Of all voters, about a third, 32 percent, decided which party they would vote for on election day or in the last week before election day. But for the Liberals, it was 63 percent.
The hypothesis is that there were even more votes of support for the Liberals this time than there were in 2022, and there was already a lot then, says Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg, at a seminar about this year's polling station survey, or Valu for short.
Two indicators are that 63 percent of Liberal voters say they decided late and L's low percentage of voters from last time who voted for L again, he adds.
Only about a third of the voters who cast their votes for the Liberals in 2022 also did so in Sunday's election, a record of sorts.
Of the Liberals' voters this year, eleven percent voted for the Christian Democrats in 2022 and ten percent for the Moderates. Only three percent of the Sweden Democrats' voters switched to L.
According to Valu, 22 percent of Liberal voters indicated that party leader Simona Mohamsson was important for their Liberal vote.
Almost half of all voters in the survey place themselves on the right on a right-left scale when given the choice, a clearly higher proportion than those who place themselves on the left.
