The opposition parties to the current conservative Executive of Sweden have won in the general elections, with the Social Democratic Party (S) as the leading force by gathering 28% of the votes. The projection of seats leaves a very tight margin: 175 deputies for the opposition bloc compared to the 174 that would be summed by the formations supporting the outgoing Prime Minister, the conservative Ulf Kristersson, according to the preliminary parliamentary distribution with 92.1% of the districts counted.
The social democrats thus secure 99 seats and continue to be the most voted party in the country, as has been happening for a century. However, in this electoral event, they have ceded 2.3% of the votes and lost eight representatives compared to the previous elections, according to provisional data published by the Swedish Electoral Authority.
Among the other opposition forces, the Left Party (V) improves its position by reaching 8.2% of the support and 29 seats. Next is the Centre Party (C), with 7.1% of the votes and 25 deputies, and the Green Party (MP), which achieves 6.1% of the support and 22 representatives in the Swedish Parliament. The Left and Greens register the largest advances, with five and four additional seats, respectively, compared to 2022.
In the government bloc, Kristersson's conservative Moderate Party slightly increases its support to 19.9% of the votes, which translates to 71 seats.
Behind them is the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD), whose strong rise in recent years has stopped and even reversed. This time it obtains 17.6% of the votes and suffers the largest drop in seats of these elections, ending up with 62 deputies, eleven less than in the previous legislature.
The other two partners of the until now Prime Minister, the Christian Democratic Party (KD) and the Liberal People's Party (L), also improve their results, each adding three more seats. The Christian Democrats reach 6.2% of the votes and 22 deputies, while the 5.4% obtained by the liberals, whose continuity in the Riksdag was once in doubt, ultimately secures them 19 representatives.