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Sweden election: How an ex neo-Nazi movement became kingmakers
Getty ImagesMore than one in five Swedes voted for the radical anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) party in elections on Sunday.
Now the second-largest political party in the country, its anticipated 73 MPs are expected to play a crucial role in supporting a ruling right-wing coalition - if not a formal position in the government itself.
It would be the first time the nationalist party has come anywhere close to the levers of power in Stockholm.
A focus during the election campaign on issues around immigration and violent crime have put the SD's agenda at the heart of mainstream Swedish politics like never before.
It is a watershed moment for a party founded by Nazi sympathisers, shunned for decades by the mainstream - and now on the cusp of playing a kingmaking role in a country better known for its stable and predictable politics.
According to the latest election figures, the SD won 20.6% of votes cast on Sunday - making it the largest in a bloc of right-wing parties now with a collective majority in parliament.
"This is dramatic given that they only entered parliament in 2010," University of Gothenburg political scientist Johan Martinsson told the BBC.
"Sweden used to have an extremely stable and predictable political party system. Three elections later - and they are the second largest party," he says.
Martinsson describes the party as "primarily an anti-immigration, anti-multicultural, nationalist party" - but stops short of labelling them far-right.
Getty ImagesFounded in 1988, the SD struggled for two decades to win enough votes to elect any MPs at all. But ever since entering parliament in 2010, the party has increased its share of three successive elections.
As of Sunday it had displaced the Moderates as the country's most popular right-of-centre party.
Martinsson says the results are a "dividing line" in Swedish history.
Its success has led to a fierce debate over how much the party has changed ideologically during its transformation from political pariah to power-broker.
Current leader Jimmie Akesson, who took over in 2005, unveiled a "zero-tolerance" policy against racism and extremism ten years ago - and in 2015 he even suspended the party's entire youth wing over its links to the far-right.
The party has also undergone an extensive rebranding: replacing its burning flame logo with a more innocent-looking flower and scrapping its "Keep Sweden Swedish" slogan.
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