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The 2025 Danish local elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday, 18 November 2025. [1] All local and regional councillors in Denmark's 98 municipalities and five regions will be up for election.
Every four years, on the third Tuesday in November, local elections are held in Denmark. All 98 municipalities and 5 regions hold elections simultaneously on this date.
In Danish local elections, all 98 municipal councils and five regional councils are elected concurrently. The municipal councils have between 9 and 31 members, except the Copenhagen City Council which has 55 members, while the regional councils all have 41 members. In total, 2,436 members (as of the 2021 local elections, not a fixed number) are elected to the municipal councils, and 205 members are elected to the regional councils. All elections use the D'Hondt method to calculate number of seats. There is no electoral threshold. The parties are allowed to enter into electoral alliances. [2]
To be an eligible voter, you must meet the following requirements:
| Party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last election | Current seats [ as of? ] | |||
| A | Social Democrats | 756 | 740 | |
| V | Venstre | 620 | 605 | |
| C | Conservatives | 403 | 399 | |
| F | Socialist People's Party | 168 | 168 | |
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 114 | 109 | |
| B | Social Liberals | 94 | 91 | |
| O | Danish People's Party | 91 | 62 | |
| D | The New Right | 64 | 40 | |
| K | Christian Democrats | 12 | 12 | |
| S | Schleswig Party | 10 | 10 | |
| I | Liberal Alliance | 9 | 21 | |
| Å | The Alternative | 5 | 7 | |
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | Did not exist | 27 | |
| M | Moderates | Did not exist | 8 | |
| Others | 90 | 137 | ||
| Total | 2,436 | 2,436 | ||
| Party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last election | Current seats [ as of? ] | |||
| A | Social Democrats | 64 | 64 | |
| V | Venstre | 54 | 50 | |
| C | Conservatives | 31 | 32 | |
| F | Socialist People's Party | 14 | 15 | |
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 14 | 14 | |
| B | Social Liberals | 12 | 12 | |
| D | The New Right | 8 | 6 | |
| O | Danish People's Party | 6 | 7 | |
| K | Christian Democrats | 1 | 1 | |
| I | Liberal Alliance | 0 | 2 | |
| Å | The Alternative | 0 | 0 | |
| Others | 1 | 2 | ||
| Total | 205 | 205 | ||
| Mayors outgoing and incoming | ||||
| Region | Incumbent Chair | Elected Chair | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Denmark | Mads Duedahl | |||
| Central Denmark | Anders Kühnau | |||
| Southern Denmark | Stephanie Lose | |||
| Zealand | Heino Knudsen | |||
| Capital | Lars Gaardhøj | |||
Social Democrats
Social Liberals
Conservatives
Green Left
Liberal Alliance
Schleswig Party
Venstre
Local parties
Venstre, full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti, is a conservative-liberal, agrarian political party in Denmark. Founded as part of a peasants' movement against the landed aristocracy, today it espouses an economically liberal, pro-free-market ideology.
There are three types of elections in Denmark: elections to the national parliament, local elections, and elections to the European Parliament. Referendums may also be called to consult the Danish citizenry directly on an issue of national concern.
Denmark is divided into five regions, which contain 98 municipalities. The Capital Region has 29 municipalities, Southern Denmark 22, Central Denmark 19, Zealand 17 and North Denmark 11.
Local elections were held in Denmark on 17 November 2009. Councils were elected in Denmark's 98 municipalities and the five regions. 2468 seats were contested in the municipal elections. 205 seats were contested in the regional elections.
Local elections were held in Denmark on 15 November 2005. 2522 municipal council members were elected in Denmark's 98 municipalities and 205 regional council members in the five regions. Most of these were newly formed municipalities, namely 66 municipalities, that would only begin working from Monday 1 January 2007, as would the newly formed regions, and one municipality, Ærø, which was also part of the reform, which was allowed by the government to commence work for the first time already Sunday 1 January 2006. So the first term of office in this newly created municipality was the whole period of four years from 2006 until 2009. The reform was approved 26 June 2005 by the lawmakers in the Folketing and signature by the head of state (when?). The 238 municipal councils and 13 county councils that were to be abolished 1 January 2007 just continued their work one year more than the term of office (2002-2005) they were elected for until 31 December 2006 and then ceased to exist. Among the remaining 31 municipalities having their new councils elected was Bornholm Regional Municipality that was formed and began its work 1 January 2003. This was only the second time it had a new council elected, the first time being on 29 May 2002, and it was the first time its council served the whole term of office. Bornholm's merger was not a part of the reform, having been decided by the island's voters already on 29 May 2001. It was the new center-right government elected at the end of 2001 that drove the reform through parliament. The 30 municipalities that remained were not merged with other municipalities, so their newly elected councils served the whole term of office 1 January 2006 until 31 December 2009.
