Danes headed to the polls on Tuesday (March 24) in an election that may hand Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen a third term thanks to her staunch line against U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland even though cost-of-living worries have hurt her leftist credentials.

Opinion polls show Frederiksen’s Social Democrats are headed for their weakest result since before World War Two: many Danes blame her for not doing enough to protect their Nordic welfare model, while others point to growing weariness after nearly seven years of her leadership.

Outside a polling station at Copenhagen’s City Hall, voters said domestic issues dominated their concerns — from the environment to immigration. Greenland, several noted, barely featured in their decision-making, with most political parties already broadly aligned in support of the territory.

Voting started at 8 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) and polling stations close at 8 p.m., with exit polls due shortly after.

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SHOWS: COPENHAGEN, DENMARK (MARCH 24, 2026)(REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF VOTERS INSIDE CITY HALL GETTING BALLOTS

2. VARIOUS OF VOTERS INSIDE POLLING BOOTHS

3. CITY HALL

4. GREENLANDIC FLAG

6. VOTERS QUEUING

7. OFFICIALS HANDING BALLOTS TO VOTERS

8. VARIOUS OF VOTERS CASTING VOTES

9. VOTERS INSIDE POLLING BOOTHS

10. VARIOUS OF CITY HALL

11.(SOUNDBITE)(English) THEATRE PRODUCER, KENNETH GALL, SAYING:

“The environment is the most important. And also to have a stable government. That's the two main thing I'm voting for.”

12. (SOUNDBITE)(English) STUDENT, EMMA FAERGEMANN, SAYING:

“There's a lot of crisis in the world, then we tend to focus on what's in our backyard. So I think that's why the drinking water has been so focused in this election. And also the pigs and the welfare for the animals. I think it's like, where you focus when there's so much many things going on?”

13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) KITCHEN TRAINEE, MATHILDE, SAYING:

“I'm hoping for a more lenient immigrant policies, more focus on the environment and making it cheaper for the ordinary person to buy housing in Copenhagen, in the major cities, mainly.”

14. PEOPLE WITH BICYCLES OUTSIDE POLLING STATION

15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MEDICAL STUDENT, ELLA, SAYING:

“Greenland has been a topic for debate in the media, but not really at this election because this election has been more about national security and national matters than international policies actually, which has been a little weird. We haven't talked that much about the big world, which is very much happening out there.”

16. (SOUNDBITE)(English) THEATRE PRODUCER, KENNETH GALL, SAYING:

“Also Greenland, of course, but that's when I talk about to have a stable government. I think that I do hope that we have a stable government and remain Mette Frederiksen as prime minister, even though I didn't vote for her.”

17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) STUDENT, VIGGO LEHRMANN HANSEN, SAYING:

“I also think it's not really on the ballot for this election because every party is largely aligned in agreeing that Greenland decides its own fate.”

18. FOUNTAIN IN FRONT OF CITY HALL

19. VARIOUS OF POLITICAL ADS

20. CYCLISTS DRIVING BY ADS

21. VARIOUS OF TIMELAPSES OF VOTING (MUTE)