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Will Magdalena Andersson be the next Prime Minister of Sweden?

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Trading5.5pt basisContract settles 13 Sept 2026Last checked 8 Sept 2026, 16:10 UTC
PM78.5%bid 78.0% / ask 79.0%24h volume $34K · liquidity $78Kas of 8 Sept, 16:10 UTCView on Polymarket
KS84.0%bid 80.0% / ask 81.0%24h volume $51 · liquidity –as of 8 Sept, 16:10 UTCView this market's series on Kalshi

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Each exchange's own settlement text, quoted as written. Where they differ, the difference is usually why the prices do.

These two contracts settle about 16 months apart. The venue with the longer window has more time to come good, which moves its price for a reason that is not disagreement.

Settles Sep 13, 26

Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in Sweden on September 13, 2026. This market will resolve to the next individual who is officially appointed and assumes office as Prime Minister of Sweden following the next parliamentary election. To count for resolution, the individual must officially assume office. Any interim or caretaker Prime Minister will not count toward the resolution of this market. If no such Prime Minister assumes office by June 30, 2027, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve to “Other”. The primary resolution source for this market will be official information…

Settles Jan 1, 28

If Magdalena Andersson becomes Prime Minister of Sweden as a result of government formation following the 2026 Swedish general election and meets all constitutional requirements before Jan 1, 2028, then the market resolves to Yes.

Settlement basis

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Confirmed as the same question: Will Magdalena Andersson be the next Prime Minister of Sweden?

Crossbook forecast

  • 57.0%against a market price of 79.5% at the timeOpen

    Logged 5 Sept 2026, 04:29 UTC

    • Every recent poll shows the Social Democrat-led opposition ahead: Novus 50.3-47.7 (f2), Indikator 51.3-46.6 (f3), Demoskop 50.6-46.9 (f4), and PolitPro's aggregate projects the Tidö alliance at only ~45.8% of seats (f7) — signal, since these are multiple independent pollsters converging.
    • The trend is narrowing: the opposition lead fell from 9.6 points in May to 2.6 points in early September (f2, f5), and in 2022 Swedish polls overestimated the red-green side, which then lost (f17, f18) — this is the main signal cutting against a naive read of the topline numbers.
    • If the opposition wins a majority, Andersson is the clear PM candidate as leader of the largest party (f11, f7), with prior incumbency experience (f17); the main conditional risk is a centrist S-MP-C-KD arrangement (f12), but that still plausibly installs Andersson as PM.
    • Christian Democratic threats to vote against Andersson (f13, f14) matter little if the red-green bloc plus Centre hold a majority without KD, and a Social Democrat insider predicts the pledge won't hold post-election (f15) — mostly narrative rather than binding signal.
    • Residual uncertainty includes election-day polling error, Centre Party ambiguity in a non-majority scenario, and the ~9 months of government formation allowed before June 30, 2027, which gives Andersson multiple paths even after a messy result.

    What would change it: Final pre-election polls in the last days before September 13 showing the Tidö bloc tied with or ahead of the opposition, which given the narrowing trend would drop this probability well below 40%.

Context

Kalshi prices this at 84% while Polymarket has it at 79%, a gap of 5.5 points on the same question. Whether that gap is real depends entirely on whether the two settle on the same terms.

Volume over the last 24 hours is active, at about $33,530 on the busier venue. It closes in 4 days. Prices this close to resolution move on news rather than on reassessment.

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