2025 Gladsaxe municipal election
18 November 2025
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All 25 seats to the Gladsaxe municipal council 13 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Gladsaxe Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 25 members to sit in the regional council for the Gladsaxe Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Serdal Benli from the Green Left, would win the mayoral position. [2]
Background
Following the 2021 election, Trine Græse from Social Democrats became mayor for her second term. [3] She would run for a third term. [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. Gladsaxe Municipality had 25 seats in 2025.
Electoral alliances
Source[5]
Electoral Alliance 1
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Social Democrats | Centre-left | |
| F | Green Left | Centre-left to Left-wing | |
| M | Moderates | Centre to Centre-right | |
Electoral Alliance 2
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Social Liberals | Centre to Centre-left | |
| L | Lokallisten Gladsaxe | Local politics | |
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | Left-wing to Far-Left | |
Electoral Alliance 3
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| C | Conservatives | Centre-right | |
| V | Venstre | Centre-right | |
Electoral Alliance 4
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
Results by polling station
| Division | A | B | C | F | I | L | M | O | V | Æ | Ø |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Bagsværd | 20.7 | 11.4 | 7.5 | 14.4 | 6.2 | 2.9 | 3.9 | 6.5 | 16.6 | 1.3 | 8.6 |
| Hovedbiblioteket | 27.8 | 10.1 | 5.2 | 17.1 | 4.4 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 7.0 | 11.5 | 1.8 | 10.6 |
| Egegård | 23.9 | 9.3 | 5.9 | 15.2 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 1.9 | 10.7 | 12.3 | 2.9 | 9.8 |
| Grønnemose | 27.4 | 12.0 | 4.1 | 16.0 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 1.9 | 16.8 |
| Mørkhøj | 26.6 | 8.9 | 4.3 | 15.9 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 1.3 | 9.1 | 10.1 | 2.5 | 13.5 |
| Stengård | 24.0 | 13.6 | 6.8 | 17.2 | 5.5 | 3.1 | 1.8 | 4.3 | 13.6 | 1.4 | 8.9 |
| Søborg (Gladsaxe Idrætscenter) | 23.6 | 12.4 | 6.1 | 18.2 | 4.5 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 5.4 | 12.2 | 1.7 | 11.4 |
| Vadgård | 27.1 | 9.0 | 6.7 | 16.7 | 4.7 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 7.9 | 12.5 | 2.4 | 9.1 |
| Værebro | 19.9 | 10.2 | 6.9 | 13.8 | 5.0 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 6.2 | 16.3 | 1.9 | 15.8 |
Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gladsaxe Municipality | ||||||||
| A | Social Democrats | 8,524 | 24.93 | -8.02 | 7 | -1 | ||
| F | Green Left | 5,534 | 16.18 | +4.80 | 4 | +1 | ||
| V | Venstre | 4,164 | 12.18 | -1.00 | 3 | -1 | ||
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 3,944 | 11.53 | +0.92 | 3 | 0 | ||
| B | Social Liberals | 3,718 | 10.87 | +3.22 | 3 | +1 | ||
| O | Danish People's Party | 2,396 | 7.01 | +3.59 | 2 | +1 | ||
| C | Conservatives | 1,988 | 5.81 | -5.85 | 1 | -2 | ||
| I | Liberal Alliance | 1,588 | 4.64 | +3.11 | 1 | +1 | ||
| L | Lokallisten Gladsaxe | 1,096 | 3.20 | -0.67 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | 668 | 1.95 | New | 0 | New | ||
| M | Moderates | 578 | 1.69 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Total | 34,198 | 100 | N/A | 25 | N/A | |||
| Invalid votes | 155 | 0.29 | -0.02 | |||||
| Blank votes | 477 | 0.89 | +0.09 | |||||
| Turnout | 34,830 | 65.06 | +2.64 | |||||
| Source: valg.dk | ||||||||
Opinion polls
| Polling firm |
Fieldwork date |
Sample size |
A | V | C | F | Ø | B | L | O | I | M | Æ | Others | Lead | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epinion | 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 | 542 | 29.4 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 19.4 | 13.0 | 4.9 | – | 10.6 | 6.6 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 10.0 | ||||||
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 16.7 | 9.6 | 8.4 | 22.3 | 9.5 | 10.3 | – | 5.5 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 2.5 | – | 5.6 | |||||||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 27.7 | 9.5 | 4.8 | 11.6 | 6.9 | 6.4 | – | 3.2 | 7.3 | 10.9 | 3.1 | – | 16.1 | |||||||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 29.5 | 10.8 | 15.1 | 11.1 | 10.6 | 10.1 | – | 3.6 | 1.9 | – | – | – | 14.4 | |||||||
| 2021 municipal election | 16 Nov 2021 | 32.9 (8) |
13.2 (4) |
11.7 (3) |
11.4 (3) |
10.6 (3) |
7.7 (2) |
3.9 (1) |
3.4 (1) |
1.5 (0) |
– | – | – | 19.7 | |||||||
References
- ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
- ^ "Et yderst sjældent syn i lokalpolitik: Kvinderne har taget magten i Gladsaxe Byråd | Nyheder". dr.dk (in Danish). 18 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Socialdemokratiet har listen med kandidater til kommunalvalget kla". gladsaxekredsen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Stemmefordeling i Gladsaxe Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.