2025 Rødovre municipal election

2025 Rødovre municipal election
18 November 2025

All 19 seats to the Rødovre municipal council
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout21,138 (62.1%)
2.3%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
C
F
Party Social Democrats Conservatives Green Left
Last election 9 seats, 45.5% 5 seats, 19.9% 2 seats, 10.9%
Seats won 8 3 3
Seat change 1 2 1
Popular vote 7,631 2,929 2,898
Percentage 36.8% 14.1% 14.0%
Swing 8.7% 5.8% 3.1%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Ø
O
B
Party Red-Green Alliance Danish People's Party Social Liberals
Last election 2 seats, 7.7% 0 seats, 3.7% 0 seats, 3.5%
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change 0 2 1
Popular vote 2,311 1,673 842
Percentage 11.2% 8.1% 4.1%
Swing 3.4% 4.3% 0.6%

  Seventh party
 
V
Party Venstre
Last election 1 seat, 4.3%
Seats won 0
Seat change 1
Popular vote 648
Percentage 3.1%
Swing 1.2%

Mayor before election

Britt Jensen
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Britt Jensen
Social Democrats

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

Background

Following the 2021 election, Britt Jensen from Social Democrats became mayor for her first term. [3] She would run for re-election. [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. Rødovre Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
K Christian Democrats Centre to Centre-right
V Venstre Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 3

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

Electoral Alliance 4

Party Political alignment
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing
O Danish People's Party Right-wing to Far-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division A B C F I K L M O V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % % % % % %
Ørbygård 36.7 5.2 15.5 12.5 3.7 1.6 0.0 2.4 6.2 3.4 2.5 10.3
Tinderhøj 39.8 3.2 12.6 16.5 2.5 1.2 0.1 1.6 8.4 2.5 2.4 9.3
Rødovre Skole 34.9 5.1 16.2 13.7 3.1 1.2 0.1 2.5 7.5 3.2 2.1 10.5
Valhøj 39.7 3.1 10.9 14.1 1.7 0.6 0.1 1.7 11.9 2.7 2.2 11.3
Rødovrehallen 36.0 4.3 14.1 15.1 3.8 0.5 0.1 3.0 7.1 3.8 1.9 10.2
Islev 35.5 3.5 17.2 12.5 2.9 0.6 0.3 2.5 7.3 3.3 2.0 12.3
Milestedet 38.5 2.6 5.6 10.9 2.4 1.0 0.3 2.4 11.6 1.1 2.1 21.7

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Rødovre Municipality
A Social Democrats 7,631 36.84 -8.68 8 -1
C Conservatives 2,929 14.14 -5.76 3 -2
F Green Left 2,898 13.99 +3.13 3 +1
Ø Red-Green Alliance 2,311 11.16 +3.42 2 0
O Danish People's Party 1,673 8.08 +4.33 2 +2
B Social Liberals 842 4.06 +0.56 1 +1
V Venstre 648 3.13 -1.21 0 -1
I Liberal Alliance 625 3.02 New 0 New
M Moderates 494 2.38 New 0 New
Æ Denmark Democrats 446 2.15 New 0 New
K Christian Democrats 189 0.91 -0.10 0 0
L Kludder og borgernes liste 30 0.14 New 0 New
Total 20,716 100 N/A 19 N/A
Invalid votes 82 0.24 +0.06
Blank votes 340 1.00 +0.21
Turnout 21,138 62.10 +2.26
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A C F Ø V O B K I L M Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 523 42.6 9.8 14.3 9.7 2.6 11.5 1.0 3.9 1.1 3.3 0.0 28.3
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 20.4 8.0 21.4 9.5 8.4 7.6 7.3 5.5 5.6 3.4 1.0
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 33.1 4.5 10.4 6.0 8.0 4.4 4.2 0.5 6.4 9.7 4.1 22.7
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 37.6 17.1 11.1 8.4 6.2 4.4 5.9 0.9 1.1 20.5
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 45.5
(9)
19.9
(5)
10.9
(2)
7.7
(2)
4.3
(1)
3.7
(0)
3.5
(0)
1.0
(0)
25.6

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. ^ "Rødovres borgmester stopper halvandet år før tid | Nyheder". altinget.DK (in Danish). 7 April 2021. Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  4. ^ "Britt, Flemming og 12 andre socialdemokrater melder klar til kamp". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-30.
  5. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Rødovre Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.