2025 Skanderborg municipal election

2025 Skanderborg municipal election

←  2021 18 November 2025 2029  →
All 29 seats to the Skanderborg municipal council 15 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	38,105 (77.0%) 2.7%
First party Second party Third party   A V F Party Social Democrats Venstre Green Left Last election 10 seats, 30.0% 7 seats, 24.1% 2 seats, 8.6% Seats won 9 5 4 Seat change 1 2 2 Popular vote 10,881 6,131 4,483 Percentage 29.0% 16.3% 11.9% Swing 1.1% 7.7% 3.3%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   B C I Party Social Liberals Conservatives Liberal Alliance Last election 2 seats, 7.5% 4 seats, 12.7% 0 seats, 2.0% Seats won 3 3 2 Seat change 1 1 2 Popular vote 4,137 4,099 2,423 Percentage 11.0% 10.9% 6.5% Swing 3.5% 1.8% 4.4%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Æ Ø O Party Denmark Democrats Red-Green Alliance Danish People's Party Last election Did not stand 1 seat, 4.3% 1 seat, 4.3% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 1 0 0 Popular vote 1,880 1,476 1,326 Percentage 5.0% 3.9% 3.5% Swing New 0.4% 0.8%
Mayor before election Frands Fischer Social Democrats Mayor after election Frands Fischer Social Democrats

The 2025 Skanderborg Municipal election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 29 members to sit in the regional council for the Skanderborg Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. ^[1] Frands Fischer from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. ^[2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Frands Fischer from Social Democrats became mayor for his first full term. ^[3] He would run for a second full 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. Skanderborg Municipality had 29 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source ^[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party			Political alignment
	A	Social Democrats	Centre-left
	B	Social Liberals	Centre to Centre-left
	F	Green Left	Centre-left to Left-wing
	M	Moderates	Centre to Centre-right
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	Left-wing to Far-Left
	Å	The Alternative	Centre-left to Left-wing

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
	V	Venstre	Centre-right
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division	A	B	C	F	I	M	O	V	Æ	Ø	Å
	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%	%
Ejer Bavnehøj	31.0	4.7	8.9	11.6	8.3	1.8	5.1	17.3	6.7	3.9	0.8
Galten	23.3	18.2	14.3	7.8	5.9	0.7	4.2	17.6	5.1	2.5	0.4
Gl. Rye	36.5	7.1	3.9	22.8	2.5	0.9	1.4	13.0	1.5	9.6	0.9
Hørning	35.3	4.9	18.7	9.0	6.4	2.4	4.4	10.9	4.3	3.2	0.4
Låsby	17.1	4.4	5.0	12.1	5.2	1.4	5.4	36.2	7.6	5.2	0.3
Morten Børup	29.7	11.5	9.8	11.8	8.4	0.9	3.4	15.6	3.8	4.5	0.8
Niels Ebbesen	25.4	18.9	12.3	10.1	8.5	2.0	2.9	13.3	3.0	3.2	0.4
Ry	32.6	8.0	8.7	20.4	3.9	0.9	1.8	15.7	2.0	5.1	0.7
Skovby	25.6	16.2	11.4	10.3	6.5	1.2	4.6	14.4	6.6	3.1	0.3
Stilling	42.4	7.0	9.7	8.6	7.8	1.3	3.2	11.7	5.3	2.5	0.4
Stjær	15.2	22.5	6.1	10.6	3.5	1.1	3.1	11.2	21.5	4.4	0.8
Virring	16.6	5.2	5.5	10.8	7.3	2.1	4.0	38.2	7.0	3.3	0.3

Results

Party			Votes	%	+/-	Seats	+/-
Skanderborg Municipality
	A	Social Democrats	10,881	28.98	-1.06	9	-1
	V	Venstre	6,131	16.33	-7.73	5	-2
	F	Green Left	4,483	11.94	+3.30	4	+2
	B	Social Liberals	4,137	11.02	+3.47	3	+1
	C	Conservatives	4,099	10.92	-1.82	3	-1
	I	Liberal Alliance	2,423	6.45	+4.42	2	+2
	Æ	Denmark Democrats	1,880	5.01	New	1	New
	Ø	Red-Green Alliance	1,476	3.93	-0.39	1	0
	O	Danish People's Party	1,326	3.53	-0.81	1	0
	M	Moderates	515	1.37	New	0	New
	Å	The Alternative	200	0.53	-1.78	0	-1
Total			37,551	100	N/A	29	N/A
Invalid votes			96	0.19	-0.03
Blank votes			458	0.93	+0.15
Turnout			38,105	77.04	+2.69
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Fieldwork date	Sample size	A	V	C	F	B	O	Ø	Å	I	M	Æ	Lead
Epinion	4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025	522	27.8	16.6	4.9	12.8	8.0	5.1	4.9	1.5	8.5	3.0	6.9	11.2
2024 european parliament election	9 Jun 2024		15.8	15.1	9.2	18.8	8.3	4.7	4.6	2.4	7.7	6.9	6.4	3.0
2022 general election	1 Nov 2022		26.8	14.4	4.9	9.3	4.4	1.8	3.9	3.5	9.8	9.9	7.0	12.4
2021 regional election	16 Nov 2021		30.3	22.1	12.7	7.9	6.0	3.8	6.2	1.2	2.0	–	–	8.2
2021 municipal election	16 Nov 2021		30.0 (10)	24.1 (7)	12.7 (4)	8.6 (2)	7.5 (2)	4.3 (1)	4.3 (1)	2.3 (1)	2.0 (0)	–	–	5.9

References

1. "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
2. "Parti har haft borgmesterpost siden 2009 - og det fortsætter". tv2ostjylland.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
3. "Endelig: Det nye byråd har fordelt de politiske poster | Nyheder". skanderborg.lokalavisen (in Danish). 25 November 2021. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
4. "S har sat holdet: Seks gengangere og syv nye skal hjælpe Frands med at genvinde borgmesterkæden". dinavis.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
5. "Stemmefordeling i Skanderborg Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.