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Please be kind to your Swedish friends tomorrow 🇸🇪 We’ll all be suffering a hangover of historic proportions 🗳️

If the governing coalition wins, some will mourn the prospect of a party founded by literal Nazis joining the government, and others will celebrate.

If they lose, the process of forming a new government could drag on for a long time, and might fail, since the center-right have said they won’t join a coalition that includes the left, and the left refuses to support a government of which they are not part.

Official results from the Swedish elections might take a while: if it’s very close, the outcome might be determined by the expat vote, which won’t be counted until Wednesday (I’m told). NB. It tends to lean conservative.

Also if it’s v close, the outcome might be determined by the relatively complex algorithm used to convert percentages of the vote into seats in Parliament. Good luck to the TV personalities tasked with explaining it.

If you want to suffer with us, you can follow the drama here: www.svtplay.se/video/e4z3BJ... (in Swedish)

Polls are closing in half an hour, right?

Yup

SVT seems to be saying that their exit poll will only be published an hour after polls close. Is that true, and if so why?