Sweden may face a long wait for a new government as preliminary election results on Monday showed a thin and still-uncertain lead for the left-leaning opposition. With nearly 95 per cent of districts counted, the Swedish Election Authority reported that the four opposition parties were heading for 176 seats in the 349-seat parliament in Stockholm.

The results could see either the centre left take back power or the far-right enter government for the first time.

Sweden’s center-left opposition parties looked set to win a combined 51.3% of the votes in Sunday’s election for parliament, ahead of the governing right-wing bloc’s 46.8%, an…

Sweden began voting in a general election on Sept. 13 after a tight race.