2025 Danish local elections


Local elections were held in Denmark on 18 November 2025. for the 2026–2029 term of office. All 2,432 local and 134 regional councillors in Denmark's 98 municipalities and four regions will be up for election. The 47 member council of the Region of Eastern Denmark, a merger of the Capital Region and Region Zealand, will be elected for the first time. The new region will be established 1 January 2027. The unincorporated small archipelago of Ertholmene will remain under central government administration and not be a part of a region or municipality.

Background

Every four years, on the third Tuesday in November, local elections are held in Denmark. All 98 municipalities and 4 regions hold elections simultaneously on this date.
Rebild Municipality, Lemvig Municipality and Vordingborg Municipality are reducing their number of councillors from 25 to 23, 21 to 19 and 29 to 27 respectively, while Frederiksberg Municipality, is increasing its number from 29 to 31.

Electoral system

In Danish local elections, all 98 municipal councils and four regional councils are elected concurrently. The municipal councils have between 9 and 31 members, except the Copenhagen City Council which has 55 members. Two of the regional councils have 31 members each, North Jutland 25, and one, the Region of Eastern Denmark, has 47, the last of which will be elected for the first time in the 2025 local elections. In total, 2,432 members are elected to the municipal councils, and 134 members are elected to the four regional councils in 2025.
All elections use the D'Hondt method to calculate number of seats, with the entire municipality or region being one single constituency. There is no legal electoral threshold.
The parties are allowed to enter into electoral alliances. If parties agree to enter an electoral alliance, they will count their votes as one and seats will be distributed to electoral alliances and parties outside of electoral alliances using the D'Hondt method. When an electoral alliance has been allocated the number of seats it is entitled to, the seats will similarly be divided between the component parties using the D'Hondt method.
To be an eligible voter, one must meet the following requirements:

Regional councils

Regional councils notional seats

Since their creation in 2007, Denmark's five regions have been a topic of continuous political debate. In June 2024, the government's Health Structure Commission put forward three proposals to reorganize the healthcare system, two of which involved dissolving the current regions. Ultimately, the regions were preserved, but with reforms affecting, among other things, the regional councils. From their first election in 2005 until the 2021 election, each of the five regional councils held 41 seats. The reform resulted in three regions, the North Denmark, Central Denmark, and Southern Denmark Region, maintaining their existing boundaries and continuing unchanged, while the other two regions, Zealand and Capital of Denmark were merged to create a new entity with the council having 47 seats.
This is the results of the 2021 elections if the new number of councillors per region had been elected.

Overview of regional councils

Social Democrats
Venstre

Overview of mayors

Social Democrats
Venstre
Conservatives
Green Left
Liberal Alliance
Schleswig Party
Social Liberals
Danish People's Party
Other local parties