Alliance falls behind in poll

Support for Sweden's ruling Alliance has fallen below that for the opposition left-wing parties, although the blocs are still less than two percentage points apart.

Published: 27 October 2006 10:37 CEST

Nearly six weeks after the Alliance won the election, the four parties have the support of 46.7 percent of those asked by polling company Synovate Temo. The left-wing Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party together have 48.6 percent support in the poll, published on Friday in Dagens Nyheter and Sydsvenskan.

Support for the Social Democrats rose 2 percentage points, from 35.0 percent to 37.0 percent.

Synovate Temo polled 2,669 people between 9th and 25th October. Respondents were asked which party they would vote for if there was a general election today.

The full results (with change since general election in brackets):

Moderate Party 26.9 (+0.7)

Liberal Party 7.1 (-0.4)

Centre Party 7.1 (-0.8)

Chr. Democrats 5.7 (-0.9)

Soc. Democrats 37.0 (+2.0)

Left Party 5.9 (+0.1)

Green Party 5.7 (+0.5)

Swed. Democrats 2.5 (-0.7)

Others 2.2 (-0.5)