Almost 40 percent of guys between 18 and 21 years of age answer in SVT's polling station survey that they ideologically identify as clearly on the right.
It is almost a doubling since the last election.
- It seems to be something that has happened very quickly, we have not seen these tendencies in 16-17-year-olds.
So it seems to be something that happened in this election campaign, says Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg and responsible for the polling station survey.
And locally in Gothenburg, the youth associations that have been out to schools notice that there are right-wing winds.
- It's very clear, it's kind of trendy to be right-wing, says Hannah Björnerhag, chairman of MUF Gothenburg.
More people get involved in youth associations
Left-wing sympathies have also increased somewhat, but are at clearly lower levels: from 10 percent in 2018 to 13 percent this year.
Nevertheless, all the youth associations SVT spoke to, SSU, MUF and Ungsvenskarna testify to an intense interest in politics among young people.
SSU Gothenburg has also broken membership records and is up to over 1,500 members in Gothenburg.
MUF has 1,100 members in Gothenburg compared to the usual 700.
Left wave among girls
For girls between 18 and 21 years of age, 16 percent identified themselves as clearly on the right in 2022, while the percentage stating that they are clearly on the left is 27 percent.
Since 1991, that figure has risen from 10 percent.