2025 Fredensborg municipal election

2025 Fredensborg municipal election
18 November 2025

All 27 seats to the Fredensborg municipal council
14 seats needed for a majority
Turnout23,492 (71.4%)
1.4%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
C
V
Party Social Democrats Conservatives Venstre
Last election 8 seats, 29.5% 7 seats, 22.0% 5 seats, 15.8%
Seats won 8 5 3
Seat change 0 2 2
Popular vote 6,620 3,776 2,645
Percentage 28.5% 16.3% 11.4%
Swing 1.0% 5.7% 4.4%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
B
F
O
Party Social Liberals Green Left Danish People's Party
Last election 3 seats, 11.5% 2 seats, 7.7% 0 seats, 2.4%
Seats won 3 3 2
Seat change 0 1 2
Popular vote 2,545 2,356 1,861
Percentage 11.0% 10.2% 8.0%
Swing 0.5% 2.5% 5.6%

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
I
Ø
Party Liberal Alliance Red-Green Alliance
Last election 0 seats, 2.3% 1 seat, 2.9%
Seats won 2 1
Seat change 2 0
Popular vote 1,490 690
Percentage 6.4% 3.0%
Swing 4.1% 0.1%

Mayor before election

Thomas Lykke Pedersen
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Thomas Lykke Pedersen
Social Democrats

The 2025 Fredensborg Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 27 members to sit in the regional council for the Fredensborg Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Thomas Lykke Pedersen from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Thomas Lykke Pedersen from Social Democrats became mayor for his fourth term. [3] [4] He would run for a fifth term. [5] Throughout the current period, a total of 7 councillors has switched party affiliation or turned independent, creating 3 new local parties, namely Byrådsgruppen Fredensborg SocialKonservative, Aktive Liberale and Uafhænging Liberal. [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. Fredensborg Municipality had 27 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[7]

Electoral Alliance 1

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

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
E Fredensborg SocialKonservative Local politics
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing
K Christian Democrats Centre to Centre-right
O Danish People's Party Right-wing to Far-right
V Venstre Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 3

Party Political alignment
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

Results by polling station

Division A B C E F I K M O V Ø Å
% % % % % % % % % % % %
Asminderød 25.3 8.9 18.5 4.0 7.9 7.0 0.3 1.7 10.5 13.2 1.7 0.8
Fredensborg (Endrupskolens Hal) 19.1 11.6 23.7 5.8 8.8 6.4 0.4 1.6 6.4 12.8 2.6 0.9
Humlebæk 26.4 15.2 17.7 1.0 9.6 6.9 0.3 2.1 5.5 10.1 3.4 1.8
Baunebjerg 31.5 12.2 12.1 0.8 12.9 5.8 0.2 1.3 8.0 9.0 3.7 2.3
Kokkedal 33.4 13.0 14.8 0.4 7.9 6.3 0.2 1.8 8.4 10.0 2.8 0.9
Niverød 32.0 7.0 13.6 0.3 13.5 7.3 0.2 1.8 9.7 9.8 3.7 1.2
Karlebo 15.7 7.6 16.5 2.2 7.4 8.0 2.9 2.4 7.9 26.0 1.6 1.8
Nivå 34.0 8.1 13.2 0.7 14.8 4.4 0.3 1.5 6.2 11.3 4.3 1.2

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Fredensborg Municipality
A Social Democrats 6,620 28.54 -0.96 8 0
C Conservatives 3,776 16.28 -5.68 5 -2
V Venstre 2,645 11.40 -4.38 3 -2
B Social Liberals 2,545 10.97 -0.48 3 0
F Green Left 2,356 10.16 +2.50 3 +1
O Danish People's Party 1,861 8.02 +5.62 2 +2
I Liberal Alliance 1,490 6.42 +4.13 2 +2
Ø Red-Green Alliance 690 2.97 +0.08 1 0
E Fredensborg SocialKonservative 431 1.86 New 0 New
M Moderates 403 1.74 New 0 New
Å The Alternative 296 1.28 +0.33 0 0
K Christian Democrats 82 0.35 -0.04 0 0
Total 23,195 100 N/A 27 N/A
Invalid votes 73 0.22 +0.05
Blank votes 224 0.68 -0.05
Turnout 23,492 71.36 +1.36
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A C V B F Ø O I Å K E M Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 463 26.5 14.6 12.8 5.8 11.6 4.8 7.8 12.5 1.6 2.0 0.1 11.9
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 12.7 11.8 14.3 9.6 17.5 5.5 5.3 8.6 2.7 9.0 3.2
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 22.4 8.0 14.9 5.8 8.0 4.1 2.4 9.7 3.8 0.4 11.9 7.5
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 23.4 26.5 13.9 10.5 7.6 5.0 3.1 1.9 0.7 0.6 3.1
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 29.5
(8)
22.0
(7)
15.8
(5)
11.5
(3)
7.7
(2)
2.9
(1)
2.4
(0)
2.3
(0)
0.9
(0)
0.4
(0)
7.5

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Så er valget afgjort: Her er borgmesteren | Nyheder". sn (in Danish). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  4. ^ "Byrådet | Nyheder". frdensborg (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-02-15.
  5. ^ "Socialdemokratiet i Fredensborg" (PDF). s-fredensborg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  6. ^ "Byrådet". fredensborg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  7. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Fredensborg Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.