Att rösta i Guds hus: En studie av det svenska kyrkovalet och orsakerna till ett lågt valdeltagande

Sammanfattning

This study examines the Swedish church election and why the electoral participation is low while the Swedish parliamentary election has one of the best electoral participation in the world. The study was conducted partly through a statistical analysis based on data from the national SOM-survey and partly through interviews with five young individuals, two of whom had voted and three who had not. The result showed that there is a connection between being active in the church or in a political party and the propensity to vote in the church election. There was also a connection between being interested in politics or having a preference for a certain party and voting in the election. The reasons we saw why people choose not to vote was mainly because they didn't have time on election day. The church election was not considered to have the same status as the parliamentary election and there was generally a perception that the church election is not talked about in the same calculation as the parliamentary election.