Once the votes for the parties not represented in Parliament have been tallied, clear winners and losers emerge. The AFS and the Christian Values Party gained ground as several established minor parties lost ground—while two newcomers made their mark.
The Election Authority's results shows significant differences among the parties outside the Riksdag. Several parties that ran in the last election lost support, but a few managed to buck the trend and grow.
AFS is growing—while others are shrinking
Alternativ för Sverige (AFS) received 26,729 votes and 0.39 percent. This represents an increase of 0.14 percentage points compared to 2022, placing the party among the clear exceptions to the downward trend among small parties.
The party leader Gustav Kasselstrand He also received 12,535 personal votes. This placed him eighth among the candidates with the most personal votes in the entire parliamentary election, according to the Election Authority’s results.
The Christian Values Party is also gaining ground
The Christian Values Party also managed to gain ground. The party received 9,017 votes and 0.13 percent of the vote, an increase of 0.04 percentage points compared to the previous parliamentary election.
The results for AFS and the Christian Values Party stand out because several other parties with prior parliamentary election experience saw their support decline. The Civic Coalition, the Pirate Party, the Direct Democrats, and the Independent Rural Party all lost support.
Nyans is furious
The biggest decline was seen in the Islamist Party Nyans. The party received 1,069 votes and 0.02 percent of the vote, a drop of 0.42 percentage points compared with 2022.
The Civic Coalition received 4,118 votes and 0.06 percent, compared with 0.2 percent in 2022. The Pirate Party received 7,464 votes and 0.11 percent, compared with 0.14 percent in 2022.
The newcomers are making their mark
The Örebro Party became the largest party not represented in the Riksdag, with 39,644 votes and 0.59 percent. This was the first time the party had run in a Riksdag election, which makes the result particularly remarkable.
Newcomer Ambition Sverige also made an impact, garnering 7,679 votes, or 0.11 percent.
None of the challengers came close to the Riksdag’s 4 percent threshold. But among the smaller parties, two clear patterns emerged: new alternatives garnered thousands of votes, while AFS and the Christian Values Party were among the established parties that actually increased their voter support.
It's terrible that the public is still asleep and keeps voting for the 8-Party Alliance. :-(
Still, I wish Markus & ÖP had surpassed 12%, because Markus would probably have really given the corrupt “8-clover” coalition a run for its money in the Riksdag.
That loudmouth Allard had been yelling and acting rudely for a while in the Riksdag until they threw him out of the chamber, and that had certainly been entertaining.
But he hadn't really gotten anything done.