Talk:Opinion polling for the 2018 Swedish general election

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Inaccurate article needs correcting[edit]

The "lead" shown in this article is inaccurate. In Sweden ALL governments are formed from a coalition. Thus, at NO TIME, have the Swedish Democrats had any kind of meaningful "lead" - which this article implies they have had. The reality is that the left coalition have a more or less continual lead over the right coalition (which does not include the SD). Not that I expect the article to be changed.. there is a lot of creeping nationalist bias in Wikipedia, and this is just one more example of it. 213.114.20.132 (talk) 09:55, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can you give an example where the lead is inaccurate? Skogssvinet (talk) 11:20, 7 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In case you missed it, 50% if the whole article shows exactly, what you wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_Swedish_general_election,_2018#Coalitions/Blocs

The article shows very clear that the coalitions always had a lead oder SD. So whats your point?

The more interesting question is, why is there such a huge difference between the institutes? Which one is more trustworthy? I have no idea, I am not Swedish. Especially the Greens (MP) and the Right (SD) are extremely different in between institutes.. maybe its difficult to measure corretly because of small population number? Or some instutites are biased? If Yes, which ones? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.201.5.234 (talk) 17:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The problem is different. The blocks in swedish politics is different now compared to the previous election. There is a pro-migration block which includes the center party and KD. And there is an anti-migration block with M-L-SD So the coalitions shown are outdated and unrealistic. They are from the previous election. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.93.55.37 (talk) 15:40, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This is fan fiction. M+C+L+KD still say they wish to form government. Skogssvinet (talk) 21:01, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Move Coalitions above Parties + explain it better?[edit]

As a reader who only came here because Andrew Neil on BBC1's This Week briefly said last week that the 'anti-immigration Sweden Democrats' (or words to that effect) were 'leading in the polls', it seems to me that this article has some problems for the casual non-Swedish reader such as me.

  • 1) Arguably (see above discussions) the Coalitions table is far more important, yet I wouldn't have noticed it was even there had I not come here to ask a different question
    • 1b) (That question was about whether the article could be improved by citing any reliable sources discussing or explaining why different polling institutes seemingly systematically give higher or lower figures for the Sweden Democrats).
    • 1c) This issue might be fixed by moving the Coalitions table above the Parties table.
  • 2) The text should also be changed so that text that only relates to the Parties table is moved to the Parties table section.
  • 3) And the Coalitions table needs an explanation of 'Overall' and 'above Threshhold'.
  • 4) There should perhaps also be some brief text explaining that the Coalitions table is (or allegedly is, perhaps with relevant reliable source citations) more relevant to the question of who will form the next government.
  • 5) In theory a Graphical Summary table for Coalitions might also help.
  • 6) I could try to do some of this myself, but, per WP:NOTCOMPULSORY and WP:BNO, I'm just a casual non-Swedish reader, and therefore neither sufficiently interested nor sufficiently well-informed to want to spend any more time on this than is needed to bring the matter to the attention of editors more willing and able to fix it than I am.Tlhslobus (talk) 18:00, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The coloured bars under the graphical summary at the top of the page represent the different coalitions. I don't believe the coalitions are fixed in stone. For example, the Left Party was not invited into the centre-left coalition last time, and from what I've heard there may emerge some kind of German-style grand coalition if the election results in a gridlock. A further argument against placing the coalitions table first is that by the looks of things, not all polling companies collect coalition data (the most recent entry is from mid-June). If other editors agree that the coalitions table is easy to miss, a "see also coalitions section below" sentence near the top of the article may be useful. Speed74 (talk) 19:15, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think this is the best way to go with it.--Aréat (talk) 19:38, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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