Leftist parties the winners in Denmark as liberals lose ground

A man puts an European flag into a ballot in Frankfurt Oder. Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa

Denmark's Socialist People's Party has won the European Parliament elections with 17.4% following a neck-and-neck race with the Social Democrats, according to preliminary final results.

Both parties each garnered three seats of Denmark's 15 seats in the European Parliament.

The Social Democrats of Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen came in second, while Denmark's liberal Venstre party lost ground, down almost 9 percentage points from their 2019 result.

The party is set to lose two of its four seats in the European Parliament.

The right-wing populists of the Danish People's Party took 6.4% according to the preliminary results, down more than 4 percentage points on 2019.

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