2025 Herlev municipal election
18 November 2025
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All 19 seats to the Herlev municipal council 10 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 15,353 (64.2%) 0.9% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Herlev Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 19 members to sit in the regional council for the Herlev Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Marco Damgaard from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. [2]
Background
Following the 2021 election, Thomas Gyldal Petersen from Social Democrats became mayor for third term. [3] However, on December 4, 2024 it was revealed that he would step down as mayor, and Marco Damgaard would take over. [4] [5] Damgaard would run to continue as mayor. [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. Herlev Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.
Electoral alliances
Source[7]
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 | |
Electoral Alliance 2
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Liberal Alliance | Centre-right to Right-wing | |
| M | Moderates | Centre to Centre-right | |
| O | Danish People's Party | Right-wing to Far-right | |
| V | Venstre | Centre-right | |
Results by polling station
| Division | A | B | C | F | I | M | O | V | Ø |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Herlev Medborgerhus | 37.3 | 4.4 | 10.9 | 15.2 | 5.6 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 6.7 | 13.1 |
| Herlev Hallerne | 42.0 | 3.3 | 17.1 | 11.7 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 7.7 |
| Kildegårdhallen | 36.1 | 2.9 | 12.7 | 14.2 | 5.0 | 2.4 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 13.0 |
Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herlev Municipality | ||||||||
| A | Social Democrats | 5,801 | 38.55 | -7.30 | 8 | -1 | ||
| F | Green Left | 2,061 | 13.70 | +3.62 | 3 | +1 | ||
| C | Conservatives | 2,041 | 13.56 | -5.59 | 2 | -3 | ||
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 1,688 | 11.22 | +1.07 | 2 | 0 | ||
| V | Venstre | 960 | 6.38 | +3.33 | 2 | +2 | ||
| O | Danish People's Party | 855 | 5.68 | +2.71 | 1 | +1 | ||
| I | Liberal Alliance | 853 | 5.67 | +4.70 | 1 | +1 | ||
| B | Social Liberals | 533 | 3.54 | -0.33 | 0 | -1 | ||
| M | Moderates | 256 | 1.70 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Total | 15,048 | 100 | N/A | 19 | N/A | |||
| Invalid votes | 80 | 0.33 | +0.03 | |||||
| Blank votes | 225 | 0.94 | +0.26 | |||||
| Turnout | 15,353 | 64.17 | +0.90 | |||||
| Source: valg.dk | ||||||||
Opinion polls
| Polling firm |
Fieldwork date |
Sample size |
A | C | Ø | F | B | V | O | I | M | Lead | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epinion | 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 | 543 | 48.8 | 10.6 | 7.5 | 12.0 | 2.4 | 7.0 | 4.3 | 7.4 | 0.1 | 36.8 | |||||||||
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 19.5 | 9.6 | 10.1 | 19.0 | 7.2 | 8.8 | 7.5 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 0.5 | ||||||||||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 33.8 | 5.8 | 6.8 | 9.4 | 3.8 | 8.2 | 3.4 | 6.3 | 9.8 | 24.0 | ||||||||||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 37.7 | 17.9 | 9.6 | 10.4 | 5.5 | 6.4 | 3.8 | 1.4 | – | 19.8 | ||||||||||
| 2021 municipal election | 16 Nov 2021 | 45.9 (9) |
19.2 (5) |
10.2 (2) |
10.1 (2) |
3.9 (1) |
3.0 (0) |
3.0 (0) |
1.0 (0) |
– | 26.7 | ||||||||||
References
- ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
- ^ "Borgmester: Socialdemokratiet stadig det største parti | Nyheder". heleherlev (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-02-16.
- ^ "Endnu en S-borgmester stopper i utide". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Marco Damgaard er ny borgmester i Herlev". herlev.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Socialdemokratiet har valgt sin spids- og borgmesterkandidat". socialdemokratiet-herlev.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
- ^ "Stemmefordeling i Herlev Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.