2025 Morsø municipal election

2025 Morsø municipal election
18 November 2025

All 21 seats to the Morsø municipal council
11 seats needed for a majority
Turnout11,881 (75.7%)
2.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
V
A
B
Party Venstre Social Democrats Social Liberals
Last election 11 seats, 46.1% 6 seats, 29.5% 1 seat, 3.7%
Seats won 8 7 2
Seat change 3 1 1
Popular vote 3,975 3,657 732
Percentage 34.0% 31.2% 6.3%
Swing 12.1% 1.7% 2.6%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
C
Æ
O
Party Conservatives Denmark Democrats Danish People's Party
Last election 1 seat, 5.3% Did not stand 1 seat, 6.1%
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change 0 1 0
Popular vote 940 872 603
Percentage 8.0% 7.4% 5.2%
Swing 2.7% New 1.0%

  Seventh party
 
F
Party Green Left
Last election 0 seats, 2.1%
Seats won 1
Seat change 1
Popular vote 597
Percentage 5.1%
Swing 3.0%

Mayor before election

Hans Ejner Bertelsen
Venstre

Mayor after election

Jens Dahlgaard
Social Democrats

The 2025 Morsø Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 21 members to sit in the regional council for the Morsø Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Venstre won an absolute majority in 2021, but lost 3 seats, and their absolute majority following this election. [2] This would result in a majority outside Venstre forming, consisting of the Social Democrats, Conservatives, Social Liberals, Green Left and Danish People's Party, which would hand Jens Dahlgaard from the Social Democrats, the mayoral position, becoming a rare mayoral gain for the party in the 2025 Danish local elections. [3]

Background

In the 2021 election, Hans Ejner Bertelsen won re-election, after it was clear that Venstre would win 11 seats, and would hold their absolute majority.[4] In March 2021, he won as Venstre mayoral candidate for this election. [5]

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. Morsø Municipality had 21 seats in 2025.

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

Electoral alliances

Source[6]

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
V Venstre Centre-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division A B C F O V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % %
Nordmors 23.4 4.2 13.8 6.2 7.3 29.7 11.4 3.9
Midtmors 27.3 4.8 9.7 5.5 6.0 35.7 8.5 2.5
Sydmors 23.5 6.5 8.8 3.5 6.3 35.3 13.2 2.8
Sydvestmors 17.6 14.7 5.3 4.0 9.2 37.9 8.0 3.3
Nykøbing Hallen 38.5 5.5 6.8 5.4 3.4 32.7 5.0 2.8

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Morsø Municipality
V Venstre 3,975 33.95 -12.14 8 -3
A the Social Democrats 3,657 31.24 +1.72 7 +1
C the Conservatives 940 8.03 +2.71 1 0
Æ Denmark Democrats 872 7.45 New 1 New
B the Social Liberals 732 6.25 +2.57 2 +1
O the Danish People's Party 603 5.15 -0.97 1 0
F Green Left 597 5.10 +3.00 1 +1
Ø the Red-Green Alliance 332 2.84 +0.31 0 0
Total 11,708 100 N/A 21 N/A
Invalid votes 38 0.24 -0.01
Blank votes 135 0.86 +0.32
Turnout 11,881 75.69 +2.47
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
V A O C B Ø F Æ Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 433 33.3 31.6 5.2 5.4 3.2 2.2 4.7 14.1 1.7
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 20.3 19.0 7.4 5.2 2.7 2.4 10.9 21.4 1.1
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 15.3 36.5 2.3 2.9 1.0 1.9 3.6 22.1 14.4
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 40.9 33.8 2.9 11.6 2.4 2.5 1.5 7.1
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 46.1
(11)
29.5
(6)
6.1
(1)
5.3
(1)
3.7
(1)
2.5
(0)
2.1
(0)
16.6

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  2. ^ "Venstre mister absolut flertal i Herning og andre jyske højborge". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Socialdemokrat tager Venstre-højborg". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  4. ^ "Hans Ejner Bertelsen er Kong Mors | Nyheder". nordjyske (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  5. ^ "Hans Ejner Bertelsen (V) valgt uden modkandidater som Venstres spidskandidat til kommunalvalget 2025". kunmedierne.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-07.
  6. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Morsø Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.