Centre-left to win 160 seats, short of house majority in Swedish vote-projection

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's three party centre-left opposition held a lead over the governing centre-right coalition in the Nordic country's general election but fell short of an absolute majority, a projection after most districts had been counted showed on Sunday. The opposition of Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party would win 160 seats in the 349-seat parliament an SVT projection based on the nearly 5,000 of the just under 6,000 districts counted, while Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's centre-right coalition would win 142 seats. A coalition needs 175 seats to form a majority government. In a effort to leave the Sweden Democrats without influence, Reinfeldt has pledged to let the centre-left bloc form a government if it is larger than his Alliance. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats - shunned by all other parties in parliament - would win 47 parliament seats while the Feminist Initiative party did not reach the 4 percent threshold to win seats in parliament. (Reporting by Niklas Pollard, Daniel Dickson and Mia Shanley)