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General elections were held in
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on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the
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. The main contenders of the election were the
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centre-right coalition the
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, consisting of the
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, the Centre Party, the Liberal People's Party and the
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; and the opposition centre-left coalition the Red-Greens, consisting of the
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, the Left Party and the
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. The Alliance received 49.27 percent of the votes (an increase by 1.03 pp from the previous election) and 173 seats in the parliament (a decrease by 5 seats and 2 short of an overall majority), while the Red-Greens received 43.60 percent of the vote (a decrease by 2.48 pp) and 156 seats (a decrease by 15 seats). The election also saw the nationalist Sweden Democrats entering parliament for the first time, as the sixth largest and only non-aligned of the eight parties elected to the parliament, by receiving 5.70 percent of the votes (an increase by 2.77 pp) and 20 seats. Both in terms of percentage share; 30.06%, and the actual vote; 1,791,766, the Moderate Party did its strongest election of the unicameral parliamentary era, narrowly missing out on beating the Social Democrats to become the largest party. The Alliance dominated the Stockholm capital region of the
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and
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and made further gains in South Sweden including narrowly flipping
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blue as well as winning pluralities in traditionally red towns such as
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,
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and
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. The Alliance lost its
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in the parliament but continued to govern as a
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. The new parliament held its opening session on 5 October, with
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Fredrik Reinfeldt John Fredrik Reinfeldt (pronounced ; born 4 August 1965) is a Swedish economist, lecturer, and former politician who was Prime Minister of Sweden from 2006 to 2014, and chairman of the liberal conservative Moderate Party from 2003 to 2015. He ...
presenting the annual
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, along with changes to his cabinet. This was the first time in almost a century that a Swedish centre-right government that had served a full term was reelected.


Results

There were 5,960,408 valid ballots cast for a turnout of 84.63%.


Seat distribution


Campaign

One of the main campaign themes was the
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. The Sweden Democrats (SD) stated that it wished to cut
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and
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immigration by 90 percent. The SD leader
Jimmie Åkesson Per Jimmie Åkesson (; born 17 May 1979) is a Swedish politician and author, serving as leader of the Sweden Democrats since 2005. He has been a member of the Riksdag (SD) for Jönköping County since 2010. He previously served as leader of ...
wrote, in an opinion piece for the social-democratic tabloid '' Aftonbladet'' that the growth of the country's
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"is the greatest foreign threat to Sweden since the
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." The parties already represented in the Swedish parliament, along with the Swedish television networks, excluded minor parties from the televised political debates. The excluded minor parties included the Sweden Democrats, the June List, the Feminist Initiative, and the Pirate Party.


Polling

After the election in September 2006, the Alliance slipped well behind the opposition in the polls. A
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poll conducted in February 2008 showed the opposition leading the Alliance by 19.4%. However, this lead steadily eroded during the second half of the Alliance's term, despite the opposition's uniting in the Red-Green co-operation in December 2008.
The Sweden Democrats were expected to enter the Parliament for the first time, as the party's polling results had exceeded the 4% entry threshold since June 2009. The
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had also made a significant transformation from the smallest elected party to the third largest party during the term, overtaking the Left Party, the
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, the Liberals and even the Centre Party in most polls following the 2006 election.


Controversy about Sweden Democrats

The Sweden Democrats generated controversy before the election. Both the Alliance and the Red-Greens pledged not to seek support from the SD, with Reinfeldt ruling out forming a government in cooperation with the Sweden Democrats. A privately owned television network,
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, refused to air a SD campaign video, which was then uploaded to
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and viewed more than one million times. The SD video portrayed a track-meet, in which the race is for pension funds. In the video, a Swedish pensioner is outrun by burka-clad women with prams. Several politicians in Denmark, initially from the
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and later from the governing Venstre and the Conservative People's Party, reacted to TV4's refusal to air the video by calling for international election observers to be sent to Sweden.
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, leader of the Danish People's Party, claimed that the election reminded her of "
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", and that Sweden was the "
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" of the
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.
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of the Norwegian Progress Party also criticised the decision as a "violation of democratic rules."


