"Akesson, 47, joined the party in 1995 and spent two decades leading the SD from irrelevance and occasional notoriety into the mainstream, after it had received a mere 0.25% of votes in a parliamentary election the year before.
But in the latest vote in the Nordic nation of nearly 11 million people, their toughest policies appear to have cost them, especially in increasingly multicultural cities where turnout rose and the centre-left advanced."
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