2025 Odsherred municipal election

2025 Odsherred municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 25 seats to the Odsherred municipal council 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	18,853 (69.4%) 1.7%
First party Second party Third party   A F B Party Social Democrats Green Left Social Liberals Last election 10 seats, 36.6% 1 seat, 5.6% 1 seat, 6.3% Seats won 5 4 3 Seat change 5 3 2 Popular vote 3,798 2,349 2,487 Percentage 20.7% 12.8% 13.6% Swing 15.8% 7.2% 7.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   N O Æ Party Nyt Odsherred Danish People's Party Denmark Democrats Last election 4 seats, 12.7% 2 seats, 7.4% Did not stand Seats won 3 3 2 Seat change 1 1 2 Popular vote 2,178 1,858 1,376 Percentage 11.9% 10.1% 7.5% Swing 0.9% 2.8% New   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   V C Ø Party Venstre Conservatives Red-Green Alliance Last election 4 seats, 13.9% 1 seat, 5.3% 1 seat, 5.1% Seats won 2 1 1 Seat change 2 0 0 Popular vote 1,175 883 805 Percentage 6.4% 4.8% 4.4% Swing 7.5% 0.5% 0.7%
Mayor before election Karina Vincentz Nyt Odsherred Mayor after election Hanne Pigonska Venstre

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

Background

Following the 2021 election, Karina Vincentz from Nyt Odsherred became mayor for her first term, following an increasingly right wing-influenced agreement, compared to the municipality's previous mayors, since the 2007 municipal reform, both 2 from the Social Democrats. ^[3] She would run for a second term. ^[4]

In October 2025, the municipality faced criticism over its decision to terminate subscriptions to the local media outlet Nordvestnyt across its municipal departments. The municipality’s management, including Mayor Karina Vincentz (Nyt Odsherred) and Municipal Director Claus Steen Madsen, directed all center managers to cancel subscriptions to the newspaper, citing cost concerns. The total expenditure on Nordvestnyt subscriptions was approximately 288,000 DKK, a figure significantly lower than the 415,000 DKK spent annually on subscriptions to other media outlets, which were not subject to similar reductions. Several municipal council members, including Michael Kjeldgaard (Social Democrats) and Thomas Nicolaisen (Social Liberals), criticized the move as politically motivated, arguing that it targeted Nordvestnyt because of its investigative reporting on municipal scandals, including issues in the local hospice, Lynghuset, and the management of the municipal heating system. Critics described the decision as sending a “disturbing signal” and raised concerns about limiting employees’ access to independent, critical local journalism. Roger Buch, a media scholar at the Danish School of Media and Journalism, described the decision as unusual for a municipality and warned that such targeted measures against a single media outlet were reminiscent of practices observed in more authoritarian contexts. Some council members and experts argued that the approach could be interpreted as “anti-democratic” by restricting employees’ ability to freely access critical information about the municipality. ^[5]

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. Odsherred Municipality had 25 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source ^[6]

Electoral Alliance 1

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

Electoral Alliance 2

Party			Political alignment
	C	Conservatives	Centre-right
	I	Liberal Alliance	Centre-right to Right-wing
	O	Danish People's Party	Right-wing to Far-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

Electoral Alliance 4

Party			Political alignment
	L	Lokalt Fokus	Local politics
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	Right-wing to Far-right

Electoral Alliance 5

Party			Political alignment
	N	Nyt Odsherred	Local politics
	V	Venstre	Centre-right

Results by polling station

Division	A	B	C	F	I	L	M	N	O	V	Æ	Ø	Å
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Asnæs	23.1	12.3	6.3	11.9	4.2	0.9	1.1	11.5	10.7	8.0	7.0	2.6	0.4
Fårevejle	20.9	8.0	4.0	14.7	6.1	2.0	0.9	10.3	9.8	7.1	11.3	3.9	0.9
Grevinge	23.6	7.8	5.4	12.2	4.8	1.8	0.8	8.3	12.9	5.7	10.9	5.4	0.4
Hørve	18.8	10.2	10.1	10.3	5.8	1.2	0.6	11.8	8.9	7.9	10.5	3.0	0.8
Odden	17.0	9.2	2.4	10.8	1.0	2.9	0.7	23.1	7.9	12.2	6.8	5.1	0.8
Vig	15.3	17.2	3.3	11.1	5.0	1.9	0.8	13.2	12.6	6.6	8.9	3.6	0.4
Hallerne i Nykøbing Sj.	25.4	12.3	3.7	14.4	3.2	2.4	0.7	13.5	10.2	5.0	4.2	3.9	1.0
Rørvig	18.0	13.6	7.0	21.6	3.0	1.7	1.5	11.3	4.8	6.2	3.1	6.2	2.1
Egebjerg Forsamlingshus	17.9	15.8	3.8	15.0	3.3	2.5	0.6	7.1	8.7	4.0	9.6	9.4	2.4
Højby	18.2	25.1	3.1	10.0	2.9	1.5	1.8	10.9	10.5	4.6	5.3	4.8	1.2
Lumsås	18.3	22.4	3.3	9.8	2.3	2.8	1.3	8.2	8.0	8.2	6.7	6.7	2.1
Nr. Asmindrup	21.7	13.0	4.1	9.5	3.5	2.4	0.2	13.0	12.8	4.6	8.9	5.8	0.4

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Odsherred Municipality
	A	Social Democrats	3,798	20.71	-15.85	5	-5
	B	Social Liberals	2,487	13.56	+7.25	3	+2
	F	Green Left	2,349	12.81	+7.21	4	+3
	N	Nyt Odsherred	2,178	11.87	-0.85	3	-1
	O	Danish People's Party	1,858	10.13	+2.76	3	+1
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	1,376	7.50	New	2	New
	V	Venstre	1,175	6.41	-7.53	2	-2
	C	Conservatives	883	4.81	-0.50	1	0
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	805	4.39	-0.72	1	0
	I	Liberal Alliance	746	4.07	+3.64	1	+1
	L	Lokalt Fokus	342	1.86	New	0	New
	Å	The Alternative	175	0.95	New	0	New
	M	Moderates	170	0.93	New	0	New
Total			18,342	100	N/A	25	N/A
Invalid votes			85	0.31	-0.04
Blank votes			426	1.57	+0.63
Turnout			18,853	69.45	+1.69
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	V	N	O	B	F	C	Ø	I	L	M	Å	Æ	Others	Lead
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	407	28.4	9.5	–	11.2	6.0	12.4	3.8	7.3	2.8	–	0.1	2.1	8.6	8.0	16.0
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		17.7	14.7	–	11.3	4.4	16.4	5.9	6.5	4.8	–	5.9	2.1	10.3	–	1.3
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		33.5	11.0	–	5.1	1.7	8.7	3.1	4.0	4.9	–	10.0	2.6	9.5	–	22.5
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		37.0	21.6	–	8.1	5.0	5.9	6.4	6.3	0.9	–	–	0.4	–	–	15.4
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		36.6 (10)	13.9 (4)	12.7 (4)	7.4 (2)	6.3 (1)	5.6 (1)	5.3 (1)	5.1 (1)	0.4 (0)	–	–	–	–	–	22.7

References

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