Sweden looks set to re-elect centre-right

A NUMBER of polls show Sweden's centre-right government is heading for re-election today, although its majority could be threatened if a small, anti-immigrant party enters the Swedish parliament.

One survey in the country shows the centre-right, four-party Alliance winning 183 of the parliament's 349 seats.

The opposition Red-Green bloc got 166 seats in the poll results yesterday, while the nationalist Swedish Democrats narrowly missed the 4 per cent bar needed to gain a seat.

The error margin was 0.9-2.1 percent in the survey of 1,941 people, taken between 15 and 16 September.

A Synovate poll meanwhile, showed the Swedish Democrats getting 5.9 per cent of votes which would result in 21 seats.

It also predicted that sitting prime minister Fredrik Reinfeld's centre-right alliance would achieve a one-seat majority.

No error margin was given for the poll, taken earlier this month, of 1,820 people.