2025 Læsø municipal election

2025 Læsø municipal election
18 November 2025

All 9 seats to the Læsø municipal council
5 seats needed for a majority
Turnout1,269 (85.7%)
4.9%
  First party Second party Third party
 
C
V
O
Party Conservatives Venstre Danish People's Party
Last election 2 seats, 23.9% 3 seats, 25.3% 1 seat, 8.0%
Seats won 5 2 1
Seat change 3 1 0
Popular vote 573 192 201
Percentage 45.6% 15.3% 16.0%
Swing 21.7% 10.1% 8.0%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
F
A
L
Party Green Left Social Democrats Læsø Borgerliste
Last election Did not stand 1 seat, 16.5% 2 seats, 21.5%
Seats won 1 0 0
Seat change 1 1 2
Popular vote 102 100 47
Percentage 8.1% 8.0% 3.7%
Swing New 8.5% 17.8%

Mayor before election

Tobias Birch Johansen
Venstre

Mayor after election

Niels Odgaad
Conservatives

The 2025 Læsø Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 9 members to sit in the regional council for the Læsø Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] The result saw the Conservatives win 5 seats, resulting in an absolute majority. Despite, Thomas W. Olsen receiving the highest number of personal votes, [2] [3] Niels Odgaard, the party's mayoral candidate, would win the mayoral poisition. [4] The Social Democrats would fail to win any seats, marking the first time since the structural reform in 2007, that they were not represented in all 98 municipal councils. [5]

Background

Since the 2009 Læsø municipal election, no mayor has been elected for two terms in a row. Incumbent mayor at the time of election was Tobias Birch Johansen from Venstre, who were the only party to win at least 3 seats in the 2021 election.[6] In April 2025, Birch Johansen, revealed that he would not seek re-election in 2025.[7]

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. Læsø Municipality had 9 seats in 2025

Unlike in Danish General Elections, in elections to municipal councils, electoral alliances are allowed.

Electoral alliances

Source[8]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
L Læsø Borgerliste Local politics
V Venstre Centre-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division A C F L O V Æ
% % % % % % %
Læsø Hallen 8.0 45.6 8.1 3.7 16.0 15.3 3.3

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Læsø Municipality
C Conservatives 573 45.58 +21.66 5 +3
O Danish People's Party 201 15.99 +7.99 1 0
V Venstre 192 15.27 -10.06 2 -1
F Green Left 102 8.11 New 1 New
A Social Democrats 100 7.96 -8.55 0 -1
L Læsø Borgerliste 47 3.74 -17.80 0 -2
Æ Denmark Democrats 42 3.34 New 0 New
Total 1,257 100 N/A 9 N/A
Invalid votes 5 0.34 -0.50
Blank votes 7 0.47 -1.17
Turnout 1,269 85.69 +4.90
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
V C L A O F Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 31 5.6 53.6 12.4 12.3 16.1 0.0 0.0 37.5
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 18.0 5.7 11.5 15.2 11.5 19.5 1.5
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 14.9 6.1 26.2 4.7 5.0 20.0 6.2
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 14.9 46.7 18.5 4.3 4.1 28.2
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 25.3
(3)
23.9
(2)
21.5
(2)
16.5
(1)
8.0
(1)
1.4

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  2. ^ "Stemmesluger overrasket over stort K-resultat på Læsø". tv2nord.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Læsø Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  4. ^ "Første borgmester på plads - og det er i Nordjylland". nordjyske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  5. ^ "Ude af to kommuner: S er ikke længere repræsenteret i hele landet". ekstrabladet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  6. ^ "Valgresultater". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  7. ^ "Læsøs borgmester siger stop ved kommunalvalget i november". nordjyske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-05.
  8. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Læsø Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.