Just a few weeks ago, the contest appeared almost decided. The centre-left bloc led by the Social Democrats of former prime minister Magdalena Andersson held a lead of around ten percentage points in the polls. However, the situation changed a few days before the election, when polls began pointing to a much narrower gap and suggested that the government led by the centre-right Moderate Party of incumbent prime minister Ulf Kristersson could retain its mandate. At around 2:30AM, preliminary results gave the opposition parties three more parliamentary seats than the governing bloc. At that point, 6,177 of 6,626 electoral districts...