2025 North Denmark regional election
18 November 2025
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The 2025 North Denmark Regional election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 25 members to sit in the regional council for the North Denmark Regional council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] Mads Duedahl from Venstre, would take the chairperson.[2]
Background
Following the 2021 election, Mads Duedahl from Venstre became chairperson for his first term, becoming the first chairperson not from the Social Democrats in the region.[3]
Since their establishment in 2007, Denmark’s five regions have been subject to ongoing political debate. In June 2024, the government's Health Structure Commission proposed three models for reorganizing the healthcare system, two of which involved abolishing the existing regions.[4] In the end, the regions were retained, however with a reformartion of, among other things, the regional councils. Each of the five regional councils, had 41 seats, from their first election in 2005 to the 2021 election.[5] The reform resulted in three regions, including the North Denmark Region, retaining their existing boundaries and continuing unchanged, while the two other regions were merged to form a new entity.[6] As part of the reform, this region will elect only 25 council members.[7]
The Social Liberals, Green Left, and the Red-Green Alliance have announced that, untraditionally, they would support the continuation of Mads Duedahl of Venstre as chairperson, rather than Arne Boelt of the Social Democrats.[8][9]
Notional results 2021
2021 Election Results and notional results with 25 Seats Contested
| Parties | Vote | Seats | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Actual Seats | Notional Seats | + / - | |||
| Social Democrats | 108,637 | 35.0 | 15 | 9 | -6 | ||
| Venstre | 78,337 | 25.2 | 11 | 7 | -4 | ||
| Conservatives | 49,069 | 15.8 | 7 | 4 | -3 | ||
| Red–Green Alliance | 14,370 | 4.6 | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
| New Right | 13,233 | 4.3 | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
| Green Left | 13,073 | 4.2 | 2 | 1 | -1 | ||
| Danish People's Party | 12,060 | 3.9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Social Liberals | 11,520 | 3.7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 310,538 | 100.0 | 41 | 25 | -16 | ||
| Source[10] | |||||||
Electoral system
For elections to Danish Regional councils, a number varying from 25 to 47 are chosen to be elected to the Regional council. The seats are then allocated using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation. The North Denmark Region had 25 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 | |
| Å | The Alternative | Centre-left to Left-wing | |
Electoral Alliance 2
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| C | Conservatives | Centre-right | |
| I | Liberal Alliance | Centre-right to Right-wing | |
| K | Christian Democrats | Centre to Centre-right | |
| M | Moderates | Centre to Centre-right | |
| O | Danish People's Party | Right-wing to Far-right | |
| V | Venstre | Centre-right | |
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | Right-wing to Far-right | |
Results by constituency and municipality
Results by constituency
| Division | A | B | C | D | F | I | K | L | M | O | V | Æ | Ø | Å |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| North Jutland | 25.0 | 3.9 | 10.2 | 0.3 | 8.5 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 27.0 | 9.2 | 3.9 | 0.5 |
Results by municipality
| Division | A | B | C | D | F | I | K | L | M | O | V | Æ | Ø | Å |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Læsø | 15.6 | 2.9 | 29.2 | 0.6 | 6.2 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 9.3 | 13.1 | 16.1 | 2.9 | 0.6 |
