The centre-left Green Party, a member of the incumbent government coalition, has the worst gender imbalance, with 75 percent of women among its MPs, 12 women and only four men. If we had not lost votes we would have had 16 women and 13 men," the party's group leader in parliament, Jonas Eriksson, told the TT news agency. The right-wing Christian Democrats' group of MPs is the second least gender equal, with 73 percent male MPs – or in other words six women holding a total of 22 seats in parliament. The average age of Sweden's new parliament is 45 years, with Liberal MPs being on average the oldest (48) and the Sweden Democrats the youngest (42). The latter will also have the youngest MP when parliament opens on September 25th, 22-year-old Ebba Hermansson from Mölndal.

Source: The Local September 18, 2018 05:46 UTC