I think most non-Swedes can take four things out of this election yesterday:
1. There is no clear 'winner'. The mature Swedish Social Democratic Party took around 31-percent of the vote. The second place winner was the Moderate Party with 23-percent. Third place was the Swedish Democratic Party (right-wing in nature) with 13-percent of the national vote. There are five additional parties which took less than 7-percent each. So to form a government, it'll take four-plus parties to achieve it.
2. For the right-wing party, I suspect that they were hoping on 20-percent...but were satisfied. If you go north out Stockholm.....virtually every district went with the Social Democratic Party. It's in the urban areas that the right-wing party took real votes.
3. Some polls done in March of 2018, showed the Swedish Democratic Party (right-wing folks) at near 20-percent. They've lost some support over the past six months.
4. This was a 84-percent turn-out, which compared to most European countries....was a fairly high number.
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