2009 Danish local elections

2009 Danish local elections

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98 municipal councils 5 regional councils

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– Social Democrats Helle Thorning-Schmidt 30.3% 801 −99 Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen 24.5% 699 −105 SF Villy Søvndal 14.3% 340 +178 Conservatives Lene Espersen 10.9% 262 +5 DPP Pia Kjærsgaard 8.0% 186 +61 Social Liberals Margrethe Vestager 3.7% 50 −36 Red–Green Collective leadership 2.3% 14 −10 Chr. Democrats Bjarne H. Kirkegaard 0.4% 6 −9 Schleswig Party Gerhard Mammen 0.2% 6 +2 Liberal Alliance Anders Samuelsen 0.3% 1 New Other 4.0% 103 −42 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

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Local elections were held in Denmark on 17 November 2009. Councils were elected in Denmark's 98 municipalities and the five regions. 2468 seats were contested in the municipal elections (previous election: 2522 seats). 205 seats were contested in the regional elections.

The electoral details are laid down in the municipal and regional electoral act.^[1] The elections are overseen by the Ministry of the Interior.^[2]

The Ministry of interior informed that voter turnout was 65.7%. The regions are not municipalities, and are not allowed to levy any taxes, but are financed only through block grants from the central government and the municipalities within each region. The results of the regional elections:^[3]

Party		Seats	Change
A	Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	68	9
V	Venstre (Venstre)	54	6
F	Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	32	20
C	Conservative People's Party (Konservative Folkeparti)	20	0
O	Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	19	5
B	Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)	7	4
Ø	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)	2	4
	Others	3	0
Total		205

The Ministry of the Interior stated that voter turnout was 65.8%. The results of the municipal elections:^[4]

Sum of 98 local elections
Party		Share of vote		Seats
		Percent	Change	Number	Change
A	Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	30.3 %	-3.6 %	801	99
V	Venstre (Venstre)	24.5 %	-2.7 %	699	105
F	Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	14.3 %	+7.0 %	340	178
C	Conservative People's Party (Konservative Folkeparti)	10.9 %	+0.8 %	262	5
O	Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	08.0 %	+2.2 %	186	61
B	Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)	03.7 %	-1.4 %	50	36
Ø	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)	02.3 %	-0.4 %	14	10
K	Christian Democrats (Kristendemokraterne)	00.4 %	-0.6 %	6	9
S	Schleswig Party (Slesvigsk Parti)	00.2%	+0.1 %	6	2
I	Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance)	00.3 %	New	1	New
	Others	04.0 %	-2.6 %	103	0 42
Total				2,468	54

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).

Mayors after the election
Party		Number	Change
	Social Democrats	49	4
	Venstre	31	6
	Conservative People's Party	12	2
	Local parties	4	1
	Socialist People's Party	2	2
	Danish Social Liberal Party	0	1

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. 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.