Elections are key to select the most competent politicians, regardless of their characteristics. Previous literature has found that voters tend to vote based on stereotypes and that minorities are less likely to gain jobs even though they have equal qualities as their majority competition. In this thesis I set out to study if candidates in the Swedish municipal council elections are less likely to get voted in if they have a middle eastern sounding surname. By using a fixed effects model, I find that candidates with middle eastern sounding surnames are around 3 to 4 percent less likely to be voted into a municipal council, they are however more likely to be voted in by casted preference votes with 5 to 6 percent than those without a middle eastern surname. There seems to be a strong correlation between if the candidate belongs to a rightwing or a leftwing party. Although the results suggests that there is discrimination against the middle eastern candidates, these results cannot alone determine this.