2025 Copenhagen City council election
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The 2025 København Municipal election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 55 members to sit in the regional council for the København Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1]
Background
[edit]In the 2021 election, Sophie Hæstorp Andersen from the Social Democrats became mayor for her first term, despite the Social Democrats failing to become the largest party for the first time in more than a hundred years. [2] Instead, the Red–Green Alliance won the most seats, but failed to win the Lord mayor position. [3]
Lord mayor Hæstorp Andersen, stepped down from the positionm which was revealed on August 29, 2024, [4] and instead became Minister of Social Affairs. Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil was later revealed to become the leading candidate from the Social Democrats for this election. [5]
Electoral system
[edit]For elections to Danish municipalities, a number varying from 9 to 31 are chosen to be elected to the municipal council. However Copenhagen Municipality has, as the only municipality, a city council instead of a municipal council. In the city council 55 seats are contested.
The seats are then allocated using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation.
Unlike in Danish General Elections, in elections to city councils, electoral alliances are allowed.
Elecotral Alliances
[edit]There has been no announced electoral alliances as of May 30, 2025.
Opinion polls
[edit]| Polling firm |
Fieldwork date |
Sample size |
Ø | A | C | B | F | V | Å | I | O | M | Æ | Others | Lead | ||||||
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| Norstat | 12 May 2025 | 20.5 | 17.4 | 10.3 | 9.0 | 17.2 | 5.5 | ‒ | 8.1 | ‒ | ‒ | ‒ | ‒ | 3.1 | |||||||
| Wilke | 28 Jan 2025 | 22.3 | 13.6 | 10.3 | 6.8 | 21.0 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 9.3 | ‒ | 3.8 | 1.2 | ‒ | 1.3 | |||||||
| Epinion | 21 Nov 2024 | 24.0 | 12.0 | 7.0 | 8.0 | 21.0 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 9.0 | ‒ | 3.0 | ‒ | ‒ | 3.0 | |||||||
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 18.5 | 9.7 | 6.2 | 11.8 | 27.7 | 6.3 | 5.6 | 5.8 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 1.1 | ‒ | 9.2 | |||||||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 15.2 | 17.7 | 4.3 | 7.8 | 12.0 | 7.8 | 10.4 | 8.3 | 1.4 | 9.2 | 1.5 | 4.2 | 2.5 | |||||||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 24.3 | 16.3 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 11.9 | 7.8 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 2.0 | ‒ | ‒ | 6.1 | 8.0 | |||||||
| 2021 | 16 Nov 2021 | 24.6 (15) |
17.2 (10) |
13.1 (8) |
11.9 (6) |
11.0 (6) |
7.7 (5) |
2.9 (2) |
2.7 (1) |
1.9 (1) |
‒ | ‒ | 4.6 | 7.4 | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Der er især tre årsager til, at Socialdemokratiet gik tilbage i hovedstaden". kristeligt-dagblad.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Hæstorp bliver overborgmester i København | Nyheder". politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Københavns overborgmester stopper: Det skal hun lave nu". kobenhavnliv.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil valgt som Socialdemokratiets kandidat til overborgmesterposten". altinget.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.