Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Chapter 7, section 3 states:
…Voters who owing to a disability or the like cannot personally arrange their votes, shall upon request be given assistance with this by the voting clerks to the extent that is necessary.
Chapter 7, section 4 states:
Voters who owing to illness, disability or old age cannot personally make their way to a vote reception point may deliver their ballot papers there by messenger…
Chapter 7, section 5 states:
The following persons may be a messenger:
(1) a voter’s spouse or cohabitee and the voter’s, spouse’s or cohabitee’s children, grandchildren, parents or siblings,
(2) those who professionally or in a similar way provide the voter with care or who otherwise assist the voter in personal affairs,
(3) those who have been specially appointed by the municipality to be a messenger,
(4) rural postmen employed by Posten AB…A messenger shall have attained the age of 18.
Chapter 7, section 6 states:
For general elections to the Riksdag and to municipal and county council assemblies and elections to the European Parliament, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 24 days prior to the election day. For other elections, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 10 days prior to the election day…
Chapter 9, section 4 states:
If a polling station is not available for voters with disabilities, the voting clerks can receive their vote envelopes outside the polling station, provided this can be done in a secure manner.
Instrument of Government, chapter 3, article 4 states:
Every Swedish citizen who is currently domiciled within the Realm or who has ever been domiciled within the Realm, and who has reached the age of eighteen, is entitled to vote in an election to the Riksdag.