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Swedish elections: Support declines for establishment parties
By Jordan Shilton
16 September 2014
The main feature of elections held on Sunday in Sweden, which resulted in the removal of the right-wing government of former Prime Minister Frederick Reinfeldt, was the growing rejection by the electorate of all the established political parties.
While the nominal victors were the Social Democrats, whose leader Stefan Löfven will take over as prime minister, the party secured just 31 percent of the vote. This was barely a 1 percent increase on the party’s result in 2010, when Sweden’s traditional party of government suffered its worst result in almost a century, polling just over 30 percent of the vote.