2025 Bornholm municipal election

2025 Bornholm municipal election
← 2021
18 November 2025
2029 →
All 23 seats to the Bornholm municipal council
12 seats needed for a majority
Turnout23,192 (72.3%)
Decrease 0.6%
  First party Second party Third party
 
O
A
V
Party Danish People's Party Social Democrats Venstre
Last election 4 seats, 15.3% 4 seats, 15.4% 2 seats, 9.6%
Seats won 6 5 4
Seat change Increase 2 Increase 1 Increase 2
Popular vote 4,515 5,026 3,638
Percentage 19.9% 22.1% 16.0%
Swing Increase 4.6% Increase 6.7% Increase 6.5%
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
F
C
Ø
Party Green Left Conservatives Red-Green Alliance
Last election 0 seats, 2.9% 3 seats, 12.3% 7 seats, 23.1%
Seats won 3 2 2
Seat change Increase 3 Decrease 1 Decrease 5
Popular vote 2,176 2,175 2,034
Percentage 9.6% 9.6% 8.9%
Swing Increase 6.7% Decrease 2.8% Decrease 14.1%
  Seventh party
  K
Party Christian Democrats
Last election 1 seat, 4.2%
Seats won 1
Seat change 0
Popular vote 904
Percentage 4.0%
Swing Decrease 0.2%
Mayor before election

Jacob Trøst
Conservatives

Mayor after election

Frederik Tolstrup
Venstre

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]

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

Notes

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". ft.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Her er borgmestrene på plads". dknyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  3. ^ "S- og V-massakre på Bornholm giver øen en konservativ borgmester | Nyheder". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Borgmester Jacob Trøst genopstiller ikke til kommunalvalget 2025". br.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 9 October 2025.
  5. ^ "Borgmester stopper i politik". bornholmnyt.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  6. ^ "Stemmefordeling i Bornholm Kommune". valg.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 7 October 2025.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Bornholm_municipal_election