2025 Bornholm municipal election
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The 2025 Bornholm Municipal election was held on 18 November 2025, to elect the 23 members to sit in the regional council for the Bornholm Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1] The Danish People's Party would win the most seats, but it was Frederik Tolstrup from Venstre, who would secure the mayoral position. [2]
18 November 2025
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All 23 seats to the Bornholm municipal council 12 seats needed for a majority | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Turnout | 23,192 (72.3%) 0.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Background
In the 2021 election, Red–Green Alliance became the largest party. However, it was Jacob Trøst from the Conservatives, who became mayor.[3] However, he would not run for re-election.[4]
Former mayor, and latest mayoral candidate for the Social Democrats, Thomas Thors announced a few days following the 2021 election that he would stop in politics.[5]
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.
Unlike in Danish General Elections, in elections to city councils, electoral alliances are allowed.
Electoral alliances
Source[6]
Electoral Alliance 1
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| B | Social Liberals | Centre to Centre-left | |
| F | Green Left | Centre-left to Left-wing | |
Electoral Alliance 2
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| C | Conservatives | Centre-right | |
| O | Danish People's Party | Right-wing to Far-right | |
| V | Venstre | Centre-right | |
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | Right-wing to Far-right | |
Electoral Alliance 3
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Liberal Alliance | Centre-right to Right-wing | |
| K | Christian Democrats | Centre to Centre-right | |
Electoral Alliance 4
| Party | Political alignment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Q | Independent Greens | Left-wing | |
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | Left-wing to Far-Left | |
Results by polling station
| Division | A | B | C | E | F | I | J | K | M | O | Q | V | Æ | Ø |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Allinge | 22.2 | 2.2 | 8.9 | 0.1 | 8.8 | 1.9 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 1.5 | 20.0 | 0.6 | 14.0 | 1.9 | 13.1 |
| Østermarie | 16.2 | 2.0 | 9.9 | 0.3 | 10.5 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 2.0 | 17.9 | 1.1 | 14.2 | 2.2 | 16.9 |
| Svaneke | 22.8 | 2.9 | 8.4 | 0.3 | 13.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 3.1 | 1.3 | 10.5 | 0.9 | 16.1 | 1.3 | 18.0 |
| Nexø | 24.2 | 2.0 | 9.9 | 0.8 | 9.4 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 18.4 | 0.7 | 16.9 | 1.2 | 7.7 |
| Pedersker | 17.5 | 2.1 | 10.2 | 0.6 | 6.6 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 4.1 | 1.3 | 23.3 | 0.2 | 21.5 | 2.6 | 7.2 |
| Aakirkeby | 18.0 | 1.6 | 9.7 | 0.3 | 6.8 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 5.2 | 2.2 | 24.0 | 0.4 | 19.8 | 2.4 | 7.1 |
| Klemensker | 15.8 | 1.7 | 10.3 | 0.4 | 6.5 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 27.4 | 0.6 | 15.9 | 4.3 | 6.8 |
| Rønne | 25.5 | 2.9 | 9.5 | 0.2 | 11.2 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 18.5 | 0.5 | 14.6 | 1.2 | 6.8 |
