The Christian Democrats and the Liberals leave the Riksdag in the school election - the Moderates the largest party

The Christian Democrats and the Liberals leave the Riksdag and the Moderates become the largest party with just over 32 percent of the votes - this is what it looks like when Sweden's schoolchildren get to choose.

This year, over 400,000 junior and senior high school students voted in the symbolic Riksdag school election, organized by MUCF.

In the last school election, the Tidö parties gathered just over 60 percent of the students' votes. In this year's election, the Moderates and Sweden Democrats won 46 percent, and the Liberals and Christian Democrats did not pass the Riksdag barrier.

The Green Party, the Left Party and the Social Democrats are moving forward. The Sweden Democrats lose and become the third largest party after the Social Democrats and the Moderates.

- We see a clear left turn among the young. The Sweden Democrats and the Moderates are barely two percentage points larger than the opposition, if you count on the Christian Democrats and the Liberals to leave the Riksdag. In 2022, however, the Tidö parties were 25 percentage points larger, says Magnus Jägerskog.

The development also seems to be reflected by the 18–29-year-olds.

- If you look at the new opinion polls among young voters, you see similar tendencies, says Magnus Jägerskog.

In this year's election, a larger percentage of students also voted for "other", which increased from 0.5 percent in 2022 to just over four percent this year.

- This is explained by the fact that Alternativ för Sverige got just over one percent and the Örebro Party two and a half, says Magnus Jägerskog.