I don’t see us going down that route any time soon.

The blocks are made up of several different parties, all with their own agendas, they compete for influence within the block.

You can’t really compare the Swedish political scene with the US directly, there is a lot more complex alliances in our scene, including strategic voting, where people vote for other parties with in the same block to make sure that the block is preserved, this is encouraged as we have several smaller parties that just barely get past the 4% minimum requirement to get into the riksdag. If a party gets less than than 4% of the votes, they get no seats in the riksdag, and the seats are divided among the the other parties, this obviously means that a party that is part of a block needs the smaller parties to preserve the block’s seats and influence.

So now that we have voted the parties are working hard to form new alliances within the result, and soon the speaker of the riksdag will ask the parties to suggest a regering which is the collection of ministers that will run the government, this is where most of the strategizing comes in, to give the support in the riksdag that the blocks need the different parties have different demands, some demand to be part of the regering a and have a minister post, others give up that demand as they realize it won’t happen, and instead demand that the ruling parties in the regering will focus on their specific policies. And so on.

We have even had several minority governments, where the parties in the regering does not have a majority, yet they have been able to get the other parties to approve the regering as the others have not had a better option.

I hope this summary gives you a taste of the political climate in Sweden and why I am not really worried about a two party system.