2025 Herlev municipal election

2025 Herlev municipal election
18 November 2025

All 19 seats to the Herlev municipal council
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout15,353 (64.2%)
0.9%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
F
C
Party Social Democrats Green Left Conservatives
Last election 9 seats, 45.9% 2 seats, 10.1% 5 seats, 19.2%
Seats won 8 3 2
Seat change 1 1 3
Popular vote 5,801 2,061 2,041
Percentage 38.5% 13.7% 13.6%
Swing 7.3% 3.6% 5.6%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Ø
V
O
Party Red-Green Alliance Venstre Danish People's Party
Last election 2 seats, 10.2% 0 seats, 3.0% 0 seats, 3.0%
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change 0 2 1
Popular vote 1,688 960 855
Percentage 11.2% 6.4% 5.7%
Swing 1.1% 3.3% 2.7%

  Seventh party Eighth party
 
I
B
Party Liberal Alliance Social Liberals
Last election 0 seats, 1.0% 1 seat, 3.9%
Seats won 1 0
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 853 533
Percentage 5.7% 3.5%
Swing 4.7% 0.3%

Mayor before election

Marco Damgaard
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Marco Damgaard
Social Democrats

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

  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. ^ "Borgmester: Socialdemokratiet stadig det største parti | Nyheder". heleherlev (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-02-16.
  4. ^ "Endnu en S-borgmester stopper i utide". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  5. ^ "Marco Damgaard er ny borgmester i Herlev". herlev.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  6. ^ "Socialdemokratiet har valgt sin spids- og borgmesterkandidat". socialdemokratiet-herlev.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  7. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Herlev Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.