Danish referendum on EU defence opt-out, 1 June 2022

[Diouf]

Ritzau says 61.6% turnout at 19, an hour before the polls close. So we could perhaps end up towards 66-68 %. Would have guessed at about 10-15% lower than that

[Diouf]

Exit poll in DR

Yes 69,1%
No 30,9%

[Diouf]

This would be by far the biggest yes-percentage in any Danish EU referendum. The entry referendum in 1972 had a 63.3% yes-vote, the highest so far.

[Diouf]

TV2s exit poll also with a clear yes, but a few percentage less.

Yes 66.6%
No 33.4%

[JimJamUK]

Exit poll in DR

Yes 69,1%
No 30,9%

Crikey, they didn’t just sample a suburb of Aarhus or something did they?

[Diouf]

The first tiny island results are already coming in on kmdvalg.dk

First out was Drejø, south of Funen, in Svendborg municipality. They published their result already at 20.04.
A turnout of 53 out of 60 eligible voters. 51 valid votes. 37 yes, 14 no.

[Diouf]

Kristian Thulesen Dahl, DPP's ex-leader and defence spokesperson, has decided not to turn up for the DPP electoral party at Christiansborg, instead choosing to watch it with his family at home. Both Pia Kjærsgaard and Morten Messerschmidt have expressed their dissatisfaction. Messerschmidt just said in an interview that he only found out on Twitter, and that he is disappointed in the decision. Saying that he himself has always shown up to all electoral parties.

[Diouf]

First full municpality result. The small island Læsø with around 1000 eligible voters. 50.4% yes, 49.6% no.

[Diouf]

21.2% already counted. 62.96% yes 37.04% no.
Normally, they would start changing the exit poll into a prognosis now, taking into account the votes already counted. But with the count going so fast, perhaps they won't even bother.

[JimJamUK]

Lolland, which was the most eurosceptic municipality in 2015, is currently 58% in favour of abolishing the opt-out.

[Diouf]

52.6% counted
65.16% yes
34.84% no

[BlueSwan]

Excellent result. Even if the probable turnout is low for a danish election, it is still fairly impressive given how little people have seemed to care.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Excellent news. Europe is stronger today.

[Diouf]

88.1% counted
66.52% yes
33.48% no

The Foreign Minister, Jeppe Kofod, and Finance Minister, Nicolai Wammen, has just arrived to Christiansborg. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is expected soon as well. Once she has delivered her speech, there will be a TV debate from the chamber between the party leaders.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Once she has delivered her speech, there will be a TV debate from the chamber between the party leaders.

One thing that I will never understand about Denmark is this tradition of having a party leader election debate after the election is over and most votes are counted.

[Oryxslayer]

Yes won almost everywhere, though I would like to know why they won that block of localities west of Copenhagen by less than overall - the Left block did win these places in 2019.

https://twitter.com/AJRElectionMaps/status/1532106901751746564?s=20&t=IYLfak...

[ingemann]

Yes won almost everywhere, though I would like to know why they won that block of localities west of Copenhagen by less than overall - the Left block did win these places in 2019.

Working class and lower middle class lefties, general social conservatives (by Danish standards), anti-EU and EU-sceptics. Social Democrats, SPP and Conservatives have been the traditional strong parties in the region, through Unity List and the Liberals have done better there the last few decades.

[ingemann]

Once she has delivered her speech, there will be a TV debate from the chamber between the party leaders.

One thing that I will never understand about Denmark is this tradition of having a party leader election debate after the election is over and most votes are counted.

It's because you can never be sure what kind of coalition is being established afterward, so it's good place to sell the voters the different coalition combinations. In 2011 the Liberals tried to convince the Social Liberals to take the PM position with the rights votes, this ensured that the Social Liberals was in a stronger negotiation position versus the rest of the left (of course it cost them later).

[JimJamUK]

Yes won almost everywhere, though I would like to know why they won that block of localities west of Copenhagen by less than overall - the Left block did win these places in 2019.

Its the white working class end of Copenhagen. The area has the biggest DF vote in Greater Copenhagen and is the exact sort of place where the Social Democrats really did pick up many DF votes in 2019.

[JimJamUK]

I've seen on Twitter a Megafon poll showing 82% of SF voters voted Yes. Has anybody got a link to the full poll/write-up?