Polls · 53 polls · latest 2026-05-17
Polls · Issue 02

If today were election day.

Aggregated across every major Swedish pollster. House effects shown. Every number traces back to its source poll.

Left bloc
47.5%
S V MP
Centre
5.2%
C
Right bloc
43%
SD M KD L
fig. D-01 — support per bloc, 30-day moving average
Party by party

Four ways to read each number.

PartyLatest30-day avgvs 2022
fig. D-02 — latest poll, 30-day average and range, per party

Latest from Novus, 2026-05-17 (n=5527). The 30-day average is sample-weighted (√n) across 53 polls from 9 pollsters. Range = min/max across the most recent 12 polls. Aggregated from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · fetched 23 May 2026 · 17:46.

The long view

Nine elections on the same y-axis.

Every marker is a final Riksdag result, 1991 to 2022, from val.se. The line connects consecutive elections. The dashed rule is the 4% threshold.

Highlight
4 % threshold0255019942002201020182022SSDMVCKDMPL
fig. D-03 — support 1991–2026, election results and rolling average on the same y-axis
House effects

Pollsters disagree. We show it. We don’t average it away.

Novus no documented house tilt
Demoskop historically friendlier to SD vs. avg.
Verian (Sifo) historically friendlier to S vs. avg.
Ipsos no documented house tilt
SKOP no documented house tilt
Sentio no documented house tilt
Indikator Opinion no documented house tilt
United Minds no documented house tilt
Inizio no documented house tilt
fig. D-04 — documented house tilts, per pollster
Reading the polls right

Four things to watch.

  1. 01

    A single latest poll moves first on news, but it’s noisy.

  2. 02

    The 30-day average is steadier, but trails real shifts by 1–2 weeks.

  3. 03

    The range (min/max across recent polls) tells you how much pollsters disagree right now.

  4. 04

    Below 4%, a party gets no seats. Watch the threshold for KD, L and MP.

Edition 01 · Riksdag 2026
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