Election compasses have been published by Swedish media since the late 1990s.

Over time, they have become an important and appreciated part of political journalism in an election year.

The compasses have certainly been criticized, not least when politicians or lead writers have been matched with a party other than their own.

But our intention with Valkompassen is not to give a conclusion on how you should vote.

Instead, we give you an opportunity to compare your own attitude in a number of important and party-separating questions with the parties' answers. 

Three choices, 311 different compasses 

SVT's Election Compass is the only one that, in addition to the parliamentary election, also includes elections to regions and municipalities.

This means that we have developed questions for 311 compasses, which makes SVT's Election Compass unique. 

We not only match your answers against eight parliamentary parties, but also against the candidates on the parties' parliamentary lists.

In addition, you can thus compare your opinions with those of the parties in the regional and municipal elections.

Click in which municipality you want to check out and you will also get questions about the region.

That way, you can test lots for all three choices. 

It is possible to make 311 election compasses thanks to SVT Nyheter's local newsrooms.

They have identified the most important local issues.

Issues where there is a big difference between the parties become extra important because they help to see the dividing lines of politics. 

Monster background work

SVT Nyheter's research team has, among other things, asked questions to 4,440 parliamentary candidates and 2,275 local party organizations in all of the country's municipalities.

SVT's experienced policy reporters have contributed their knowledge during the work.

The political scientists at the opinion laboratory Lore at the University of Gothenburg have helped us test many of the questions of 5,000 people in their Citizens' Panel.

Finally, we have also enlisted the help of our journalist colleagues at several of the country's local newspapers, who assisted with suggestions and input.

SVT's local compass is also published by a large number of Swedish local newspapers from most newspaper groups.

The election compass is completely anonymous to do.

SVT does not save IP numbers and does not compile how the audience responds.

To increase transparency, we also choose to publish how the algorithm that matches the answers works (link)

We know that there are many factors to consider when choosing which party to vote for.

The hope is that our Election Compass can make it easier when you reconcile the parties 'and candidates' opinions with your own. 

Feel free to try!

The election compass is available in SVT Nyheter's app.