| Hasle | 23.4 | 1.8 | 9.5 | 0.3 | 8.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 3.6 | 2.1 | 21.8 | 0.5 | 15.5 | 2.4 | 7.9 |
Results
| Party | Votes | % | +/- | Seats | +/- | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bornholm Municipality | ||||||||
| A | Social Democrats | 5,026 | 22.11 | +6.72 | 5 | +1 | ||
| O | Danish People's Party | 4,515 | 19.87 | +4.56 | 6 | +2 | ||
| V | Venstre | 3,638 | 16.01 | +6.45 | 4 | +2 | ||
| F | Green Left | 2,176 | 9.57 | +6.67 | 3 | +3 | ||
| C | Conservatives | 2,175 | 9.57 | -2.76 | 2 | -1 | ||
| Ø | Red-Green Alliance | 2,034 | 8.95 | -14.12 | 2 | -5 | ||
| K | Christian Democrats | 904 | 3.98 | -0.22 | 1 | 0 | ||
| B | Social Liberals | 524 | 2.31 | +0.42 | 0 | 0 | ||
| M | Moderates | 499 | 2.20 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Æ | Denmark Democrats | 421 | 1.85 | New | 0 | New | ||
| J | Fælleslisten Bornholm | 312 | 1.37 | New | 0 | New | ||
| I | Liberal Alliance | 301 | 1.32 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Q | Independent Greens | 127 | 0.56 | New | 0 | New | ||
| E | Bornholm 360 | 76 | 0.33 | New | 0 | New | ||
| Total | 22,728 | 100 | N/A | 23 | N/A | |||
| Invalid votes | 65 | 0.20 | -0.08 | |||||
| Blank votes | 399 | 1.24 | +0.05 | |||||
| Turnout | 23,192 | 72.31 | -0.60 | |||||
| Source: valg.dk | ||||||||
Opinion polls
| Polling firm | Fieldwork date | Sample size | Ø | A | O | C | V | K | F | B | E | I | J | M | Q | Æ | Others | Lead | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norstat | 20 Oct - 2 Nov 2025 | 1013 | 8.2 (2) | 23.4 (6) | 18.8 (5) | 9.4 (2) | 16.0 (4) | 3.1 (1) | 11.6 (3) | 1.8 (0) | 0.2 (0) | 2.0 (0) | 0.3 (0) | 0.9 (0) | 0.7 (0) | 2.6 (0) | – | 4.6 | |||
| Epinion | 4 Sep - 13 Oct 2025 | 490 | 9.8 | 29.1 | 18.2 | 9.2 | 11.4 | – | 9.5 | 0.5 | – | 5.9 | – | 2.1 | – | 2.8 | 0.0 | 10.9 | |||
| Jysk-Analyse/TV-2-Bornholm | 5 - 20 Feb 2025 | 1000 | 9.2 (2) | 32.7 (9) | 8.4 (2) | 13.2 (3) | 14.4 (4) | 3.8 (1) | 8.0 (2) | 2.3 (0) | – | 2.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 1.1 (0) | – | 3.3 (0) | 0.0 | 18.3 | |||
| 2024 european parliament election | 9 Jun 2024 | 7.3 | 20.0 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 18.0 | – | 15.6 | 4.2 | – | 4.1 | – | 5.0 | – | 7.8 | – | 2.0 | ||||
| Jysk-Analyse/TV-2-Bornholm | 22 - 27 Nov 2023 | 1105 | 10.8 (3) | 26.0 (6) | 10.0 (2) | 16.6 (5) | 14.8 (4) | 3.1 (0) | 9.1 (2) | 0.3 (0) | – | 4.1 (1) | – | 2.1 (0) | – | 0.4 (0) | 0.0 | 9.4 | |||
| Jysk-Analyse/TV-2-Bornholm | 6 - 11 Sep 2023 | 1004 | 10.8 (3) | 25.5 (7) | 10.5 (3) | 16.9 (4) | 9.9 (2) | 3.5 (1) | 5.8 (2) | 1.1 (0) | – | 1.6 (0) | – | – | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 | 8.6 | |||
| 2022 general election | 1 Nov 2022 | 5.2 | 35.3 | 6.3 | 3.7 | 18.7 | 2.0 | 6.4 | 1.0 | – | 3.6 | – | 6.1 | 0.2 | 6.4 | – | 16.6 | ||||
| Jysk-Analyse/TV-2-Bornholm | 19–25 May 2022 | 1012 | 14.8 (4) | 23.9 (6) | 11.6 (3) | 16.4 (4) | 14.6 (4) | 3.6 (1) | 3.6 (0) | 3.3 (0) | – | 1.4 (0) | – | 0.0 | 0.6 (0) | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7.5 | |||
| 2021 regional election | 16 Nov 2021 | 8.9 | 38.4 | 14.9 | 4.5 | 20.5 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 2.0 | – | 0.4 | – | – | – | – | – | 17.9 | ||||
| 2021 municipal election | 16 Nov 2021 | 23.1 (7) | 15.4 (4) | 15.3 (4) | 12.3 (3) | 9.6 (2) | 4.2 (1) | 2.9 (0) | 1.9 (0) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7.7 | ||||