Kristian Thulesen Dahl

Thulesen Dahl's first period in parliament was as a temporary member from 7 October 1993 to 24 October 1993. Following this he ran in the 1994 Danish general election for the Progress Party. He was elected into parliament, but switched to the Danish People's Party during the term, on 6 October 1995. Thuelsen Dahl also entered the municipal council of Give Municipality from 1997 to 2006, and Vejle Municipality from 2006 to 2010.

In 2012, after Pia Kjærsgaard's resignment, he was elected chairman of the Danish People's Party. In 2014, a poll of Danish right wing voters showed that Thulesen Dahl was more popular as a possible candidate for Prime Minister than any other leader of the Danish right wing parties, including current Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. He, however, did not consider himself a candidate for that post.

In the 2015 Danish general elections, Thulesen's first election as party leader, his party won 37 of 179 seats in parliament becoming the second largest party. Thulesen Dahl received more than 57,000 personal votes. While his party became the largest in the right wing bloc, and he was much more popular than Venstre's candidate for Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, he refused that he was in play as a possible Prime Minister of Denmark.

Thulesen did not stand in the 2022 Danish general election as he had gotten a job as the director of the port of Aalborg, his first job outside politics in 28 years.