2002 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 15 September 2002, alongside municipal and county council elections. The Swedish Social Democratic Party remained the largest party in the Riksdag, winning 144 of the 349 seats.
Image: (Bilden ar tagen vid Nordiska radets session i Oslo, 2003) (7) (cropped)
Image: Flickr europeanpeoplesparty EPP Congress Brussels 4 5 February 2004 (31) (cropped)
Image: Lars Leijonborg, partiledare Folkpartiet liberalerna, Sverige (Bilden ar tagen vid Nordiska radets session i Oslo, 2003) (cropped)
Image: Alf Svensson juni 2009 crop
Swedish Social Democratic Party
The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, usually referred to as The Social Democrats, is a centre-left social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in Sweden. Globally, it is a full member of the Progressive Alliance and the Party of European Socialists.
Hjalmar Branting, the first elected SAP Prime Minister in 1920
Prime Minister Tage Erlander at a TV debate in 1967
Social Democratic leader and Prime Minister Olof Palme in the 1970s
Göran Persson, a prolific Social Democratic leader, holding the office of Prime Minister for ten years
