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

By Thomson Reuters Mar 24, 2026 | 2:08 PM

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)