Violence

On 13 September in
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, about 500 counter-demonstrators prevented the Sweden Democrats from making a planned election rally. Police used pepper spray to disperse the counter-demonstration, which lacked a permit, and seven counter-demonstrators were detained. On 14 September, the Sweden Democrats cancelled planned rallies in three cities,
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, Karlstad, and
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, because of security concerns. Similarly, concerns about security led to an election tour being cancelled on 15 September in
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. After these cancelled election rallies, the National Police Commissioner Bengt Svenson severely criticized the county police for failing to safeguard the Sweden Democrats: "If it is not possible to protect them n those locales the police have failed in its planning and execution of its mission.
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It is a serious problem when such meetings cannot be held, because it is our absolute duty to ensure that the constitutionally guaranteed rights be maintained and that all meetings can be held".


Consequences

These attempts to limit the SD message were described by
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as counterproductive, in that they enabled the SD to portray itself as a victim of censorship. Similarly, Hanne Kjöller of ''
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'' hypothesised that the attacks strengthened the Sweden Democrats rather than hurting the party's support base. "Jimmie Åkesson becomes a poor underdog and the picture of a party that is holding some dangerous but important truth is enhanced. The Sweden Democrats should send flowers to the left-wing extremists, thanking them for the publicity."


Reactions

As exit polls conducted by the national broadcaster
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predicted, the Sweden Democrats reached the 4% threshold needed to enter parliament, making this election the first in which they were able to enter parliament. A preliminary count of 5,668 voting districts showed the Alliance with 172 seats, ahead of the Red-Greens. However, this fell short of the 175 seats needed for an
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, and it appeared the Sweden Democrats would hold the balance of power in the new parliament. Reinfeldt declared that he had no intention to cooperate with the Sweden Democrats. On 23 September, the final results showed the Centre Party gaining an adjustment seat in
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, giving the Alliance a total seat count of 173, still two seats short of an absolute majority. The Alliance's Liberal People's Party were only 7 and 19 votes short from gaining additional seats in
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and
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respectively, but according to Svante Linusson, a professor in mathematics, the actual margin was still over 800 votes. On the day after the election, rallies against the Sweden Democrats took place in a number of Swedish cities. Reports indicated that 10,000 people were estimated to have marched in
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under banners reading "We are ashamed", "No racists in Parliament", and "Refugees – welcome!". In
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, 5,000 people took part in a "sorrow march against racism", and 2,000 people marched in
Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...
. Support for the Sweden Democrats was strongest in the southernmost province
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, where the party received about 10% percent of the vote, and in the neighbouring province
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, where they received 9.8 percent; the foreign media quoted "some people" from further north of the country as calling for Scania to be handed back to Denmark, where the Danish People's Party were seen as an inspiration for the SD. Liberal evening tabloid ''
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'' wrote in an editorial "The banner of tolerance has been hauled down and the forces of darkness have finally also taken the Swedish democracy as hostage. It's a day of sorrow." Liberal conservative morning newspaper '' Svenska Dagbladet'' said "
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time for the Swedes to get themselves a new national self-image s the electioncreated a new picture of Sweden".


