2025 Haderslev municipal election

2025 Haderslev municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 31 seats to the Haderslev municipal council 16 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	29,653 (66.6%) 1.7%
First party Second party Third party   V A C Party Venstre Social Democrats Conservatives Last election 9 seats, 26.9% 10 seats, 30.2% 5 seats, 13.0% Seats won 9 7 3 Seat change 0 3 2 Popular vote 7,403 6,586 2,912 Percentage 25.5% 22.6% 10.0% Swing 1.4% 7.5% 3.0%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   O F Æ Party Danish People's Party Green Left Denmark Democrats Last election 1 seat, 5.3% 1 seat, 3.5% Did not stand Seats won 3 2 2 Seat change 2 1 2 Popular vote 2,869 2,030 1,975 Percentage 9.9% 7.0% 6.8% Swing 4.6% 3.5% New   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   I Ø S Party Liberal Alliance Red-Green Alliance Schleswig Party Last election 0 seats, 0.4% 1 seat, 4.4% 1 seat, 2.7% Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change 2 0 0 Popular vote 1,753 1,306 915 Percentage 6.0% 4.5% 3.1% Swing 5.6% 0.1% 0.4%
Mayor before election Mads Skau Venstre Mayor after election Mads Skau Venstre

The 2025 Haderslev Municipal election, in the Danish town of Haderslev, was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 31 members to sit in the regional council for the Haderslev Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. ^[1] Mads Skau from Venstre, would secure re-election. ^[2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Mads Skau from Venstre became mayor for his first term. ^[3] He would run for a second term. ^[4]

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. Haderslev Municipality had 31 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source ^[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party			Political alignment
	A	Social Democrats	Centre-left
	F	Green Left	Centre-left to Left-wing

Electoral Alliance 2

Party			Political alignment
	B	Social Liberals	Centre to Centre-left
	C	Conservatives	Centre-right
	K	Christian Democrats	Centre to Centre-right
	S	Schleswig Party	Centre (Regionalism)

Electoral Alliance 3

Party			Political alignment
	D	New Right	Far-right
	I	Liberal Alliance	Centre-right to Right-wing
	O	Danish People's Party	Right-wing to Far-right
	V	Venstre	Centre-right
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	Right-wing to Far-right

