2025 Langeland municipal election

2025 Langeland municipal election
18 November 2025

All 15 seats to the Langeland municipal council
8 seats needed for a majority
Turnout7,581 (73.9%)
1.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
C
A
V
Party Conservatives Social Democrats Venstre
Last election 1 seat, 10.1% 2 seats, 13.7% 5 seats, 28.7%
Seats won 7 3 2
Seat change 6 1 3
Popular vote 2,522 1,046 901
Percentage 33.8% 14.0% 12.1%
Swing 23.8% 0.4% 16.7%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
F
L
B
Party Green Left Lokallisten Langeland Social Liberals
Last election 6 seats, 34.3% Did not stand 1 seat, 4.7%
Seats won 2 1 0
Seat change 4 1 1
Popular vote 814 568 339
Percentage 10.9% 7.6% 4.5%
Swing 23.3% New 0.1%

Mayor before election

Tonni Hansen
Green Left

Mayor after election

Jørgen Nielsen
Conservatives

The 2025 Langeland Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 15 members to sit in the regional council for the Langeland Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Jørgen Nielsen from the Conservatives, would win the mayoral position. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Tonni Hansen from Green Left became mayor for his second term,[3] marking the only municipal election in the 2021 municipal elections, where the Green Left won the most votes and seats.[4] However, Hansen revealed on August 12, 2024, that he does not intend to run for a third term[5] Ulrik Pihl was in the lead to replace Hansen as the new mayoral candidate from Green Left, for this election. However on April 28, 2024, it was revealed that he had decided to drop his candidacy.[6] The party planned to pick a candidate on May 20, 2025 in a meeting, but this was moved to June 4, 2025, leaving the party without a mayoral candidate at the moment.[7]

Throughout the current period, Venstre, who became the second largest party in the 2021 election, had lost 4 of its 5 seats, at a point.[8]

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. Langeland Municipality had 15 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[9]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
A Social Democrats Centre-left
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
V Venstre Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing
L Lokallisten Langeland Local politics
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Electoral Alliance 3

Party Political alignment
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing
Ø Red-Green Alliance Left-wing to Far-Left

Results by polling station

Division A B C F I L M O V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % % % % %
Bagenkop 9.5 1.9 35.6 9.8 3.0 4.2 1.1 3.9 23.9 3.7 3.5
Humble 11.9 3.0 35.3 8.8 4.9 5.0 2.6 4.5 16.1 4.0 4.1
Rudkøbing 16.0 5.1 34.0 12.1 3.9 5.2 3.6 2.4 11.5 1.9 4.2
Tullebølle 17.0 4.1 35.8 11.1 4.4 7.8 2.8 2.6 7.9 3.5 3.0
Snøde 8.5 6.8 27.6 9.7 4.7 23.4 2.5 4.9 6.1 2.9 2.9

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Langeland Municipality
C Conservatives 2,522 33.84 +23.77 7 +6
A Social Democrats 1,046 14.04 +0.35 3 +1
V Venstre 901 12.09 -16.65 2 -3
F Green Left 814 10.92 -23.34 2 -4
L Lokallisten Langeland 568 7.62 New 1 New
B Social Liberals 339 4.55 -0.13 0 -1
I Liberal Alliance 311 4.17 New 0 New
Ø Red-Green Alliance 284 3.81 +1.63 0 0
O Danish People's Party 240 3.22 -0.37 0 0
M Moderates 221 2.97 New 0 New
Æ Denmark Democrats 206 2.76 New 0 New
Total 7,452 100 N/A 15 N/A
Invalid votes 23 0.22 -0.03
Blank votes 106 1.03 +0.20
Turnout 7,581 73.94 +1.18
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
F V A C B O Ø I L M Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 240 11.4 15.5 21.2 15.7 3.5 5.9 3.1 5.3 5.0 8.0 5.4 5.5
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 17.4 18.0 17.5 6.1 4.1 8.9 6.4 4.6 4.7 10.6 0.5
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 6.8 13.9 36.1 3.2 1.4 3.5 3.7 4.1 8.1 12.2 22.2
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 13.8 44.8 18.4 5.0 3.6 3.6 4.4 0.3 26.4
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 34.3
(6)
28.7
(5)
13.7
(2)
10.1
(1)
4.7
(1)
3.6
(0)
2.2
(0)
5.6

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Genvalg til SF-borgmester på Langeland: Alle partier med i bred aftale - DF røg ud, og de radikale kom ind". ugeavisen (in Danish). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  4. ^ "Kommunalvalg den 16. november 2021". kmdvalg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  5. ^ "SF-borgmester genopstiller ikke". altinget.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  6. ^ "SF skifter borgmesterkandidat: Ulrik Pihl hopper fra". faa.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  7. ^ "SF udskyder valg af ny borgmesterkandidat". faa.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  8. ^ "Venstre mister fire ud af fem pladser i byrådet i Langeland". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  9. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Langeland Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.