2025 Brønderslev municipal election

2025 Brønderslev municipal election
18 November 2025
All 27 seats to the Brønderslev municipal council
14 seats needed for a majority
Turnout20,255 (70.9%)
1.0%
  First party Second party Third party
 
V
A
Æ
Party Venstre Social Democrats Denmark Democrats
Last election 12 seats, 39.9% 8 seats, 30.3% Did not stand
Seats won 11 6 2
Seat change 1 2 2
Popular vote 7,408 4,263 1,836
Percentage 37.1% 21.4% 9.2%
Swing 2.8% 8.9% New
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
F
 J
C
Party Green Left Borgerlisten Conservatives
Last election 1 seat, 2.6% 1 seat, 6.0% 2 seats, 7.8%
Seats won 2 2 2
Seat change 1 1 0
Popular vote 1,791 1,348 1,319
Percentage 9.0% 6.8% 6.6%
Swing 6.3% 0.8% 1.2%
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
O
Ø
 D
Party Danish People's Party Red-Green Alliance New Right
Last election 1 seat, 4.3% 1 seat, 2.5% 1 seat, 3.5%
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change 0 0 1
Popular vote 877 617 113
Percentage 4.4% 3.1% 0.6%
Swing 0.1% 0.6% 2.9%
Mayor before election

Mikael Klitgaard
Venstre

Mayor after election

Mikael Klitgaard
Venstre

The 2025 Brønderslev Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, in the Danish city of Brønderslev, to elect the 27 members to sit in the regional council for the Brønderslev Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Mikael Klitgaard would secure the mayoral position, depsite Venstre losing a seat. [2]

Background

In the 2021 election, Mikael Klitgaard from Venstre won his third consecutive term as mayor of Brønderslev Municipality. [3] In June of 2024, the party decided to put him forward as their mayoral candidate once again. [4]

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. Brønderslev Municipality had 27 seats in 2025.

Unlike in Danish General Elections, in elections to municipal councils, electoral alliances are allowed.

Electoral alliances

Source[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
C Conservatives Centre-right
J Borgerlisten Local politics
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
D New Right Far-right
O Danish People's Party Right-wing to Far-right
V Venstre Centre-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Electoral Alliance 3

Party Political alignment
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing
Ø Red-Green Alliance Left-wing to Far-Left

Results by polling station

Division A B C D F J M O V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % % % % %
Agersted 44.3 6.1 2.6 1.4 7.0 3.5 0.2 5.9 16.6 10.8 1.6
Asaa 28.1 2.7 3.0 0.3 6.0 9.7 1.2 6.1 30.4 9.2 3.1
Dronninglund 22.3 1.7 4.6 0.5 10.2 17.5 0.2 3.5 30.0 6.9 2.6
Flauenskjold 8.8 1.0 1.6 0.6 2.7 1.6 0.4 21.4 50.8 7.4 3.8
Hjallerup 17.0 0.5 3.5 0.3 7.4 21.7 0.5 3.4 37.5 6.7 1.5
Klokkerholm 17.9 1.0 2.4 0.4 7.1 4.2 0.4 5.5 44.9 11.9 4.3
Brønderslev Hallen 24.2 0.7 9.3 0.6 11.3 0.8 1.6 3.4 36.6 7.8 3.7
Stenum 17.0 0.6 4.8 0.6 8.8 0.0 0.0 2.8 48.6 13.9 2.8
Thise 27.0 1.0 6.2 0.4 6.0 0.6 0.4 2.7 41.6 11.5 2.7
Ø. Brønderslev 19.7 0.8 14.2 1.5 8.7 0.6 1.1 2.9 37.2 10.3 3.1
Hallund 18.6 0.6 9.9 0.9 9.0 0.6 0.3 5.1 36.8 15.3 3.0
Jerslev 12.5 0.7 8.2 0.8 7.1 0.5 0.5 5.8 40.8 19.8 3.3
Serritslev 11.8 0.2 4.7 0.2 6.1 1.6 0.4 1.4 54.7 14.8 4.1

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Brønderslev Municipality
V Venstre 7,408 37.11 -2.83 11 -1
A Social Democrats 4,263 21.35 -8.93 6 -2
Æ Denmark Democrats 1,836 9.20 New 2 New
F Green Left 1,791 8.97 +6.34 2 +1
J Borgerlisten 1,348 6.75 +0.76 2 +1
C Conservatives 1,319 6.61 -1.24 2 0
O Danish People's Party 877 4.39 +0.06 1 0
Ø Red-Green Alliance 617 3.09 +0.55 1 0
B Social Liberals 213 1.07 -0.15 0 0
M Moderates 178 0.89 New 0 New
D New Right 113 0.57 -2.89 0 -1
Total 19,963 100 N/A 27 N/A
Invalid votes 53 0.19 +0.02
Blank votes 239 0.84 +0.19
Turnout 20,255 70.95 +1.01
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm		 Fieldwork
date		 Sample
size		 V A C J O D F Ø B M Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 505 37.6 25.4 6.6 – 5.4 – 7.6 3.4 0.7 1.3 10.2 1.8 12.2
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 18.2 19.9 6.3 – 6.1 – 10.9 4.0 3.9 4.9 18.5 – 1.4
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 14.3 36.1 4.0 – 2.2 4.0 4.8 1.8 1.6 5.8 17.3 – 18.8
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 28.6 35.7 15.4 – 4.4 4.5 3.3 3.0 2.3 – – – 7.1
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 39.9
(12)		 30.3
(8)		 7.8
(2)		 6.0
(1)		 4.3
(1)		 3.5
(1)		 2.6
(1)		 2.5
(1)		 1.2
(0)		 – – – 9.6

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  2. ^ "Mikael Klitgaard er genvalgt som borgmester". ligher.nu (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Socialdemokraterne er med i konstitueringen i Brønderslev | Nyheder". nordjyske (in Danish). 19 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  4. ^ "Venstre opstiller borgmesterkandidat i Brønderslev". tv2nord.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  5. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Brønderslev Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.
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