Foreign-born share in the Riksdag remains at 2010 level despite rising electorate, SR Ekot reports

Around eight percent of members of parliament are foreign-born. The proportion of foreign-born people with the right to vote in parliamentary elections has increased since 2010 from 11 percent to 16 percent in the most recent election, according to figures from Statistics Sweden.

There is a big difference between different groups, says political scientist Cecilia Josefsson of Uppsala University.

For example, people with a background in another Nordic country are not underrepresented in politics, but rather the opposite, while Syrians, who are the largest group of immigrants in Sweden today, have very little political representation, she tells the radio.

In Sweden, around 20 percent of the population is foreign-born.