Sweden election results thread (Sept 14, 2014)

[Tayya]

Well, this could have gone better. :/

[Tayya]

Well, this could have gone better. :/

What did you people expect, that mixing egg throwing (after SD), calling for mass immigration and ignoring SD would result in SD not getting a great election.

SD could not have asked for a greater PR campaign than what the rest of the Swedish political establishment gave them, and the worst part of it, is that the Swedish political establishment and medias, will use the next four years on making them even bigger at next election.

So no it could not have gone better than it did, because that would have demanded a entirely different behaviour from the political establishment and the media.

There's a difference between 11% and 13%.

The problem here is that the opinions of the elite - at least the liberal establishment and definitely Reinfeldt - appear to be sincere. And why cater to populism when that's what the Danes have done, leading to DF aspiring on pole position?

I do find it interesting that the Danish media appears to treat Sweden about the same as our media treats SD.

[Tayya]

Eric, please.

Gothenburg, Uppsala and Malmö have started reporting, but there's nothing from rural Skåne yet. These are the election night results being recounted - late absentees will be added from Wednesday and on.

@ingemann: SD is not DPP, and it carries a whole lot of baggage that made any alternative to treating them as a pariah party in the 90's and early 00's an impossibility. There's been mistakes done since then, yes, especially around 2002, but maybe it's just history being inevitable.

[Tayya]

Sweden has a system with personal votes, where a voter can choose to vote for a specific candidate on the list. If a candidate gets 5% (formerly 8%) of all the party votes in a specific constituency then they are elevated to the top of the list.

The most notable example in 2014 was in Jönköping County, Sweden's bible belt. The Christian Democrats had two seats here in 2010 and topped their list with two junior ministers, Minister of the Elderly and Children Maria Larsson and Minister of Housing and Public Affairs Stefan Attefall. Not only did they barely lose one of their mandates, but mostly unknown backbencher Andreas Carlson managed to edge past both of them in personal votes and cross the 5% threshold, kicking them both out of the Riksdag.

Here follows a map of the KD personal votes in Jönköping County by municipality. You can probably find the home municipalities of each candidate. Note the insane local support for Carlson in his native Mullsjö, that brought him to the top together with a strong second place finish in Jönköping, the major city and Attefall's home base (he is not a native, which might have contributed to his demise).