Moderates hit five-year high in first post-election poll, Liberals fall below threshold

SVT/Verian's first poll since the election, fielded September 28 to October 11, gives the Moderates 22.3 percent, up from 19.9 percent on election day and their highest level in five years, while the Liberals fall to 3.7 percent, below the four-percent threshold for parliamentary seats. A TV4/Novus poll the same week shows the same pattern: the Moderates up four points, the Social Democrats down to 25.9 percent and the Liberals down to 3.9 percent. Verian's Per Söderpalm says the Moderate gain largely reflects former Moderate voters who tactically backed the Liberals now returning, in the middle of the ongoing government-formation crisis.

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