Swedish party blocs tied after Sunday vote, projections say
A partial count by Sweden's election authority projected that left-wing opposition bloc would win a one-seat majority.
With 50% of the votes counted, the two main blocs were separated by only 20,000 votes, Sweden public broadvasteer SVT said.
Exit polls had given the left-wing political bloc led by Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson a small lead over the rival four-party coalition put together by current conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.
Kristersson has been supported in government by the hard-right Sweden Democrats (SD), which have neo-Nazi roots. He has promised cabinet jobs for the SD if he stays in charge, but partial results suggest the party was losing support for the first time since 2010 when it entered parliament.
Andersson's party, the Social Democrats, have been a major force in Swedish politics since the end of World War Two.