The keys to power · The citizen

Municipal and regional elections

What Every four years you choose who will govern your municipality (kommun) and your region, that is, schools, care, public transport and health care.

Who You yourself hold the vote, and the elected representatives you vote in become the politicians who make the decisions in the council (fullmäktige).

How You vote with a ballot paper, and you can both choose a party and mark a cross for a person you want to see elected.

Official sources

The Election Authority (Valmyndigheten): general elections in Sweden
SKR, the membership body for municipalities and regions: local self-government and how the municipality and the region are governed

Belongs in

The citizen · At the election · Other actors

Other keys in the same group

General election to the Riksdag Referendum (folkomröstning)

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