Denmark Election
Leader of the Conservative People's Party, Mona Juul, arrives at an election party after the parliamentary election at Tietgen's House, in Copenhagen, Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
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Denmark’s election Tuesday ended in an inconclusive result that left the prime minister’s future unclear, after a campaign that focused on bread-and-butter issues rather than her handling of the crisis over U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions toward Greenland. Official results showed that Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s center-left Social Democrats lost ground compared with the last election in 2022, as did her two partners in the outgoing government. Neither left-leaning nor right-leaning blocs won a majority in parliament. That left experienced Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen — a former prime minister — in the role of kingmaker.
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