Tor Jonas Sjöstedt (born 25 December 1964) is a Swedish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Party since 2024.

[7] In the election, he was the number one candidate on the Left Party's electoral list in the constituency, which generally returns at least one representative.

During the campaign, he advocated for a co-leadership system, arguing that a woman needed to be the head of a feminist party.

He was nominated by the party's election committee on 10 December 2011[9] He was challenged by Ulla Andersson, Hans Linde and Rossana Dinamarca.

[10] In August 2018, he criticised the tightening of Swedish immigration laws and rejected what he called a "competition in Europe to have the harshest policies", advocating the reintroduction of permanent residence permits and family reunification rights.

[11] In January 2020, Sjöstedt announced his intention to resign as the Left Party's leader at their congress in May, citing a desire to spend more time with his family who were currently living in Vietnam.

[14] Sjöstedt was chosen as the lead candidate for the Left Party's list for the 2024 European Parliament election in Sweden and received the most personal votes in a European parliamentary election in Sweden, surpassing Marit Paulsen's record of 221,489 personal votes in 2009.