Swedish election, 2018: Political Impasse, Löfven loses confidence vote

[Ethelberth]

Some parties seem to have two types of "sedlar", regional and local. How the seats are distributed between them?

[Ethelberth]

I mean situation of Centre party, one for realm, one for region, in parlamentary elections.

e.g.

https://data.val.se/val/val2018/valsedlar/R/rvalkrets/07/valsedlar.html

It is funny, that you can swear in the election ticket (look at Skåne party)
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[Ethelberth]

Finally, Gotland got a Centre MP after 1991.  It has been their best constituency but due its smallness they have not got a MP. During nineties there were two socialist MPs on the farmers' island.

[Ethelberth]

Junilistan? Does it exist anymore?

[Ethelberth]

3. What's up in Gottlands? They seem to have odd voting habits.

In Gotland farmers vote Centre and fishermen SAP.

[Ethelberth]

6. Sweden has no farmers anymore. C does have a fair number of rural voters but also a lot of urban liberals. And the sort of rural people who vote C aren't that conservative.

7. Geographical patterns are a Little complex, but Al is broadly right on Northern Sweden. Skåne has its own somewhat un-Swedish Dynamics and traditions and also a lot of immigration.

You mean, you do have farmers, but they're like 1-2% of the population or something.

Skåne is culturally more similar to Denmark than Sweden I think, also historically and linguistically.

They have no  farmers in Stockholm (besides some nobility perhaps). Eastern Scania has also some non-conformist tendencies. Some of the old KD regions have turned to SD.

[Ethelberth]

Correct answer to Vilhelmina question seems to be Inez Abrahamson, rural feminist and journalist.

[Ethelberth]

Today it was announced that the Sweden Democrats will get their first ever mayor in Sweden in the small town of Hörby in Skåne, were SD polled 35,3% in the election to city council. Whether this will start a trend remains to be seen.

What kind of places are Höör and Hörby?

[Ethelberth]

I know. These small towns of Scania are often somewhat  industrial or suburban-exurban. Höör-Hörby area used to be quite Centre-partyish, but not anymore. I just wanted to know whether there is some peculiarity that makes them more sensitive to SD.

[Ethelberth]

Originally, the SDP-Centre goverments (so called red clay governments) were modeled after Sweden (in thirties). NCP-SDP co-operation (brothers in arms co-operation) was common in big cities after war (against communists), whereas Centre and Commies used to co-operate on universal social policy issues.