Norrbotten County or Region Norrbotten held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.

Results The number of seats remained at 71 with the Health Care Party winning the most seats at 27, overtaking the Social Democrats at 23, after having trailed the Social Democrats by eight seats in 2014. The Health Care Party became the first party to supplant the Social Democrats as the largest party in any election in Norrbotten in the post world-war era. The party received 34.7% compared to 29.6% for the Social Democrats.

PartyVotes%Seats± Health Care Party 57,835 34.7 27 +8 Social Democrats 49,423 29.6 23 –4 Moderates 13,771 8.3 6 0 Left Party 13,073 7.8 6 0 Sweden Democrats 9,935 6.0 5 +2 Centre Party 8,545 5.1 4 0 Liberals 4,947 3.0 0 0 Christian Democrats 4,098 2.5 0 0 Green Party 3,730 2.2 0 –3 Others 1,361 0.8 0 0Invalid/blank votes 2,159 Total 166,718 100 71 0Source:val.se

Municipalities LocationTurnoutShareVotesSJVSMVSDCLKDMPOtherArjeplog 80.8 1.1 1,823 48.9 22.4 2.8 8.4 4.7 5.4 2.2 3.1 1.9 0.2Arvidsjaur 82.1 2.5 4,115 40.7 30.3 3.5 7.9 4.5 8.7 1.2 2.5 0.6 0.2Boden 85.7 11.4 19,067 35.4 30.9 9.0 5.9 7.3 3.5 2.4 3.0 1.9 0.7Gällivare 79.6 6.8 11,313 32.1 31.1 9.6 9.8 10.1 1.4 1.5 1.2 2.7 0.6Haparanda 63.3 2.9 4,880 48.8 24.1 5.8 3.5 6.2 7.7 2.2 0.5 1.0 0.2Jokkmokk 80.4 1.9 3,244 35.8 32.0 4.7 7.9 6.0 2.2 1.2 2.0 7.5 0.8Kalix 85.0 6.6 11,072 47.3 24.3 8.5 4.4 5.5 5.3 1.8 0.8 1.9 0.3Kiruna 83.1 9.0 14,951 69.6 11.3 2.6 5.1 3.1 4.1 1.3 1.0 1.1 0.9Luleå 86.7 31.7 52,867 22.4 32.6 11.5 9.2 5.9 5.6 3.0 5.1 3.2 1.5Pajala 78.6 2.3 3,827 38.9 23.6 5.3 15.9 4.9 2.6 6.5 1.1 1.0 0.4Piteå 88.0 17.5 29,251 29.9 34.8 8.1 8.5 5.3 6.1 2.9 2.2 1.9 0.4Älvsbyn 82.5 3.2 5,307 30.4 35.1 3.2 7.7 7.9 7.2 3.5 4.1 0.7 0.2Överkalix 82.6 1.4 2,257 38.1 36.9 4.3 6.1 4.9 6.6 0.8 1.2 0.8 0.3Övertorneå 75.3 1.6 2,744 42.6 27.6 2.8 6.3 5.9 9.4 3.5 0.8 0.7 0.3Total84.1100.0166,71834.729.68.37.86.05.13.02.52.20.8Source: val.se

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