# Swedish PM Kristersson resigns after election defeat

https://mins.news/en/item/62570

- BBC News, 2026-09-17 12:04 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxr50l3d762po?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has resigned after preliminary results showed his right-wing bloc narrowly losing to the centre-left opposition. Magdalena Andersson’s Social Democrats and allied parties are projected to win 176 of 349 seats, compared with 173 for the governing bloc, and have begun talks on forming a government.

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