Sweden 2006

[Colin]

How long have the Social Democrats been in the government in Sweden ?

Since 1994 IIRC.

1920, 1921 - 1923, 1924 - 1926, 1932 - 1936 june, 1936 september -1976, 1982 - 1991, 1994 -

Since 1920 SAP has only been out of government in 17 years!

Well then I believe its high time that Sweden became more competitive.

[Colin]

Who do you vote for Gustaf? Moderaterna or Liberal People's Party or something else?

[Colin]

Who do you vote for Gustaf? Moderaterna or Liberal People's Party or something else?

I haven't actually voted in a general election yet, but I could probably vote for any of the Centre-Right parties (and actually even the Greens, though not in this election). In this particular election I'm gonna vote for Junilistan, for both personal and political reasons.

If anyone is interested I could do a brief summary of the major parties, because they're not all what you would think them to be (especially the People's Party... )

Go ahead. I'm always interested in foreign political parties. Be my guest.

[Colin]

Seems like most of the support that left the Liberal People's Party went to the Centre Party with some going to the Christian Democrats. Makes sense, probably most of the liberals within the party went to the other "liberal" party, or whatever it now is, in the race, Centre, with the old Free Protestant voters going to the Christian Democrats.

[Colin]

Does BV stand for blank votes or is that some party I haven't noticed before?

[Colin]

Persson has conceeded. It looks like the final margin will be something in the region of 1% (Jesus is that tight...). Anyone know how many seats each side'll likely have?

Well does anyone have the raw votes? I could plug those into a PV Calculator and see what comes out.

Does Sweden have electoral districts or is it just a national vote?

[Colin]

There are results on the Swedish election authorities homepage.

http://www.val.se/val/val2006/valnatt/R/rike/roster.html

M Moderata Samlingspartiet 1411814 26,1 97
C Centerpartiet 429274 7,9 29
FP Folkpartiet liberalerna 406496 7,5 28
KD Kristdemokraterna 358424 6,6 24
S Arbetarepartiet-Socialdemokraterna 1908711 35,2 130
V Vänsterpartiet 315975 5,8 22
MP Miljöpartiet de gröna 279316 5,2 19
ÖVR Övriga partier 307774 5,7

Right: 178 Seats
Left: 171 Seats

EDIT: Damn you Jens you just had to post that right before I found this.