Uppsala County is a county or län on the eastern coast of Sweden,whose capital is the city of Uppsala. It borders the counties of Dalarna,Stockholm,Södermanland,Västmanland,Gävleborg,and the Baltic Sea.
Jönköping County is a county or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Halland,Västra Götaland,Östergötland,Kalmar and Kronoberg. The total county population was 356,291 inhabitants in September 2017. The capital and largest city is Jönköping. About one quarter of the total county population lives in the combined Jönköping-Huskvarna urban area around the southern point of Lake Vättern.
Habo Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County,southern Sweden,where the locality of Habo is seat.
The Riksdag is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971,the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members,elected proportionally and serving,since 1994,fixed four-year terms. The 2022 Swedish general election is the most recent general election.
Elections in Sweden are held once every four years. At the highest level,all 349 members of Riksdag,the national parliament of Sweden,are elected in general elections. Elections to the 20 county councils and 290 municipal assemblies –all using almost the same electoral system –are held concurrently with the legislative elections on the second Sunday in September.
The monarchy of Sweden is centred on the monarchical head of state of Sweden,by law a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. There have been kings in what now is the Kingdom of Sweden for more than a millennium. Originally an elective monarchy,it became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th century during the reign of Gustav Vasa,though virtually all monarchs before that belonged to a limited and small number of political families which are considered to be the royal dynasties of Sweden.
Riksdag of the Estates was the name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled. Until its dissolution in 1866,the institution was the highest authority in Sweden next to the King. It was a Diet made up of the Four Estates,which historically were the lines of division in Swedish society:
The prime ministerof Sweden is the head of government of Sweden. The prime minister and their cabinet exercise executive authority in the Kingdom of Sweden and are subject to the Parliament of Sweden. The prime minister is nominated by the speaker of the Riksdag and is elected by the chamber by simple majority,using negative parliamentarianism. The Riksdag holds elections every four years,in the even year between leap years.
General elections were held in Sweden on 9 September 2018 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. Regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The incumbent minority government,consisting of the Social Democrats and the Greens and supported by the Left Party,won 144 seats,one seat more than the four-party Alliance coalition,with the Sweden Democrats winning the remaining 62 seats. The Social Democrats' vote share fell to 28.3 percent,its lowest level of support since 1911.
The electoral system in Sweden is proportional. Of the 349 seats in the national diet,the unicameral Riksdag,310 are fixed constituency seats allocated to constituencies in relation to the number of people entitled to vote in each constituency. The remaining 39 leveling seats are used to correct the deviations from proportional national distribution that may arise when allocating the fixed constituency seats. There is a constraint in the system that means that only a party that has received at least four per cent of the votes in the whole country participates in the distribution of seats. However,a party that has received at least twelve per cent of the votes in a constituency participates in the distribution of the fixed constituency seats in that constituency.
Erik Bengtzboe is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who was Member of the Riksdag from January 2015 to April 2019. Bengtzboe served as chairman of the Moderate Youth League from 2010 to 2014.
Hanif Bali is a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party and a former board member of the party. He was member of the Riksdag for Stockholm County between 2010 and 2022. He lives in Österåker,Åkersberga,where he is now active in municipal politics.
Hans Kennert Mattias Hedarv Karlsson is a Swedish politician,writer and public commentator who served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from September 2014 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Riksdag (SD)since October 2010. He previously served as Leader of the Sweden Democrats from 2014 to 2015. He currently heads the conservative think-tank Oikos. Since 2022,he has also served as the party's international outreach secretary. Karlsson has also been described as one of the SD's chief philosophical idealogues having been responsible much of the party's current platform and shift in its beliefs.
Robert Olov Stenkvist is a Swedish politician for the Sweden Democrats,and youth worker,living in Botkyrka Municipality. He has been a member of the Riksdag for the Sweden Democrats since the 2014 general elections. He initially served as a substitute member of the Riksdag,taking over from Christoffer Dulny who had been asked by the SD to resign his seat following a series of controversies before becoming a full member of the Riksdag. He is currently taking up seat number 176 and is a member of the Education Committee since April 2015,a position he was an alternate for before becoming a member.
Bert Patrick Reslow is a Swedish politician who has been a member of the Riksdag since 2010 representing the constituency of MalmöMunicipality from 2010 until 2018,during the 2018 general elections he was elected to represent the constituency of Värmland County. He was first elected as an MP for the Moderate Party but defected to the Sweden Democrats in 2017. He is currently taking up seat number 45 in the Riksdag.
Petter Löberg is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag for the Swedish Social Democratic Party. He is currently taking up seat number 43 in the Riksdag for the constituency of Västra Götaland County South. Since 2014 he has been a member of the Committee on Justice.
Anders Alftberg is a Swedish educator and politician of the Sweden Democrats party who has been a member of the Riksdag since 2022 representing the constituency of Västra Götaland County South.
Rashid Farivar is an Iranian-born Swedish engineer and politician of the Sweden Democrats party who was elected to the Riksdag in 2022 general election representing the Västra Götaland County West constituency.
Serkan Köse is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag,the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party,he has represented Stockholm County since September 2018. He had previously been a substitute member of the Riksdag for Magdalena Andersson twice:October 2014 to March 2017;and September 2017 to September 2018.
Kalle Olsson is a Swedish politician,journalist and member of the Riksdag,the national legislature. A member of the Social Democratic Party,he has represented Jämtland County since September 2014.
