2025 Swedish Church Assembly elections

2025 Swedish Church Assembly elections

← 2021 21 September 2025 2029 →
All 251 seats in the General Synod 126 seats needed for a majority
Party Social Democrats Non-Partisans Centre Last election 70 seats, 27.5% 47 seats, 19.3% 30 seats, 10.9%   Party Bourgeois Christian Cooperation [sv] Sweden Democrats Left Last election 22 seats, 8.8% 19 seats, 7.8% 19 seats, 7.6%   Party Open Church [sv] Last election 13 seats, 5.5%

The Swedish Church Assembly elections was held on 21 September 2025. All 251 seats in the General Synod of the Church of Sweden are up for election, as well as local governing bodies.

Electoral system

All members of the Church of Sweden over the age of 16 and registered as living in a parish by 15 August 2025 may vote.^[1] The election takes place through proportional representation by lists presented by nominating groups, many of which are political parties or affiliated with political parties. The election is for the governing bodies of the Church of Sweden at the parish, diocese, and national level. Early and postal voting began on 8 September.^[2]

For the general synod election, 225 constituency seats are distributed in 13 constituencies corresponding to the dioceses. 24 of the seats are levelling seats, distributed to nomination groups to ensure that each group is represented in accordance with its national vote share.^[3] From 2025 onwards, a nomination group must receive at least 2% of the vote in order to be eligible to win seats.^[4] A group must also win at least one constituency seat, in order to be eligible to win levelling seats.^[4]

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Swedish Social Democratic Party (S)	232,330	28.25	72	+2
	Non-partisans in the Church of Sweden (POSK)	145,256	17.66	45	–2
	Centre Party (C)	74,565	9.07	23	–7
	Bourgeois Christian Cooperation [sv] (BKS)	69,705	8.47	21	–6[a]
	The Greens in the Church of Sweden (DGSK)	59,907	7.28	18	+10[b]
	Open Church [sv] (ÖKA)	51,824	6.30	16	+3
	Sweden Democrats (SDSK)	51,787	6.30	16	–3
	The Left in the Church of Sweden (ViSK)	50,291	6.11	15	–4
	Bold Church (FK)	28,434	3.46	9	+1
	Free Liberals in the Church of Sweden (FiSK)	27,003	3.28	8	+4
	Heaven and Earth (HoJ)	17,911	2.18	6	+5
	Alternative for Sweden (AfS)	13,521	1.64	0	–3
	Abroad voters			2	0
Total		822,534	100.00	251	0
Valid votes		822,534	97.91
Invalid/blank votes		17,559	2.09
Total votes		840,093	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		4,720,453	17.80
Source: Church of Sweden

Notes

1. Compared to the results of Bourgeois Alternative [sv] and Christian Democrats for a Living Church [sv] in 2021.
2. Compared to Miljöpartister i Svenska kyrkan De Gröna in 2021.

References

1. "Vem som får rösta" [Who can vote?]. Church of Sweden (in Swedish). 2 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
2. "När du kan rösta" [When you can vote]. Church of Sweden (in Swedish). 2 September 2025. Retrieved 2 September 2025.
3. "Så fördelas mandaten". www.svenskakyrkan.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 September 2025.
4. "Tröskel till kyrkomötet". www.svenskakyrkan.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 22 September 2025.