2025 Brøndby municipal election

2025 Brøndby municipal election
18 November 2025

All 19 seats to the Brøndby municipal council
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout17,245 (56.2%)
0.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
O
Ø
Party Social Democrats Danish People's Party Red-Green Alliance
Last election 11 seats, 53.5% 1 seat, 6.0% 1 seat, 7.8%
Seats won 8 4 2
Seat change 3 3 1
Popular vote 6,674 2,577 1,702
Percentage 39.5% 15.3% 10.1%
Swing 14.0% 9.2% 2.3%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
C
F
B
Party Conservatives Green Left Social Liberals
Last election 2 seats, 7.6% 1 seat, 6.2% 1 seat, 5.3%
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change 0 1 0
Popular vote 1,623 1,621 1,056
Percentage 9.6% 9.6% 6.3%
Swing 2.1% 3.4% 1.0%

  Seventh party
 
V
Party Venstre
Last election 1 seat, 6.5%
Seats won 0
Seat change 1
Popular vote 595
Percentage 3.5%
Swing 3.0%

Mayor before election

Maja Højgaard
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Maja Højgaard
Social Democrats

The 2025 Brøndby Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 19 members to sit in the regional council for the Brøndby Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Maja Højgaard from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Kent Magelund from Social Democrats became mayor for his second full term. [3] However, Kent Magelund, entered pension from the May 31, 2024,[4] leading to Maja Højgaard, from the Social Democrats as well, taking over the mayoral position. [5] She would run for her first full term in this election. [6]

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. Brøndby Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[7]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
A Social Democrats Centre-left
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
K Christian Democrats Centre to Centre-right
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 3

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

Results by polling station

Division A B C F I K M O V Ø
% % % % % % % % % %
Brøndbyvester Skole 34.8 4.8 12.3 10.3 5.2 0.5 2.4 18.5 4.6 6.7
Tjørnehøjhallen 36.2 4.2 9.5 10.9 4.2 0.1 1.8 18.6 4.7 9.6
Lindelundshallen 41.3 2.6 10.5 12.0 2.8 0.6 2.0 16.3 3.7 8.4
Nørregård 41.3 5.3 9.5 9.9 2.4 0.6 1.8 15.7 2.9 10.7
Kulturhuset Brønden 41.5 8.8 9.1 7.7 3.4 0.2 2.7 12.2 2.7 11.7
Søholthallen 41.7 11.5 7.2 7.3 2.8 0.4 3.2 10.5 2.8 12.5

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Brøndby Municipality
A Social Democrats 6,674 39.54 -13.96 8 -3
O Danish People's Party 2,577 15.27 +9.23 4 +3
Ø Red-Green Alliance 1,702 10.08 +2.26 2 +1
C Conservatives 1,623 9.61 +2.05 2 0
F Green Left 1,621 9.60 +3.39 2 +1
B Social Liberals 1,056 6.26 +0.98 1 0
V Venstre 595 3.52 -3.02 0 -1
I Liberal Alliance 580 3.44 +1.66 0 0
M Moderates 385 2.28 New 0 New
K Christian Democrats 67 0.40 New 0 New
Total 16,880 100 N/A 19 N/A
Invalid votes 101 0.33 -0.02
Blank votes 264 0.86 +0.35
Turnout 17,245 56.24 +0.72
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A Ø C V F O B I K M Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 452 46.7 10.0 7.6 2.4 9.8 15.0 1.5 4.8 2.1 0.1 31.7
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 22.5 11.9 6.8 8.3 17.5 10.2 5.0 5.1 5.4 5.0
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 36.4 6.0 3.7 7.1 8.7 5.2 3.1 5.2 0.6 7.6 27.7
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 42.7 7.7 10.6 7.7 7.9 6.8 5.3 1.2 0.3 32.1
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 53.5
(11)
7.8
(1)
7.6
(2)
6.5
(1)
6.2
(1)
6.0
(1)
5.3
(1)
1.8
(0)
45.7

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "FAKTA: Her er borgmestrene på plads | Nyheder". ugeavisen (in Danish). 21 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  4. ^ "Kent Magelund stopper som borgmester i Brøndby". brondby.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  5. ^ "Maja Højgaard er Brøndbys nye borgmester". brondby.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  6. ^ "Borgmester klar til fire år mere med kæde om halsen". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  7. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Brøndby Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.