Swedish election, 2018: Political Impasse, Löfven loses confidence vote

[Antonio the Sixth]

SAP are currently pledging to abolish all religious schools, which I assume is mainly to target madrassas without looking racist.

Seriously?? OK that's insane.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Why are the Sweden Democrats so strong in Skane?

Also, it has always fascinated me how it is that Sweden may be one of the only countries in the industrialized world where the main metropolitan area (Stockholm) tends to be a bit of a right of centre stronghold. In almost every other country the main cities lean left compared to the rest of the country (e.g. London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Vienna etc... in Europe, but also Toronto, Montreal, vancouver, New York, LA, Chicago etc...)

In Europe it's still a pretty new phenomenon. Paris used to be a bastion of the French right up until the 2000s, and many of the largest Italian cities typically voted to the right.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do we have any provisional turnout figures?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Let’s go Swedish Social Democrats! Centre Party or Liberals! Moderates!

Fixed it for you cuck

can you please stop

[Antonio the Sixth]

Pretty sure this poll is underestimating SD, sadly...

Edit: OK, the SVT1 figure looks about right.

[Antonio the Sixth]

So when does counting start?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Anyone that has links to results other than

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/wEGeKP

Seconded.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Was it expected that the two coalitions would be so close to each other?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Election website is down.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Results will take a while to slowly come together, you won't get complete numbers in the next five minutes. In fact you won't get complete results even by the end of the night, because there's always additional counting - of postals and so on - later. So calm down, take a walk, and stop pressing 'refresh' on the official results page.

Election results counts aren't like polling two months from an election - they tend to converge pretty quickly on a result. I'm sure we'll have a clear picture of where things stand within an hour.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Sweden looks pretty in red 😁

oh sweet summer child...

[Antonio the Sixth]

I might not be the Mod here any more, but if another poster mentions Trump in this thread I will hunt them down and destroy them.

Ok.

I wonder what the child president of the US thinks of his boys only getting 17.6%?

Dude, you messed with the wrong Welshman.

[Antonio the Sixth]

The final result will only be in place on Wednesday. Here there will be a count of the last early votes; those that did not make it to the right polling place for today. So this can be votes from Swedes abroad, or those voting early somewhere far from their normal polling place. This shouldn't be many votes, but it can change a few decimals, which could be decisive in such a close election. There might also be recounts in some places.

How do these voters tend to lean?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Welp, that's what I call a clusterf**k

[Antonio the Sixth]

I think A is very unlikely and B probably most likely. That's also what the betting markets were saying before the election.

Why in the world would SAP ever agree to B? What the hell would they gain from it? If the Alliance thinks they have SD's support, let them rule with SD's support, and we'll see how well that turns out for them.