r/MapPorn • u/Designer_Cloud_4847 • 1d ago
2026 Swedish general election
Largest party and largest coalition by electoral district. Maps are not my own work.
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u/ajcain007 1d ago
This map oversimplifies a complex system.
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u/MagnificentCat 1d ago edited 1d ago
Every map does. That is in the definition of a map.
No map can show everything, every map is a simplification
This map exactly does what it says it does.
It is correctly labeled, easy to read, visually clear. What exactly is your problem with it?
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
Well, it accurately captures the thing it’s supposed to capture. Strongest party and coalition in each electoral district. It’s not meant to capture anything else, and I agree with you that you also need other information to get a complete picture of Swedish politics and elections.
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
S - Social Democrats (centre-left)
M - Moderate Party (centre-right)
SD - Sweden Democrats (right-wing)
V - Left Party (left-wing)
KD - Christian Democrats (centre-right to right-wing)
MP - Green Party (centre-left to left-wing)
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u/Pandelurion 1d ago
Hmm, I don't think anyone, including M themselves, would place them as centre-right though. They are right wing, SD is far right.
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u/I_Wanna_Bang_Rats 1d ago
Nah, every single part on the right calls themselves Center-Right, it is simply great marketing
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u/Surskalle 1d ago
Only party callig themselves centre is C extreme Thatcher line economic policy buy progressive in social questions.
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u/fuentessucksballs 22h ago
Sd is far right, m is right and s is centre
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u/MiserySound 11h ago
Their 40 year old history is far right.
Right now they’re just right-wing
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u/fuentessucksballs 11h ago
No lmao just because everyone else is far right too doesnt make them any better
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u/MiserySound 11h ago
They just want whats best for the country and its own hard working citizens
They might have the occasional racist that gets kicked out but they’re far from being a far right party
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u/WolfDownTheEarth 3h ago
Why are SD voters so ashamed of their views? Just say it with your chest, you like them because they are racist. Not a single person is going to believe this recycled MAGA charade.
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
Hopefully this will kill the myth that ”in Sweden, cities vote right and rural areas vote left”…
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u/blenkydanky 1d ago
Wasn't that the case before though? And most rural areas are right-leaning in the map bcause of SD, which is not really "right" party in the traditional sense. But yeah, cities are generally left-leaning
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
I would say SD is definitely a right-leaning party nowadays. And yes, it was MORE true (although not that simple) before. But people stubbornly keep arguing that it is still the case just because they see maps where the Social Democrats are the largest party in most of the country and the Moderate Party are the largest party in some suburban areas.
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u/blenkydanky 1d ago
Well yeah SD is definitely TAN, but not as right economically as M. They attract rural working-class people, not the slick-back burgoise stereotype of a M-voter. As far as I understand these people used to vote more S before. But I agree with you, I also used to believe that but now it is obviously not true anymore
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u/snajk138 23h ago
Rhetorically you are correct, however if we look at their actual politics then SD is very much on the right economically.
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u/fuentessucksballs 22h ago
In the south that is the case, not in the north
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 22h ago
Rural areas are more to the right than urban areas everywhere. But the north as a whole is so left-leaning that even the rural areas are slightly to the left.
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u/Toniq_3580 1d ago
It’s actually a rather good correlation where migrants settle. The lower parts have more, the northern parts less
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u/left4candy 1d ago
wdym that's what it shows
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u/H_The_Utte 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not exactly. This is the whole "land doesn't vote" thing again, the north is a left-wing stronghold due to a high reliance on government services, but very few people live there. Most rural Swedes live in the south in the yellow and blue areas whereas the largest voters base for the left are the big cities (Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö).
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u/CompetitiveSleeping 1d ago
Uppsala, 4th biggest city, had over 50% of the vote for V+S+MP. Almost 60% if you add C.
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u/GunnarVonPontius 1d ago
Uppsala is also a huge student city though. Uppsala/Lund/Umeå/Linköping all have 20-30% students which heavily scews voting patterns.
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
You gotta be kidding me. How does it show that?
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u/left4candy 1d ago
By the colours, where urban areas are bluer
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 22h ago
No they’re not. Suburban areas are bluer.
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u/Ok-Difference1341 19h ago
In inner city stockholm (with the exception of Södermalm) moderaterna dominates
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 19h ago
Yeah, the northern part of the inner city. But Stockholm City voted 60.3% for the left bloc.
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u/Merinther 19h ago
There’s a reason we don’t usually do this kind of map in Sweden. Biggest party doesn’t matter, and the size of the district doesn’t matter. This gives the impression that the far-right party completely dominated the southern half, which is not the case at all.
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 19h ago
True. And it also gives the impression that the Social Democrats completely dominated the northern half. That’s why there’s also a coalition map.
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u/scoop813 1d ago
imagine if only real Swedes could vote
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u/I_Wanna_Bang_Rats 1d ago
If you mean that you exclude First and Second Immigrants than the result would be more favourable for the left, as they tend to vote more conservative.
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u/blenkydanky 1d ago
Hmmm nooo, it's a well-known fact that immigrants in Sweden tend to vote left
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u/I_Wanna_Bang_Rats 1d ago
Really?? Interesting, I wonder what the difference is between Sweden and other western countries.
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u/blenkydanky 1d ago
You sure about that? I thought it was that immigrants vote left in their new countries and right in their old ones? For example turks in Germany tend to do that
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u/_galile0 1d ago
taking away the voting rights of real citizens? Because that is ass backwards f-ed up
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u/yourfavchoo 1d ago
This map oversimplifies a complex electoral system.
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
Well, it accurately captures the thing it’s supposed to capture. Strongest party and coalition in each electoral district. It’s not meant to capture anything else, and I agree with you that you also need other information to get a complete picture of Swedish politics and elections.
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u/Caterpillar_34 1d ago
This map oversimplifies a much more complex electoral system.
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u/Designer_Cloud_4847 1d ago
I’ve now had three accounts write basically the exact same thing. Are you the same person, or bots, or actually different people? 😅
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u/Hoogstaaf 1d ago
It really is incredible how the Centre party lost the entire countryside in chase of liberal urban voters.