Randomly jumping in here with two questions:
1.) Why is Stockholm a stronghold of the center-right?
2.) When I was visiting Vadstena, Odeshog, and Urnatur in May, I met two local green politicians. How strong is the Green Party in Sweden? Is it common for them to be in rural areas and small towns?
Also, we had a talk with the man who owns the treehouse hotel at Urnatur (he's one of the politicians we met) and told us he resented many Greens from the city because they believe that people should all live in cities, while he advocates that people live in the country. How strong is this divide in the Swedish Green Party?
Also, why the f*** do you people not export Kina Wafers??? They are now my favorite chocolate and they're not available in the U.S.
That is just wrong on so many levels.
1. Apart from recently with the SD, Swedish politics has a strong consensus on social issues and is divided mostly alongside economic lines. City people are rich. Imagine if New York was voting solely on economics and rural Kentucky was doing the same.
2. The Green party mostly has strength in cities and university areas but they exist elsewhere too. A former party leader made them biggest party in rural northern Kalix. 
The Green party generally does badly in rural areas for the reason you cited so I wouldn't call it a strong divide within the party.
The Kina wafers are under fire for racism, I believe, so that may not help. 
I get what you're saying but New York isn't the best example since it's actually about 60% poor minorities and even among the Whites, a good chunk are either poor White ethnics living way out in the middle of nowhere in far west Brooklyn or hipsters making $10 an hour but getting by only because they don't have kids.
Yeah I guess one of the richest cities in the world with the same GDP per capita as Stockholm is a horribly analogy for Stockholm as a rich city.
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2012/1/18-global-metro-monitor/0118_global_metro_monitor.pdf
Your original point was that if New York voted based solely on economic self interest, they would vote conservative like Stockholm does. So yes, it was a bad analogy. New York already votes based on economic self interest. Most New Yorkers vote Democrat because most New Yorkers are poor.
It's also worth noting that there's quite a few "bobo" types in New York who fall in the upper part of the income distribution who would almost certainly vote for the left in Sweden.
