Swedish Social Democrats slump in the polls

07/12/2011 by
Jansson

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 [...]

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The Juholt Effect?

11/06/2011 by

I wrote in my last blog post about Statistics Sweden’s (SCB) semi-annual party preference survey. Since this is the most comprehensive survey conducted in Sweden, it might be interesting to look at how the preferences for the Social Democrats have changed since the last survey in November 2010. It is particularly interesting since that survey (October 31 [...]

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Swedish Social Democrats up in the Polls

08/06/2011 by

The semi-annual party preference survey from Statistics Sweden (SCB) show positive changes for the Swedish Social Democrats and the red-green opposition, while the centre right government parties (C, FP, M, KD) and the xenophobic Sweden Democrats lost support. If the survey results were an election result the Red-Green parties would have been just short of an absolute majority in parliament (49.9% of eligible votes) since the Christian Democrats fall below the four percent threshold. Below is the results of the survey and the results of the [...]

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