The year’s best figures for the Green Party – Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet

After the triumph in the European elections in the last year, the Green Party had struggled in opinion. The election results of 6.9 percent was disappointing to members and support has not at some time thereafter matched last year’s high expectations.

In SvD / Sifo’s voter survey of April is MP for the measurement only significant change compared to the measurement of March , with a rise to 8.9 percent. A figure that is 2 percentage points over the election results.

The Party strengthens itself in the already strong groups: predominantly female voters under 50 years old accounted for the increase. Of those, many new voters (idlers and first-time voters), but the Greens also stealing votes from S.

Social Democrats in the measurement 27.4 percent and notes its lowest support since January 2012, the same month that Stefan Löfven was elected party leader. The decrease from the March of 2.4 percentage points is not statistically significant.

During the measurement period, considerable focus has been on vårändringsbudgeten – gained more attention than usual because it allows the government to a greater extent can begin to reign on their policies.

Sifo’s Analysis Manager Toivo Sjörén interpret the results from the April poll as the Greens are gone victorious from negotiations and presentations. At least, he says, they have been spared meet the betrayal debates S had to take:

– The lowered rotavdraget and the increased gasoline tax has been much discussed, which mainly affected the Social Democrats, he said.

Left Party, which otherwise is the party that portrayed budget winners in several contexts, moving almost imperceptibly in the opinion and is today one percentage point above last year’s election results.

Much attention during the measurement weeks have Also the Sweden Democrats received. Mother Party’s open quarrel with the Youth League, where several members have been threatened by exclusion, seems to have left its mark among the voters.

SD may in this measurement the support of 12.5 percent of respondents, against 13.9 per cent in March. The change is not statistically significant. According to Toivo Sjörén could Sifo also see a larger pin the week that the internal fracas synthesis that most outward.

– It could be coincidence. But it still seems as if the fighting is not favored them, he said.

According to the pattern Sifo previously viewed tend SD urgently to get increased public support when the party is widely reported – what the reasons may have been. That it this time may be contrary believe Sjörén due to an external adversary missing:

– Now they are arguing internally and have no one to blame on. No one can think that someone else is cruel to the party. There is an important difference.

Within the alliance parties are changes in the April poll small. The Conservatives are growing slightly – Party continues to attract women – which contributes to the difference between the blocks now is the smallest since the election. But neither M’s increase is statistically significant.

Among bourgeois voters there is widespread dissatisfaction with the December agreement, something that does not seem to have left any traces in the measurement.

– The agreement has not affected voters to switch party, says Toivo Sjörén.