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


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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