Sweden Government Short of Majority After Final Count
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Sweden’s government failed to secure a majority, the Election Authority said after it completed a second count of all votes.
Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s four-party coalition will have 173 lawmakers in the 349-seat assembly after the Sept. 19 election, two short of a majority and five less than it had after the 2006 vote, the Stockholm-based authority said on its website today. The opposition will have 156 lawmakers, while the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats will get 20 seats in the legislature. Turnout was 84.6 percent.