Election day polls for DR and TV 2 in Denmark indicate that neither the red nor the blue blocs will win a majority in Folketing. The party of moderates is on the verge of collapse.
The election day poll a DR shows that the Social Democrats become the largest party with 23.1 percent, down 2.8. The left is the second largest with 13.5, but falls with it by 9.9%. The brand new Moderates finish with 9.3%, becoming the fourth largest party in their first election.
The five parties that make up the red-green part get 85 mandates to the extent of DR, while the six bourgeois parties get 73. The moderates get 17 mandates. The majority is 90 terms.
The moderates, led by former Liberal Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, became the big surprise of the election campaign in Denmark. They are mainly fighting for a broad government with parties from both blocs. According to TV 2’s measurement, they even become the third largest part.
The worst elections of the Social Democrats in over 100 years
TV 2’s election day poll shows Social Democrats at 25.1% and the Liberal Party at 13.8. The moderates get 9.3% and become the third largest party. The red block gets 86 mandates, the blue block 72, while the moderates get 17 mandates.
Despite still being by far the biggest, election day polls indicate that the Social Democrats are holding the worst elections in the last 100 years. The last time the party fell below 23.1 percent was in 1915. For Liberals, an election result in line with what polls suggest would be the worst since 1988.
Another element of uncertainty was the fate of the Alternative and the Danish People’s Party, both around the 2% barrier. Both are likely to come into play, according to both election day polls.
– It can be said outdated, well, it is the laconic reaction of the deputy leader of the DF René Christensen to the Ritzau news agency.
Great victory for the Liberal Alliance
In addition to the moderates, the two bourgeois Liberal Alliance and Danish Democrat parties make excellent choices.
The Liberal Alliance goes from 2.3% in the last election to become the second largest in the blue bloc, with 9% in DR’s poll. The newly formed Danish Democrats, led by former immigration minister accused Inger Støjberg, score 6.9% in the same poll.
On the red-green side, the People’s Socialist Party has good reasons to rejoice. SF becomes the third largest party with 9.6%, up 1.9.
Great disappointment for the Conservative People’s Party
The elections went worse for Enhedslisten, the Danish People’s Party and Radikale Venstre. The Danish People’s Party was the second largest party in the 2015 elections, but in DR’s poll it dropped to as much as 2.5%. Radikale Venstre is directly responsible for calling the elections, but he is not rewarded by the voters for asking for a new election. They almost halved, with a turnout of 4.7 (-3.9).
Last but not least, the Conservative People’s Party will have to regard the election day vote as a disappointment. Throughout the election period, they were at times the biggest on the bourgeois side and party leader Søren Pape Poulsen launched himself as a candidate for prime minister. However, they are likely to get a worse result than last time. DR’s poll shows the party only gets 5.5 percent of the vote, down 1.1.
