2017 Danish local elections

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2017 Danish local elections

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98 municipal councils 5 regional councils

Party Leader % Seats +/– Social Democrats Mette Frederiksen 29.5% 842 +69 Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen 23.0% 688 -79 Conservative Søren Pape Poulsen 8.8% 225 +20 DPP Kristian Thulesen Dahl 8.8% 221 -34 SF Pia Olsen Dyhr 5.7% 126 +10 Red–Green Pernille Skipper[a] 6.0% 102 -17 Social Liberals Morten Østergaard 4.6% 80 +18 Liberal Alliance Anders Samuelsen 2.6% 28 -5 The Alternative Uffe Elbæk 3.0% 20 New Schleswig Carsten Leth Schmidt 0.3% 10 +1 Chr. Democrats Stig Grenov 0.5% 9 +3 New Right Pernille Vermund 0.9% 1 New Other 3.2% 78 -21 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The Danish local elections of 2017 were held on 21 November 2017 for Denmark's 98 municipal councils and five regional councils. All 2,432^[1] seats were contested for the 2018–21 term of office,^[2] together with 205 seats (a fixed number of 41 seats in each council) in five regional councils.^[3] In the previous election, there were 2,444 seats in the municipal councils.

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Results[]

Results of regional elections[]

The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.6%. 3,074,840 cast their votes. They voted for 205 seats in the five regional councils. This number remains unchanged since the first elections for the regional councils in the newly created regions, which were set up 1 January 2007 after the 13 counties were abolished. The regions are not municipalities but are financed only through block grants paid by the central government and their constituent municipalities.

Number of councillors and political parties in the Regional Councils[]

Party		Seats	Change
A	Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	70	3
V	Venstre (Venstre)	54	8
O	Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	21	2
C	Conservative People's Party (Konservative Folkeparti)	15	0
F	Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	15	5
Ø	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)	12	3
B	Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)	8	0
I	Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance)	5	0
Å	The Alternative (Alternativet)	3	New
K	Christian Democrats (Kristendemokraterne)	1	1
	Others	1	1
Total		205

Old and new Chairmen of the Regional Councils[]

Results of municipal elections[]

The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.8%. 3,226,558 cast their votes. They voted for 2432 seats in the 98 municipal councils, a reduction by 12 seats from 2444 after the previous election. The total countrywide number of seats in the municipal councils can be seen here and on the pages of the previous elections. They can be accessed from the template at the bottom of the pages.

Number of councillors and political parties in the Municipal Councils[]

Sum of 98 local elections
Party		Share of vote		Seats
		Percent	Change	Number	Change
A	Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	32.45%	+2.94%	842	69
V	Venstre (Venstre)	23.06%	-3.56%	688	78
C	Conservative People's Party (Konservative Folkeparti)	8.78%	+0.23%	225	20
O	Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	8.75%	-1.37%	221	34
F	Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	05.7%	+0.1%	126	10
Ø	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)	5.96%	-0.98%	102	17
B	Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)	04.6%	-0.2%	80	18
I	Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance)	02.6%	-0.3%	28	5
Å	The Alternative (Alternativet)	03.0%	New	20	New
S	Schleswig Party (Slesvigsk Parti)	00.3%	+0.0%	10	1
K	Christian Democrats (Kristendemokraterne)	00.5%	+0.0%	9	3
D	The New Right (Nye Borgerlige)	00.9%	New	1	New
	Others	03.2%	-0.6%	78	21
Total				2,432	12

The new municipal councils[]

Each municipal council consists of 9-55 seats, distributed over twelve established parties and a number of local parties.^[4]

Mayors in the municipalities[]

The mayors (Danish:Borgmester; plural:Borgmestre) of the 98 municipalities heads the council meetings and is the chairman of the finance committee in each of their respective municipalities. Only in Copenhagen, this mayor - the head of the finance committee and council meetings - is called the Lord Mayor (Danish:Overborgmester). The final decision on who would be mayor had to be made by the municipal councils no later than Friday 15 December 2017.

Mayors after the election
Party		Number	Change
	Social Democrats	47	14
	Venstre	37	11
	Conservative People's Party	8	5
	Local parties	2
	Danish Social Liberal Party	1
	Socialist People's Party	1
	Danish People's Party	1	1
	The Alternative	1	New

Old and new mayors in the municipalities[]

The term of office for the mayors elected by the majority of councillors among its members in each municipal council is the same as for the councils elected, namely 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2021. The correct name for the municipality on the somewhat remote island of Bornholm is Regional Municipality, because the municipality also handles several tasks not carried out by the other Danish municipalities but by the regions.

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