38. Is there a ban on vote buying?

Sweden

Sweden

Answer
Yes
Source

Chapter 17 Section 8 "A person who, in an election to public office or in connection with some other exercise of suffrage in public matters, attempts to prevent voting or to tamper with its outcome or otherwise improperly influence the vote, shall be sentenced for improper activity at election to a fine or imprisonment for at most six months".

Criminal Code (1962), last amended in 2015.

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