Among other places, in Ekängen outside Linköping, the queues during the afternoon were upwards of 100 meters long. Electoral districts in the conurbation had the highest percentage of voters in Östergötland at the last election.
Elsewhere in Östergötland, there have sometimes been many people who wanted to vote at the same time and queues have formed, at most there has been a wait of fifteen minutes to cast their votes.
– Voters have come in waves, then there are queues and you have to wait for a while, says the chairman of the election board Ulla Ordell, who during the day goes around to all the polling stations to check that the work is going well.
Location in the rest of Östergötland
– In Norrköping there have also been queues at times, according to the chairman of the election board, Robin Nilsson, this is because they had problems with several vote receivers dropping out of their assignments in recent days, which has meant that several premises are now staffed with fewer people than was intended.
In many of the municipalities, the interest in early voting has been somewhat higher than in the 2018 election, in Mjölby, for example, 9,000 early votes have been cast out of around 19,000 eligible voters. In Åtvidaberg, it was reported that around 4,000 early votes were cast by around 9,000 eligible voters. In Ödeshög, approximately 1,500 early votes have been cast.
In Mjölby, the chairman of the electoral board, Kjell Gustavsson, is flagging that the counting of votes may take longer than normal, as the voters during the day had difficulty finding time to handle the large amount of early votes in the way they normally do during the time when the polling stations are open.