Electoral Alliance 4

Party			Political alignment
	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	D	F	I	K	O	S	V	Æ	Ø	Å
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Haderslev Nord	25.8	3.9	11.5	0.1	8.4	4.8	0.7	8.2	3.6	20.7	3.5	8.2	0.5
Haderslev Syd	24.2	3.9	11.5	0.1	8.6	6.0	1.0	9.6	4.2	19.8	4.2	6.4	0.7
Haderslev Vest	26.0	4.0	12.5	0.4	8.5	5.7	0.7	8.2	3.9	21.2	3.6	5.1	0.3
Moltrup	13.6	2.2	7.7	0.0	4.9	7.7	1.3	16.8	2.1	30.8	8.4	3.6	0.9
Fjelstrup	35.8	1.5	6.3	0.3	5.0	10.4	0.3	13.1	1.4	15.9	7.0	1.5	1.4
Aastrup	24.1	4.0	8.5	0.3	11.9	4.9	1.1	7.6	3.4	23.2	4.7	5.7	0.6
Aarø	15.4	0.0	4.3	0.0	2.6	4.3	0.9	11.1	6.8	30.8	19.7	4.3	0.0
Øsby	16.0	3.3	9.5	0.1	8.9	5.7	0.5	9.0	3.5	25.7	11.8	5.1	1.0
Starup Hallen	24.9	2.4	15.1	0.2	8.6	6.3	0.7	8.0	2.4	21.7	4.5	4.7	0.6
Kelstrup	18.0	2.4	7.8	0.2	6.4	5.5	0.7	9.0	5.9	28.7	10.2	4.7	0.7
Hoptrup	15.4	1.8	11.7	0.5	8.9	5.1	1.4	9.5	15.8	16.6	7.8	4.9	0.5
Marstrup	21.2	1.9	11.3	0.6	6.7	5.6	1.5	9.3	3.0	26.6	10.2	1.9	0.4
Hammelev	19.3	1.8	5.4	0.1	4.0	4.6	0.7	8.1	1.9	47.3	5.0	1.6	0.1
Over Jerstal	16.3	1.3	7.6	0.5	5.0	4.4	1.2	10.8	0.8	41.3	9.0	1.6	0.2
Bevtoft	14.0	1.5	2.6	0.3	5.7	4.4	2.7	9.5	0.6	33.0	24.2	1.4	0.3
Skrydstrup	22.3	1.9	12.0	0.8	5.2	4.8	1.0	13.8	1.9	25.0	8.3	2.9	0.2
Vojens	29.5	1.5	13.4	0.4	5.0	4.5	0.8	11.7	1.5	22.0	6.7	2.5	0.5
Sommersted	14.9	1.2	4.8	0.3	3.9	12.5	3.9	14.2	2.9	27.8	11.2	1.9	0.5
Nustrup	13.6	0.9	5.2	0.7	5.6	8.0	0.2	12.0	2.1	40.2	9.9	0.7	0.7
Gram	14.8	2.1	3.9	0.2	4.8	11.0	1.6	10.4	1.3	38.6	8.4	2.3	0.6
Arnum	16.2	2.2	3.0	0.3	2.7	4.6	2.7	14.6	1.1	30.2	20.5	1.6	0.5
Fole	7.3	1.2	4.1	0.0	2.9	6.5	0.0	6.1	0.4	60.0	10.2	0.8	0.4

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Haderslev Municipality
	V	Venstre	7,403	25.46	-1.44	9	0
	A	Social Democrats	6,586	22.65	-7.54	7	-3
	C	Conservatives	2,912	10.01	-2.99	3	-2
	O	Danish People's Party	2,869	9.87	+4.55	3	+2
	F	Green Left	2,030	6.98	+3.49	2	+1
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	1,975	6.79	New	2	New
	I	Liberal Alliance	1,753	6.03	+5.64	2	+2
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	1,306	4.49	+0.14	1	0
	S	Schleswig Party	915	3.15	+0.41	1	0
	B	Social Liberals	795	2.73	-2.06	1	0
	K	Christian Democrats	307	1.06	-0.57	0	0
	Å	The Alternative	154	0.53	-0.71	0	0
	D	New Right	73	0.25	-5.42	0	-2
Total			29,078	100	N/A	31	N/A
Invalid votes			116	0.26	0.0
Blank votes			459	1.03	+0.07
Turnout			29,653	66.63	-1.69
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	V	C	D	O	B	Ø	F	S	K	Å	I	Æ	Others	Lead
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	481	26.7	26.1	7.1	–	7.2	1.3	3.7	8.4	2.0	–	1.5	5.9	9.4	0.7	0.6
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		17.5	21.2	8.8	–	9.4	4.1	3.2	11.2	–	–	1.4	7.1	10.9	–	3.7
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		30.3	16.6	4.3	7.6	3.5	1.8	2.4	4.9	–	1.0	1.4	6.3	11.3	–	13.7
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		24.8	43.0	6.1	5.6	5.6	3.1	4.2	4.2	–	1.7	0.5	0.6	–	–	18.2
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		30.2 (10)	26.9 (9)	13.0 (5)	5.7 (2)	5.3 (1)	4.8 (1)	4.4 (1)	3.5 (1)	2.7 (1)	1.6 (0)	1.2 (0)	0.4 (0)	–	–	3.3

References

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3. "Ny borgmester skal huske at tage skoene på: Mads Skau er faldet godt til på 4. sal | Nyheder". ugeavisen (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
4. "Spidskandidater til kommunal- og regionsvalget". venstre.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
5. "Stemmefordeling i Haderslev Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.