At this year’s EU election, SF’s (The Socialist People’s Party) lead candidate, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, has emerged as the big winner with a total of 178,438 personal votes. This surpasses Venstre’s (The Liberal Party) Morten Løkkegaard, who received 174,048 votes. The last votes from polling stations in Copenhagen secured Kira Marie Peter-Hansen the position as the top scorer of the election after a careful recount of the votes from Sunday’s election. The official results were provided by the IT company KMD, and the result was received with great joy in SF. The party’s leader, Pia Olsen Dyhr, expressed her enthusiasm on the social platform X: “And to think, that Kira Marie Peter-Hansen has become the top scorer of the election! I have believed in it all the way – and now the result shows that she did,” she wrote. In third place among candidates with the most personal votes, we find the Social Democrats’ (Socialdemokratiet) lead candidate, Christel Schaldemose, who received 143,198 votes.

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