A new study by Uppsala University has investigated how the comprehensive queues that built up during the Swedish elections in 2022 negatively impacted voter turnout. In total, turnout fell by three percentage points. 87 percent of the population voted in 2018, which fell to 84 percent in 2022.
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"The study is important both in terms of how we understand voter behavior and the discussion about how the Swedish election system is designed," notes Axel Cronert, Docent in Political Science and one of the researchers behind the study. Researchers have examined how voter turnout changed in the electoral districts which had problems with significant queues on election day, compared with other comparable districts without queuing issues.