Riksdag Riksdag The Riksdag ( or "Sveriges riksdag") is the national legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and serving, from 1994 onwards, on fixed four-year terms. The constitutional functions of the Riksdag are enumerated in the Instrument of Government (), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act (). The seat of the Riksdag is at Parliament House (), on the island of Helgeandsholmen in the central parts of Stockholm. The Riksdag has its institutional roots in the feudal
Member of parliament decide which candidate will be elected the modified Sainte-Laguë method is used. This method usually but not always gives an accurate result in proportion to cast votes. In the 2014 general election the center-right coalition government got one less MP than the overall opposition, in despite of more votes in total. To get a more proportional result 39 MPs are elected at compensation mandate ("Utjämningsmandat") and those MPs therefore doesn't represent their own constituency. The salaries of the MPs are decided by the Riksdag Pay Committee ("Riksdagens arvodesnämnd"), a government agency under the Riksdag. Since 1 November 2007, the basic