2022 Alvsbergish general election

2022 Alvsbergish general election

21 July 2022
All 174 seats in the Riksting 87 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ingvar Karlsson Torsten Dahlin Oskar Harmar Party Social Democratic Party Agrarian Homeland Party Free Democrats Alliance Centre Left The Alliance The Alliance Seats won 46 43 29 Seat change 6 2 3 Popular vote 1,065,464 996,214 685,323 Percentage 25.6% 24.0% 16.5%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Tobias Säder Veronica Anderson Gabriel Venqvist Party Left Party People's Party Liberal Party Alliance Centre Left Centre Left The Alliance Seats won 24 13 8 Seat change 7 3 1 Popular vote 558,633 321,534 202,203 Percentage 13.4% 7.7% 4.9%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Ann Moebäck Johan Carl Lendel Maria Kurtell Daniel Johansson Party Greens Christian Democrats Pirate Party Alliance Centre Left The Alliance Supporting the Ingvar Karlsson Cabinet Seats won 4 4 3 Seat change 4 1 1 Popular vote 103,243 94,835 85,432 Percentage 2.5% 2.3% 2.1%
President before election Torsten Dahlin Agrarian Party Elected President Ingvar Karlsson Social Democrats

General elections was held in Alvsberg on 21 July 2022 to elect all 174 members of the Riksting. The election was supposed to be held in 2023 but due to the 2022 government crisis and the Riksting being unable to elect a new government a snap election was ordered. The Election was extremely close between the Agrarian Homeland Party and its coalition partners and the Social Democratic and its centre left coalition , but in the end the Social Democrats won with 6 more coalition seats.

Political Parties

The table below lists parties currently represented in the Riksting.

Name			Main ideology	Leader	2019 result
					Votes (%)	Seats
	A	Agrarian Homeland Party	Agrarianism	Torsten Dahlin	25%	46 / 174
	S	Social Democratic Party	Social democracy	Ingvar Karlsson	22%	41 / 174
	V	Left Party	Socialism	Tobias Säder	17%	31 / 174
	FD	Free Democrats	Right-wing populism	Oskar Harmar	14%	26 / 174
	LP	People's Party	Libertarianism	Veronica Anderson	9%	16 / 174
	L	Liberal Party	Liberalism	Andreas Eriksson	5%	9 / 174
	P	Pirate Party	Pirate politics	Daniel Johansson	2%	4 / 174
	KD	Christian Democrats	Christian Democracy	Maria Kurtell	2%	3 / 174
	MP	Greens	Green Politics	Ann Moebäck Johan Carl Lendel	dint contest	0 / 174

Oppinion Polls

"Our rights arent for sale!" poster in support of the Left Party