
Aila Mahmoud will be able to vote for the first time in the general election this autumn. Credit: Abduljabbar Al-Suhili/Sveriges Radio.
ELECTION
Nearly a quarter of first-time voters have foreign background
More and more of those eligible to vote in Sweden have a foreign background, and among first-time voters, the proportion is particularly big.
In this autumn's general election, nearly one in four first-time voters aged 18-21 was either born abroad or has two parents born abroad.
In central Malmö, almost every other person eligible to vote for the first time has a foreign background with this definition - and that's the highest in the country.