2025 Fredericia municipal election

2025 Fredericia municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 21 seats to the Fredericia municipal council 11 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	28,350 (66.5%) 1.9%
First party Second party Third party   V A O Party Venstre Social Democrats Danish People's Party Last election 5 seats, 22.0% 9 seats, 37.3% 2 seats, 7.7% Seats won 6 5 2 Seat change 1 4 0 Popular vote 6,125 6,581 2,944 Percentage 22.1% 23.7% 10.6% Swing 0.1% 13.6% 2.9%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   F Ø C Party Green Left Red-Green Alliance Conservatives Last election 1 seat, 4.3% 1 seat, 7.0% 2 seats, 9.7% Seats won 2 2 2 Seat change 1 1 0 Popular vote 2,570 2,471 2,368 Percentage 9.3% 8.9% 8.5% Swing 4.9% 1.9% 1.1%   Seventh party Eighth party   I Æ Party Liberal Alliance Denmark Democrats Last election 0 seats, 0.5% Did not stand Seats won 1 1 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 1,654 1,201 Percentage 6.0% 4.3% Swing 5.5% New
Mayor before election Christian Bro Social Democrats Mayor after election Peder Tind Venstre

The 2025 Fredericia Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 21 members to sit in the regional council for the Fredericia Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. ^[1] Peder Tind from Venstre, would win the mayoral position. ^[2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Steen Wrist from Social Democrats became mayor for his first fully elected term. ^[3] However, Wrist, just like his predecessor, ^[4] stepped down as mayor. ^[5] Christian Bro, also from the Social Democrats, took over the mayoral position on April 23, 2024. ^[6] He would run for election. ^[7]

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. Fredericia Municipality had 21 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source ^[8]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party			Political alignment
	B	Social Liberals	Centre to Centre-left
	F	Green Left	Centre-left to Left-wing
	G	Grøn Kultur	Local politics
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	Left-wing to Far-Left

Electoral Alliance 2

Party			Political alignment
	C	Conservatives	Centre-right
	M	Moderates	Centre to Centre-right
	Å	The Alternative	Centre-left to Left-wing

Electoral Alliance 3

Party			Political alignment
	I	Liberal Alliance	Centre-right to Right-wing
	J	Borgernes Liste 7000	Local politics
	O	Danish People's Party	Right-wing to Far-right
	V	Venstre	Centre-right
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division	A	B	C	F	G	I	J	M	O	P	V	Æ	Ø	Å
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Gymnasiet 1	24.7	2.0	7.9	12.3	0.1	5.4	1.9	0.7	10.3	0.4	18.0	4.0	11.6	0.6
Bredstrup-Pjedsted	30.3	0.7	7.0	6.6	0.2	4.7	2.5	0.5	10.5	0.1	25.5	5.8	5.1	0.6
Erritsø	20.6	2.6	10.2	9.1	0.1	8.0	2.8	0.9	9.9	0.2	24.2	4.1	6.9	0.5
Herslev	16.1	1.4	3.8	4.5	0.0	5.2	10.4	0.0	14.7	0.0	28.1	11.3	4.3	0.2
Taulov	17.2	3.8	12.6	6.7	0.1	7.3	1.8	3.9	9.4	0.1	24.7	6.4	5.2	0.6
Søndermarken	29.5	1.2	6.1	8.8	0.2	4.5	2.1	0.6	11.0	0.2	21.1	3.7	10.5	0.4
Bøgeskov	25.9	1.9	8.1	7.5	0.1	4.9	3.2	0.4	9.9	0.8	24.7	4.8	7.2	0.5
Indre By	23.5	1.8	8.3	10.3	0.3	6.6	1.7	0.9	11.3	0.3	18.6	3.6	11.9	0.9
Gymnasiet 2	23.9	1.4	7.7	10.6	0.2	4.6	3.4	0.7	11.6	0.1	22.3	3.3	9.9	0.4

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Fredericia Municipality
	A	Social Democrats	6,581	23.73	-13.60	5	-4
	V	Venstre	6,125	22.08	+0.09	6	+1
	O	Danish People's Party	2,944	10.61	+2.95	2	0
	F	Green Left	2,570	9.27	+4.95	2	+1
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	2,471	8.91	+1.88	2	+1
	C	Conservatives	2,368	8.54	-1.13	2	0
	I	Liberal Alliance	1,654	5.96	+5.49	1	+1
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	1,201	4.33	New	1	New
	J	Borgernes Liste 7000	695	2.51	New	0	New
	B	Social Liberals	561	2.02	-0.15	0	0
	M	Moderates	310	1.12	New	0	New
	Å	The Alternative	149	0.54	-0.63	0	0
	P	Liste P	64	0.23	New	0	New
	G	Grøn Kultur	44	0.16	New	0	New
Total			27,737	100	N/A	21	N/A
Invalid votes			68	0.16	-0.17
Blank votes			545	1.28	+0.02
Turnout			28,350	66.49	+1.89
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	V	C	O	Ø	F	B	Å	I	G	J	M	P	Æ	Others	Lead
Fredericia-Gymnasium			26.9 (6)	20.6 (5)	6.4 (1)	8.5 (2)	9.4 (2)	13.5 (3)	–	–	5.1 (1)	–	–	–	–	3.8 (1)	–	6.3
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	464	33.2	16.7	5.1	7.7	7.2	8.8	2.7	1.5	7.2	–	–	0.6	–	8.6	0.8	16.5
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		19.2	15.0	8.9	8.5	4.1	14.9	5.0	2.2	7.7	–	–	6.5	–	8.0	–	4.2
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		33.6	11.2	4.7	2.9	3.3	6.7	2.1	1.8	7.9	–	–	10.1	–	9.4	–	22.4
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		33.2	33.4	6.5	5.3	4.5	5.2	2.5	0.6	0.8	–	–	–	–	–	–	0.2
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		37.3 (9)	22.0 (5)	9.7 (2)	7.7 (2)	7.0 (1)	4.3 (1)	2.2 (0)	1.2 (0)	0.5 (0)	–	–	–	–	–	–	15.3

References

1. "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
2. "Bred opbakning: Peder Tind bliver Fredericias nye borgmester". frdb.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
3. "Fredericias borgmester fortsætter på posten | Nyheder" (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
4. "Jacob Bjerregaard stopper som borgmester | Nyheder". altinget (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
5. "Borgmester i Fredericia stopper før tid". altinget.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
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