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Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced his resignation after the left-wing opposition won a narrow victory in the general election on Thursday. The Swedish Election Authority reported that the four left-wing parties secured 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament, beating the outgoing conservative-led bloc by three seats. Former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats emerged as the largest single party and now face challenging negotiations to form a coalition government despite ideological divisions within their bloc.
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Story summary
On September 13, 2026, Swedish voters went to the polls in a closely contested election to decide whether the current right-wing coalition, led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, would remain in power or if the center-left opposition, led by Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats, would regain control. With nearly 10.6 million people eligible to vote and over eight million registered, the election results were too close to call initially. The right-wing bloc held a slight advantage early on but lost ground as counting continued; preliminary reports showed the left-leaning opposition leading by three seats in the 349-seat parliament. This narrow margin could prolong the formation of a new government, with both sides needing to make significant concessions for coalition support. Notably, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, polling at around 19%, were poised to gain cabinet positions if the right-wing bloc maintained its lead, a shift that has raised concerns about civil liberties and integration policies in Sweden. The election reflects growing anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe, mirroring trends seen in other nations like France. Formal negotiations for coalition-building are set to begin as early as September 29th, with potential long-term political uncertainty if no majority can be secured quickly.
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Sweden’s prime minister says he will resign after the left-wing opposition secured a narrow victory in the country’s general election, though it faces tough negotiations ahead to form a coalition government.
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The vote count ended on Thursday with the Swedish Election Authority announcing that the four left-wing opposition parties won 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament in Stockholm, the Riksdag.
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4Sweden’s centre-left leads by three seats as vote counting continues
- list 2 of 4Sweden election is too close to call as far right loses ground
- list 3 of 4‘Rage-bait’ failed: Stockholm suburb celebrates far right’s election losses
- list 4 of 4Sweden expels Iran embassy employee, citing security concerns
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The four parties that make up or support the outgoing conservative-led government took 173 seats, meaning that the left-wing bloc won with a slim three-seat majority.
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Only about 50,000 votes separated the two sides in the country of 10.6 million people.
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Shortly after the results were announced, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he would resign.
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“Now, it is the speaker who will lead the next stage of the way to a new government.
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I am henceforth requesting that I be relieved of the office of prime minister to allow that work to start immediately,” Kristersson said in a letter posted on social media X.
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Former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson’s centre-left Social Democrats finished as the biggest single party, despite losing some support.
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The result bolsters her hope of regaining the job she lost in 2022, but she will still face a complicated task to turn it into a government due to ideological divisions within the left-leaning bloc, which is made up of the Social Democrats, the Left Party, the Greens Party and the Centre Party.
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Andersson, who was Sweden’s first female prime minister in 2021-2022 and was finance minister for seven years before that, will notably need to reconcile differences between the socialist Left Party and the liberal Centre Party.
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The Centre Party has said it will oppose a government that includes cabinet posts for the Left Party, which has insisted on having a minister.
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Andersson has meanwhile ruled out a government that includes the Left Party, but wants their support in Sweden’s parliament.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who leads one of the few left-wing governments in Europe, hailed the result.
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“Social democracy has won the elections in Sweden.
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After four years of a right-wing government with the far right, the Swedes are once again backing the welfare state, social justice and the green agenda,” Sanchez said in a post to X.
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Parliament can vote on a new prime minister on September 29 at the earliest.
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Kristersson said on election night that he would respect Andersson’s attempts to form a government, but wished her “good luck” given the divisions among her left-wing bloc.
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Meanwhile, in a big surprise, the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats, which entered parliament in 2010, lost support for the first time, garnering 17.5 percent of the vote, down three percentage points from the last election in 2022.
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