Centre Party (Sweden)

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The Centre Party (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA"., C) is a liberal[1][2][3] political party in Sweden, founded in 1913.

The party focuses on the national economy, the environment, political decentralisation and social integration. It is represented in all of the Riksdag's parliamentary committees, currently holding 24 seats. From 2019 to 2021, it provided confidence and supply to the Löfven II cabinet.

Traditionally part of the Nordic agrarian family of political parties, the Centre Party has increasingly switched focus towards economic liberalism, environmental protection, equality of the sexes and decentralisation of governmental authority.[4][5] The party describes itself as liberal feminist,[6] campaigning for policies which enhance gender equality on an individualist basis. Its environmental policies stress the importance of consent and voluntary action,[7] including working with foresters and private landowners to promote biodiversity within a mutually agreeable framework.[8]

The Centre Party has produced two prime ministers of Sweden, who served a total of three terms; Thorbjörn Fälldin was the last Centre Party prime minister, and held the post for a total of five years, from 1976 to 1978 and then again from 1979 to 1982. It is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, the Liberal International and Renew Europe. It was originally named the Farmers' League (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA".; B).

History

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Farmers' League 1945 election poster

The party was founded in 1913 as the Farmers' League (Template:Langx, B). In 1922, it merged with the Template:Ill (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA"., JR), and adopted its current name in 1957. At that time, it had been the closest ally of the centre-left Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) for twenty-five years, and one of the SAP's coalition partners between 1936 and 1945 as well as between 1951 and 1957. However, it later revised this strategy in order to establish a closer long-term alliance between the centre-right borgerlig ("bourgeois" or "nonsocialist") parties that achieved power between 1976 and 1982 and between 1991 and 1994.

Thorbjörn Fälldin served as Leader of the Centre Party and Prime Minister of Sweden from 1976 until 1982, except for a short interregnum between 1978 and 1979 led by Liberal People's Party leader Ola Ullsten. The Centre Party joined another centre-right government following the 1991 general election, led by Moderate Party leader Carl Bildt. During the leaderships of Maud Olofsson and Annie Lööf in the 2000s, the party positioned itself clearly on the political right as a small-business-friendly party, advocating market liberal policies and viewing the Social Democrats as its main opponent.[9][4][10]

In 2005, the Centre Party sold the newspaper group it owned, Centertidningar AB, for 1.8 billion SEK,[11] which made it the richest political party in the world at the time.[12] In 2022, Annie Lööf resigned her position as Leader of the Centre Party.

Ideology and political position

The Centre Party sits on the centre[13][14][15] to centre-right[16][17][18] of the political spectrum. The party has also described as economically liberal,[19] and "ecological-liberal".[20] It describes itself as a green-liberal party,[21][22] while it has been traditionally associated with agrarianism and the Nordic agrarian party family.[23][24][25] Former party leader Demirok had pledged to end neoliberalism in the party.[26]

National economy

The party has been described as one of Sweden's most market liberal parties in liberal, socialist and conservative media.[27] It describes itself as "a party with a green, social and decentralised liberalism".[28] The party advocates lower taxes, greatly reduced employer contributions, a freer market and an increased Template:Ill. The party is a major supporter of the interests of small businesses, farmers and entrepreneurs.[29] It also favours investments in infrastructure and transportation, to allow employees to work in bigger cities but still live in the rural areas and vice versa. On economic policy, it views the Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats as its opponents, though it supported a government led by the Social Democrats till 2022.

Immigration

The party is liberal on immigration, seeking to combine a generous immigration policy with an initially more restrictive contribution policy to the immigrants. After the European migrant crisis, the party proposed to replace the existing establishment grants with establishment loans, similar to the Swedish student loans.[30]

The balance of the state responsibility of accepting refugees with their responsibility for integration into Swedish society is at the core of the party policy. In January 2016, the party for example proposed to give all immigrants compulsory civic education in both rights and expectations from the society.[31]

European Union

The party is a decentralist pro-European[32] party that considers the European Union important for the preservation of peace, freedom and trade in Europe. The party also advocates a smaller but sharper European Union focused on promoting democracy, peace, free movement, free trade, vigorous action against climate change and collaboration against organized crime, while also believing that Sweden should stay outside the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and keep the krona as its currency.[33]

The party is a member of the ALDE Party and its affiliated European Parliament group Renew Europe.[34] In the European Committee of the Regions, the Centre Party sits with the Renew Europe CoR group with one full and one alternate member for the 2025-2030 mandate.[35][36]

Publications

The Centre Party owned a media consortium called Centertidningar AB. It included newspapers that the party had either started on their own or brought from competitors. It included Hallands Nyheter, Södermanlands Nyheter, Länstidningen i Södertälje, Nynäshamns Posten, Norrtelje Tidning, Lidingö Tidning, Ljusdalsposten, Östersunds-Posten, Hälsingekuriren and Hudiksvalls Tidning. The consortium was split in 2005 and sold to Mittmedia, Stampen Group and VLT for a total of 1.815 billion Swedish kronor.

