In Sweden’s September elections, the right-wing parties narrowly won and formed the government. The first major poll after the election shows that the majority now supports left-wing parties.
STOCKHOLM In Sweden, the most extensive party support measurements are made by Statistics Sweden, or SCB of Statistiska centralbyrå.
It posted this morning the results of the first post-election measurement (you will switch to another service).
Based on them, the leader of the association by Ulf Kristersson the support of the government he led has fallen. If the elections had been held in November, the left-wing parties would have gained a majority in the Diet.
According to Statistics Finland, the changes in support of the center, the Social Democrats, the Left Party, the Environmental Party and the Sweden Democrats are statistically significant.
A minus for all government parties
All three parties in Kristersson’s government and the government’s support party, the Swedish Democrats, have lost their support.
The Sweden Democrats have lost the most. In the measurement, it is no longer the largest party in the right-wing camp, the moderate coalition is back as the number one right-wing party.
The Sweden Democrats received 20.5 percent of the votes in the September elections. Now the support is 18.2 percent, or minus 2.3 percentage points.
Support has also turned from negative to negative for the coalition, the center, the environmental party, the Christian Democrats and the liberals.
Has increased his support the most Magdalena Andersson led by the Social Democratic Party. It received 30.3 percent support in the elections. Now the number is 34.6.
Another one that has clearly increased its support is the Left Party. Its support is now 7.6 percent, in the elections 6.8.
If the support figures are examined according to the government options for the autumn elections, the red-green bloc led by the Social Democrats would now receive 52 percent support.
The combined support of the right-wing group has fallen to 46.1 percent.
In the September elections, the right-wing bloc received 49.6 percent of the votes, the red-greens 48.9.
“Deceited election promises take away support”
So what is behind the rapid changes in support?
Swedish Radio’s political commentator (you will switch to another service) Thomas Ramberg estimates that one of the reasons is the broken election promises.
Before the elections, the right-wing parties promised considerable reductions in, among other things, the price of fuel and significant compensation for electricity bills. However, the compensations are clearly smaller than what was promised before the elections.
According to the support survey, many of the supporters of the right-wing parties have switched to supporting the Social Democrats during the fall.
On the other hand, the supporters of the Sweden Democrats have not changed sides, support is now flowing to the coalition and the Christian Democrats.