2025 Kerteminde municipal election

2025 Kerteminde municipal election
18 November 2025

All 25 seats to the Kerteminde municipal council
13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout14,648 (74.7%)
2.0%
  First party Second party Third party
 
C
A
I
Party Conservatives Social Democrats Liberal Alliance
Last election 9 seats, 33.3% 10 seats, 36.6% Did not stand
Seats won 8 5 3
Seat change 1 5 3
Popular vote 4,448 2,926 1,620
Percentage 30.9% 20.3% 11.2%
Swing 2.4% 16.2% New

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  E
F
Ø
Party Hverdagens Stemme Green Left Red-Green Alliance
Last election Did not stand 1 seat, 5.5% 1 seat, 4.3%
Seats won 3 2 1
Seat change 3 1 0
Popular vote 1,577 1,132 664
Percentage 11.0% 7.9% 4.6%
Swing New 2.4% 0.3%

  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
V
O
B
Party Venstre Danish People's Party Social Liberals
Last election 2 seats, 7.0% 1 seat, 4.6% 0 seats, 2.8%
Seats won 1 1 1
Seat change 1 0 1
Popular vote 654 602 375
Percentage 4.5% 4.2% 2.6%
Swing 2.5% 0.4% 0.1%

Mayor before election

Kasper Ejsing Olesen
Social Democrats

Mayor after election

Michael Nielsen
Conservatives

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

Background

Following the 2021 election, Kasper Ejsing Olesen from Social Democrats became mayor for his second term. [3] He 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. Kerteminde 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
V Venstre Centre-right

Electoral Alliance 3

Party Political alignment
C Conservatives Centre-right
E Hverdagens Stemme Local politics
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing
Æ Denmark Democrats Right-wing to Far-right

Results by polling station

Division A B C E F I M O V Æ Ø
% % % % % % % % % % %
Hindsholm 17.4 5.1 21.2 10.8 9.8 11.9 0.2 3.3 9.5 2.4 8.3
Kerteminde Idrætscenter 20.6 3.5 31.3 9.1 7.3 12.8 0.4 3.8 5.4 1.2 4.5
Nymarken 17.9 2.2 23.8 8.7 7.6 18.8 0.2 4.8 6.5 4.1 5.5
Marslev 16.1 1.3 31.0 23.3 5.2 6.1 1.1 4.3 4.0 3.5 4.0
Langeskov 20.8 1.1 52.7 6.2 3.7 5.1 0.3 3.0 2.4 2.5 2.3
Munkebo 23.3 2.4 17.2 14.3 12.8 13.1 0.8 5.8 2.8 2.2 5.3

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Kerteminde Municipality
C Conservatives 4,448 30.89 -2.37 8 -1
A Social Democrats 2,926 20.32 -16.25 5 -5
I Liberal Alliance 1,620 11.25 New 3 New
E Hverdagens Stemme 1,577 10.95 New 3 New
F Green Left 1,132 7.86 +2.36 2 +1
Ø Red-Green Alliance 664 4.61 +0.32 1 0
V Venstre 654 4.54 -2.45 1 -1
O Danish People's Party 602 4.18 -0.42 1 0
B Social Liberals 375 2.60 -0.15 1 +1
Æ Denmark Democrats 329 2.28 New 0 New
M Moderates 74 0.51 New 0 New
Total 14,401 100 N/A 25 N/A
Invalid votes 41 0.21 -0.02
Blank votes 206 1.05 +0.21
Turnout 14,648 74.69 +2.05
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A C V F O Ø B E I M Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 525 27.3 24.5 6.8 10.8 4.6 4.0 1.8 9.3 1.0 5.9 4.0 2.8
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 21.8 10.1 14.0 16.2 8.1 4.3 4.2 5.5 5.8 8.6 5.6
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 37.4 6.8 9.9 6.6 2.8 3.3 1.8 5.4 9.3 9.2 27.5
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 28.5 20.1 25.8 6.4 4.1 4.6 2.9 0.7 2.7
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 36.6
(10)
33.3
(9)
7.0
(2)
5.5
(1)
4.6
(1)
4.3
(1)
2.8
(0)
3.3

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-11-21.
  3. ^ "Kasper Olesen fortsætter som borgmester i Kerteminde | Nyheder". kjavis (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  4. ^ "Kasper Ejsing genopstiller, og M har flere spidser klar". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-27.
  5. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Kerteminde Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.