District guide · General election 2026
Värmland County
Covers Värmland County. The constituency elects 11 of the Riksdag's 349 members. Here is the result, its members, local news and the ways to take part.
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Seats
11
Turnout
85,2 %
Valid votes
183 937
Eligible voters
219 440
The constituency in figures
The constituency covers 16 municipalities in Värmland County. The key figures come from Kolada (SALAR and RKA) and carry the year they refer to. Percentages are weighted by municipal population.
- Inhabitants
- 283 0282025
- Unemployed, aged 18-65
- 4,9 %2025
- Year 9 pupils eligible for upper secondary
- 81,1 %2026
- Municipal tax rate
- 21,8 %2026
Municipality by municipality
- Kil12 024 inh.
- Eda8 289 inh.
- Torsby11 278 inh.
- Storfors3 777 inh.
- Hammarö16 932 inh.
- Munkfors3 637 inh.
- Forshaga11 439 inh.
- Grums8 854 inh.
- Årjäng9 734 inh.
- Sunne13 354 inh.
- Karlstad99 007 inh.
- Kristinehamn23 590 inh.
- Filipstad9 625 inh.
- Hagfors11 324 inh.
- Arvika25 408 inh.
- Säffle14 756 inh.
Current issues
Riksdag business connected to this constituency, with the Riksdag's own status. No editing, no interpretation.
- ·Private member's motionNo status givenStärkt ställning för markägare i minerallagenav Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD)
- ·Private member's motionNo status givenVattendirektivets svenska genomförande och småskalig vattenkraftav Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD)
- ·Private member's motionNo status givenSekretessbeläggning av avverkningsanmälningarav Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD)
- ·Private member's motionNo status givenModernisering av odlingsgränsenav Kjell-Arne Ottosson (KD)
The result here
- Social Democratic Party31,0 %57 107 votes · 3 seats · +3,0 percentage points vs nationally
- Moderate Party20,1 %36 943 votes · 2 seats · +0,3 percentage points vs nationally
- Sweden Democrats19,7 %36 227 votes · 2 seats · +2,2 percentage points vs nationally
- Christian Democrats6,9 %12 617 votes · 1 seats · +0,7 percentage points vs nationally
- Centre Party6,1 %11 144 votes · 1 seats · −0,9 percentage points vs nationally
- Left Party5,8 %10 680 votes · 1 seats · −2,6 percentage points vs nationally
- Liberals4,5 %8 192 votes · 0 seats · −0,8 percentage points vs nationally
- Green Party4,4 %8 056 votes · 1 seats · −1,7 percentage points vs nationally
- Other parties1,6 %2 971 votes · 0 seats
What the numbers say
- The largest party here is Social Democratic Party with 31,0 % of the vote and 3 of the constituency's 11 seats.
- Turnout was 85,2 %, +0,4 percentage points against the national 84,8 %.
- Social Democratic Party does best compared with its national result (+3,0 percentage points), Left Party worst (−2,6 percentage points).
- 3 008 invalid and 1 971 blank ballots were counted here.
- The lines above are calculated straight from the result - no interpretation, no judgement.
Local news
Headlines from SVT News Värmland, which covers this area. We summarise nothing ourselves - everything links to the source.
- In SwedishHär klistras tågrälsen för att loken ska få fäste i lövhalkan
- In SwedishNyheter från dagen: 3 november
- In SwedishHandlaren i Karlstad om gårdagens cyberattack: ”Jättejobbigt”
- In SwedishLikkista i Årjäng blev kyrkoarkiv: ”En smärre chock”
- In SwedishLastbil välte på E18 utanför Kristinehamn – en till sjukhus
- In SwedishNyheter från dagen: 2 november
The constituency's members
- Lotta Björklundlotta.bjorklund[på]riksdagen.seM
- Daniel Bäckströmdaniel.backstrom[på]riksdagen.seC
- Mikael Dahlkvistmikael.dahlqvist[på]riksdagen.seS
- Runar Filperrunar.filper[på]riksdagen.seSD
- Robin Lennartssonrobin.lennartsson[på]riksdagen.seSD
- Kjell-Arne Ottossonkjell-arne.ottosson[på]riksdagen.seKD
- Magnus Resaremagnus.resare[på]riksdagen.seM
- Sofia Skönnbrinksofia.skonnbrink[på]riksdagen.seS
- Håkan Svennelinghakan.svenneling[på]riksdagen.seV
- Peter Söderströmpeter.soderstrom[på]riksdagen.seS
How to get involved
- Voting - how it worksThe Election Authority's own guide to voting and advance voting.
- Electoral register and voting card
- The county administrative board, Värmland CountyThe county administrative board is the regional election authority and counts the county's votes.
- Visit the RiksdagThe public gallery is open. Riksdag switchboard: +46 8 786 40 00
- Constituencies and polling districtsHow the division works, per the Election Authority. Municipal citizen proposals differ between municipalities, so we link to yours only when it can be verified.
The parties locally
- Left Partyno national page for local branches found
- Social Democratic Partylocal branches →
- Green Partycontact page →
- Centre Partylocal branches →
- Liberalscontact page →
- Christian Democratsno national page for local branches found
- Moderate Partylocal branches →
- Sweden Democratslocal branches →
The parties organise in districts and local branches. Links go to the parties' own pages - only pages we could verify are listed.
Contacts in the constituency
Sweden has no mayors. The closest equivalent is the chair of the municipal executive board, an elected politician, with the chief executive on the administrative side. Every name below comes from the municipality's or region's own page - where it is not published we say so and link to the contact page and the register of elected representatives instead.
- ArvikaMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0570 816 00Official address: arvika.kommun@arvika.se - EdaMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: Hanna Andersson
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 000 001 831 90Official address: kommun@eda.se - FilipstadMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0590 611 00Official address: kommun@filipstad.se - ForshagaMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 054 17 20 00Official address: kommun@forshaga.se - GrumsMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: Malin Hagström (S)
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0555 420 00Official address: kommunstyrelse@grums.se - HagforsMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: Lars Sätterberg
Switchboard: 0563 185 00Official address: kommun@hagfors.se - HammaröMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: Fredrik Berglöf
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 054 51 50 00Official address: kommun@hammaro.se - KarlstadMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: Linda Larsson (S)
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 054 540 00 00Official address: karlstadskommun@karlstad.se - KilMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0554 191 00Official address: kommun@kil.se - KristinehamnMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0550 880 00Official address: kommunen@kristinehamn.se - MunkforsMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: Erik Lundh
Switchboard: 0563 54 10 00Official address: kommun@munkfors.se - StorforsMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0550 651 00Official address: ifo@storfors.se - SunneMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: not published - SäffleMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 0533 68 10 00Official address: kommun@saffle.se - TorsbyMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: not publishedOfficial address: lilian.olovsson@torsby.se - ÅrjängMunicipality
Chair of the municipal executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: not published - Region VärmlandRegion
Chair of the regional executive board: not published
Chief executive: not published
Switchboard: 010 831 50 00
Checked 2026-09-18 · The constituency's MPs →
Sources: SVT Valresultat 2026, data.riksdagen.se, val.se, lansstyrelsen.se, svt.se, kolada.se, the municipalities' own websites · Data verified 2026-09-17 (links checked 2026-09-18, municipal data 2026-09-18)