Elections in Sweden:
Preliminary results show unprecedented rise of the far right
Preliminary results from Sunday's legislative election in Sweden showed a far-right party making gains believed to help form a right-wing coalition.
The final results of the election are unlikely to be released until Wednesday, with current Prime Minister Magdalena Anderson saying it was still difficult to predict the outcome of the election, asking Swedes to be more patient until the vote count was completed.
The results of the counting of about 95 percent of the constituencies showed that the anti-immigration Swedish Democratic Party won more than 20 percent of the vote.
Once the results are confirmed, the right-wing anti-immigration Swedish Democratic Party will be the largest right-wing bloc and will have a direct impact on politics for the first time.
Until recently, the far-right party, which espouses neo-Nazi ideas, was ostracized by the country's main parties, including the center-right parties, but campaigns on issues such as escalating gang violence brought them closer.