The aim of thesis was to explore conceptual metaphors in political newspaper articles. The theoretical part of the paper includes an overview of cognitive linguistics and the most important linguists, with an emphasis on cognitive theory and the classification of metaphors by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Linguistic terms important to metaphor theory are also explained. Since the focus is on metaphors in politics, one chapter deals with their functions in politics and the connection between political language and political power. The central part of thesis is research of own corpus composed of 30 online political articles taken from the pages of the three Swedish largest newspapers - Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Expressen. All these articles were published during 2019 and 2020. A total of 172 metaphors were analyzed divided into 23 conceptual ones. Based on the analysis of the research results, the following questions were answered: which conceptual metaphors are most used, which are the most common source and target domains, which are the most common metaphorical expressions found in the corpus and which words most often appear in metaphors.