POLL OF POLLS. "It's a damned tough situation right now, so I'm not surprised when you consider what we've got against us, with gang murders, shootings and explosions. While the opinion polls told us that the Sweden Democrats were making gains, they did not tell us just how close the left and right parliamentary blocs would be.

It's us, as the ruling party, who has to pay the price." Results of such polls are displayed in this article. Stay up-to-date with who is ahead in the polls in each country and on what Europe thinks and why. Sweden election 2018: The poll show the latest result from today compared to the result in 2014 (Image: datastory.se) 10.00am update: Sweden Democrats to double their vote since the last election Estimates: Aggregation established by Kantar of available national estimates or polling data resulting from the elections and published in a given Member State after voting has finished, based on well-known and reliable national polling institutes. In the run up to the 2018 general election of 9 September 2018 in Sweden, various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intentions. A protracted battle to form a working … POLITICO Europe tracks polling data for every European election and country. The Social Democrats have been the biggest party in every election in Sweden since 1914, with the party building the country's generous welfare society over more than 40 years of unbroken rule from 1932 to 1976.

Swedish Election 2018 Results. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future.Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the far-Right Sweden Democrats, speaking in 2018 "I'm not surprised. The poll, by the Swedish opinion research company Demoskop, marks the first time the party has been the largest party in any of the five opinion polls carried out on behalf of Sweden… The nationalist Sweden Democrats (SD) have won about 18% of the vote, up from 12.9% in the previous election. According to a poll published on Friday in the Aftonbladet newspaper, the populist party now has the support of 24 percent of voters, compared to just 22.2 percent for the Social Democrats, the lead party in the country's current coalition government.

Mr Åkesson has over the past 14 years transformed his party from a fringe white-power group by ruthlessly casting out its more extreme elements and claiming to uphold a zero-tolerance policy towards racism. But the traditional polls greatly underestimated support for the Sweden Democrats before the previous election, while the online surveys were far closer to the result. "In the old days it was the Moderates and [former PM Fredrik] Reinfeldt who were challenging them, now it's us," he told Aftonbladet. * Polls marked with an asterisk are partisan polls. Polls have opened in Sweden's general election Sunday in one of the tightest contests the Scandinavian country has seen for decades as voters split over attitudes to immigration. The Sweden Democrats leader, Jimmie Åkesson, who had hoped for more from the elections after his party won a record 17.5% of the vote, described the outcome of the talks as absurd. In very close to the final numbers, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s left parties were on track for 144 seats.

Pollsters that did not release any horse-race polls within three weeks of an election since 1998 do not have a grade and are treated as a C+ by the grade filter. "We've been talking constructively over gang criminality, escalating insecurity, and a migration policy that doesn't work for so many years." I've long argued we would be the biggest party sooner or later," party leader Jimmie Åkesson told the Aftonbladet newspaper. Sweden’s 7.3 million voters go to the polls on 9 September, electing a new parliament and government to succeed the Social Democrat-Green minority coalition of the … "It's a welcome shift in Swedish politics."

The agreement saw the two liberal parties break with the centre-Right Alliance bloc and instead let the Social Democrats stay in power, so long as they agreed to a tax cut on some of the highest earners and reforms to the the country's 'last-in, first-out' employment law. Compare the results of European elections since 1979.Since 2009, according to Parliament’s rules of procedure, a political group shall consist of at least 25 Members elected in at least seven Member States.Since 2009, according to Parliament’s rules of procedure, a political group shall consist of at least 25 Members elected in at least seven Member States.Since 2009, according to Parliament’s rules of procedure, a political group shall consist of at least 25 Members elected in at least seven Member States.Since 2009, according to Parliament’s rules of procedure, a political group shall consist of at least 25 Members elected in at least seven Member States.Compare the results of European elections since 1979.This website uses cookies to allow us to gather anonymous data to understand how our site is used and how we can offer you a better experience She also pointed to the difficult compromises the party had had to make in the January Agreement it agreed with the minority Centre and Liberal Parties to stay in power after last year's election. Polls from firms that are banned by FiveThirtyEight are not shown. The parties argued that an alternative government led by the Moderate Party would have been too dependent on the tacit support of the Sweden Democrats.But by keeping the populist right from gaining influence, they have pushed the Moderate Party and the Christian Democrats into joining the Sweden Democrats in a loose conservative bloc, while allowing Mr Åkesson to present his party as the true opposition.