Mattias Bäckström Johansson

Biography Bäckström Johansson was born in 1985 in Oskarshamn. He studied marine engineering at the Kalmar Maritime University (a branch of Linnaeus University) and worked as a power station reactor operator at the Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant until his election to the Riksdag.

He has two children from a previous marriage and according to a profile in Aftonbladet has been in a relationship with media personality Rebecka Fallenkvist since 2023.

Political career Bäckström Johansson was a member of the Moderate Youth League, the youth-wing of the Moderate Party until 2000 and then joined the Sweden Democratic Youth in 2002. He is a member of the municipal council for Oskarshamn Municipality for the Sweden Democrats, having first been elected in 2006. From 2010 until 2014 Bäckström Johansson was also a member of the regional council for Kalmar County.

He was first elected to the Riksdag during the 2014 Swedish general election and has been a member of the Industry and Trade Committee since. He is also a member of War Delegation since April 2020, and a member of the (The Election Review Board) since March 2019, a position he was previously an alternate for.