The Big Bad Swedish Politics & News Thread

[HansOslo]

I am curious as to where the Sverigedeomkratene gets their votes from. Is it working class voters that used to vote for Socialdemokratarna? 

[HansOslo]

It looks like the Centre party and the Christian Democrats are doing pretty badly. Is it because their voters are dying off (like the Christian Democrats and the Centre party in Norway), or is it because the voters are disillusioned by the Alliance government?

Will Reinfeldts government be able to hold on if the aforementioned parties drop below 4% in the next election? Or will they be able to continue as a minority government with the aid of the Swedish Democrats?

[HansOslo]

3,9% of immigrants prefer Sweden Democrats, I guess those are mostly Finns and Swedish talking Finns.

Well there are a lot of Danish immigrants in south Sweden.

Do the results on neighbouring countries affect voting intentions on Sweden?

Nope, not in the slightest.

I have to agree on this. Just look at the period from 2000 to 2010. Norway had a centre-right government from 2001 to 2005, when Sweden had Göran Persson as prime minister. Then in 2006 the Alliance government sweeps into power in Sweden. At that point the left had been in power for a year in Norway . And now it looks like it will turn around again, with Norway getting a blue (as in bourgeois) government, with Sweden reverting back to some sort of leftwing government.

[HansOslo]

Were they ever in sync with one another?

Back in the SD heyday after WW2, yes. Gerhardsen 1945-51, 1955-1965

It should be mentioned that the Social Democrats were still in power between 1951 and 1955. Einar Gerhardsen resigned in 1951, and was replaced by Oscar Torp. Torp was pressured to relinquish the office in January 1955, when Gerhardsen wanted to return as Prime Minister.

[HansOslo]

Frankenburger is right.

Quislings party, Nasjonal Samling (meaning something like National Unity) was more of a sect than a political party the years before the German invasion.

 They got 1,8 % of the vote in the last general election before the war.