Peter Vinthagen Simpson will be reporting from the Feminist Initiative (Fi) election party at Debaser Strand in Stockholm this evening.
The big story as far as the Greens are concerned is the strong likelihood they’ll form part of a coalition government for the first time in their 33-year history.
A recent dip in the polls might rankle somewhat, but the prospect of cabinet posts will probably keep the mood buoyant at the Kägelbanan venue on the Stockholm island of Södermalm.
Social Democrat leader Stefan Löfven, the man expected to lead the next government, favours a two-party government with the Greens over any other outcome. Unfortunately for him, both his own party and the Greens have lost some of their pre-election fizz in the polls, meaning Löfven will probably need to put together a broader coalition.
While the Greens will most likely improve on their previous best Riksdag result – 7.3 percent in 2010 – opinion polls in the days and weeks before election day have shown them slipping behind the nationalist Sweden Democrats in their battle to become Sweden’s third largest party.
Mixed feelings then for the two-headed leadership of Åsa Romson and Gustaf Fridolin, but the prospect of cabinet posts will probably keep the mood buoyant at the Kägelbanan venue on Stockholm’s Södermalm.
I’ll also possibly be hot-footing it over to the Centre’s Party gathering at the Radisson Blu hotel in central Stockholm.
Young party chief Annie Lööf was something of a laughing stock in the Swedish media in the early days of her leadership but she has won critics over with her performances in the pre-election debates.
She has dazzled audiences with her deep knowledge of the central issues; this, combined with a self-confidence and tenacity that saw her knock both Stefan Löfven and Jimmie Åkesson off balance, could be enough to catapult the Greens above the Liberal Party, making them the second-biggest Alliance party.
Really, as the world’s wealthiest political party, this is the least they should expect.
Oliver Gee: I'll be at two gatherings tonight – the Moderates and the Left Party. Luckily, they're across the road from one another.
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