2025 Ishøj municipal election

2025 Ishøj municipal election
18 November 2025

All 19 seats to the Ishøj municipal council
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout10,462 (57.5%)
1.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
L
F
Party Social Democrats Ishøjlisten Green Left
Last election 9 seats, 37.8% 3 seats, 16.4% 2 seats, 7.4%
Seats won 7 3 2
Seat change 2 0 0
Popular vote 3,491 1,221 1,110
Percentage 34.1% 11.9% 10.8%
Swing 3.7% 4.4% 3.5%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  D
V
O
Party IshøjDemokraterne Venstre Danish People's Party
Last election Did not stand 2 seats, 10.7% 0 seats, 4.0%
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change 2 0 1
Popular vote 1,071 751 730
Percentage 10.5% 7.3% 7.1%
Swing New 3.4% 3.1%

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
I
B
Ø
Party Liberal Alliance Social Liberals Red-Green Alliance
Last election Did not stand 0 seats, 3.6% 1 seat, 3.8%
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change 1 1 1
Popular vote 501 409 457
Percentage 4.9% 4.0% 4.5%
Swing New 0.4% 0.6%

Mayor before election

Merete Amdisen
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Merete Amdisen
Social Democrats

The 2025 Ishøj Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 19 members to sit in the regional council for the Ishøj Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Merete Amdisen from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Merete Amdisen from Social Democrats became mayor for her first term. [3] She would run for a second 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. Ishøj Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
A Social Democrats Centre-left
Ø Red-Green Alliance Left-wing to Far-Left

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
D IshøjDemokraterne Local politics
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing
L Ishøjlisten Local politics
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right

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

Results by polling station

Division A B C D F I L M O V Ø
% % % % % % % % % % %
Ishøj Landsby 22.4 3.4 13.0 6.0 7.1 7.1 5.6 1.0 9.4 22.0 3.0
Vibeholmskolen 34.3 4.2 2.4 11.6 9.7 5.1 12.7 1.8 7.5 6.8 3.9
Gildbroskolen 37.8 3.7 1.8 8.9 10.1 5.4 13.1 1.3 8.4 5.5 3.9
Strandgårdskolen 37.0 4.3 1.0 5.8 15.0 2.6 17.5 2.4 5.7 2.2 6.5
Ishøj Bycenter 33.0 4.0 2.3 17.0 10.5 5.2 8.2 2.2 5.8 7.4 4.4

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Ishøj Municipality
A Social Democrats 3,491 34.08 -3.69 7 -2
L Ishøjlisten 1,221 11.92 -4.44 3 0
F Green Left 1,110 10.84 +3.46 2 0
D IshøjDemokraterne 1,071 10.45 New 2 New
V Venstre 751 7.33 -3.40 2 0
O Danish People's Party 730 7.13 +3.10 1 +1
I Liberal Alliance 501 4.89 New 1 New
Ø Red-Green Alliance 457 4.46 +0.65 0 -1
B Social Liberals 409 3.99 +0.37 1 +1
C Conservatives 316 3.08 -3.19 0 -1
M Moderates 187 1.83 New 0 New
Total 10,244 100 N/A 19 N/A
Invalid votes 90 0.49 -0.04
Blank votes 128 0.70 +0.12
Turnout 10,462 57.49 +1.23
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A L V F C O Ø B D I M Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 435 39.4 6.4 9.7 3.3 12.1 7.7 2.0 6.3 2.1 11.0 27.3
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 21.5 9.2 14.7 7.1 10.0 12.6 5.7 5.0 5.9 6.8
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 32.7 7.9 7.9 3.5 5.2 5.5 3.8 5.3 8.4 24.3
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 43.0 9.8 6.9 10.0 6.0 6.5 6.0 1.1 33.0
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 37.8
(9)
16.4
(3)
10.7
(2)
7.4
(2)
6.3
(1)
4.0
(0)
3.8
(1)
3.6
(0)
21.4

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. ^ "Amdisen ny borgmester i Ishøj efter opgør | Nyheder". tv2 (in Danish). 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  4. ^ "Borgmester genopstiller: Her er opstillingslisten til valget". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  5. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Ishøj Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.