Swedish general election, 2014

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You cant get the pure eurosceptic/non-xenophobic conservative combo in Sweden, but CD is definitely the most traditionally conservative party. Moderates would be too, well, moderate for you.

The Moderates' name from what I've gathered is just a historical anachronism. They're about as right wing as the Tories or the CDU with the only big difference being they don't have a hardline socon faction.

That is completely wrong (especially regarding the Tories). The party has moved left under Reinfeldts leadership and is presently the most centrist of the four centre-right parties.

So the name is actually pretty accurate nowadays.
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The name thing is weird though. Before 1970 they were called "Högerpartiet". Then they changed the name to affect the public's perception of them, just before choosing a leader that would move them further to the right (Gösta Bohman).

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I'd probably vote F! to troll certain groups of people.

Trolling the left, I suppose?
As you can see on this forum, the Swedish centre-right is very content With F!'s spoiler role.

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The name thing is weird though. Before 1970 they were called "Högerpartiet". Then they changed the name to affect the public's perception of them, just before choosing a leader that would move them further to the right (Gösta Bohman).

Yeah, moderate and Gösta Bohman doesn't really belong in the same sentence. I suppose Höger was simply too outdated and old fashioned, so they had to come up with a new more "modern" and non-ideological name, whitout necessarily wanting to change their politics. Presumably moderate was more to sound modern than centrist.

Its strange that the name Høyre survived in Norway, but you have a preference for keeping antiquated but unambiguous and "strong" names such as having newspapers named things like Fedrelandsvennen, Adresseavisen and Klassekampen (and a party called Arbeiderpartiet).

That's probably true - in general, Norwegians like to keep some antiquated traditions just for the sake of it. Though with regards to Adresseavisen, its name has actually been modernized several time: Its original name was Kongelig allene priviligerede Trondheims Adresse-Contoirs Efterretninger.