2025 Solrød municipal election

2025 Solrød municipal election
18 November 2025

All 19 seats to the Solrød municipal council
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout14,121 (74.3%)
1.0%
  First party Second party Third party
 
I
V
A
Party Liberal Alliance Venstre Social Democrats
Last election 3 seats, 14.9% 4 seats, 19.6% 4 seats, 16.8%
Seats won 7 4 2
Seat change 4 0 2
Popular vote 4,383 2,705 1,658
Percentage 31.4% 19.4% 11.9%
Swing 16.5% 0.2% 4.9%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  L
C
T
Party HavdrupListen Conservatives VoresSolrød
Last election 1 seat, 6.4% 3 seats, 11.3% 3 seats, 16.0%
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change 1 2 2
Popular vote 1,038 1,033 943
Percentage 7.4% 7.4% 6.8%
Swing 1.1% 3.9% 9.2%

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
F
Æ
O
Party Green Left Denmark Democrats Danish People's Party
Last election 0 seats, 3.7% Did not stand 1 seat, 4.6%
Seats won 1 1 0
Seat change 1 1 1
Popular vote 587 572 423
Percentage 4.2% 4.1% 3.0%
Swing 0.5% New 1.6%

Mayor before election

Emil Blücher
Liberal Alliance

Mayor after election

Emil Blücher
Liberal Alliance

The 2025 Solrød Municipal election will be held on 18 November 2025, to elect the 19 members to sit in the regional council for the Solrød Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Emil Blücher from the Liberal Alliance, would secure re-election. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Emil Blücher from Liberal Alliance became mayor for his first term, and the first mayor from the party.[3] The results from the 2021 election, were remarkable, as no party won 20% or more of the total votes.[4] The 2021 election also saw, the mayor position going from likely going to the Conservatives, then looking set for the Social Democrats, and ending with the Liberal Alliance.[5] In the 2021 Danish local elections, the Liberal Alliance won just 1.4% of the vote nationwide, and only won 9 seats, 3 of them being in the 2021 Solrød municipal election.[6]

Since 2021 the party has enjoyed improvement in both the 2022 Danish general election[7] and the 2024 European Parliament election.[8] Current opinion polls, also expect an improvement in the Next Danish general election, with an Epinion poll published 1 May 2025, suggesting they could get around 13.1% in a general election, significantly higher than 1.4%, making a hold of the mayoral position a real possibility.[9] Blücher would run for re-election.[10]

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. Solrød Municipality had 19 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[11]

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
C Conservatives Centre-right
L HavdrupListen Local politics
T VoresSolrød Local politics

Electoral Alliance 3

Party Political alignment
O Danish People's Party Right-wing to Far-right
V Venstre Centre-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division A B C F I L O T V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % % % % %
Havdrup 8.8 1.5 3.4 3.8 19.9 32.3 3.6 1.7 18.9 4.1 1.8
Det Nordlige Strandområde 12.8 3.2 8.8 4.2 34.0 0.9 2.9 7.5 19.8 4.0 1.8
Det Sydlige Strandområde 12.6 2.3 8.1 4.4 34.7 1.0 2.9 8.5 19.3 4.2 2.2

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Solrød Municipality
I Liberal Alliance 4,383 31.39 +16.49 7 +4
V Venstre 2,705 19.37 -0.19 4 0
A Social Democrats 1,658 11.88 -4.88 2 -2
L HavdrupListen 1,038 7.43 +1.07 2 +1
C Conservatives 1,033 7.40 -3.89 1 -2
T VoresSolrød 943 6.75 -9.22 1 -2
F Green Left 587 4.20 +0.46 1 +1
Æ Denmark Democrats 572 4.10 New 1 New
O Danish People's Party 423 3.03 -1.60 0 -1
B Social Liberals 342 2.45 +1.46 0 0
Ø Red-Green Alliance 278 1.99 -0.35 0 0
Total 13,962 100 N/A 19 N/A
Invalid votes 31 0.16 0.0
Blank votes 128 0.67 +0.20
Turnout 14,121 74.33 +0.98
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
V A T I C L O F Ø B Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 478 20.5 17.6 27.3 4.8 6.8 9.3 3.7 1.7 3.7 4.7 6.8
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 18.3 15.1 11.4 10.2 7.6 13.1 3.0 6.0 5.3 3.2
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 17.2 23.2 11.6 5.7 3.9 8.4 1.9 2.6 6.1 6.0
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 22.0 27.4 7.3 17.4 6.0 5.2 3.8 2.9 5.4
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 19.6
(4)
16.8
(4)
16.0
(3)
14.9
(3)
11.3
(3)
6.4
(1)
4.6
(1)
3.7
(0)
2.3
(0)
1.0
(0)
2.8

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  3. ^ "Efter dramatisk valg: Liberal Alliance får første borgmester | Nyheder". berlingske (in Danish). 22 November 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  4. ^ "Kommunalvalg den 16. november 2021". kmdvalg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  5. ^ "Liberal Alliance snupper borgmesterposten i Solrød". altinget.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  6. ^ "Valgresultater". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  7. ^ "Folketingsvalg tirsdag 1. november 2022". dst.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  8. ^ "Europa-Parlamentsvalg søndag 9. juni 2024". dst.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  9. ^ "Meningsmåling". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  10. ^ "Emil Blücher genopstiller som borgmester". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 29 May 2025.
  11. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Solrød Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.