Denmark's left-wing bloc leads election but lacks majority, exit polls show

March 24, 2026 3:04 PM EDT

People stand at the polling station at the Godthabhallen, in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. Oscar Scott Carl/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS

COPENHAGEN, March ‌24 (Reuters) - Denmark's ​left-wing ​parties, including Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social ‌Democrats, are leading over the right-wing ⁠bloc in Tuesday's election for ‌parliament, but neither group ‌is expected to win a majority of seats, two exit ​polls showed.

A poll from broadcaster DR and Epinion ⁠gave the left-wing bloc 83 seats against 79 ​for the right in the 179-seat assembly, while a ​TV2 and Megafon ‌survey predicted 86 seats for the left and ⁠75 for the right.

This could give Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's ⁠non-aligned centrist Moderates the power to ​decide which bloc will form a government, or even leave the role ‌of tiebreaker to the four candidates elected from ‌Greenland and the Faroe Islands.

(Reporting ⁠by Stine ‌Jacobsen, Louise ​Rasmussen and Soren Jeppesen in Copenhagen, editing by Terje ‌Solsvik)



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