Comprehensive information from the Riksdag on the 2024 EU elections.
Elections to the European Parliament took place at the beginning of June. In Sweden, the elections will took place on 9 June. Citizens in Sweden elected the people who will represent them during the coming five years.
Approximately one week after election day, the Election Authority established the Swedish election result.
The European Parliament has information about the election results for the whole of the EU.
Read more about what happens after the EU elections.
Elections to the European Parliament are held every five years. The citizens of Sweden and the other EU countries then elect the political parties and members who are to be part of the European Parliament’s decision-making process.
Elections to the European Parliament
You will find more information about the elections, as well as frequently asked questions and answers, on the Election Authority website.
The Election Authority website
Information about the elections in all the official EU languages is available on the European Parliament website.
The European Parliament is the only EU institution that is directly elected by the people. The European Parliament comprises 705 elected representatives up until the 2024 elections, after which there will be 720. The main responsibilities of the members of the European Parliament involve deciding on new laws and the EU budget together with the Council of the European Union.
When the polling stations closed after the elections to the European Parliament, the municipalities carried out a preliminary count of the votes. The county administrative boards then conducted the final vote count. Both the preliminary and the final results are shown on val.se.
The county administrative boards started the final vote count.
The Election Authority established the Swedish election result and members and alternate members of the European Parliament were appointed. The elections ended when the Election Authority published the election results on the authority’s bulletin board and on www.val.se.
The task of forming political groups in the European Parliament was able to commence from 10 June. The composition of the groups in the European Parliament was completed by the time the new legislative term started.
The legislative term of the newly elected European Parliament started on 16 July with a meeting in Strasbourg, France. At the meeting, the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola was elected for a second term.
The heads of state and government in the European Council put forward Ursula von der Leyen as candidate for President of the European Commission for a second term. She was then elected through a vote in the European Parliament on 18 July 2024.
The candidates who have been proposed as European Commissioners are heard in the committees of the European Parliament.
Sweden’s Commissioner-designate Jessica Roswall was heard in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on 5 November 2024. She was approved as Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy on 6 November.
By means of a vote on 27 November, the European Parliament approved the appointment of the new European Commission as a whole.
The new European Commission commenced its work on 1 December.
