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 Oskar Harmar Torsten Dahlin Party Social Democratic Party Free Democrats Centre Party Alliance Centre Left The Alliance The Alliance Seats won 46 38 36 Seat change 6 12 9 Popular vote 1,065,464 926,214 863,323 Percentage 25.0% 21.7% 20.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Tobias Säder Veronica Anderson Gabriel Venqvist Party Left Party People's Party Liberal Party Alliance Centre Left The Alliance Seats won 23 13 8 Seat change 8 3 1 Popular vote 558,633 321,534 202,203 Percentage 13.1% 7.5% 4.7%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Ann Moebäck Johan Carl Lendel Göran Knutsson Daniel Johansson Party Greens Christian Front Pirate Party Alliance Centre Left The Alliance Centre left Seats won 4 4 4 Seat change 4 1 Popular vote 103,243 94,835 85,432 Percentage 2.4% 2.2% 2%
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	Centre 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
	KF	Christian Front	Christian Democracy	Maria Kurtell	2%	3 / 174
	MP	Greens	Green Politics	Ann Moebäck Johan Carl Lendel	dint contest	0 / 174

Results

Party	Leader	Seats				Votes
		Senate	Security Council	Total	+/-	Votes	%
	Social Democratic Party	Ingvar Karlsson					1,065,464	25%
	Agrarian Homeland Party	Torsten Dahlin					996,214	24%
	Free Democrats	Oskar Harmar					685,323	16%
	Left Party	Tobias Säder					558,633	13%
	People's Party	Veronica Anderson					321,534	7%
	Liberal Party	Liberal Party					202,203	5%
	Green Party	Ann Moebäck					103,243	2%
	Christian Front	Göran Knutsson					80,665	2%
	Pirate Party	Daniel Johansson					85,432	2%
	Moderate Coalition	Darald Wassen					21,325	0.51%
	Libertarian Initiative	Per Bohman					14,084	0.34%
	Alliance 22/The Reds	Albin Boländ					7,673	0.18%

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