Sweden's public media reports that the opposition has won the national election

Sept 17 (Jowhar)- Sweden appears to be heading for a government change after a very tight election led by the centre-left opposition with only one seat, according to public media SVT, with 99% of the votes counted from Sunday’s parliamentary election.

With less than 1% of the voting regions remaining, the parties led by opposition leader Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats are projected to secure 175 of the 349 seats in the Swedish parliament (Riksdag). The margin between the two sides was very narrow: less than 30,000 votes separated them.

“The likelihood of the result changing at this stage is very low, so we can confidently say that the opposition will have the most seats in this election,” SVT stated.

On the other hand, the ruling coalition on the right — which includes the far-right Sweden Democrats — is projected to secure 174 seats, according to data released by the Swedish Election Authority.

Election officials are still in the process of sorting late-arriving votes from both inside and outside the country; this counting, the authority stated, could continue until tomorrow before all votes are fully accounted for.

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