Political Parties

Sweden

Distribution of preference

Results from the September 15, 2002 Swedish national elections in which 80.1% of eligible voters participated. 

Seats are for the 349 member Riksdag

	Party	% Vote	Seats
CD	Christian Democratic Party	9.1	33
CP	Centre Party	6.2	22
DP	Democratic Party	1.4	0
FP	Folk Party	13.3	48
GP	Green Party	4.6	17
LP	Left Party	8.3	30
MP	Moderate Rally Party	15.2	55
PI	Pensioners Interest Party	.7	0
SP	Social Democratic Party	39.8	144

Look at one of these parties under the microscope and answer the following:

1)  what type of party is it (use von Beyme)

2)  can you find any references in it webs that link it to one of the types of cleavages talked about:

Lipset and Rokkan?/ Dalton? Lijphart

3)  what appear to be the major issues for this party

4) look at the webpage of each of the parties and see if you can construct a distribution of preference map for 2002 Sweden.