2025 Sorø municipal election

2025 Sorø municipal election
18 November 2025

All 25 seats to the Sorø municipal council
13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout17,131 (70.0%)
3.2%
  First party Second party Third party
 
A
V
C
Party Social Democrats Venstre Conservatives
Last election 8 seats, 30.3% 3 seats, 10.6% 8 seats, 29.6%
Seats won 7 7 2
Seat change 1 4 6
Popular vote 4,207 3,953 1,731
Percentage 25.0% 23.5% 10.3%
Swing 5.3% 12.9% 19.3%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Ø
F
O
Party Red-Green Alliance Green Left Danish People's Party
Last election 1 seat, 4.6% 2 seats, 9.8% 1 seat, 4.6%
Seats won 2 2 1
Seat change 1 0 0
Popular vote 1,511 1,410 933
Percentage 9.0% 8.4% 5.5%
Swing 4.4% 1.4% 1.0%

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
I
Æ
B
Party Liberal Alliance Denmark Democrats Social Liberals
Last election 0 seats, 1.0% Did not stand 1 seat, 3.0%
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change 1 1 0
Popular vote 741 671 606
Percentage 4.4% 4.0% 3.6%
Swing 3.4% New 0.7%

Mayor before election

Gert Jørgensen
Conservatives

Mayor after election

Jakob Spliid
Venstre

The 2025 Sorø Municipal election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 25 members to sit in the regional council for the Sorø Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Jakob Spliid from Venstre, would win the mayoral position. [2]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Gert Jørgensen from Conservatives became mayor for his third term. [3] However, Jørgensen, would not run for a fourth term, and the Conservatives mayoral canddiate, will instead be Lars Schmidt. [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. Sorø Municipality had 25 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[5]

Electoral Alliance 1

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

Electoral Alliance 3

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Electoral Alliance 4

Party Political alignment
D New Right Far-right
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing
O Danish People's Party Right-wing to Far-right
V Venstre Centre-right

Results by polling station

Division A B C D F I L M O V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % % % % % %
Dianalund 27.8 1.3 11.5 3.8 6.6 4.3 0.2 3.5 8.6 22.7 5.3 4.6
Ruds Vedby 20.1 0.7 27.1 2.1 4.9 4.6 0.5 2.0 10.8 12.2 5.6 9.3
Alsted Fjenneslev 19.6 1.8 6.0 4.6 8.1 3.7 0.0 3.9 6.2 29.2 9.0 7.9
Sorø Borgerskole 27.6 6.6 10.7 2.0 9.6 4.8 0.0 2.6 2.7 21.1 1.8 10.5
Frederiksberg Skole 23.7 5.8 5.3 2.2 11.0 3.2 0.1 1.8 2.1 26.7 2.0 16.2
Pedersborg 25.9 3.4 7.8 3.0 6.9 6.0 0.2 4.0 5.0 28.5 3.7 5.7
Stenlille 23.4 1.8 13.0 5.7 8.3 4.4 0.3 2.6 8.4 20.5 5.5 6.1

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Sorø Municipality
A Social Democrats 4,207 25.02 -5.29 7 -1
V Venstre 3,953 23.51 +12.90 7 +4
C Conservatives 1,731 10.29 -19.28 2 -6
Ø Red-Green Alliance 1,511 8.98 +4.38 2 +1
F Green Left 1,410 8.38 -1.45 2 0
O Danish People's Party 933 5.55 +0.97 1 0
I Liberal Alliance 741 4.41 +3.39 1 +1
Æ Denmark Democrats 671 3.99 New 1 New
B Social Liberals 606 3.60 +0.65 1 0
D New Right 550 3.27 -1.87 1 0
M Moderates 478 2.84 New 0 New
L Alle Mennesker Er Værdifulde 26 0.15 New 0 New
Total 16,817 100 N/A 25 N/A
Invalid votes 52 0.21 -0.15
Blank votes 262 1.07 +0.09
Turnout 17,131 69.96 +3.23
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A C V F D Ø O B I L M Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 490 29.6 8.8 13.3 13.7 8.6 6.7 2.4 5.2 2.8 6.6 2.2 15.9
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 16.5 8.5 14.3 19.0 5.2 8.3 5.6 5.9 6.0 8.6 2.5
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 29.6 5.2 11.8 10.2 4.8 3.4 3.7 2.7 6.0 10.4 8.7 17.8
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 35.6 16.8 16.2 7.5 5.7 5.4 5.3 4.0 1.4 18.8
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 30.3
(8)
29.6
(8)
10.6
(3)
9.8
(2)
5.1
(1)
4.6
(1)
4.6
(1)
3.0
(1)
1.0
(0)
0.7

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "K står til at snuppe borgmesterpost fra S | Nyheder". altinget (in Danish). 21 November 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  4. ^ "Gert Jørgensen genopstiller ikke som borgmester". tv2east.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  5. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Sorø Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.