Sweden election results: What time will final results be announced? Who will win?

What time will the final results be announced?

Polls open tomorrow at 8am and will shut in the evening at 8pm.

The results are expected throughout the night and into Monday, September 10.

However, it is first after the final votes are counted, the parties can start discussing who will actually form Government.

This is because the political system in Sweden uses proportional representation and puts multiple parties in Government through coalitions and alliances.

For example, if a party receives 30 percent of the votes, the party will also receive about 30 percent of the mandates, or seats, in Parliament.

175 out of 349 seats are needed for a majority, but the Scandinavian country can also be formed of minority Governments.

This requires the winning party to earn “tolerance” of other groups before they are able to authorise a new Government.

Currently, none of the parties or coalitions have reached the magical number of 175 in the pre-election polls – and this may create discussions that can last for days before the Swedish parties reaches a decision.

Who will win the Swedish election tomorrow?

Who will win this year’s election is anyone’s guess at the moment.

Recent polls have shown huge variety in who’s topping the polls, but consistently shows the Social Democrats, the Sweden Democrats and the Moderate party as the country’s three largest parties.

Since the 2014 election, the Sweden Democrats has doubled their support and one poll, conducted by YouGov for Metro newspaper, show the right-wingers in first place.

However, the way the political system in Sweden works is through proportional representation and puts multiple parties in Government through coalitions and alliances.

Sweden has three alliances; the Left Party, Green Party and Social Democrats who form the leftist coalition and the Moderate Party, Centre Party, Liberals and Christian Democrats who form “The Alliance”.

The Sweden Democrats currently stand alone, which makes it highly unlikely the hardliners will be in Government after tomorrow’s election but instead remain in the opposition.

So far the other main parties have said that they will neither collaborate nor discuss policies with the Sweden Democrats, who currently hold around 20 percent of the votes.

The most recent poll, conducted by Inizio for Aftonbladet said the leftist coalition and the Alliance are only divided by 1.3 percentage points, which corresponds to about 80,000 voters.

The Left party, which stayed out of government in 2014, but wants to be part of any future leftist coalition, has surged to nearly 10 percent from 5.7 percent in 2014, with the Green party holding five percent.

The combined leftist coalition could hope for a result with just over 40 percent of the votes – marginally ahead of the conservative Alliance.

Assuming both coalitions end up on around 40 percent, whatever government emerges from the post-election discussions will need backing from either the opposition or the Sweden Democrats to function.