🇸🇪 Sweden In power: RIGHT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
14
Social Democrats / Left / Greens
Governing side
RIGHT
18
Moderates / KD / Liberals / Sweden Democrats
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to Sweden political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
-4 / +22
Politicians
+28 / +23
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
July 2024
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Södertälje shop grenade and child-hitman gang rhetoric
September 2024
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Trångsund school shooting and youth-gang firearms rhetoric
December 2024
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27 December gang bombings as the winter wave begins
January 2025
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32 gang bombings; Kristersson calls a new wave of violence
February 2025
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Risbergska school massacre, Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting
October 2025
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Sweden Democrats threaten to sink Tidö unless given ministries
April 2026
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Uppsala hair-salon triple murder and SD-in-cabinet red-line drop
July 2026
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Åkesson tells Reuters he wants justice and defence or he walks
August 2026
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Kristersson campaigns on a 75% gang-killing drop; SD demands ministries
September 2026
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Left bloc wins the count, Andersson fails to form a government, and an election-night shooting hits Finspång
October 2026
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The Riksdag rejects Andersson and the speaker asks the Centre Party to try to form a government
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology