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First European Parliament election in Sweden From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1995 European Parliament election in Sweden was the election of Members of the European Parliament representing the Sweden constituency for the 1995–1999 term of the European Parliament.
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Turnout | 41.63% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Austria, Finland and Sweden acceded to the Union on 1 January 1995. 59 delegates (21 from Austria, 16 from Finland, 22 from Sweden) were appointed to the Parliament on accession, bringing the total up to 626. Elections to elect the 22 MEPs for Sweden were held on 17 September 1995[1][2] and the now-elected MEPs took their seats with effect from 9 October 1995.[3]
The results by political group of the Sweden election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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Swedish Social Democratic Party | 752,817 | 28.06 | 7 | |
Moderate Party | 621,568 | 23.17 | 5 | |
Green Party | 462,092 | 17.22 | 4 | |
Left Party | 346,764 | 12.92 | 3 | |
Centre Party | 192,077 | 7.16 | 2 | |
Liberal People's Party | 129,376 | 4.82 | 1 | |
Christian Democrats | 105,173 | 3.92 | 0 | |
Sarajevo List | 26,875 | 1.00 | 0 | |
Free EU-Critics | 18,398 | 0.69 | 0 | |
Justice List | 14,904 | 0.56 | 0 | |
New Democracy | 2,841 | 0.11 | 0 | |
Other parties | 10,266 | 0.38 | 0 | |
Total | 2,683,151 | 100.00 | 22 | |
Valid votes | 2,683,151 | 98.38 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 44,166 | 1.62 | ||
Total votes | 2,727,317 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 6,551,781 | 41.63 | ||
Source: Alexandersson |
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