Close to 90 percent of the Swedish votes have now been counted by the Electoral Authority and according to them the Green Party will be the party with the third most votes. 13.8 percent is the preliminary result.
The party’s spokesperson Daniel Helldén is satisfied.
EU elections 2024
Election results in the 2024 EU elections – this is how the mandates are distributed
Election results in the 2024 EU elections
– It’s fantastic, he says.
Also in Denmark, the Socialist People’s Party (SF), which sits in the green group in the European Parliament, looks set to increase to 17.4 percent and thus appears to be the largest party, according to a preliminary election results where almost 97 percent of the votes were counted.
“Going less well for the green groups”
In several countries, however, it looks like green parties are backing down in the EU elections, according to preliminary election results.
– Sweden deviates a little if you compare it with the rest of Europe, says SVT’s Brussels correspondent Ulrika Bergsten.
In Belgium, the environmental party Ecolo appears to be falling from 19.9 percent to 10.1 percent, according to a preliminary election results where 95 percent of the votes were counted.
Loses in Germany, France and Spain
In Spain, the two coalitions in which the Greens are part appear to be decreasing, in one from 11.4 to 4.7 percent, according to a preliminary election results with 99.6 percent of the votes counted.
In Germany, the Greens look set to fall sharply from their record 2019 result of 20.5 percent to 11.9 percent, according to preliminary election results that Tagesschau published.
And in France, the Greens look set to decline from 14 percent in the 2019 election to 4.8 percent, according to a preliminary election results where 77 percent of the votes were counted.
Overall, the green group in the EU parliament looks to get a total of 52 mandateswhich is a loss of 22 mandates from the 2019 election.