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Voting gap widens: Foreign-born Swedes vote significantly less than native-born

People born outside of Sweden vote less today than they did 30-40 years ago. In 1982, voter turnout was roughly the same whether one was born in Sweden or overseas. But in the 2022 parliamentary election nearly 90 percent of native-born Swedes cast their vote, versus only around 65 percent among foreign-born voters. Henrik Andersson, an Associate Professor of Economics at Uppsala University, who has studied this voting gap phenomenon, tells Radio Sweden about why this is and its consequences.