Spatial patterns of the school elections in Sweden

Talking about school elections implies a talk about an experiment which allows teenagers to familiarize themselves with their country’s electoral culture. It also provides an opportunity to learn about candidates, political parties, political debates, and electoral process in general. These «experimental elections» have been taking place in Sweden since the end of the XX century. Nowadays, most of school students participate in the school elections. The results of this voting can be analysed as well as the results of common elections except the fact of analysing electoral preferences of small and relatively homogeneous group. In this particular article school elections that had taken place in Sweden in 2018 were analysed as a spatial process. Final results of voting are quite close to those that can be seen in common elections though spatial diversity varies. The results of school elections also show the increasing role of contextual (neighbourhood) effect comparing to «adult» elections and brings out an unexpectedly high difference in electoral behaviour between students of schools and those who study in colleges.