General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 1 November 2022, except in the Faroe Islands, where they were held on 31 October as 1 November was a national day of mourning for victims at sea. Of the 179 members of the Folketing, 175 were elected in Denmark proper, two in the Faroes and two in Greenland. The elections were called on 5 October following an ultimatum to the government by the Social Liberals due to the outcome of a report on the 2020 Danish mink cull by the Mink Commission, which was critical of the government. Voter turnout was 84% in Denmark, 48% in Greenland, and 71% in the Faroes, with a combined turnout of 84% for the realm as a whole.
Local elections were held in 2021 for Denmark's 98 municipal councils and five regional councils. All 2,436 seats were contested for the 2022–2025 term of office, together with 205 seats in five regional councils. Frederiksberg Municipality had increased their number of councillors from 25 to 29.
The 2024 European Parliament election in Denmark will be held on 9 June 2024. The elections will be held as part of the wider 2024 European Parliament election, but will not take place in the Faroe Islands or Greenland, which are not part of the European Union.
In 2021 Silkeborg Municipality had had mayors from 3 different parties since the 2007 municipal reform: the Conservatives from 2007-2009, the Social Democrats from 2010-2013, and Venstre from 2014-2021. The 2021 election was seen as an election that could tilt either way, and was likely to be dependent on the position of the Danish Social Liberal Party. Both Venstre and Social Democrats decreased their vote share, but the Social Democrats didn't lose any seats, while Venstre lost 3 seats, and this meant the Social Democrats would be the biggest party in the following period. On December 10, 2021, a municipal council with Social Democrat Helle Gade as mayor was announced.
Since the 2007 municipal reform, Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality has been a strong area for centre-right Venstre. However, in 2017, Venstre won only 11 seats, 3 less than they did in 2013. This meant they were 4 seats short of a majority. The Christian Democrats who won 6 seats, and became the joint 2nd biggest party, were looking to get their first mayor in a Danish municipality. However, in a surprising turn of events, the Social Democrats ended up supporting Hans Østergaard from Venstre instead, citing multiple reasons, such as the Christian Democrats being a small party nationwide, and that Kristian Andersen, who was the candidate of the Christian Democrats, did not support gay marriage.
Billund Municipality can be categorized as a quite blue municipality, having voted for parties of the blue bloc by 65%, the fifth most of the 98 municipalities in Denmark, in the 2019 Danish general election.
In the three elections, following the 2007 municipal reform, that had been held prior to this election, Venstre had ended up with the mayor position. In the 2017 Vejle municipal election, the parties of the traditional blue bloc had won 16 seats against 15 for the traditional red bloc. Therefore, this election was seen as a "thriller".
Despite Venstre having failed to become the largest party in Assens Municipality for all Danish general elections since the 2007 municipal reform , they became the biggest party in both the 2013 Assens Municipal Election and the 2017 Assens Municipal Election.
Following the 2017 election, Ole Vive from Venstre won the mayor's position after the Social Democrats had held it in the 7 years prior to that election.
Ever since the 2007 municipal reform, and prior to this election, the election results had led to Niels Hörup from Venstre becoming mayor. All the elections had given Venstre 8 seats. In the 2017 election, the blue bloc had won 11 seats.
Prior to the 2017 election, only the Conservatives and Venstre had held the mayor's position in the municipality. However, in the 2017 election, local party Nytgribskov had managed to win the mayor's position after an agreement with the Social Democrats and the Red–Green Alliance.
Following the 2017 Halsnæs municipal election, Steffen Jensen from the Social Democrats had won the mayor's position from Venstre.
Following the 2017 election, Venstre won the mayor's position from the Conservatives who had held it since 1994. From 1970 to 1993, Venstre had also held the position, and they remain the only parties to have held it in the municipality.
The 2021 North Denmark Regional election was held on November 16, 2021, to elect the 41 members to sit in the regional council for the North Denmark Region, in the period of 2022 to 2025.
The Aalborg Municipal council is the municipal government of Aalborg, Denmark.
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