Danes have now finished voting in a parliamentary election today which could deliver the country its third leftist government in a year as people revolt against austerity measures they fear could collapse their welfare system. Prior to the election, Denmark was currently governed by a three-party coalition: Venstre, Liberal Alliance and the Conservative People’s Party, but tacking far-right on immigration and left on welfare, has led to polls suggesting the Danish Social Democrats will come out on top. But are the predictions correct?

Denmark’s polling stations closed today at 7pm.

The polls suggested Denmark’s centre-left Social Democrats party was set to win the election this week after backing once far-right policies related to immigration, meaning Social Democrats leader Mette Frederiksen would replace current Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen of the Liberal Party.

Initial exit polls from DR and TV2 are expected imminently, with reliable results anticipated later on this evening.

Danish Broadcasting Corporation DR’s initial exit poll has been revealed.

Social Democrats: 25.3 percent

Liberal: 20.9 percent

Danish People’s Party: 9.8 percent

Social Liberal: 8.8 percent

Red Green Alliance: 8.8 percent

Socialist People’s Party: 7.4 percent

Conservative: 5.9 percent

Alternative: 3.3 percent

Liberal Alliance: 3 percent

Christian Democrats: 2.3 percent

New Right: 2 percent

Stram Kurs: 1.8 percent

Klaus Riskær Pedersen: 0.7 percent

Express.co.uk will reveal more information and results to you as they come in.

Given the exit poll results from DR, Mette Frederiksen looks likely to become Denmark’s new prime minister.

The Social Democrats will welcome a result like this.

The traditional ‘red bloc’ of left-of centre parties stand to gain a solid majority over the Lars Løkke Rasmussen-led right, with 90 seats/mandates to 75.

That is assuming Denmark’s traditional ‘bloc’ system of alliances is still in place after the election.

The nationalist Danish People’s Party had expected a tough time tonight, already predicted in polls ahead of the election.

But with 9.8 percent forecast the exit polls, they are projected to have lost over half their 2015 share.

The Extremist party appears to be under the voter threshold according to the exit polls, but it is very close.

New party Stram Kurs, which is led by the highly controversial Rasmus Paludan and who wants to ban Islam in Denmark, has a predicted 1.8 percent of the vote share in the exit poll.

If that holds true in the final result, they will not make it into parliament, with the threshold for representation at 2 percent.

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