Election results

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Riksdag

Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Status
Sep 1914 1,507 0.2 (#4) Template:Composition bar Template:N/A
1917 39,262 5.3 (#5) Template:Composition bar Increase 9 Opposition
1920 52,318 7.9 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 11 Opposition
1921 Johan Andersson 192,269 11.0 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease 9 Opposition
1924 190,396 10.8 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 2 Opposition
1928 Olof Olsson 263,501 11.2 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 4 Opposition
1932 321,215 14.1 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase 9 Opposition (1932–1936)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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1936 Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp 418,840 14.4 (#3) Template:Composition bar Steady Coalition
1940 344,345 12.0 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease 8 Coalition
1944 421,094 13.6 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase 7 Coalition (1944–1945)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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1948 480,421 12.4 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease 5 Opposition
1952 Gunnar Hedlund 406,183 10.7 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease 4 Coalition
1956 366,612 9.5 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease 7 Coalition
1958 486,760 12.7 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 13 Opposition
1960 579,007 13.6 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 2 Opposition
1964 559,632 13.2 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 1 Opposition
1968 757,215 15.7 (#2) Template:Composition bar Increase 3 Opposition
1970 991,208 19.9 (#2) Template:Composition bar Increase 32 Opposition
1973 Thorbjörn Fälldin 1,295,246 25.1 (#2) Template:Composition bar Increase 19 Opposition
1976 1,309,669 24.1 (#2) Template:Composition bar Decrease 4 Coalition (1976–1978)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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1979 984,589 18.1 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease 22 Coalition
1982 859,618 15.5 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease 8 Opposition
1985 490,999 8.8 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease 13 Opposition
1988 Olof Johansson 607,240 11.3 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease 1 Opposition
1991 465,356 8.5 (#4) Template:Composition bar Decrease 11 Coalition
1994 425,153 7.7 (#3) Template:Composition bar Decrease 4 Opposition (1994–1995)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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1998 Lennart Daléus 269,762 5.1 (#5) Template:Composition bar Decrease 9 Opposition
2002 Maud Olofsson 328,428 6.2 (#6) Template:Composition bar Increase 4 Opposition
2006 437,389 7.9 (#3) Template:Composition bar Increase 7 Coalition
2010 390,804 6.6 (#5) Template:Composition bar Decrease 6 Coalition
2014 Annie Lööf 370,834 6.1 (#5) Template:Composition bar Decrease 1 Opposition
2018 557,500 8.6 (#4) Template:Composition bar Increase 9 Template:Partial2
2022 434,945 6.7 (#5) Template:Composition bar Decrease 7 Opposition

European Parliament

Election List leader Votes % Seats +/– EP Group
1995 Karl Erik Olsson 192,077 7.16 (#5) Template:Composition bar New ELDR
1999 151,442 5.99 (#7) Template:Composition bar Decrease 1
2004 Lena Ek 157,258 6.26 (#6) Template:Composition bar Steady ALDE
2009 173,414 5.47 (#7) Template:Composition barTemplate:Composition bar Steady
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2014 Kent Johansson 241,101 6.49 (#6) Template:Composition bar Steady
2019 Fredrick Federley 447,641 10.78 (#5) Template:Composition bar Increase 1 RE
2024 Emma Wiesner 306,227 7.29 (#6) Template:Composition bar Steady

Voter base

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Centre Party election results for 2006, showing the significant focus of Centre Party support in rural areas
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Traditionally, most of the party's voters come from rural areas and include farmers and agricultural producers. Since the takeover of Maud Olofsson in recent years, the party has been attracting liberal voters from urban areas in central Sweden. It is believed that voters from the Liberals have been moving to the Centre Party due to changes in both parties.[37]

Leaders of the Centre Party

The Leader of the Centre Party is its highest political and organisational officer, its president in the National Executive Board and representative of the party in the media, in public and with other parties.[38] The party leader has often held an important cabinet portfolio when the party has been part of a coalition.

Name Portrait Period Notes
Erik Eriksson Template:CSS image crop 1916–1920
Johan Andersson Template:CSS image crop 1920–1924
Johan Johansson Template:CSS image crop 1924–1928
Olof Olsson Template:CSS image crop 1928–1934
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp Template:CSS image crop 1934–1949 Prime Minister of Sweden from 19 June 1936 to 28 September 1936.
Minister of Agriculture from 1936 to 1945.
Gunnar Hedlund Template:CSS image crop 1949–1971 Minister of the Interior from 1951 to 1957.
Thorbjörn Fälldin Template:CSS image crop 1971–1985 Two-time Prime Minister of Sweden from 1976 to 1978, and 1979 to 1982.
Karin Söder Template:CSS image crop 1985–1987 First woman in Sweden to be elected the leader of a major political party.
One of the first female foreign ministers in the world.
Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1976 to 1978.
Minister for Health and Social Affairs from 1979 to 1982.
Olof Johansson Template:CSS image crop 1987–1998 Minister for Energy from 1976 to 1978.
Minister for the Environment from 1991 to 1994.
Lennart Daléus Template:CSS image crop 1998–2001
Maud Olofsson Template:CSS image crop 2001–2011 Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2010.
Minister for Business and Industry from 2006 to 2011.
Annie Lööf Template:CSS image crop 2011–2023 Minister for Business and Industry from 2011 to 2014.
Muharrem Demirok Template:CSS image crop 2023–2025
Anna-Karin Hatt Template:CSS image crop 2025– Minister for Energy from 2011 to 2014.

Minister for Digital Development from 2011 to 2014. Minister for Regions from 2010 to 2011.

Current Members of the Swedish Parliament

Current Members of the Swedish Parliament:[39]

Substitutes:

Party leadership

The current party leadership includes:[40]

See also

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References

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External links

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