Sweden’s 2026 Election on a Knife-Edge

This article was updated reflecting the results is the 13 September election

After Sweden went to the polls, the left party bloc ekes out a 0.2 percent victory over the right bloc.

With more than 90% of the votes counted, the results of the Sunday 13 September election to Sweden’s Riksdag have broadly confirmed the final polls. The centre-left opposition led by former Social Democratic prime minister Magdalena Andersson holds a razor-thin 0.2 percent lead over the outgoing government, giving it 176 seats to the right bloc’s 173, although late and overseas ballots mean the result is not yet final. The Social Democrats remain by far the largest party, but at around 28% have fallen to their weakest result in more than a century. Even if Andersson returns to office after four years in opposition, discord among her potential coalition partners could make government formation difficult and constrain how far a new administration can break with four years of right-wing rule under the sway of the far-right Sweden Democrats.

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