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 4, article 11 states:
…Members or alternates may be deprived of their mandate in cases other than cases under paragraph two only if they have proved themselves manifestly unfit to hold a mandate by reason of a criminal act. A decision in such a case shall be taken by a court of law.
Instrument of Government, chapter 6, article 10 states:
The Prime Minister may appoint one of the other ministers to deputise for him or her in case of absence. If no such deputy has been appointed, or if he or she is also unable to perform the duties of Prime Minister, these duties are assumed by the minister among those currently in office who has been a minister longest. When two or more ministers have been ministers for an equal period of time, the minister who is senior in age has precedence.
Instrument of Government, chapter 11, article 7 states:
A person who has been appointed a permanent salaried judge may be removed from office only if: 1. he or she has shown himself or herself through a criminal act or through gross or repeated neglect of his or her official duties to be manifestly unfit to hold the office…