IN DATA: Did Foreign Voters Lose the Election for Sweden's Right-Wing Government?
The party fell about 3 percentage points as turnout rose in immigrant-heavy districts and the centre-left gained 73,000 more votes, Vera Policy said.
- On Sunday, the far-right Sweden Democrats suffered a historic electoral setback, losing support in 285 of Sweden's 290 municipalities. The collapse gave the centre-left opposition a projected victory by about 42,500 votes over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's governing bloc.
- Proposed bans on traditional Islamic headscarves and repatriation grants may have galvanized opponents to vote. Party veteran Richard Jomshof, 57, acknowledged the SD was likely punished after four years of government cooperation, saying he did not anticipate such a large drop.
- In Malmö's Rosengård district, the Social Democrats won 54 percent and the Left Party secured 41.2 percent of votes. Turnout rose about 3 percentage points to 67.5% in these urban districts with high immigrant populations, driving the centre-left surge.
- Sweden Democrats MP Tobias Andersson blamed the defeat on the "200,000+" foreigners naturalized since 2022. Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson dismissed this as a "conspiracy theory," arguing other voter groups could equally explain the outcome.
- Opposition parties increased their lead among voters with European backgrounds, with the Sweden Democrats' support plummeting from 21 percent to 14 percent between 2022 and 2026. The shift suggests the party's mainstreaming strategy may be alienating system-critical voters who once drove its growth.
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Sweden's right-wing government has been voted out after a thin election outcome. Sweden's democrats are now increasingly critical of the fact that more than 200,000 people were naturalised during the reign – at the same time, after their first loss of votes since the entry into the Reichstag, the party has to draw its own conclusions.
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Far right’s influence in Sweden remains despite election setback
Since the party was founded in 1988, the story of the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) has been one of such continuous growth that a triumph in Sunday’s general election seemed inevitable.In 2022, the party capitalized on electoral gains — and the desperation of right-leaning parties to form a minori
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