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Looking at the Swedish political positioning - Small changes in public opinion

Sunday, 16 September 2012
In a recent political opinion poll to determine how the Swedish voters are weighing on their political positions and how they see the performance of their parties and how those parties attract new members, the far right party, Sweden Democrats are growing while the blocs remain steady.

Sweden Democrats have touched a record 7.2 percentage points. While killing the Christian Democrats, forcing it to struggle to get access to the parliament if elections were to be held today.

The governing coalition, the Alliance's initiative on various financial news has not left any impression in voters' opinion, writes Swedish newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet (SvD). As from today, there is exactly two years to go until the election and not much separates the blocs.

How much support will the parties in the measurement in percentage
Party	Voter Support	Change *
Social Democrats	33.3	- 1.0
The Left Party	5.9	- 0.3
The Green party	8.9	- 1.0
Moderate:	28.7	+ 0.2
Centre Party	4.8,	+ 0.2
The People's party;	6.6,	+ 0.4
Christain Democcrats:	3.8,	+ 0.4
Sweden Democrats,	7.2,	+ 1.0
* Change in percentage points since the previous survey in June. The red-green coalition are 48.1 (- 2.3) against the ruling Alliance 43.9 (+ 1.2). Measurement period was between 3 to 14 September 2012 in which 1913 people were interviewed. Source: Sifo, published in the Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten.

The Red - Green coalition saw their 7.7 point lead over the governing coalition shrink to 4.2 percentage points. The Alliance initiative on research and infrastructure recently has not impressed.

"When there is an election year usually changes in public opinion occur more slowly if it is not bad news, of course. Then voters will react immediately, says Toivo Sjörén, head of Sifo opinion polls, to SvD

The Red - Green opposition parties have reduced by a total of 2.3 percentage points and the government parties have gone up 1.2 percent according to polling organisation, Sifo's voter barometer for September. But all the changes compared to August are small and within the statistical margin of error.

What may be more important for the government than the budget gambit can be a united front - to show that there are no cracks in the alliance.

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