Conservative Party (Sweden) (1814: Norwegian Independence)

The Conservative Party (Swedish: Högerpartiet, H) is a Conservative and Liberal-conservative political party in Sweden. It was founded in 1941 as a conservative movement within the Swedish military dictatorship. The movements goals was in the beginning to challenge the fascist factions in the regime, but when it looked like Sweden would loose the second world war, the movement changed their position to one against the regime.

After the war, many on the political left saw the Conservatives as traitors because they had supported the conservative faction of the military regime. The party did not get so many votes either because of many of their members had lost their voting right for being members in the NFA.

The Conservatives was almost always in opposition to the Social Democrats. Goals that the party have is to lower taxes, privatizing services, open up for private investors and strengthening the military. These was overall goals that the Social Democrats opposed. But in the 1980s, the party begun to gain more votes and representation in the Riksdag.