2025 Southern Denmark regional election

2025 Southern Denmark regional election
18 November 2025
All 31 seats to the Southern Denmark regional council
16 seats needed for a majority
Turnout683,794 (69.7%)
2.0%
  First party Second party Third party
 
V
A
O
Party Venstre Social Democrats Danish People's Party
Last election 17 seats, 39.2% 12 seats, 25.9% 1 seat, 4.3%
Seats won 9 8 3
Seat change 8 4 2
Popular vote 163,194 147,531 72,286
Percentage 25.1% 22.7% 11.1%
Swing 14.1% 3.2% 6.8%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
F
C
Æ
Party Green Left Conservatives Denmark Democrats
Last election 2 seats, 6.4% 3 seats, 7.7% Did not stand
Seats won 3 2 2
Seat change 1 1 2
Popular vote 64,126 45,618 41,911
Percentage 9.9% 7.0% 6.4%
Swing 3.4% 0.7% New
  Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party
 
I
Ø
B
Party Liberal Alliance Red-Green Alliance Social Liberals
Last election 0 seats, 0.9% 2 seats, 4.3% 2 seats, 4.2%
Seats won 2 1 1
Seat change 2 1 1
Popular vote 37,337 30,188 22,687
Percentage 5.7% 4.6% 3.5%
Swing 4.8% 0.3% 0.7%
Chairperson before election

Bo Libergren
Venstre

Chairperson after election

Bo Libergren
Venstre

The 2025 Southern Denmark Regional election was held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 31 members to sit in the regional council for the Southern Denmark Regional council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.Bo Libergren from Venstre, would take the chairperson.[1]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Stephanie Lose from Venstre became chairperson for her second term.[2][3] However, Lose announced on October 25, 2025, that she would step down from the position, in case she became a minister.[4] Following this, Bo Libergren, from Venstre as well replaced her, when she became the Minister for Economic Affairs.[5][6]

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.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9] As part of the reform, this region will elect only 31 council members.[10]

Notional results 2021

2021 Election Results and notional results with 31 Seats Contested

Parties Vote Seats
Votes % Actual Seats Notional Seats + / -
Venstre 249,004 39.2 17 14 -3
Social Democrats 164,481 25.9 12 8 -4
Conservatives 48,870 7.7 3 3 0
Green Left 40,878 6.4 2 2 0
New Right 29,517 4.7 2 1 -1
Red–Green Alliance 27,322 4.3 2 1 -1
Social Liberals 26,783 4.2 2 1 -1
Danish People's Party 27,220 4.3 1 1 0
Total 310,538 100.0 41 31 -10
Source[11]

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 Southern Denmark Region had 31 seats in 2025.

Electoral alliances

Source[12]

Electoral Alliance 1

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

Electoral Alliance 2

Party Political alignment
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
C Conservatives Centre-right
I Liberal Alliance Centre-right to Right-wing

Electoral Alliance 3

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

Electoral Alliance 4

Party Political alignment
F Green Left Centre-left to Left-wing
Ø Red-Green Alliance Left-wing to Far-Left

Electoral Alliance 5

Party Political alignment
K Christian Democrats Centre to Centre-right
Å The Alternative Centre-left to Left-wing

Results by constituency and municipality

Results by constituency

Division A B C E F I K M O R V Æ Ø Å
% % % % % % % % % % % % % %
South Jutland 21.8 2.6 5.7 0.3 8.0 6.0 0.8 1.9 13.0 0.1 28.1 7.4 3.6 0.7
Funen 23.9 4.7 8.8 0.2 12.3 5.4 0.3 2.2 8.6 0.1 21.1 5.1 6.1 1.2