| Frederikshavn | 27.7 | 1.5 | 8.3 | 0.3 | 8.6 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 5.8 | 28.0 | 10.9 | 2.1 | 0.3 |
| Hjørring | 30.8 | 4.0 | 12.6 | 0.2 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 4.6 | 25.1 | 7.9 | 3.0 | 0.2 |
| Brønderslev | 24.5 | 2.4 | 9.2 | 0.6 | 9.6 | 3.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 4.8 | 29.8 | 11.0 | 2.8 | 0.2 |
| Jammerbugt | 22.0 | 1.7 | 7.3 | 0.2 | 6.5 | 4.9 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 5.7 | 37.8 | 9.0 | 2.0 | 0.3 |
| Thisted | 24.5 | 2.4 | 11.8 | 0.3 | 7.1 | 7.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 5.5 | 23.6 | 12.0 | 4.1 | 0.4 |
| Morsø | 31.5 | 1.8 | 9.7 | 0.2 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 3.6 | 37.2 | 7.9 | 2.1 | 0.2 |
| Vesthimmerland | 15.2 | 1.9 | 22.8 | 0.3 | 6.9 | 3.4 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 3.4 | 29.8 | 13.3 | 1.4 | 0.1 |
| Rebild | 17.3 | 5.9 | 17.4 | 0.1 | 9.0 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 24.7 | 12.9 | 3.6 | 0.4 |
| Mariagerfjord | 31.9 | 1.9 | 6.8 | 0.1 | 6.6 | 4.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 4.6 | 22.9 | 16.4 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Aalborg | 24.3 | 6.1 | 7.8 | 0.3 | 11.0 | 6.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 4.1 | 25.4 | 5.8 | 6.0 | 0.6 |
Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Denmark Region | ||||||||
| V | Venstre | 86,063 | 27.02 | +1.80 | 8 | -3 | ||
| A | Social Democrats | 79,712 | 25.03 | -9.96 | 6 | -9 | ||
| C | Conservatives | 32,484 | 10.20 | -5.60 | 3 | -4 | ||
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | 29,240 | 9.18 | New | 2 | New | ||
| F | Green Left | 27,229 | 8.55 | +4.34 | 2 | 0 | ||
| I | Liberal Alliance | 16,082 | 5.05 | +3.93 | 1 | +1 | ||
| O | Danish People's Party | 14,458 | 4.54 | +0.66 | 1 | 0 | ||
| B | Social Liberals | 12,475 | 3.92 | +0.21 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 12,338 | 3.87 | -0.75 | 1 | -1 | ||
| M | Moderates | 2,895 | 0.91 | New | 0 | New | ||
| L | Vendelbo-Listen | 1,642 | 0.52 | New | 0 | New | ||
| K | Christian Democrats | 1,545 | 0.49 | -0.39 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Å | The Alternative | 1,461 | 0.46 | +0.14 | 0 | 0 | ||
| D | New Right | 874 | 0.27 | -3.99 | 0 | -2 | ||
| Total | 318,498 | 100 | N/A | 25 | N/A | |||
| Invalid votes | 835 | 0.17 | -0.03 | |||||
| Blank votes | 11,200 | 2.34 | -0.08 | |||||
| Turnout | 330,533 | 69.18 | +1.56 | |||||
| Source: valg.dk | ||||||||
Opinion polls
| Polling firm |
Fieldwork date |
Sample size |
A | V | C | Ø | D | F | O | B | I | K | Å | L | M | Æ | Others | Lead | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epinion | 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 | 270 | 28.5 | 20.9 | 4.8 | 4.8 | – | 7.9 | 5.3 | 3.4 | 7.6 | – | 0.0 | – | 1.5 | 15.3 | 0.0 | 7.6 | |||
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 18.1 | 17.2 | 7.0 | 4.9 | – | 12.9 | 6.0 | 5.1 | 6.4 | – | 2.1 | – | 4.9 | 15.5 | – | 0.9 | ||||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 34.0 | 14.0 | 4.4 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 5.7 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 7.1 | 0.4 | 1.9 | – | 6.3 | 15.2 | – | 18.8 | ||||
| 2021 municipal elections | 16 Nov 2021 | 34.6 | 26.4 | 13.1 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | 8.2 | ||||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 35.0 (15) |
25.2 (11) |
15.8 (7) |
4.6 (2) |
4.3 (2) |
4.2 (2) |
3.9 (1) |
3.7 (1) |
1.1 (0) |
0.9 (0) |
0.3 (0) |
– | – | – | – | 9.8 | ||||
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