The Nyans party is heading for strong election results in metropolitan areas

Overall, around 1.5 percent of the votes have been cast for so-called "other parties" in this year's parliamentary elections, according to the Norwegian Electoral Authority's preliminary figures.

But there are a number of electoral districts that stand out, especially in the metropolitan areas of Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

The highest figure is found in Rosengård center in Malmö - where "other parties" received 28.2 percent of the votes.

- The most likely explanation is that the Nyans party has done an intensive campaign in the Rosengård center, says political scientist Anamaria Dutceac Segersten.

SVT has previously reviewed Nyans and told that the party wants to push issues such as separate bathing times for women and the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with their religious beliefs.

Over ten percent in 54 districts 

When SVT went through the Swedish Electoral Authority's figures at 11 p.m. on election night, "other parties" had reached over ten percent of the votes in 54 electoral districts.

In several districts in Rosengård in Malmö, Rinkeby in Stockholm and in Gothenburg, over 20 percent of voters voted for "other parties".

There are several parties that can be included in "other parties".

The results in the parliamentary election for those votes are not reported separately on election night, but only on Monday.

SVT's election expert, political scientist Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, says that it is therefore difficult to assess the success of Nyans, but that the party may have taken voters from the Social Democrats.

- These are voter groups in places that normally vote for S, so it can absolutely be lost votes for Magdalena Andersson, says Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson in SVT's election watch.

A sign of the success of Nyans is the result in the election to the municipal council, where the votes are counted separately in some municipalities.

For example, Nyans in Rosengård center in Malmö got 30.9 percent and in Västra Hisingen, Svarte Mosse, in Gothenburg 25.2 percent according to the preliminary results that were available shortly after midnight.

Political scientist: The party is a political joker 

Even before the election, the political scientist Peter Esaiasson flagged that Nyans moves outside the framework of opinion polls and described the party as a political joker.

- It is connected with the new Sweden, the hidden Sweden you could say, the people who live where they are not included in the opinion polls, Peter Esaiasson told SVT this week.