The difference between the blocs aspiring to power is only 0.7 percentage points and the right-wing is only getting one more representative than the red-greens. That’s why late advance votes and foreign votes are decisive.
Jussi Nurminen,
STT–
The excitement over the final result of the parliamentary elections held in Sweden on Sunday is continuing until Thursday. According to the election authority, the votes cast abroad and advance votes cast at a late stage may not have been counted until Thursday.
Counting these votes only a few days after the election is standard practice. This time, however, the differences in the votes counted right after the polling stations closed were so small that foreign votes and late advance votes can change the entire result.
The difference between the right-wing bloc and the left-wing bloc is only 47,000 votes in favor of the right. There are more than 200,000 uncounted votes in total.
For their part, the votes of the parties may also be affected by the more than 90,000 votes rejected in the first vote count, reminds Swedish television SVT (you switch to another service).
For example, in the revision count after the 2018 Diet election, more than 25,000 votes were accepted that were rejected in the first count. This was 30 percent of rejected votes.
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The Sweden Democrats grabbed votes in sparsely populated areas
According to Swedish election experts, the biggest winner of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, the Sweden Democrats, increased their support, especially in sparsely populated areas and small towns.
For example, in some voting areas in northern Sweden, the Sweden Democrats was the most popular party in Sunday’s elections.
Professor at the University of Gothenburg By Jonas Hinnfors according to the Swedish Democrats and the Social Democrats are now equally popular among working-class voters.
– The Swedish Democrats strengthen their position as a new labor party, Hinnfors sums up the election result.
The Social Democrats also clearly increased their support in Sunday’s elections, although not quite as much as the Sweden Democrats. However, the new voters of the Social Democrats mainly came from big cities.
– The Social Democrats are increasingly becoming a middle-class civil servant party, Hinnfors concludes.
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