2025 Southern Denmark Regional election
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The 2025 Southern Denmark Regional election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 31 members to sit in the regional council for the Southern Denmark Regional council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1]
Background
[edit]Following the 2021 election, Stephanie Lose from Venstre became chairperson for her second term. [2][3] However, Lose announced on October 25, 2025, that she would step down from the position, in case she became a minister. [4] Following this, Bo Libergren, from Venstre as well replaced her, when she became the Minister for Economic Affairs. [5] [6]
Since their establishment in 2007, Denmark’s five regions have been subject to ongoing political debate. In June 2024, the government's Health Structure Commission proposed three models for reorganizing the healthcare system, two of which involved abolishing the existing regions. [7] In the end, the regions were retained, however with a reformartion of, among other things, the regional councils. Each of the five regional councils, had 41 seats, from their first election in 2005 to the 2021 election. [8] The reform resulted in three regions, including the North Denmark Region, retaining their existing boundaries and continuing unchanged, while the two other regions were merged to form a new entity. [9] As part of the reform, this region will elect only 31 council members, who will not take office until the end of 2026. [10]
Notional results 2021
[edit]2021 Election Results and notional results with 31 Seats Contested
[edit]| Parties | Vote | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Actual Seats | Notional Seats | + / - | |||
| Venstre | 249,004 | 39.2 | 17 | 14 | -3 | ||
| Social Democrats | 164,481 | 25.9 | 12 | 8 | -4 | ||
| Conservatives | 48,870 | 7.7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Green Left | 40,878 | 6.4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| New Right | 29,517 | 4.7 | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
| Red–Green Alliance | 27,322 | 4.3 | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
| Social Liberals | 26,783 | 4.2 | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
| Danish People's Party | 27,220 | 4.3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 310,538 | 100.0 | 41 | 31 | -10 | ||
| Source[11] | |||||||
Electoral system
[edit]For elections to Danish regional councils, a number varying from 25 to 47 are chosen to be elected to the Regional council. The seats are then allocated using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation. The Southern Denmark Region had 31 seats in 2025.
Elecotral Alliances
[edit]There has been no announced electoral alliances as of June 6, 2025.
Opinion polls
[edit]| Polling firm |
Fieldwork date |
Sample size |
V | A | C | F | Ø | O | B | I | Å | M | Æ | Others | Lead | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 18.2 | 17.8 | 8.6 | 14.5 | 4.6 | 7.4 | 5.3 | 7.0 | 2.0 | 5.6 | 9.0 | ‒ | 0.4 | |||||||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 14.5 | 30.1 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 3.3 | 2.7 | 2.6 | 7.1 | 2.0 | 9.6 | 10.0 | 6.3 | 15.6 | |||||||
| 2021 municipal elections | 16 Nov 2021 | 28.6 | 29.8 | 11.9 | 7.2 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 1.2 | 0.4 | ‒ | ‒ | 7.7 | 1.2 | |||||||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 35.5 (17) |
23.4 (12) |
7.0 (3) |
5.8 (2) |
3.9 (2) |
3.9 (1) |
3.8 (2) |
0.9 (0) |
0.4 (0) |
‒ | ‒ | 5.9 (2) |
12.0 | |||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Stephanie Lose fortsætter og styrker greb om Region Syddanmark". jyllands-posten.dk (in Danish). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- ^ "Stephanie Lose fortsætter som regionsrådsformand i Region Syddanmark". regionsyddanmark.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-06-14.
- ^ "Stephanie Lose stopper som regionsformand, hvis hun bliver minister i regeringen". altinget.dk (in Danish). 25 October 2023. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Stephanie Lose bliver ny økonomiminister". oem.dk (in Danish). 23 November 2023. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Bo Libergren er ny regionsrådsformand i Region Syddanmark". regionsyddanmark.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Kommission foreslår at nedlægge regionerne". jyllands-posten.dk (in Danish). 11 June 2024. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Valgene til kommunalbestyrelser og regionsråd den 16. november 2021" (PDF). valgim.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Farvel til Region Hovedstaden og Region Sjælland: Ny Region Østdanmark er en realitet". dr.dk (in Danish). 15 November 2024. Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Fremtidens fire nye regioner". regioner.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-06-06.
- ^ "Valgene til kommunalbestyrelser og regionsråd den 16. november 2021" (PDF). dst.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-06-06.