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ER Editor: We published on these elections yesterday, with the prediction that the Social Democrats would lose big in Denmark’s local and regional elections. As they did. However, Denmark, at least in urban areas, is still very left-leaning.
It’s pretty clear, sifting through the commentary, that Frederiksen’s somewhat hardline policy on immigration has alienated voters, leaving people wondering why her party pushed it in the first place. As we said yesterday, whoever is behind this is bringing down a ruling leftist party.
We finally have a proper election map of yesterdays Danish municipal elections. We will have parliament elections in 6 months and it is looking VERY grim for the current government.
Quick facts:
1) It is the worst election in over 100 years for the center left (Socialdemocrats).… pic.twitter.com/ofhQ69Z4C6— Rune (@KinderheimRune) November 19, 2025
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Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
MIRANDA BRYANT for THE GUARDIAN
Mette Frederiksen has admitted that a fall in support for the Social Democrats was “greater than we had expected” after her party suffered sweeping defeats across Denmark and lost control of Copenhagen for the first time in more than 100 years.
While the Social Democrats remain the largest municipal party in Denmark, the prime minister’s centre-left party lost more than five percentage points across the country in Tuesday night’s municipal and regional elections, dropping from 28.4% in 2021 to 23.2%. Support for the far-right Danish People’s party, meanwhile, rose slightly from 4.09% to 5.9%.
In Copenhagen, Frederiksen’s close personal friend, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, who is understood to have been handpicked by the prime minister to run for lord mayor in the Danish capital, failed to get the votes she needed.
The position of lord mayor, it was announced, will be held by Sisse Marie Welling from the Green Left (Socialistisk Folkeparti, known as SF), which won 17.9% of the vote. “We have written history at city hall,” she said. The Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten) remained the capital’s biggest party with 22.1% of the vote.
Looking disconsolate after the historic defeat, Frederiksen said: “We had expected to go back, but it seems that the decline is greater than we had expected. We will consider what is behind this.”
Frederiksen cited rising food prices, and an imbalance between rural and urban areas, for her party’s decline in popularity. She also pointed to crime committed by “people coming from outside”, reinforcing her hardline stance on immigration.
As well as Copenhagen, the Social Democrats also took hits in the former dependable municipalities of Frederikshavn, Køge, Fredericia, Gladsaxe and Holstebro.
While the left did not do as well as expected in Copenhagen – there were hopes of a landslide – the results mean that for the first time since 1938, when the current system was introduced, the city will not have a Social Democrat lord mayor.
Conceding defeat on Wednesday morning, Rosenkrantz-Theil, who co-owns a summer house with the prime minister, said she would not be lord mayor after support for her party dropped from 17.2% of the vote in 2021 to 12.7%.
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Featured image source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/1/denmark-votes-in-elections-expected-to-change-political-landscape
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