Swedish communists record best election result of the 2000s

The Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) says it has achieved its best result in a parliamentary election so far this century, according to preliminary figures from Sweden’s 2026 general election.

As Riktpunkt reports, with just over 60 percent of electoral districts counted, the SKP had already surpassed its 2022 result, which had fallen only one vote short of the party’s previous best parliamentary performance of the 2000s, recorded in 2002. The party said the final tally was still pending, but that the upward trend was already clear.

 

Sweden’s workers need a stronger Communist Party — Vote SKP, strengthen the Communists!

“Don’t waste your vote — strengthen the Communists!”

This Sunday, September 13, Sweden goes to the polls. Amid the familiar electoral promises and manufactured differences between the established parties, the Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) is putting forward a fundamentally different choice: not another formula for administering capitalism, but a political alternative rooted in the interests of the working class and the struggle for socialism. For decades, Swedish social democracy cultivated the image of a capitalism capable of reconciling the interests of labour and capital. Today, that illusion is increasingly difficult to sustain. 

 

SKP leader exposes the limits of Swedish democracy: “A democracy for the establishment parties”

Photo: Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti 

With less than a month to go before Sweden’s 2026 general election, Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) chairman Andreas Sörensen has denounced what he described as a political system designed to protect the established parliamentary parties and marginalize forces that challenge capitalism.

Speaking in Stockholm on August 15, Sörensen argued that Sweden’s much-praised democracy rests on deeply unequal conditions. 

 

Communist Party of Sweden (SKP) steps up campaign ahead of September elections

Photo: Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti 

The Communist Party of Sweden (Sveriges Kommunistiska Parti—SKP) is intensifying its preparations for Sweden’s parliamentary, regional and municipal elections on 13 September 2026, presenting its candidacy as the only consistent alternative to the parties administering capitalism. Early voting begins on 26 August.

The election campaign was formally launched with a nationwide digital meeting on 7 June, attended by party members and sympathisers.