Nationwide, the ruling party has received 23.5 percent of the vote – 11,467 votes. The Radical Left has received 7,143 votes, corresponding to 14.6 percent, and is thus the second largest party.
The Social Democrats are close to having received twice as many votes as the Liberal Party, which has received 11.8 percent of the vote. 5753 people voted for the blue party.
Conservatives are the third largest party with 14.2 percent of the vote, equivalent to 6,925 votes,
80,000 students from more than 750 schools are participating in the three-week course leading up to the election.
The result can be considered as a guideline for how Danish school students think here and now.
This is the assessment of election researcher Kasper Møller Hansen, professor of political science at the University of Copenhagen.
– They can probably think differently in a year, because it is a group that reacts sharply to what is happening around them.
– So they are fleeting in that context, but it is a very precise goal for how the school students are right now, and as a political party you should definitely take cutlery from it, he says.
However, he points out that the election is not exactly the same across the country. There is a difference in how intensively the schools organize the process and how many visits from politicians they receive.
Since the first school election in 2015, however, many parties have become aware of the importance of participating, Kasper Møller Hansen explains.
– If you get your tick set early, it tends to stick later in life. So the parties are very conscious of getting the young people on board – and with good reason.
– We can see that the youth parties get a big boom in the number of members after the election, so it testifies that it mobilizes many students.
According to Kasper Møller Hansen, the school choice gives children who have not tried to vote with their parents the opportunity to try it in a safe environment.
– Most people at the school vote at the end of the teaching process, so you get everyone involved in the election, and that is also the whole idea: to demystify the idea of going behind a curtain and putting a cross.
This year, the red bloc has won by 57 percent of the vote. 43 percent have gone to blue block.
When the young people put their tick in 2019, the election resulted in a narrow victory for the blue bloc, which received 51.2 percent of the vote.
It happened even though the Social Democrats became the top scorer among the parties with 22.6 percent.
Source: The Nordic Page