Sweden election results thread (Sept 14, 2014)

[DL]

The left will form a government and that's all I care about

[DL]

I guess this result will mean a center-left minority government with a significant chance of a mid-term election.

I don't think Sweden has ever had a "mid-term election"...the centre left will find some way to stay in power until 2018 - there is no alternative

[DL]

Sweden had elections in 1958, 1960 and 1970 after 2 years.   

The 1958 election is the only one that counts. in 1970 they had an early election because they changed the entire constitution and eliminated the upper house. It wasn't because of a government falling.

[DL]

Why is it that Stockholm votes so much more to the right than the rest of Sweden while in Denmark Copenhagen is much more leftwing than the rest of Denmark...and Paris and Berlin are much more left in their voting than the rest of Germany and France.

[DL]

I thought Paris was pretty right wing? They have generally had centre-right Mayors.

Umm that was true a generation ago but for the last 13 years Bertrand Delanoe of the Socialist Party has been mayor and Paris voted more heavily for Segolene Royale and Francois Hollande than the rest of France and this year Anne Hidalgo of the Socialists was elected mayor succeeding Delanoe - even in a year when socialists were doing badly in France due to Hollande's unpopularity.

BTW: I realize that real estate is very expensive in Stockholm and that it is a very white collar city etc... but what could be more expensive and white collar than London and yet the Labour Party tends to do much better in London than in the rest of England. Housing prices are stratospheric in New York and San Francisco and they are both very rich cities and yet they tend to elect the most ultra liberal Democrats at every level and Republicans are endangered species.

[DL]

Why is it that Stockholm votes so much more to the right than the rest of Sweden while in Denmark Copenhagen is much more leftwing than the rest of Denmark

Are? you? for? real??? Have you seriously forgotten that you've asked this question about 4 times before, and already gotten the same answer from different posters over and over. If you do not suffer from amnesia I have a hard time thinking you can have missed that.

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Thank you!

I may have posed this question ONCE several years ago if that, I don't why you feel the need to be insulting. If you want sift through the archive of every single thing I have ever posted on this site then please do and show me where I have "asked the exact same question" FOUR times. And BTW there are some topics that merit being rehashed every four or five years (if not more)

[DL]

having a government that only represents 36-37% of voters (less than what an Alliance government would represent) is a pretty unfortunate situation.

Come to canada where we have a Conservative majority government that only 39% of the electorate voted for...Margaret Thatcher never won more than 42% of the vote in the UK and it never stopped her from ramming her policies down everyone's throats.

[DL]

If I'm not mistaken the Social Democrats have almost never won a clear majority on their own and the norm has been for them to be passively supported by the Venstre and/or Miljo party without those parties having cabinet ministers - have there EVER been Venstre party cabinet ministers? In many cases the three or four "bourgeois parties" have had more seats than the S alone - so this is nothing new. It doesn't really matter if Venstre is part of the government with cabinet ministers, if they vote to make Lofven PM when the Riksdag meets then he has the confidence and he governs with their silent support, right?