A blog by Luke Akehurst about politics, elections, and the Labour Party - With subtitles for the Hard of Left.
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Swedish General Election Latest
My contact in Sweden's Social Democrat Party HQ reports that the exit poll (polls closed at 1800 GMT) shows the right winning (posted 19.15 GMT).
Looks like the bourgeois bloc have clinched it with a small but workable majority.
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Final results here:
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The bottom line is a majority of seven for the right-wing Alliance. Commiserations to our Social Democrat comrades.