Denmark has elected a young, female, centre-left leader, completing a socialist sweep of the EU's nordic states.
It also humiliated the country's main far-right party, but only after the left poached its anti-immigrant ideas.
"After tonight, we will put welfare first in Denmark again. Welfare, climate, education, children, future. Think of what we can do together. We now have the hope to change Denmark," Mette Frederiksen, the leader of the Social Democrat party, said after results came in on Wednesday (5 June) night.
The 41-year old, who first became an MP at the age of 24, spoke after her party won 48 out of 179 seats in the Danish parliament.
Most of the other parties in the centre-left bloc also did well.
The Social Liberals, formerly led by Denmark's EU commissioner Margerthe Vestager, doubled its seats from eight to 16.
The Socialist People's Party also doubled seats from seven to 14, while the Red-Green Alliance lost one to win 13.
That gave them a majority of 91, putting Frederiksen on course to become the country's second-ever female prime minister after Helle Thorning-Schmidt in 2011.
The centre-right bloc won 75 seats.
The Danish centre-left victory comes after socialist parties also won elections in Finland and Sweden during the past year, creating a left-wing bloc in the EU north, despite dire predictions of a right-wing surge in Europe.
Read more at: Danish left sweeps to victory, with tough migration policy
It also humiliated the country's main far-right party, but only after the left poached its anti-immigrant ideas.
"After tonight, we will put welfare first in Denmark again. Welfare, climate, education, children, future. Think of what we can do together. We now have the hope to change Denmark," Mette Frederiksen, the leader of the Social Democrat party, said after results came in on Wednesday (5 June) night.
The 41-year old, who first became an MP at the age of 24, spoke after her party won 48 out of 179 seats in the Danish parliament.
Most of the other parties in the centre-left bloc also did well.
The Social Liberals, formerly led by Denmark's EU commissioner Margerthe Vestager, doubled its seats from eight to 16.
The Socialist People's Party also doubled seats from seven to 14, while the Red-Green Alliance lost one to win 13.
That gave them a majority of 91, putting Frederiksen on course to become the country's second-ever female prime minister after Helle Thorning-Schmidt in 2011.
The centre-right bloc won 75 seats.
The Danish centre-left victory comes after socialist parties also won elections in Finland and Sweden during the past year, creating a left-wing bloc in the EU north, despite dire predictions of a right-wing surge in Europe.
Read more at: Danish left sweeps to victory, with tough migration policy
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