Results by municipality

Division A B C E F I K M O R V Æ Ø Å
% % % % % % % % % % % % % %
Sønderborg 29.8 1.5 3.0 0.2 6.0 6.3 0.7 1.6 12.9 0.1 26.7 6.8 3.9 0.5
Aabenraa 19.9 1.7 9.2 0.2 6.9 5.3 1.0 1.4 17.2 0.1 26.0 8.2 2.5 0.5
Tønder 15.0 1.0 2.8 0.2 6.0 3.7 1.5 1.2 15.6 0.2 41.8 8.8 1.6 0.6
Fanø 15.1 25.8 8.3 0.5 8.6 3.0 0.1 1.0 6.4 0.2 15.7 3.1 10.4 1.9
Esbjerg 23.3 2.2 7.6 1.1 8.4 5.7 0.5 1.5 10.5 0.1 27.2 7.0 4.5 0.4
Varde 19.5 1.5 3.8 0.3 6.3 8.1 1.0 1.3 10.1 0.0 35.0 11.0 1.6 0.4
Billund 22.0 1.3 3.0 0.2 4.7 4.2 0.6 2.2 10.2 0.1 35.5 13.6 1.7 0.8
Vejen 20.5 1.7 7.5 0.4 6.1 5.3 0.6 1.8 13.4 0.1 29.9 10.3 1.8 0.6
Vejle 23.1 3.9 5.5 0.1 10.2 5.9 0.9 2.7 9.9 0.2 26.8 6.7 3.1 1.1
Fredericia 23.0 2.0 6.8 0.3 8.8 6.4 0.5 1.8 13.8 0.1 23.0 5.3 7.4 0.7
Kolding 17.4 4.3 5.5 0.1 10.4 7.7 0.8 3.0 14.9 0.1 26.1 5.2 4.0 0.6
Haderslev 20.7 2.2 5.3 0.1 7.4 5.6 1.4 1.1 19.4 0.1 25.5 7.0 3.6 0.7
Odense 24.0 6.1 10.7 0.1 12.6 5.5 0.4 3.1 7.6 0.1 18.2 2.7 7.4 1.5
Assens 21.3 3.4 5.2 0.1 11.2 5.7 0.4 1.2 9.9 0.1 28.9 7.3 4.2 1.1
Middelfart 23.2 4.2 5.5 0.2 9.8 6.9 0.4 2.0 9.5 0.1 24.5 8.6 3.7 1.4
Nordfyn 24.2 2.3 4.2 0.2 8.7 3.6 0.2 1.1 9.3 0.1 34.6 8.1 2.7 0.7
Kerteminde 21.0 2.6 21.2 0.3 11.4 9.2 0.4 1.6 9.3 0.1 12.8 5.0 4.4 0.7
Nyborg 22.9 3.9 5.0 0.1 15.2 4.2 0.2 1.2 9.4 0.1 27.4 5.5 3.6 1.2
Svendborg 24.4 4.9 6.2 0.1 16.1 4.9 0.3 1.3 7.6 0.1 17.4 5.2 10.1 1.3
Langeland 16.2 3.7 10.8 0.2 13.8 3.5 0.3 3.1 9.8 0.1 26.0 6.2 5.1 1.2
Ærø 14.8 2.0 16.5 0.2 10.8 1.7 0.1 0.9 6.5 0.1 26.5 12.4 6.3 1.3
Faaborg-Midtfyn 30.6 3.6 6.9 0.2 10.5 4.8 0.3 1.6 10.5 0.1 18.8 7.1 4.2 0.9

Results

Party Votes % +/- Seats +/-
Southern Denmark Region
V Venstre 163,194 25.10 -14.12 9 -8
A Social Democrats 147,531 22.69 -3.21 8 -4
O Danish People's Party 72,286 11.12 +6.83 3 +2
F Green Left 64,126 9.86 +3.42 3 +1
C Conservatives 45,618 7.02 -0.68 2 -1
Æ Denmark Democrats 41,911 6.45 New 2 New
I Liberal Alliance 37,337 5.74 +4.80 2 +2
Ø Red-Green Alliance 30,188 4.64 +0.34 1 -1
B Social Liberals 22,687 3.49 -0.73 1 -1
M Moderates 13,085 2.01 New 0 New
Å The Alternative 5,888 0.91 +0.46 0 0
K Christian Democrats 3,949 0.61 -0.34 0 0
E Borgerlig Fornuft 1,660 0.26 New 0 New
R Kommunistisk Parti 727 0.11 New 0 New
Total 650,187 100 N/A 31 N/A
Invalid votes 2,218 0.22 -0.06
Blank votes 31,389 3.16 +0.53
Turnout 683,794 68.92 +1.99
Source: valg.dk

Opinion polls

Polling
firm		 Fieldwork
date		 Sample
size		 V A C F Ø O B I K Å E M R Æ Others Lead
Epinion 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 588 18.2 27.5 8.1 10.2 5.6 6.0 3.1 7.5 – 0.5 – 1.7 – 11.1 0.4 9.3
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 18.2 17.8 8.6 14.5 4.6 7.4 5.3 7.0 – 2.0 – 5.6 – 9.0 – 0.4
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 14.5 30.1 5.0 6.8 3.3 2.7 2.6 7.1 0.6 2.0 – 9.6 – 10.0 – 15.6
2021 municipal elections 16 Nov 2021 28.6 29.8 11.9 7.2 3.8 4.6 4.0 0.7 0.6 0.4 – – – – – 1.2
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 39.2
(17)		 25.9
(12)		 7.7
(3)		 6.4
(2)		 4.3
(2)		 4.3
(1)		 4.2
(2)		 0.9
(0)		 0.9
(0)		 0.4
(0)		 – – – – – 13.3

References

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