Published: 10 June 2026
Elections to the Riksdag (Swedish parliament) and regional and municipal councils will take place on 13 September 2026. Here you can find comprehensive information about the elections and how they work. Find out how to vote, who you can vote for, details of voting locations, important dates and results.
Elections to the Riksdag and regional and municipal councils will be held on Sunday 13 September 2026. You can vote between 26 August and election day. If you’re abroad, you can send a postal vote from 30 July at the earliest. Here's more important dates realting to the elections:
You can vote at any early voting location in Sweden between 26 August and 13 September (election day).
On election day, 13 September 2026, you vote at your local voting location. It is open between 08.00 and 20.00.
If you’re outside Sweden during the elections, you can either vote early at a Swedish embassy or consulate, or send a postal vote.
Do you need help voting? You can get support both at the polling station and at home.
Here you can find out what a voting card is, and how and when you will receive it.
Your citizenship determines which elections you’re eligible to vote in.
If you’re a Swedish citizen living abroad, you have the right to vote in the elections to the Riksdag.
Find political parties and candidates running in the 2026 elections.
Do you intend to vote in the 2026 elections? Here you can find answers to some frequently asked questions about how the elections work, who is entitled to vote, and when the results are published.
You will get your voting card when early voting starts at the latest. For the 2026 elections, that’s 26 August. If you have a digital mailbox, you will receive your voting card digitally. If you don’t have a digital mailbox, we will send your voting card to you on paper by post.
If you’re a Swedish citizen living abroad, you will receive your voting card earlier. We will start issuing international voting cards from 7 July onwards.
All voters who have registered a digital mailbox, and have agreed to receive mail from government agencies, will receive their voting card digitally.
This will happen automatically, so you don’t need to do anything.
Election day is 13 September 2026 for elections to the Riksdag and regional and municipal councils.
You can vote in these elections between 26 August and 13 September. If you’re abroad, you can send a postal vote from 30 July at the earliest.
You can vote early at any early voting location in Sweden between 26 August and 13 September. Details of all early voting locations in Sweden (including their addresses, opening times and accessibility information) will be published here on val.se during the second quarter of 2026.
You can vote in the elections to the Riksdag provided that you are:
This rule applies whether you’re living in Sweden or abroad.
There are three different ways for you to vote. You can:
If you have special needs, you can get help with voting, either from home or another place.
In the 2026 elections, we will elect the politicians we want to represent us in the following assemblies:
The preliminary results will appear on val.se on election night.
We will publish the final results when the vote count has been completed, which would normally be one to two weeks after the elections.
The address details of your local voting location and nearby early voting locations are stated on your voting card.
Alternatively, you can search for voting location details on val.se. We’ll publish details of all voting locations, their addresses and opening times during the second quarter of 2026.
On this website, val.se, you can check which parties have registered to take part in the upcoming elections.
Parties are listed according to election type (the Riksdag and municipal and regional councils), and the listings are updated before each election year.
Yes. You can either send a postal vote, or vote at an embassy or consulate. If you live in a country other than Sweden, you need to register every 10 years to remain on the electoral roll.
All of the preliminary and final election results are published on this website, val.se.
You can check the results for the whole of Sweden, or for a single electoral district, and download statistics and tables.
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The election results will be published once they are ready.
Here are the basic differences between preliminary and final vote counting.
After counting votes, seats are allocated to parties, then candidates are selected.
