STOCKHOLM — Voters in Sweden left their country without a clear ruling majority on Sunday after a general election that also gave a once fringe anti-immigration party its best score to date, according to early exit polls.
The survey by national broadcaster SVT showed a neck-and-neck race between Sweden’s ruling center-left coalition and the center-right Alliance bloc.
The right-wing Sweden Democrats, not part of either bloc, were credited with 19.2% of the vote, according to the poll, up more than six points from its previous result, which makes it the second largest party in parliament.
The parties of the center-left incumbent bloc, known as red-green, had a total of 39.4% of the vote, with Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s Social Democrats accounting for 26.2% of the total, making his party the largest in the house.
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