Analysis

''"While it's hard to say that Sweden has woken up to a new self-image, one can say that this is more like a normal European situation and is similar to other western European countries with a proportional election system, where a populist right-wing party has seats in parliament. It's the party that is the least liked among other voters, so it is not surprising that people have reacted with dismay"''. Carl Dahlstroem, professor of politics at
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.
The election was a landmark for its impact on the Social Democrats, which had been in government for 65 of the last 78 years and who had never lost two consecutive elections. This was their worst result since
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in 1921. Swedish
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Stig-Björn Ljunggren said "The Social Democrats no longer symbolise the Swedish model. They've lost their magic." The ''
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'' postulated that electoral failure was based on internal factors, such that the Social Democrats failed to win over the middle class and had completely lost touch with their original vision, which had made them a dominant political party. ''
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'' saw the rise of the SD as sending "ripples of shock not only through the country but through European politics," and asked "Is this finally it for the 'Swedish model'" that has been represented as a "meld of liberal values, high taxes, outstanding childcare and welfare that made the country the poster boy for European social democracy?" The Social Democrats' failure reflected the party's inability to adapt, an increasingly technocratic profile, a failure to address immigration concerns, as well as Reinfeldt's success in managing the economy. The results draws parallels with a larger decline of European left parties. An article in '' Al Jazeera English'' asked if
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political dynamics were changing following the Swedish and
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elections. The article said that predictions after the election indicated "an entirely new political landscape" and "the beginning of an era of sharper political division in Sweden." It asked if the similar results "reflect rather an underlying continuity in the generation-long evolution of Euro-American politics towards a fully neoliberalised system" and that Sweden seemed to be "moving towards an outdated model." It also said that, while social policies were similarly moving to the right, economic policies were poles apart, with the emergence of far-right parties in Sweden and Denmark still supporting the
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state and the American parties remaining on the economic right-wing. The case of Annika Holmqvist, a seriously ill 55-year-old woman who had her sickness benefits withdrawn and was requested to seek work, allegedly due to the Alliance's reforms of Sweden's social security system, gave the opposition a late boost in its campaign. '' The Local'' thinks it might have deprived the Alliance of an overall majority. Holmqvist's daughter wrote about her case in a web log post that gained publicity and became a hot topic in the debates. In spite of promises of a solution, after the election it was decided Holmqvist will lose her ''illness'' benefits. The Moderate Party was still seen as one of the big winners of the election because of its "well-executed campaign" that emphasised Sweden's "remarkable political and economic stability in a turbulent world" after Sweden weathered the
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; despite mass unemployment, the economic growth in 2010 was the highest in Western Europe.


Government formation

The Alliance formed the new government with Reinfeldt continuing as prime minister. His cabinet has 24
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, three more than the previous one. The Moderates received 13 posts, an increase of three from their previous count, with the Liberals (4),
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(4) and
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(3) not gaining or losing ministers.
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, the leader of the Liberal Party, was promoted to Deputy Prime Minister replacing
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.
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remained Foreign Minister and
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remained Minister for Finance. The new ministers are Stefan Attefall, the Minister for Public Administration and Housing at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs;
Ulf Kristersson Ulf Hjalmar Ed Kristersson (born 29 December 1963) is a Swedish politician who has been serving as Prime Minister of Sweden since October 2022. He has been the leader of the Moderate Party (M) since October 2017 and a member of the Riksdag (MP ...
, replacing
Cristina Husmark Pehrsson Cristina Maria Husmark Pehrsson (born 15 April 1947) is Swedish politician and a member of the Moderate Party. She served as Minister for Social Security and as Minister for Nordic Cooperation from 2006 to 2010. She is a certified nurse and was ...
as Minister for Social Security; Erik Ullenhag, the Minister for Integration at the Ministry of Employment;
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, the
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;
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, the Minister for Information Technology and Regional Affairs at the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications; Peter Norman, replacing Mats Odell as Minister for Financial Markets; and
Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd Catharina Sabine Maria Laurine Elmsäter-Svärd (born 23 November 1965) is a Swedish politician who was Minister for Infrastructure from 2010 to 2014. A member of the Moderate Party, she was an MP of the Swedish Riksdag for Stockholm County fro ...
, replacing
Åsa Torstensson Åsa-Britt Maria Torstensson (born 25 March 1958) is a Swedish politician and a member of the Centre Party. She has a university degree in social work ( sv, socionomexamen). She was a member of the Riksdag between 1998 and 2002 representing Väs ...
as Minister for Communications.
Tobias Krantz Tobias Kjell Bertil Krantz (born 7 April 1971) is a Swedish politician of the Liberal People's Party. He served as Minister for Higher Education and Research in the Swedish government between 17 June 2009 and 5 October 2010. Education Tobi ...
, former Minister of Higher Education at the Ministry of Education and Research, is leaving with no successor having been named. Reinfeldt issued a 30-page statement of the new government's policies, saying it would "seek a broad-based and responsible solutions (''sic'')", and that it would "be natural...to hold regular discussions with the Green Party, in the first instance and also the Social Democratic Party where appropriate."


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NSD: European Election Database - Sweden
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