Parties in the municipalities

How each party’s councillors and members vote across every municipality we follow: how often the party is on the winning side, how united its members vote, and which parties it votes with.

Parties in numbers

Party Council seats Votes On the winning side Cohesion
Social Democrats 625 · in 55 municipalities 1,573 82 % 92 %
National Coalition 588 · in 55 municipalities 1,638 74 % 85 %
Centre Party 539 · in 54 municipalities 1,152 76 % 93 %
Finns Party 207 · in 54 municipalities 1,097 53 % 90 %
Greens 200 · in 48 municipalities 1,501 64 % 92 %
Left Alliance 180 · in 49 municipalities 1,210 65 % 92 %
Swedish People’s Party 98 · in 13 municipalities 705 86 % 94 %
Christian Democrats 76 · in 45 municipalities 593 69 % 98 %
Movement Now 9 · in 3 municipalities 170 83 % 100 %
Liberal Party 1 · in 1 municipalities 45 78 % 100 %
Council seats
The party’s council seats this term, added up over every municipality we follow.
Votes
Votes where most of the party’s members voted either Yes or No.
On the winning side
How often the party majority’s side won. 75% means the party was on the winning side in three votes out of four.
Cohesion
How many of the members’ votes went the same way as the party majority. 100% means the members always voted together.

Who votes with whom

When two parties both took a side in the same vote, did they vote the same way? A longer bar means they agree more often. Pairs with at least 10 shared votes are shown.

Social Democrats

How often Social Democrats voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Swedish People’s Party 74 %
  2. Movement Now 72 %
  3. Left Alliance 71 %
  4. Greens 69 %
  5. Liberal Party 69 %
  6. Centre Party 67 %
  7. National Coalition 60 %
  8. Christian Democrats 58 %
  9. Finns Party 39 %

National Coalition

How often National Coalition voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Movement Now 84 %
  2. Swedish People’s Party 83 %
  3. Liberal Party 78 %
  4. Christian Democrats 71 %
  5. Centre Party 68 %
  6. Social Democrats 60 %
  7. Finns Party 59 %
  8. Greens 44 %
  9. Left Alliance 42 %

Centre Party

How often Centre Party voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Swedish People’s Party 84 %
  2. Movement Now 76 %
  3. Liberal Party 73 %
  4. National Coalition 68 %
  5. Social Democrats 67 %
  6. Christian Democrats 67 %
  7. Greens 59 %
  8. Left Alliance 59 %
  9. Finns Party 58 %

Finns Party

How often Finns Party voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Christian Democrats 71 %
  2. National Coalition 59 %
  3. Centre Party 58 %
  4. Movement Now 58 %
  5. Swedish People’s Party 53 %
  6. Liberal Party 53 %
  7. Social Democrats 39 %
  8. Greens 33 %
  9. Left Alliance 32 %

Greens

How often Greens voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Left Alliance 88 %
  2. Social Democrats 69 %
  3. Liberal Party 67 %
  4. Movement Now 65 %
  5. Swedish People’s Party 63 %
  6. Centre Party 59 %
  7. Christian Democrats 54 %
  8. National Coalition 44 %
  9. Finns Party 33 %

Left Alliance

How often Left Alliance voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Greens 88 %
  2. Movement Now 74 %
  3. Social Democrats 71 %
  4. Swedish People’s Party 69 %
  5. Centre Party 59 %
  6. Liberal Party 58 %
  7. Christian Democrats 51 %
  8. National Coalition 42 %
  9. Finns Party 32 %

Swedish People’s Party

How often Swedish People’s Party voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Movement Now 89 %
  2. Centre Party 84 %
  3. National Coalition 83 %
  4. Liberal Party 79 %
  5. Social Democrats 74 %
  6. Christian Democrats 70 %
  7. Left Alliance 69 %
  8. Greens 63 %
  9. Finns Party 53 %

Christian Democrats

How often Christian Democrats voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Movement Now 84 %
  2. Liberal Party 73 %
  3. National Coalition 71 %
  4. Finns Party 71 %
  5. Swedish People’s Party 70 %
  6. Centre Party 67 %
  7. Social Democrats 58 %
  8. Greens 54 %
  9. Left Alliance 51 %

Movement Now

How often Movement Now voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Swedish People’s Party 89 %
  2. National Coalition 84 %
  3. Christian Democrats 84 %
  4. Centre Party 76 %
  5. Left Alliance 74 %
  6. Social Democrats 72 %
  7. Greens 65 %
  8. Finns Party 58 %

Liberal Party

How often Liberal Party voted the same way as each other party:

  1. Swedish People’s Party 79 %
  2. National Coalition 78 %
  3. Centre Party 73 %
  4. Christian Democrats 73 %
  5. Social Democrats 69 %
  6. Greens 67 %
  7. Left Alliance 58 %
  8. Finns Party 53 %
Show every pair as a table
VASSDPVIHRRKPKESKLIBKOKKDLIIKPS
VAS 718869595842517432
SDP 716974676960587239
VIHR 886963596744546533
RKP 697463847983708953
KESK 596759847368677658
LIB 58696779737873–53
KOK 426044836878718459
KD 515854706773718471
LIIK 7472658976–848458
PS 323933535853597158

Figures come from votes where the minutes record each member’s vote and the member’s party is known: 1,745 votes in 29 municipalities. A party’s position is how most of its members voted. Seats are council seats this term.