2025 Assens municipal election
18 November 2025
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All 29 seats to the Assens municipal council 15 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Assens Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 29 members to sit in the regional council for the Assens Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029. Anstina Krogh from the Social Democrats, would win the mayoral position. [1]
Background
Following the 2021 election, Søren Steen Andersen from Venstre became mayor for his third term.[2] He would run a fourth term.[3]
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. Assens Municipality had 29 seats in 2025.
Electoral alliances
Source[4]
Electoral Alliance 1
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Social Liberals | Centre to Centre-left | |
| 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 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 | |
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | Right-wing to Far-right | |
Electoral Alliance 3
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| L | Vi Lokale Demokrater | Local politics | |
| V | Venstre | Centre-right | |
Results by polling station
| Division | A | B | C | D | F | I | L | O | V | Æ | Ø | Å |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| ARENA ASSENS | 22.4 | 2.5 | 7.5 | 0.5 | 9.0 | 4.8 | 0.1 | 5.3 | 38.2 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 0.4 |
| Ebberup/Helnæs | 18.2 | 1.3 | 4.5 | 0.3 | 9.1 | 8.1 | 0.3 | 5.3 | 44.1 | 5.3 | 3.2 | 0.5 |
| Turup | 15.8 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 0.2 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 39.6 | 10.0 | 4.0 | 1.6 |
| Salbrovad | 10.4 | 2.3 | 22.4 | 1.1 | 6.3 | 10.7 | 0.0 | 4.8 | 29.7 | 8.2 | 3.9 | 0.2 |
| Aarup/Kerte | 17.8 | 6.1 | 4.2 | 0.5 | 9.9 | 5.8 | 0.1 | 4.8 | 40.0 | 6.5 | 3.8 | 0.4 |
| Rørup | 9.4 | 23.4 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 0.3 | 10.2 | 29.2 | 10.9 | 2.5 | 0.3 |
| Orte/Ørsted | 14.0 | 3.4 | 5.9 | 1.1 | 13.6 | 6.8 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 38.9 | 6.1 | 5.0 | 0.8 |
| Glamsbjerg/Søllested | 27.4 | 2.1 | 3.5 | 0.4 | 9.5 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 10.3 | 28.0 | 5.3 | 4.0 | 1.7 |
| Flemløse | 17.9 | 0.8 | 6.3 | 1.9 | 8.2 | 11.8 | 0.2 | 8.0 | 32.7 | 7.8 | 3.2 | 1.3 |
| Køng | 19.7 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 9.9 | 11.1 | 0.0 | 6.8 | 33.9 | 5.4 | 3.8 | 0.5 |
| Vissenbjerg | 17.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 7.6 | 5.7 | 0.6 | 4.7 | 43.6 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 0.6 |
| Dreslette | 21.8 | 1.6 | 6.4 | 0.6 | 10.0 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 6.8 | 35.1 | 6.0 | 4.6 | 0.6 |
| Haarby | 20.2 | 1.2 | 7.4 | 0.2 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 0.1 | 6.0 | 42.3 | 5.2 | 2.3 | 0.4 |
| Jordløse | 19.9 | 4.4 | 6.2 | 1.8 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 0.0 | 7.8 | 29.7 | 6.7 | 7.0 | 1.3 |
| Brylle | 19.0 | 0.7 | 6.2 | 0.2 | 7.5 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 54.2 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 0.3 |
| Tommerup | 11.3 | 2.5 | 4.6 | 0.6 | 15.6 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 4.1 | 48.3 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 0.7 |
| Tommerup St | 18.4 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 24.5 | 3.4 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 35.5 | 3.0 | 4.5 | 0.5 |
| Verninge/Nårup | 15.5 | 2.2 | 4.4 | 1.0 | 10.1 | 5.8 | 0.0 | 4.6 | 48.7 | 5.2 | 2.4 | 0.2 |
Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assens Municipality | ||||||||
| V | Venstre | 9,173 | 39.76 | -1.90 | 12 | -1 | ||
| A | Social Democrats | 4,372 | 18.95 | -8.38 | 5 | -3 | ||
| F | Green Left | 2,335 | 10.12 | +3.64 | 3 | +1 | ||
| I | Liberal Alliance | 1,402 | 6.08 | New | 2 | New | ||
| O | Danish People's Party | 1,293 | 5.60 | +0.44 | 2 | +1 | ||
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | 1,270 | 5.50 | New | 2 | New | ||
| C | Conservatives | 1,263 | 5.47 | -2.47 | 1 | -2 | ||
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 942 | 4.08 | +0.69 | 1 | 0 | ||
| B | Social Liberals | 709 | 3.07 | +0.62 | 1 | +1 | ||
| Å | The Alternative | 141 | 0.61 | -0.09 | 0 | 0 | ||
| D | New Right | 135 | 0.59 | -3.36 | 0 | -1 | ||
| L | Vi Lokale Demokrater | 36 | 0.16 | -0.10 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 23,071 | 100 | N/A | 29 | N/A | |||
| Invalid votes | 84 | 0.26 | -0.04 | |||||
| Blank votes | 382 | 1.18 | +0.07 | |||||
| Turnout | 23,537 | 72.41 | +2.29 | |||||
| Source: valg.dk | ||||||||
Opinion polls
| Polling firm |
Fieldwork date |
Sample size |
V | A | C | F | O | D | Ø | B | Å | I | L | Æ | Others | Lead | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epinion | 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 | 546 | 36.4 | 22.9 | 5.0 | 10.2 | 4.1 | – | 2.9 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 6.1 | – | 7.5 | 0.4 | 13.5 | |||||
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 17.5 | 20.8 | 7.6 | 14.2 | 7.9 | – | 3.7 | 4.8 | 1.8 | 5.7 | – | 10.4 | – | 3.3 | ||||||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 15.5 | 34.5 | 4.3 | 6.5 | 3.2 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 5.2 | – | 10.6 | – | 19.0 | ||||||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 40.5 | 27.4 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.5 | – | – | – | 13.1 | ||||||
| 2021 municipal election | 16 Nov 2021 | 41.7 (13) |
27.3 (8) |
7.9 (3) |
6.5 (2) |
5.2 (1) |
3.9 (1) |
3.4 (1) |
2.5 (0) |
0.7 (0) |
– | – | – | – | 14.4 | ||||||
References
- ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
- ^ "Borgmester genvalgt som spidskandidat: - Man skal stå tidligt op, hvis man skal udfordre ham | Nyheder". fyens (in Danish). September 2020. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
- ^ "Spidskandidater til kommunal- og regionsvalget". venstre.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
- ^ "Stemmefordeling i Assens Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.