3,178 private members’ motions submitted
Published:
The members of the Riksdag have submitted a total of 3,178 independent private members' motions and 11,022 proposals during the general private members' motions period. This is the result of the preliminary count carried out after the general private members' motions period expired today on 4 October at 4.30 p.m. The figures are yet to be confirmed.
Private members’ motions are a way for members and parties to pursue their policies. During the general private members' motions period, members of the Riksdag can submit motions – proposals – that are independent of Government bills, on virtually any subject that the Riksdag can decide on. A motion may contain one or more proposals.
The general private members' motions period begins at the opening of the Riksdag session in the autumn and finishes 15 days after the Government has submitted the Budget Bill to the Riksdag. This year, the private members’ motions period began on 10 September at 10.30 a.m. and finished today on 4 October at 4.30 p.m. During the period, the members of the Riksdag submitted a total of 3,178 independent private members’ motions. They submitted more motions compared with 2023, when 2,701 motions were submitted. The number of proposals submitted during the period is 11,022, more proposals compared with 2023, when 9,566 proposals were submitted. The figures are yet to be confirmed.
All the motions available on the Riksdag website
The motions are published in the Riksdag website. It is possible to search for motions according to subject and sort them according to which party and member has submitted the motion.
Search for motions from the general private members' motions period 2024 (in Swedish)
Next step
Once a private member's motion has been submitted to the Riksdag, it is submitted to the committee or committees with responsibility for the area with which the proposals in the motion deals. The committee goes through the proposals in the motions and proposes what decision the Riksdag is to take. For many of the motions, the committees do not start this process until the spring. After that, a decision will be taken by the Riksdag on the motion. The date for a decision for each motion is published on riksdagen.se as soon as the date has been decided.
The number of independent private members’ motions for previous years
The private members' motions which members of the Riksdag may submit during the general private members' motions period are called independent private member’s motions.
- 2023: 2,701 motions
- 2022: 2,235 motions
- 2021: 4,149 motions
- 2020: 3,645 motions
The number of proposals for previous years
A motion may contain several proposals.
- 2023: 9,566 proposals
- 2022: 8,918 proposals
- 2021: 17,298 proposals
- 2020: 13,625 proposals
Further information
More information on the general private members' motions period is available on riksdagen.se. Here, you will also find budget motions from the various political parties, that is motions in which they state their counter-proposals to the Government's budget proposals.