Center-left opposition has secured victory in Sweden

Dand according to the SVT, the bloc led by Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson will win the election with 99.9% probability.

“The likelihood of a turnaround in this situation is so low that we dare say that the opposition will have more deputies in these elections,” the TV channel said.

With 6,607 of the 6,626 total districts accounted for, the opposition retains a minimum advantage with 49.4% against 49%, 175 seats against 174, although throughout the day the advantage has fluctuated between one and three terms.

The Swedish Electoral Authority had begun on Tuesday the count of the so-called “Wednesday votes”, the bulletins of the external vote and the advance ones that arrived late, although it had already reported that it hoped it would not finish the work by Thursday.

The municipal authorities in Gothenburg, the second population city in Sweden, have already reported that they will not finish counting the newsletters until Thursday.

The Swedish electoral system is divided into 6,312 districts, to which are added 314, the “uppsamlingsdistrikt” (collective districts), a fictitious constituency in which the “Wednesday votes” are grouped.

“ We expect more votes this year than in previous elections. We can't know the number beforehand, but we estimate it's about 300,000. This means that the count will probably take a long time in many municipalities and that we will not have a preliminary result updated until Thursday ", had informed the Electoral Authority.

In the previous parliamentary elections in 2022, on Wednesday following the elections there were just over 227,000 ballots, which led to the Conservative Party gaining a seat, although the balance between blocks was not changed.

The “Wednesday votes” historically have not had much influence on the final election result in Sweden, with some exceptions, as in 1979, when the left led by Social Democrat Olof Palme lost the elections due to the foreign ballots, after only 8,500 votes separated the two blocs on election night.

According to the preliminary result, the Social Democratic Party, the most voted force in the last 100 years, has won the elections with 28%, 2.3 points less, but with the worst numbers since 1928.

The Moderate Party (conservative) rose eight tenths to 19.9% and regained the condition of first force of the right-wing bloc, ahead of Sweden's extreme right-wing Democrats (SD), which retreats three points up to 17.5%.

The final result is not expected until next weekend.