2025 Fredensborg municipal election

2025 Fredensborg municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 27 seats to the Fredensborg municipal council 14 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	23,492 (71.4%) 1.4%
First party Second party Third party   A C V Party Social Democrats Conservatives Venstre Last election 8 seats, 29.5% 7 seats, 22.0% 5 seats, 15.8% Seats won 8 5 3 Seat change 0 2 2 Popular vote 6,620 3,776 2,645 Percentage 28.5% 16.3% 11.4% Swing 1.0% 5.7% 4.4%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   B F O Party Social Liberals Green Left Danish People's Party Last election 3 seats, 11.5% 2 seats, 7.7% 0 seats, 2.4% Seats won 3 3 2 Seat change 0 1 2 Popular vote 2,545 2,356 1,861 Percentage 11.0% 10.2% 8.0% Swing 0.5% 2.5% 5.6%   Seventh party Eighth party   I Ø Party Liberal Alliance Red-Green Alliance Last election 0 seats, 2.3% 1 seat, 2.9% Seats won 2 1 Seat change 2 0 Popular vote 1,490 690 Percentage 6.4% 3.0% Swing 4.1% 0.1%
Mayor before election Thomas Lykke Pedersen Social Democrats Mayor after election Thomas Lykke Pedersen Social Democrats

The 2025 Fredensborg Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 27 members to sit in the regional council for the Fredensborg Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. ^[1] Thomas Lykke Pedersen from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. ^[2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Thomas Lykke Pedersen from Social Democrats became mayor for his fourth term. ^{[3] [4]} He would run for a fifth term. ^[5] Throughout the current period, a total of 7 councillors has switched party affiliation or turned independent, creating 3 new local parties, namely Byrådsgruppen Fredensborg SocialKonservative, Aktive Liberale and Uafhænging Liberal. ^[6]

Electoral system

For elections to Danish municipalities, a number varying from 9 to 31 are chosen to be elected to the municipal council. The seats are then allocated using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation. Fredensborg Municipality had 27 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source ^[7]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party			Political alignment
	A	Social Democrats	Centre-left
	B	Social Liberals	Centre to Centre-left
	M	Moderates	Centre to Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 2

Party			Political alignment
	C	Conservatives	Centre-right
	E	Fredensborg SocialKonservative	Local politics
	I	Liberal Alliance	Centre-right to Right-wing
	K	Christian Democrats	Centre to Centre-right
	O	Danish People's Party	Right-wing to Far-right
	V	Venstre	Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 3

Party			Political alignment
	F	Green Left	Centre-left to Left-wing
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	Left-wing to Far-Left
	Å	The Alternative	Centre-left to Left-wing

Results by polling station

Division	A	B	C	E	F	I	K	M	O	V	Ø	Å
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Asminderød	25.3	8.9	18.5	4.0	7.9	7.0	0.3	1.7	10.5	13.2	1.7	0.8
Fredensborg (Endrupskolens Hal)	19.1	11.6	23.7	5.8	8.8	6.4	0.4	1.6	6.4	12.8	2.6	0.9
Humlebæk	26.4	15.2	17.7	1.0	9.6	6.9	0.3	2.1	5.5	10.1	3.4	1.8
Baunebjerg	31.5	12.2	12.1	0.8	12.9	5.8	0.2	1.3	8.0	9.0	3.7	2.3
Kokkedal	33.4	13.0	14.8	0.4	7.9	6.3	0.2	1.8	8.4	10.0	2.8	0.9
Niverød	32.0	7.0	13.6	0.3	13.5	7.3	0.2	1.8	9.7	9.8	3.7	1.2
Karlebo	15.7	7.6	16.5	2.2	7.4	8.0	2.9	2.4	7.9	26.0	1.6	1.8
Nivå	34.0	8.1	13.2	0.7	14.8	4.4	0.3	1.5	6.2	11.3	4.3	1.2

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Fredensborg Municipality
	A	Social Democrats	6,620	28.54	-0.96	8	0
	C	Conservatives	3,776	16.28	-5.68	5	-2
	V	Venstre	2,645	11.40	-4.38	3	-2
	B	Social Liberals	2,545	10.97	-0.48	3	0
	F	Green Left	2,356	10.16	+2.50	3	+1
	O	Danish People's Party	1,861	8.02	+5.62	2	+2
	I	Liberal Alliance	1,490	6.42	+4.13	2	+2
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	690	2.97	+0.08	1	0
	E	Fredensborg SocialKonservative	431	1.86	New	0	New
	M	Moderates	403	1.74	New	0	New
	Å	The Alternative	296	1.28	+0.33	0	0
	K	Christian Democrats	82	0.35	-0.04	0	0
Total			23,195	100	N/A	27	N/A
Invalid votes			73	0.22	+0.05
Blank votes			224	0.68	-0.05
Turnout			23,492	71.36	+1.36
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	C	V	B	F	Ø	O	I	Å	K	E	M	Others	Lead
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	463	26.5	14.6	12.8	5.8	11.6	4.8	7.8	12.5	1.6	–	–	2.0	0.1	11.9
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		12.7	11.8	14.3	9.6	17.5	5.5	5.3	8.6	2.7	–	–	9.0	–	3.2
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		22.4	8.0	14.9	5.8	8.0	4.1	2.4	9.7	3.8	0.4	–	11.9	–	7.5
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		23.4	26.5	13.9	10.5	7.6	5.0	3.1	1.9	0.7	0.6	–	–	–	3.1
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		29.5 (8)	22.0 (7)	15.8 (5)	11.5 (3)	7.7 (2)	2.9 (1)	2.4 (0)	2.3 (0)	0.9 (0)	0.4 (0)	–	–	–	7.5

References

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