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Political parties operating in Sweden, connected through the PoliticaHub knowledge graph.
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Political party in Sweden.
political party in 18th century Sweden
Swedish liberal and agrarian party founded in 1913. Historically rooted in rural interests, it has evolved into a pro-market, pro-immigration, decentralisation-focused party. It entered opposition after the 2022 election rather than join a government dependent on Sweden Democrats support.
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The Centre Party began as the Farmers' League and remains rooted in agrarian and regional Sweden, but in the modern era it reinvented itself as a market-liberal, decentralist, and strongly pro-immigration party. That ideological evolution gave it a distinctive place in Swedish politics: economically closer to the center-right, but culturally and on migration often closer to liberal and center-left forces. Its refusal for years to cooperate with the Sweden Democrats made it one of the pivotal actors in Sweden's repeated coalition deadlocks.
defunct mid-20th century Swedish political party
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Political party in Sweden.
women's wing of the Swedish Crhstian Democrats
Sweden's Christian Democrats were founded to give Christian social values and family-centred politics a clearer place in a highly secular political system. For much of their history they were a smaller threshold party of the non-socialist bloc, but under Ebba Busch — leader since 2015 — they sharpened a more combative profile on law and order, energy, and migration. Busch has simultaneously held the party leadership while serving as Minister for Energy, Business and Industry in the Tidö government. Their rightward shift has made them a natural anchor of the Swedish right.
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Swedish political party, founded 2014
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1930–1936 Swedish pro-fascist party
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Swedish nationalist party
Swedish political party and experiment with direct democracy
1993 book written by Fredrik Reinfeldt
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collective shareholding funds in Sweden (1980s–1990s)
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Swedish election cooperation with individual candidates
Local political party in Lund, Sweden
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Swedish effort to exit the European Union
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Swedish political party dissolved in 1934
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Sweden's Green Party was the first green party to win sustained parliamentary representation in the Nordic region and became one of the main channels through which environmental politics entered the Swedish mainstream. It combines climate politics with social liberalism, feminism, internationalism, and a traditionally generous approach to asylum and migration. Its years in government with the Social Democrats showed both the gains and the limits of green participation in office: influence over agenda-setting, but also painful compromises on migration, energy, and coalition discipline.
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Political party in Sweden (1718–1727)
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Political party in Sweden.
Swedish local political party
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1850s Swedish political association
pre-election Swedish alliance
Swedish political concept
political party in Sweden
Local political party in Knivsta, Sweden
political party in Sweden 1867–1912
former political party in Sweden
Sweden's Left Party is the democratic-socialist heir to the country's communist tradition. It moved away from Soviet-aligned communism over the late twentieth century and now combines class politics, feminism, anti-privatization politics, and welfare-state radicalism with parliamentary pragmatism. The party often supports Social Democratic governments from outside cabinet, using leverage over budgets and confidence votes to pull Swedish politics leftward while avoiding full responsibility for coalition compromises.
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Political party in Sweden.
Sweden's Liberals are the heirs of the country's older social-liberal tradition: pro-market but also pro-education, strongly pro-European, and historically associated with civil liberties and relatively open migration. The party has often punched above its size in coalition negotiations because it can swing between bloc loyalty and liberal discomfort with nationalist partners. Its decision to participate in the Tidö arrangement captured one of the central tensions of contemporary European liberalism: how far to cooperate with a right reshaped by anti-immigration populism.
Political party in Sweden.
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Local political party in Malung, Sweden
The Moderate Party is Sweden's main center-right governing party and the traditional vehicle for liberal-conservative politics, business interests, tax reduction, and market-oriented reform. It evolved from a more classically conservative formation into a broader catch-all party, especially under Fredrik Reinfeldt, who rebranded it as a modern reformist right that accepted the welfare state while trying to make it more work-centered and competitive. Under Ulf Kristersson it accepted parliamentary dependence on the Sweden Democrats, a strategic shift that restructured the entire Swedish right.
in Laxå Municipality, Sweden
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political party in the upper house of Swedish parliament
Political party in Sweden 1906-1912
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Swedish neo-Nazi political party (1956–2009)
Political party in Sweden.
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political party in Örebro, Sweden
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Swedish political party focused on information sharing
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defunct minor party in Sweden
defunct political party in Sweden
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Political party in Sweden.
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splinter group of the Social Democrats in Pajala, Sweden
Political party in Sweden.
Swedish electoral list
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Swedish student organization
women's wing of the Swedish Social Democratic Party
Sweden's largest party historically. Centre-left, architect of the Swedish welfare state model.
political party in Sweden
The Sweden Democrats are the insurgent nationalist-right party that disrupted Sweden's traditional bloc system. Founded in 1988 with roots in white-nationalist and extremist milieus, the party spent years on the political margins before Jimmie Åkesson's leadership professionalized its image and turned anti-immigration politics into a durable parliamentary force. Its rise transformed Swedish coalition arithmetic by making the center-right increasingly dependent on a party that many rivals still regard as fundamentally outside the democratic mainstream.
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Political party in Sweden.
Political party in Sweden.
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Sweden's Social Democrats are the defining governing force of modern Swedish politics. Founded in 1889 out of the labor movement, the party built the folkhemmet model of universal welfare, strong unions, redistributive taxation, and state-backed social citizenship that made Sweden the classic global example of social-democratic government. Even when out of office, the party has usually set the terms of debate because so much of Sweden's institutional self-understanding was shaped in its long twentieth-century era of dominance.
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