{"id":177604,"date":"2026-09-08T08:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=177604"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:47:44","slug":"sd-okar-i-vasterbotten-och-i-umea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/sd-is-gaining-ground-in-vasterbotten-and-umea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sweden Democrats Are Gaining Ground in V\u00e4sterbotten\u2014and in Ume\u00e5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Sweden Democrats are gaining ground in V\u00e4sterbotten and Ume\u00e5, according to a Demoskop poll commissioned by V\u00e4sterbottens-Kuriren.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Ume\u00e5 municipal election, the Sweden Democrats\u2019 share of the vote rose from 6 to 8 percent. The increase of 1.6 percentage points is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vk.se\/2026-09-04\/lokal-matning-visar-sa-kommer-umeaborna-rosta-i-kommunvalet-3f41d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.vk.se\/2026-09-04\/lokal-matning-visar-sa-kommer-umeaborna-rosta-i-kommunvalet-3f41d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistically validated<\/a><\/strong>. Demoskop's Director of Public Opinion Research <strong>Johan Martinsson<\/strong> calls it \u201drelatively strong\u201d and says the same trend is evident throughout the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 The increase is about 1.6 percentage points, and it is guaranteed<\/em>, ,\" Martinsson tells <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/riks.se\/nyheter\/sd-okar-i-vasterbotten-och-i-umea\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/riks.se\/nyheter\/sd-okar-i-vasterbotten-och-i-umea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Riks<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the Social Democrats lost four percentage points in Ume\u00e5, dropping from 36 to 32 percent. This result is also statistically significant. The Green Party rose from 6 to 9 percent and is being cited as one of the big winners at the local level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SD's district chair in V\u00e4sterbotten, <strong>Petter Nilsson<\/strong>, views the figures as positive and believes that most of the new votes will come from the Social Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2013 I\u2019d say that most of them are probably Social Democrats. That\u2019s the most reasonable assumption.<\/em>, \", Nilsson tells Riks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey was conducted August 12\u201323 and yielded 1,137 responses. Nationally, the Sweden Democrats have not seen the same increase in public support. Locally in V\u00e4sterbotten, however, there is a clear trend.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Socialdemokraterna minskar, Milj\u00f6partiet \u00f6kar men \u00e4ven Sverigedemokraterna \u00f6kar i den &#8221;r\u00f6da&#8221; studentstaden<\/p>","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":157945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,1523,205],"tags":[162,157,156,6303,5315],"class_list":["post-177604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-inrikes","category-liten","category-nyheter","tag-miljopartiet","tag-socialdemokraterna","tag-sverigedemokraterna","tag-umea","tag-vasterbotten"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}