2025 Herlev municipal election

2025 Herlev municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 19 seats to the Herlev municipal council 10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	15,353 (64.2%) 0.9%
First party Second party Third party   A F C Party Social Democrats Green Left Conservatives Last election 9 seats, 45.9% 2 seats, 10.1% 5 seats, 19.2% Seats won 8 3 2 Seat change 1 1 3 Popular vote 5,801 2,061 2,041 Percentage 38.5% 13.7% 13.6% Swing 7.3% 3.6% 5.6%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Ø V O Party Red-Green Alliance Venstre Danish People's Party Last election 2 seats, 10.2% 0 seats, 3.0% 0 seats, 3.0% Seats won 2 2 1 Seat change 0 2 1 Popular vote 1,688 960 855 Percentage 11.2% 6.4% 5.7% Swing 1.1% 3.3% 2.7%   Seventh party Eighth party   I B Party Liberal Alliance Social Liberals Last election 0 seats, 1.0% 1 seat, 3.9% Seats won 1 0 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 853 533 Percentage 5.7% 3.5% Swing 4.7% 0.3%
Mayor before election Marco Damgaard Social Democrats Mayor after election Marco Damgaard Social Democrats

The 2025 Herlev Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 19 members to sit in the regional council for the Herlev Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. ^[1] Marco Damgaard from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. ^[2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Thomas Gyldal Petersen from Social Democrats became mayor for third term. ^[3] However, on December 4, 2024 it was revealed that he would step down as mayor, and Marco Damgaard would take over. ^{[4] [5]} Damgaard would run to continue as mayor. ^[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. Herlev Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source ^[7]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party			Political alignment
	B	Social Liberals	Centre to Centre-left
	F	Green Left	Centre-left to Left-wing
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	Left-wing to Far-Left

Electoral Alliance 2

Party			Political alignment
	I	Liberal Alliance	Centre-right to Right-wing
	M	Moderates	Centre to Centre-right
	O	Danish People's Party	Right-wing to Far-right
	V	Venstre	Centre-right

Results by polling station

Division	A	B	C	F	I	M	O	V	Ø
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Herlev Medborgerhus	37.3	4.4	10.9	15.2	5.6	1.5	5.3	6.7	13.1
Herlev Hallerne	42.0	3.3	17.1	11.7	6.3	1.3	5.0	5.6	7.7
Kildegårdhallen	36.1	2.9	12.7	14.2	5.0	2.4	6.9	6.9	13.0

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Herlev Municipality
	A	Social Democrats	5,801	38.55	-7.30	8	-1
	F	Green Left	2,061	13.70	+3.62	3	+1
	C	Conservatives	2,041	13.56	-5.59	2	-3
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	1,688	11.22	+1.07	2	0
	V	Venstre	960	6.38	+3.33	2	+2
	O	Danish People's Party	855	5.68	+2.71	1	+1
	I	Liberal Alliance	853	5.67	+4.70	1	+1
	B	Social Liberals	533	3.54	-0.33	0	-1
	M	Moderates	256	1.70	New	0	New
Total			15,048	100	N/A	19	N/A
Invalid votes			80	0.33	+0.03
Blank votes			225	0.94	+0.26
Turnout			15,353	64.17	+0.90
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	C	Ø	F	B	V	O	I	M	Lead
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	543	48.8	10.6	7.5	12.0	2.4	7.0	4.3	7.4	0.1	36.8
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		19.5	9.6	10.1	19.0	7.2	8.8	7.5	5.8	6.5	0.5
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		33.8	5.8	6.8	9.4	3.8	8.2	3.4	6.3	9.8	24.0
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		37.7	17.9	9.6	10.4	5.5	6.4	3.8	1.4	–	19.8
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		45.9 (9)	19.2 (5)	10.2 (2)	10.1 (2)	3.9 (1)	3.0 (0)	3.0 (0)	1.0 (0)	–	26.7

References

1. "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
2. "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
3. "Borgmester: Socialdemokratiet stadig det største parti | Nyheder". heleherlev (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-02-16.
4. "Endnu en S-borgmester stopper i utide". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
5. "Marco Damgaard er ny borgmester i Herlev". herlev.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
6. "Socialdemokratiet har valgt sin spids- og borgmesterkandidat". socialdemokratiet-herlev.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
7. "Stemmefordeling i Herlev Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.