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The semi-annual party preference survey from Statistics Sweden (SCB) shows that a general election in November would give the centre-right government parties (C + FP + M + KD), 48.4 percent of the vote. The centre-left parties (S + V + MP) would get 44.6 percent. The xenophobic Sweden Democrats would get 5.7 percent. Party [...]
Support for the Euro in Sweden is below ten percent and thereby at a historical low point. The opposite is true for the opposition to a Swedish membership in the Euro that is now reaching new highs at 88 percent. This according to an opinion poll conducted by Skop. According to the survey conducted in [...]
An opinion poll that Norfakta conducted on behalf of the newspapers Nationen and Klassekampen shows that Norwegian women largely prefer the centre-left before the rightwing. While 51 percent of the men would vote for the Conservatives or the Progress Party, only 36 percent of women would do the same. Election researcher Hanne Marthe Narud at [...]
In the Danish business newspaper Børsen, we read that there are major differences in opinion polls before the election September 15. In Voxmeter’s survey, there is an extended lead for the centre-left, 98 seats against the centre-right’s 77 seats. In Megafon’s survey the other hand, there is only 90-85 in the allocation of seats to [...]
The municipal property tax is unpopular among Norwegians as a opinion poll conducted by Sentio on behalf of the newspaper Nationen shows. As many as 62.6 percent of voters say they are opposed to such a tax being introduced in their municipality. Meanwhile, a study conducted by the University of Oslo last year shows that [...]
The local elections in Norway and the parliamentary elections in Denmark are fast approaching. And current polls show that the gap is decreasing the closer we get to the election days. In Norway, which has local elections on September 12, it is now clear that the wave of sympathy that carried the Labour Party in [...]
A majority of Danish voters are prepared to work more if it means that there are no cutbacks in the public welfare. That can be read in an opinion poll commissioned by The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO). According to the poll that was conducted by TNS Gallup, 62 percent of Danes are prepared [...]
According to an opinion poll that Synovate conducted on behalf of the major Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish parliamentary landscape would be shaken up considerably if the Riksdag elections were today. The survey conducted between August 15 to 24 shows that four of the eight parliamentary parties would be below the four percent threshold [...]
On September 12th Norway holds local elections. In an election campaign that largely has been marked by the terrorist attacks in Oslo and onUtøya, the Norwegian Labour Party have seen their poll numbers soar. In a few polls conducted shortly after the attacks they had as much as 40 percent of voters behind them. But [...]
According to an opinion poll commissioned by the news agency Ritzau the Danish centre-left opposition has a strong lead over the ruling right-wing government before the parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is expected to announce in the coming days. The two liberal and conservative government parties, together with the Liberal Alliance and [...]
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