Published: 10 June 2026
You will receive your voting card for the elections to the Riksdag and regional and municipal councils by 26 August 2026 at the latest. Your voting card will be sent to your Swedish digital mailbox if you have one. If not, it will be sent to you by post.
You can check on your voting card which elections you have the right to vote in. It will also state the voting location at which you can vote on election day, 13 September.
Everyone who has the right to vote in the elections to the Riksdag and regional and municipal councils receives a voting card. If you have a Swedish digital mailbox, you will receive a digital voting card. If you don’t have a Swedish digital mailbox, or you do not wish to receive your voting card digitally, it will be sent to you by post.
The following details are stated on your voting card:
No, you don’t need to bring your voting card with you. This applies whether you vote early, or at your assigned voting location on election day.
However, it can be useful to be able to refer to your voting card, so that you know which electoral district you belong to, and which room you need to go to at your assigned voting location. (This is especially relevant in cities, where the larger voting locations may have separate rooms for the various electoral districts.)
If you have a digital voting card, you can check it in your digital mailbox; you don’t need to print it out.
You don’t need a voting card in order to vote. Your voting card just shows the elections you’re eligible to vote in, the electoral district you belong to, and details of your assigned voting location.
You’re always welcome to contact the Swedish Election Authority if you need help.
If you’re a Swedish citizen living abroad and you’ve emigrated from Sweden, you’ll receive your international voting card with your postal voting materials. They will be sent to you by post. If you have registered a Swedish digital mailbox, and have agreed to receive mail from government agencies, you will also receive your voting card digitally.
As long as you’re on the electoral roll, you’ll receive a voting card. As a Swedish citizen living abroad, you need to register to the electoral roll every 10 years in order to remain on it. If you’re no longer on the electoral roll, you won’t receive a voting card automatically.
But you have the right to vote since you fulfil the eligibility requirements – regardless of whether or not you’re on the electoral roll. Your vote counts as a request for registration to the electoral roll.
As a Swedish citizen living abroad, you can choose any of the following options:
If you want to vote at your assigned voting location in Sweden on election day, you first need to contact the Swedish Election Authority to find out which voting location has been assigned to you. You also need to be on the electoral roll.
You’re considered to be a Swedish citizen living abroad if you fulfil all of the following requirements:
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Here you can find answers to frequently asked questions about voting cards.
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.
A voting card is sent to everyone who has the right to vote. Your voting card includes details of the elections in which you have the right to vote. It also includes the address of your assigned voting location and its opening times. You don’t need your voting card to vote. You only need ID, so you should bring your ID card, driving licence or passport with you.
A digital voting card is the same type of voting card as the paper version, but we send it to your digital mailbox rather than by post.
They both include the same details – such as the elections in which you have the right to vote, and where and when you can vote.
No. you don’t need to bring your voting card with you. This applies whether you vote early or on election day. You only need to show your ID such as your ID card, driving licence or passport.
No, you don’t need to show any type of voting card in order to vote. You only need to bring your ID with you (your ID card, driving licence or passport).
If you have a Swedish digital mailbox, but you would like to receive a voting card on paper anyway, you have the following two options to choose from:
Please do this as early as possible before 14 August 2026, which is when the Swedish Election Authority establishes people’s right to vote. If you pause mail delivery from the Swedish Election Authority as a sender before this date, you will receive your voting card on paper by post.
Yes. Your digital mailbox is a secure service for mail from government agencies. To view your digital voting card, you must log in to your digital mailbox using your Swedish BankID. You are therefore the only person who can view it.
If you stop mail from government agencies being sent to your digital mailbox, you will receive your voting card on paper for the next election. This change will continue to apply unless you reactivate your service for mail from government agencies.
If you’re a Swedish citizen living abroad and you’ve emigrated from Sweden, you’ll receive an international voting card on paper with your postal voting materials, which we will send to your registered address abroad.
If you have a Swedish digital mailbox, you will also receive a digital international voting card.
Yes. You can download and print out your digital voting card from your digital mailbox if you want a paper copy.
However, you don’t need to bring a voting card with you in order to vote.
