{"id":1961,"date":"2026-10-01T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:14:09","slug":"geographic-analysis-the-social-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/geographic-analysis-the-social-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Geographic Analysis: The Social Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-content container\">\n<p>We compared how much more people vote for different parties in a specific municipality compared with the national level. The green bars are municipalities where people vote more for the party than the national average, the red bars are municipalities where people vote less for the party than the national average. First up are the Social Democrats:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SCountry-300x235-1.png\" alt=\"Geographic analysis: the Social Democrats\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is not as simple as city versus countryside; rather, it is northern and central Sweden where the party is strong.<\/p>\n<p>In the metropolitan regions the party is somewhat stronger in certain municipalities, such as Sundbyberg, Malm\u00f6 and J\u00e4rf\u00e4lla, but far weaker in wealthier commuter municipalities such as Danderyd, T\u00e4by or Kungsbacka<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SStockholm-300x202-1.png\" alt=\"Geographic analysis: the Social Democrats\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SGoteborg-300x206-1.png\" alt=\"Geographic analysis: the Social Democrats\" width=\"296\" height=\"203\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is interesting, though, is how much lower than the national average the vote for the Social Democrats is in western Sweden.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/SSodra-300x207-1.png\" alt=\"Geographic analysis: the Social Democrats\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can find the underlying file here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/valdistrikt-hela-landet-2026_LL260924_5.zip\">valdistrikt-hela-landet-2026_LL260924_5<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We compared how much more people vote for different parties in a specific municipality compared with the national level. The green bars are municipalities where people vote more for the party than the national average, the red bars are municipalities where people vote less for the party than the national average. First up are the Social Democrats: It is not as simple as city versus countryside; rather, it is northern and central Sweden where the party is strong. In the metropolitan regions the party is somewhat stronger in certain municipalities, such as Sundbyberg, Malm\u00f6 and J\u00e4rf\u00e4lla, but far weaker in wealthier commuter municipalities such as Danderyd, T\u00e4by or Kungsbacka. What is interesting, though, is how much lower than the national average the vote for the Social Democrats is in western Sweden. You can find the underlying file here: valdistrikt-hela-landet-2026_LL260924_5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exceldepartment.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}