Yesterday’s Swedish Elections and Our Midterm Parallel

I have a favorite Katie Hopkins anecdote I’ve used any number of times in posts over the years here. It’s her story about the time in 2017 when she was invited to visit Sweden…

…I came because I was asked. Repeatedly.

Swedish women reaching out by email, by letter, to quietly show me what has become of their country.

Dads writing that they were worried for their daughters, tweeting that Sweden is not the place people imagine it to be, that young girls are scared to go out at night.

A news feed filled with reports of the rape and assault of Sweden’s young women, some inexplicably streamed live on Facebook by the gang as they attacked.

…and wound up in the middle of what would normally be considered a TV series comedy-tragedy if it wasn’t everyday real life in a city filled with natives cowed and besieged by imported migrant violence.

DON’T MAKE THIS A MUSLIM ISSUE

…She doesn’t want her picture to be seen now. Not in case the migrants attack again, but because the feminists will come after her and hound her as a racist for speaking out. The migrant men scare her. But it is Swedish women who have silenced her.

I saw it in action when I ran to the scene of an unexploded hand grenade in a bin outside the police station of a no-go area of town, near a mosque. I asked the police who the target was.

They said they didn’t know. I asked the Muslim leader at the mosque. He said he thought it was the police.

Then two women grabbed me and told me not to make this about the mosque, not to make this a Muslim issue. This was about the police — nothing to do with migrants. I wondered if they weren’t missing the point. A bomb in a bin.

Within twelve hours of my landing in Sweden, an asylum centre was burned down, arson suspected; a hand grenade was planted in a bin, either for the police or the mosque; and another hand grenade exploding, injuring one in Malmö.

A BOMB IN A BIN

This is what Swedes have been living with ever since their Scandinavian inclinations toward social welfare systems led them to throw open the doors to their cozy, well-ordered Scandinavian Elysium.

In 2022, a right-wing coalition finally took over the government, ousting short-term Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson after less than a year in office, and began reestablishing control over the country’s insanely liberal asylum and immigration policies. By 2024, more immigrants were leaving Sweden than entering, and the government was willing to take on the European Court of Human Rights and buck the Council of Europe to keep its reforms in motion.

…During the 2015 European migrant crisis, Sweden received more than 162,000 asylum applications in a single year – the highest per capita rate in the European Union.

In 2024, the government reported net emigration, more people leaving than arriving, for the first time in over 50 years.

Mr Forssell [Johan Forssell, minister for migration] said that it was possible to cut illegal immigration and boost deportations without leaving the ECHR but warned that the treaty needed reform.

He said: “We are fully committed to doing things by the book. But we have seen some cases, especially regarding criminals, where these conventions have protected them, the criminals, rather than the victims of crime, and that will not stand.”

…“A criminal saying, ‘I don’t want to go back home’ is not a reason for still being in the country,” he said, adding that the ECHR was “absolutely outdated”.

The conservative, right-leaning coalition government of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson’s right-wing managed to enact real reform on the asylum front in four short years, and the national elections yesterday were going to be a plebiscite on continuing, as well as possibly becoming the hard-right Sweden Democrats’ (SD) official coming-out party.

How Sweden is turning back the clock on years of mass migration

…But things changed. Not long after he arrived, Sweden had begun introducing some of the strictest asylum laws in Europe.

Hassan, 33, said the changes had been accompanied by a rise in discrimination and racism.

He said he had decided to leave, taking up an offer of “voluntary repatriation”. “This is 100 per cent the best decision,” Hassan told The Telegraph through an Arabic translator.

Repatriation payments form part of a hardline immigration policy overhaul driven by Sweden’s coalition government, which is propped up by the hard-Right Sweden Democrats (SD).

Sunday’s general election is an effective referendum on the radical shift towards zero migration – and the polls are finely poised.

…The Right-wing Tidö government boasted in 2024 that Sweden had had more emigrants than immigrants for the first time in half a century.

It is the SD, which supports the government but is not formally in the coalition, which is usually said to be behind the shift in policy.

For the SD, the changes have not gone far enough.

The former neo-Nazi party’s anti-migrant campaign has helped it become Sweden’s second-largest, and it is expected to have its best results yet on Sunday.

The Alternativ for German (AfD) Saxony-Anhalt fairy tale ending repeat wasn’t to be for the SD, and Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats have technically won so far. But, as they say in another fairy tale, ‘by the hair of their chinny chin chin‘ and it may not even be by that much.

For all the progress in improving life in Sweden and beginning the effort to right the cultural balance again, the progressives were able to marshal the forces they had imported over the years and get them to the ballot boxes. And it’s not only that they vote for the Social Democrats. Remember, these are coalition governments, so any Green or Left Party votes automatically boost the Social Democrats’ majority in the Riksdag, their parliament.

Muslim voters in Sweden remain heavily concentrated on the political left, although the Sweden Democrats attract considerably more support among Muslim voters than the other parties in the governing coalition, according to polling and election research.

