Few municipal election candidates live
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Few municipal election candidates live in Sweden’s exclusion areas, study finds

Only 6.5 percent of the political candidates in the municipal elections in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö live in what are classified as exclusion areas, reports the newspaper Dagens Samhälle. This compares with the share of metropolitan residents in exclusion areas of 13 percent.

If you divide the politicians from excluded areas among the parliamentary parties, V has the largest share at 12.4 percent. The second-largest share is S at 9.8 percent, followed by SD at 7.0 percent. The smallest share from excluded areas is found in L, where the share is 0.7 percent.

According to the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, the vulnerable areas are characterised by high unemployment, dependence on benefits, overcrowding, poor school results and low voter turnout.

The proportion of municipal politicians from disadvantaged areas can be assumed to decrease after the election, as 80 out of 100 of them are placed eleventh or lower on the ballot, according to the newspaper.

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AuthorTT News AgencyEnglish edition by Sweden Herald, adapted for our readers
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