Parliament Of Sweden
The Riksdag (officially Swedish: Riksdagen or Sveriges riksdag) is the national legislative assembly and the supreme decision-making body in the Kingdom of Sweden. The Riksdag is, since constitutional reforms taking effect in 1971, a unicameral legislature with 349 members (Swedish: riksdagsledamöter), elected on a proportional basis and serving, from 1994 onwards, on fixed four year terms.
The constitutional functions of the Riksdag are enumerated in the Instrument of Government (Swedish: Regeringsformen), and its internal workings are specified in greater detail in the Riksdag Act (Swedish: Riksdagsordningen.
The seat of the Riksdag is at Parliament House (Swedish: Riksdagshuset), on the island of Helgeandsholmen in the central parts of Stockholm. The Riksdag has its institutional roots in the feudal Riksdag of the Estates, by tradition thought to have first assembled in Arboga in 1435, and in 1866 following reforms of the 1809 Instrument of Government that body was transformed into a bicameral legislature with an upper chamber (Swedish: första kammaren) and a lower chamber (Swedish: andra kammaren).
The next general election is scheduled to be held on 21 September 2014.
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