 2 2 1 2 2 4 13 9 42 0.02% Rejected votes – other 3 2 1 0 20 3 4 8 2 4 6 33 28 9 123 0.07% Total polled 7,977 5,905 2,915 4,295 9,755 5,842 6,733 10,979 6,738 7,364 8,877 36,452 36,166 25,705 175,703 84.41% Registered electors 9,585 7,070 3,504 5,021 11,346 6,919 8,038 12,490 7,627 9,106 10,274 43,921 43,062 30,181 208,144 Turnout 83.22% 83.52% 83.19% 85.54% 85.98% 84.43% 83.76% 87.90% 88.34% 80.87% 86.40% 82.99% 83.99% 85.17% 84.41%

The following candidates were elected: Constituency seats (party mandates) - Ann-Sofie Alm (M), 657 votes; Matheus Enholm (SD), 238 votes; Paula Holmqvist (S), 1,262 votes; Johan Hultberg (M), 1,156 votes; Magnus Jacobsson (KD), 469 votes; Louise Thunström (S), 636 votes; Markus Wiechel (SD), 0 votes; and Mats Wiking (S), 796 votes.

Permanent substitutions: Paula Holmqvist (S) resigned on 3 March 2024 and was replaced by Jonathan Svensson (S) on 4 March 2024. Johan Hultberg (M) resigned on 31 August 2025 and was replaced by Cecilia Gustafsson (M) on 1 September 2025.

2010s 2018 Results of the 2018 general election held on 9 September 2018: