[FarCenter]

And we thought ranked choice voting was hinky!

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Do you have to be some kind of Mathematician to figure out who wins their elections?

[butlerweave]

Diversity Voting ? LOL

[FlingWingFlyer]

I just read an article about Willie Brown’s former mistress crying and lamenting the fact that the MAGAs are ruining our election credibility and she wants America to be the election “role model” for the world. When you think about it, it sounds like we already are.

[humblegunner]

Live blog?

chair of the MUF, the Moderates’ youth party, has told The Local’s Richard Orange

So Muffy, young and moderate, is yelling at some local dude?

I don't get it.

Is this some new Chinese kind of post?

[KarlInOhio]

In short: the parties’ total number of votes per constituency are divided by 1.2 in the first round of counting and the first seat gets allocated to whichever party has the highest quotient. In the next round they’re divided by 3, then 5, then 7 and so on. Only parties that have won more than four percent of the vote nationwide (or at least 12 percent of the vote in a specific constituency, although this is unlikely to happen) get counted.

They keep going like this until 310 so-called fixed seats have been allocated. Thirty-nine levelling seats remain and are then allocated to ensure that the parties are proportionally represented.

Then a mouse is lowered in front of a cat on a treadmill which turns a bingo cage to pick the remaining 24 members. The 25th selection is the most moderate of the leftover candidates who will occupy the parliamentary "free space".

[Falconspeed]

Jimmie Akesson needs to win today or next election.

[Redmen4ever]

proportional representation voting: each qualifying party gets seats in the national assembly in proportion to their vote (in Sweden you need 4 percent to qualify)

After the actual counting (well, right as of now, they’ve counted 94% of the vote), the four right of center parties together got 50.5 percent of the vote; and, the center and three left of center parties 49.5 percent

Assuming the four right of center parties can work things out, the Swedish Democrats will be a part of the incoming government. They’re priorities are (1) tightening up immigration, (2) enforcing the law, and (3) not being stupid about climate change. I am confident that each of these priorities will be addressed by the in-coming government.

For those of you who like the “winner takes all” rule, the Social Democrats would be re-elected under that rule.

[mewzilla]

Update...

Swedish conservatives close to election win amid crime fears