Previously unpublished figures from Novus, seen by Fokus magazine, show that 61.6% of respondents who identified as Muslim supported the Social Democrats, while 18.7% backed the Left Party. The Green Party received 4.9%, meaning the three left-wing parties together accounted for 85% of Muslim respondents’ preferences.

By contrast, the governing Moderates received just 2.1%, while the Christian Democrats and Liberals received 1.5% and 0.2%, respectively. The three parties together attracted 3.8%.

The Sweden Democrats stand out on the right, with 10.4% support among Muslim respondents—more than twice the combined support for the other three government parties.

The figures broadly reflect a longstanding pattern. A 2021 study by the University of Gothenburg found that 58.7% of self-identified Muslims supported the Social Democrats and 8.3% the Left Party. Among voters born outside Europe, the 2022 election produced a similar pattern, with 43% voting Social Democrat and 19% for the Left Party.

🚨🇸🇪 Sweden’s election is on a KNIFE’S edge. The left and right are neck and neck.

Cities have no-go zones, curfews after dark, and masked gangs on the streets. Yet the left is still in the race, BOOSTED by tens of thousands of MIGRANT voters.
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— Global Dissident (@GlobalDiss) September 14, 2026

The Swedish election was a squeaker and is still to be determined, as local absentee ballots won’t be counted until Wednesday, and, believe it or not, over a quarter of a million Swedish ex-pats abroad, including many SD party members in Thailand, are still on active voter rolls, too.

…At the time of writing, Andersson leads 176 seats to 173, and fewer than 30,000 votes split the camps, according to public broadcaster SVT.

The parliamentary balance could still shift until Wednesday, when municipalities count late advance ballots that did not reach polling stations before election day, including votes cast abroad.

…Still, the far right may well receive reinforcements from an unexpected side before Wednesday. Political reporter Maggie Strömberg from Swedish media Svenska Dagbladet said she had “a strong feeling that Sweden Democrat voters in Thailand will decide the outcome of the election”.

Around 700,000 Swedes live abroad, according to a non-profit, Svenskar i världen – 226.906 of them are on the electoral roll, per official figures.

There is also some intrigue afoot that the centrists will jump to Kristersson’s side if he comes up a hair short.

…“We have good hopes that the Centre Party will return to the centre-right,” Christian Democrat MEP Alice Teodorescu Måwe told TV4 on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Swedish press speculate that Kristersson could convince the centrists to jump ship, especially if the Sweden Democrats stand back on their demand to join any coalition their seats in the Riksdag would support.

Everything is up in the air.

🇸🇪 #Sweden’s national #election was too close to call early Monday, with preliminary results giving the left-wing opposition a razor-thin edge over Prime Minister Ulf #Kristersson’s right-wing coalition.

The country faces days of uncertainty as the votes are counted.

Watch… pic.twitter.com/3z3cL7njZ5

— FRANCE 24 English (@France24_en) September 14, 2026

...The country faces days of uncertainty as the votes are counted.

The Swedish election has become more and more openly an election of the original Swedes vs. the “recently added” Swedes.

I haven’t observed anything similar in the US or Germany at this level of openness – it seems the cat is now out of the bag that the leftist parties aim to… https://t.co/EkrE4ddqD7

— Jo Bhakdi (@JOBhakdi) September 13, 2026

I haven’t observed anything similar in the US or Germany at this level of openness – it seems the cat is now out of the bag that the leftist parties aim to replace the Swedish voters with new ones.

That means that this election is a pivotal historic point:

If the left wins, Sweden could have reached its tipping point and the left will be free to take more openly hostile measures against the native population.

If they lose, the remaining Swedes might have woken up to what is really going on.

Compared to Germany, the fear in Sweden of speaking up seems to be much greater, but the backlash could be accordingly large now that people realize what is happening.

It’s a real thriller tonight (unfortunately). Let’s hope for the best.

Lycka till!

Speculation is that part of what may have provided some of the malaise that led to the progressives eking out what may be a numbers win – remember, they still have to form a government and it looks to be extraordinarily difficult at the moment – is the success that the conservatives had in beginning to right the ship in such a short time.

This certainly sounded familiar to me.

…Ivar Arpi, a Swedish conservative media pundit, said the right-wing parties “have won themselves to death” – a Swedish way of saying they have been a victim of their own success.

Crime statistics have fallen drastically over the last four years. Swedish police recorded 53 shootings between January and August this year, down from 114 during the same period in 2025, per police figures. In 2022, police recorded 391 shootings across the full year.

“If one were to be morbid, one could say that it would have been good if there had been a few more fatal shootings, a bit more terrorism or if there had been a refugee crisis,” Arpi said on Monday.

We are also in the middle of Democrats using a mass collective amnesia event to campaign on, and that the crime in their cities is a direct result of their policies, not President Trump heartless cruelty to the illegal aliens among us.

And Jo Bhakdi’s warning about the left ‘being free to take more openly hostile measures against the native population‘ rings so true just listening to the Democratic Socialists of America candidates who made it through the primary process onto our own midterm election ballots.

They’re here and they’re hostile. And we have plenty of foolish tools voting for them.