2025 Samsø municipal election (Denmark)

2025 Samsø municipal election (Denmark)
18 November 2025

All 11 seats to the Samsø municipal council
6 seats needed for a majority
Turnout2,487 (80.9%)
0.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
C
A
F
Party Conservatives Social Democrats Green Left
Last election 2 seats, 23.2% 4 seats, 32.3% 2 seats, 13.0%
Seats won 4 3 2
Seat change 2 1 0
Popular vote 881 609 470
Percentage 36.3% 25.1% 19.4%
Swing 13.1% 7.2% 6.3%

  Fourth party
 
V
Party Venstre
Last election 3 seats, 25.5%
Seats won 2
Seat change 1
Popular vote 468
Percentage 19.3%
Swing 6.2%

Mayor before election

Marcel Meijer
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Per Urban Olsen
Conservatives

The 2025 Samsø Municipal election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 11 members to sit in the regional council for the Samsø Municipal council, for the Danish island of Samsø, for the period 2026 to 2029.[1] Per Urban Olsen from the Conservatives, would win the mayoral position. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Marcel Meijer from Social Democrats became mayor for his third term. [3] However Meijer, announced that he doesn't intend to run for another term. [4] Instead, Michael Kristensen was the mayoral candidate from the Social Democrats. [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. Samsø Municipality had 11 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[6]

Electoral Alliance 1

Party Political alignment
A Social Democrats Centre-left
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
V Venstre Centre-right

Results by polling station

Division A C F V
% % % %
Tranebjerg 24.4 37.7 18.9 19.0
Nordby Kro 30.2 25.6 22.8 21.4

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A V C F Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 91 21.4 26.9 34.7 17.0 7.8
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 13.3 17.1 7.3 20.6 3.5
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 25.2 9.1 16.3 10.9 8.9
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 16.8 17.6 12.1 38.2 20.6
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 32.3
(4)
25.5
(3)
23.2
(2)
13.0
(2)
6.8

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  2. ^ "Ny borgmester: - Vi har knoklet for det her". tv2ostjylland.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Borgmesterkæderne skifter fra V til S på Samsø | Nyheder". berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-05-26.
  4. ^ "Endnu en S-borgmester stopper". tv2.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  5. ^ "Ny spidskandidat: Vil sikre en ø i udvikling". tv2ostjylland.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-26.
  6. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Samsø Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.