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Bengt Eliasson

Swedish politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ18747077 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bengt Eliasson (born 7 August 1961) is a Swedish politician and member of the Riksdag for the Liberals. He joined the Riksdag after the 2014 general elections, he currently holds seat number 41 in the Riksdag for the constituency of Halland County.

He was a candidate to the Riksdag on Halland County's ballot at place number 1 out of 22 during the 2014 general election. During the 2018 general election he campaigned at place number 1 for the Riksdag.

According to a statement given to Sveriges Television his three most important reasons for being involved in politics are 'The forgotten Sweden', equality, and infrastructure and communication.

He is a member of the Committee on Social Insurance since October 2019, he had previously served in other committees such as the Committee on Cultural Affairs from 2014 until 2018, and the Committee on the Constitution for a short period between September 2018 until October 2019.

Eliasson is also the spokesperson for the Liberals on Lagen om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade (LSS).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bengt Eliasson” is swedish politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bengt, Eliasson and Swedish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 2014, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-08-07. For this dossier, Bengt, Eliasson and Swedish is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “swedish politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18747077. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 2014, 2018 and 2019.

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A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bengt Eliasson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.