2025 Kerteminde municipal election

2025 Kerteminde municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 25 seats to the Kerteminde municipal council 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	14,648 (74.7%) 2.0%
First party Second party Third party   C A I Party Conservatives Social Democrats Liberal Alliance Last election 9 seats, 33.3% 10 seats, 36.6% Did not stand Seats won 8 5 3 Seat change 1 5 3 Popular vote 4,448 2,926 1,620 Percentage 30.9% 20.3% 11.2% Swing 2.4% 16.2% New   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   E F Ø Party Hverdagens Stemme Green Left Red-Green Alliance Last election Did not stand 1 seat, 5.5% 1 seat, 4.3% Seats won 3 2 1 Seat change 3 1 0 Popular vote 1,577 1,132 664 Percentage 11.0% 7.9% 4.6% Swing New 2.4% 0.3%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   V O B Party Venstre Danish People's Party Social Liberals Last election 2 seats, 7.0% 1 seat, 4.6% 0 seats, 2.8% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 1 0 1 Popular vote 654 602 375 Percentage 4.5% 4.2% 2.6% Swing 2.5% 0.4% 0.1%
Mayor before election Kasper Ejsing Olesen Social Democrats Mayor after election Michael Nielsen Conservatives

The 2025 Kerteminde Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 25 members to sit in the regional council for the Kerteminde Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. ^[1] Michael Nielsen from the Conservatives, would win the mayoral position. ^[2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Kasper Ejsing Olesen from Social Democrats became mayor for his second term. ^[3] He would run for re-election. ^[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. Kerteminde Municipality had 25 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
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	Left-wing to Far-Left

Electoral Alliance 2

Party			Political alignment
	B	Social Liberals	Centre to Centre-left
	M	Moderates	Centre to Centre-right
	V	Venstre	Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 3

Party			Political alignment
	C	Conservatives	Centre-right
	E	Hverdagens Stemme	Local politics
	I	Liberal Alliance	Centre-right to Right-wing
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division	A	B	C	E	F	I	M	O	V	Æ	Ø
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Hindsholm	17.4	5.1	21.2	10.8	9.8	11.9	0.2	3.3	9.5	2.4	8.3
Kerteminde Idrætscenter	20.6	3.5	31.3	9.1	7.3	12.8	0.4	3.8	5.4	1.2	4.5
Nymarken	17.9	2.2	23.8	8.7	7.6	18.8	0.2	4.8	6.5	4.1	5.5
Marslev	16.1	1.3	31.0	23.3	5.2	6.1	1.1	4.3	4.0	3.5	4.0
Langeskov	20.8	1.1	52.7	6.2	3.7	5.1	0.3	3.0	2.4	2.5	2.3
Munkebo	23.3	2.4	17.2	14.3	12.8	13.1	0.8	5.8	2.8	2.2	5.3

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Kerteminde Municipality
	C	Conservatives	4,448	30.89	-2.37	8	-1
	A	Social Democrats	2,926	20.32	-16.25	5	-5
	I	Liberal Alliance	1,620	11.25	New	3	New
	E	Hverdagens Stemme	1,577	10.95	New	3	New
	F	Green Left	1,132	7.86	+2.36	2	+1
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	664	4.61	+0.32	1	0
	V	Venstre	654	4.54	-2.45	1	-1
	O	Danish People's Party	602	4.18	-0.42	1	0
	B	Social Liberals	375	2.60	-0.15	1	+1
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	329	2.28	New	0	New
	M	Moderates	74	0.51	New	0	New
Total			14,401	100	N/A	25	N/A
Invalid votes			41	0.21	-0.02
Blank votes			206	1.05	+0.21
Turnout			14,648	74.69	+2.05
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	C	V	F	O	Ø	B	E	I	M	Æ	Others	Lead
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	525	27.3	24.5	6.8	10.8	4.6	4.0	1.8	–	9.3	1.0	5.9	4.0	2.8
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		21.8	10.1	14.0	16.2	8.1	4.3	4.2	–	5.5	5.8	8.6	–	5.6
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		37.4	6.8	9.9	6.6	2.8	3.3	1.8	–	5.4	9.3	9.2	–	27.5
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		28.5	20.1	25.8	6.4	4.1	4.6	2.9	–	0.7	–	–	–	2.7
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		36.6 (10)	33.3 (9)	7.0 (2)	5.5 (1)	4.6 (1)	4.3 (1)	2.8 (0)	–	–	–	–	–	3.3

References

1. "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
2. "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
3. "Kasper Olesen fortsætter som borgmester i Kerteminde | Nyheder". kjavis (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
4. "Kasper Ejsing genopstiller, og M har flere spidser klar". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
5. "Stemmefordeling i Kerteminde Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.