The changes for S and L in the survey, which was conducted August 24–30 and commissioned by TV4 and GP, are statistically significant.
The S decline is measured at 4.3 percentage points, down to 25.8 percent.
Is Nooshi Dadgostar right that voters are casting their votes for the Left Party to signal that they do not want a shift to the right?
I think many voters think the election looks like it's over, "it's going to be Magdalena and then I can vote for the Left Party to pull us to the left, or the Center Party to pull us to the right, or the Green Party because I think the Social Democrats should do more on climate policy". But the election looks like it will be very, very close and you can't lend your vote, says Tobias Baudin.
L rises
The survey shows that support for L rises 1.4 percentage points to 3.3 percent, the highest rating in Novus surveys since Simona Mohamsson took office as party leader.
"This bodes well for election day," she told reporters on Wednesday.
Are we seeing support votes here, or are liberals voting?
I am happy that there are so many Swedish voters who think that school is important. I can also see that there are many who want to continue the blue-yellow collaboration.
“Are united”
SD leader Jimmie Åkesson has said that if L has not reached 3.5 percent in opinion polls ten days before the election, he sees an L vote as wasted, and then urges all blue-yellow voters to vote for one of the other Tidö parties instead.
"I stand by my reasoning about the Liberals. They are getting closer, but even though the survey is encouraging in several ways, it is still just a survey. The basis needs to be broader than that for us to really be able to count on L in the election," he says in a written comment.
Moderate leader Ulf Kristersson interprets the survey with caution.
"It's election day that counts. I will take individual opinion polls with a pinch of salt, regardless of which direction they go," he says at a press conference.
But I think that now the feeling I had in the first weeks of the election campaign is confirmed, that when the alternatives become clearer, the choice for the voters also becomes clearer.
The Left Party and the Center Party receive 8.4 and 8.3 percent respectively, the Green Party receives 7.8 percent.
Among other Tidö parties, the Moderates receive 17.2 percent, the Christian Democrats 6.5 percent and the Sweden Democrats 20.7 percent.
A total of 2,984 people were interviewed in the Novus survey.
