Kent Alexander Ekeroth (born 11 September 1981) is a Swedish politician and economist, who represented the Sweden Democrats in the Riksdag from 2010 to 2018.

[3] He stepped down from the Riksdag ahead of the 2018 Swedish general election at the request of the party's leadership and announced his intention to move to Hungary.

[8][14] In a National Swedish Radio interview conducted in 2012,[15] Ekeroth traced the origins of his political views to his time at Östergårds School in Halmstad in an immigrant-dominated class.

[16] Journalist Gellert Tamas argued that a majority of students at the Halmstad school were Swedish or had their background in Eastern Europe.

[17] Other students from his time at Östergårds have said in interviews that Ekeroth was "a quiet, shy kid" and claim he was subjected to antisemitic bullying by his class and "perhaps the entire school".

[32] In November 2012, Ekeroth took a break from his duties after the leakage of a video filmed with his mobile phone from an event which became known as the Iron pipe scandal.

[33][34] Erik Almqvist had two years earlier published an edited version of the video to show how he and his party colleagues Ekeroth and Christian Westling had been verbally abused that evening.

[37][36] While Almqvist was forced to resign, Ekeroth was allowed to remain in parliament but was removed from his role as SD legal spokesman and asked to suspend all his Committee work duties.

The decision was criticized by Social Democratic Party politician and chairman of the Committee on Justice, Morgan Johansson who was quoted as saying "I wonder what his constituents will think of him being in the Riksdag and getting paid without any real duties".

[42] Ekeroth was involved in registering the Swedish opinion and blogsite Politically Incorrect in 2011 which is loosely affiliated to the Sweden Democrats.

[50] On 24 November 2016, Ekeroth was reported to the police for assault after an incident involving a 20-year-old male outside of the Solidaritet nightclub at Stureplan in Stockholm.

The alleged victim claims that he made a sarcastic comment relating to the "Iron pipe scandal" towards the politician before being punched by Ekeroth.

[54] In response, to the incident SD leader Jimmie Akesson told Ekeroth to take a "political time out" and step down from his role in the Riksdag Justice Committee.