Exit poll: opposition win but no majority
Sweden’s voting has closed and a key exit poll shows the nation’s leftwing parties wining the day with the far-right Sweden Democrats doubling their previous election gains and the Feminist Initiative squeezing past the 4 percent threshold into Parliament.
In an exit poll by Swedish Television, the red-green opposition parties of the Social Democrats, the Green Party and the Left Party, would make up the largest bloc in parliament but would lack an absolute majority.
The Social Democratic-led bloc captured 44.8 percent of the votes, compared to 39.7 percent for the center-right four-party Alliance that has ruled Sweden for the past eight years. Those results suggest no clear majority is likely in the government.
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats would be the nation’s third largest party at 10.5 percent, up from 5.7 percent in the 2010 election, according to the poll number. That position would give the party the balance of power in Parliament between the two blocs.
The state broadcaster also tipped the Feminist Initiative party garnering a surprise 4 percent, just hitting the threshold for seats in the Riksdag.
Social Democrat leader Stefan Lofven will likely head the new government, but a rocky road lies ahead as he must cobbled together a coalition first.
For the four-party, center-right Alliance, each party saw its numbers dip in the exit poll, with the Moderates falling the hardest, dropping to 22.2 percent of the vote.
Preliminary results from the national elections should begin coming in about 10 p.m.
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