It was a good night for the Left Party, leader Nooshi Dadgostar, center.
The Swedish Greens have unexpectedly come out ahead of the Sweden Democrats (SD), while the Liberals narrowly avoided being eliminated from the European Parliament, according to provisional results published by the Swedish government.
In the first provisional results from the Swedish electoral authorities, the Green Party secured 13.6% of the vote, placing it ahead of the Sweden Democrats, who received 13.4%, which is less than their share in the last EU elections, and is the first time the far-right party had experienced such a dramatic fall in the vote.
The Liberals scraped through the 4% barrier to reach 4.4% and retain their presence at the European Parliament, as did the Christian Democrats and the Center Party.
However, The Left Party made the biggest gains of any party, according to the electoral authority’s figures, winning 11% – a 4.2 percentage point increase from the last election and gained a new EU seat.
Sweden's biggest party, the Social Democrats, had high hopes for the EU elections, largely because of the strong trust voters have in party leader, Magdalena Andersson. However, their goal was mainly to avoid losing votes for the first time in an EU election. In the last election, the party received a relatively low 23.5 percent of the votes.
When the preliminary figures were released last night, the Social Democrats had received 24.9 percent of the vote, so their primary target was reached.