2025 Odder municipal election

2025 Odder municipal election
18 November 2025

All 19 seats to the Odder municipal council
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout14,477 (75.5%)
0.7%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
C
V
Party Social Democrats Conservatives Venstre
Last election 5 seats, 25.2% 2 seats, 13.5% 7 seats, 31.1%
Seats won 6 5 4
Seat change 1 3 3
Popular vote 3,531 3,031 3,028
Percentage 24.8% 21.3% 21.3%
Swing 0.4% 7.8% 9.8%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
F
Ø
B
Party Green Left Red-Green Alliance Social Liberals
Last election 1 seat, 5.8% 2 seats, 11.5% 2 seats, 8.5%
Seats won 2 2 0
Seat change 1 0 2
Popular vote 1,586 1,356 554
Percentage 11.1% 9.5% 3.9%
Swing 5.3% 2.0% 4.7%

Mayor before election

Lone Jakobi
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Lone Jakobi
Social Democrats

The 2025 Odder Municipal election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 19 members to sit in the regional council for the Odder Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Lone Jakobi from the Social Democrats, would secure re-election. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Lone Jakobi 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. Odder Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
A Social Democrats Centre-left
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right
Ø Red-Green Alliance Left-wing to Far-Left

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing
V Venstre Centre-right

Results by polling station

Division A B C F I M O V Ø
% % % % % % % % %
Odder (Spektrum Odder) 26.4 4.2 19.1 12.0 3.7 0.4 3.8 21.1 9.2
Torrild 3.5 2.6 31.7 4.8 2.2 0.0 3.2 41.7 10.3
Saksild - Nølev 21.6 4.0 20.8 13.7 3.4 0.6 4.2 19.5 12.1
Randlev - Bjerager 28.7 4.0 17.8 9.7 3.0 0.3 3.6 20.1 13.0
Hou, Gosmer - Halling 30.1 3.6 15.7 9.6 5.9 0.1 2.4 23.9 8.7
Gylling 12.5 1.7 44.5 13.1 2.5 0.5 6.8 12.7 5.7
Ørting-Falling 22.7 2.1 31.5 8.1 3.3 1.0 6.6 17.0 7.7
Hundslund 20.4 4.8 22.9 7.3 3.0 0.4 5.9 23.5 11.8
Alrø 12.2 4.1 41.8 5.1 4.1 0.0 1.0 22.4 9.2
Tunø 31.4 0.0 15.7 3.9 2.0 2.0 0.0 35.3 9.8

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Odder Municipality
A Social Democrats 3,531 24.79 -0.37 6 +1
C Conservatives 3,031 21.28 +7.78 5 +3
V Venstre 3,028 21.26 -9.83 4 -3
F Green Left 1,586 11.13 +5.34 2 +1
Ø Red-Green Alliance 1,356 9.52 -2.02 2 0
O Danish People's Party 573 4.02 +2.69 0 0
B Social Liberals 554 3.89 -4.66 0 -2
I Liberal Alliance 529 3.71 New 0 New
M Moderates 56 0.39 New 0 New
Total 14,244 100 N/A 19 N/A
Invalid votes 39 0.20 +0.04
Blank votes 194 1.01 +0.40
Turnout 14,477 75.53 +0.74
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
V A C Ø B F O I M Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 516 15.4 30.8 14.2 12.0 2.4 13.6 4.4 5.1 1.3 15.4
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 16.1 17.6 8.1 6.2 6.5 19.0 5.2 5.4 6.4 1.4
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 13.8 29.5 5.0 5.0 3.3 10.0 1.7 7.4 8.7 15.7
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 20.6 33.5 9.1 10.8 5.8 9.4 2.3 0.9 12.9
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 31.1
(7)
25.2
(5)
13.5
(2)
11.5
(2)
8.5
(2)
5.8
(1)
1.3
(0)
5.9

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  2. ^ "Lone Jakobi fortsætter som borgmester i Odder". vores-odder.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Rødt flertal giver Odder ny borgmester | Nyheder". tv2østjylland (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  4. ^ "Socialdemokraterne har fundet sin borgmesterkandidat: Valget er næppe overraskende". ugeavisen.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  5. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Odder Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.