2021 Kerteminde municipal election

2021 Kerteminde municipal election

16 November 2021
All 25 seats to the Kerteminde Municipal Council 13 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	14,090 (72.6%) 4.0pp
First party Second party Third party   A C V Party Social Democrats Conservatives Venstre Last election 7 seats, 23.3% 7 seats, 21.4% 3 seats, 11.9% Seats won 10 9 2 Seat change 3 2 1 Popular vote 5,075 4,616 971 Percentage 36.6% 33.3% 7.0% Swing 13.3% 11.9% 4.9%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   F O Ø Party Green Left Danish People's Party Red–Green Alliance Last election 2 seats, 8.2% 3 seats, 12.2% 1 seat, 6.2% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 1 2 0 Popular vote 763 639 595 Percentage 5.5% 4.6% 4.3% Swing 2.7% 7.6% 1.9%   Seventh party Eighth party   D B Party New Right Danish Social Liberal Party Last election Did Not Stand 1 seat, 6.5% Seats won 1 0 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 593 382 Percentage 4.3% 2.8% Swing New 3.7%
Mayor before election Kasper Olesen Social Democrats Mayor after election Kasper Olesen Social Democrats

The 2017 election, resulted in Kasper Olesen from the Social Democrats becoming mayor, but not without drama. The election resulted in both the Social Democrats and the Conservatives winning 7 seats. This was while Venstre who had held the mayor's position in the period up to the election, only won 3 seats. They tried to have a majority behind them holding the mayor's position once again, however without luck. After many days of negotiations, they eventually opted for supporting Kasper Olesen for mayor. This was untraditional, since Conservatives and Venstre are in the same political bloc.

Because of the dramatic and uncommon result, and that the Conservatives were having great opinion polls nationwide, it was speculated that they would have a good chance to win the mayor's position this time. Conservatives and Venstre were part of an electoral alliance with the New Right and Danish People's Party. This suggested that they would be ready to give one of them the mayor's position, if a majority was won.

In the result, both the Social Democrats and Conservatives would increase their vote share by more than 10%, and would gain 3 and 2 seats respectively. A majority in the electoral alliance mentioned above was won. However Danish People's Party would drop its support to a mayor from the blue bloc, and suddenly Kasper Olesen would once again have an untraditional majority behind him, being the Social Democrats, the Green Left, Danish People's Party and the Red–Green Alliance.

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. Kerteminde Municipality had 25 seats in 2021

Unlike in Danish General Elections, in elections to municipal councils, electoral alliances are allowed.

Electoral alliances

Source

Electoral Alliance 1

Electoral Alliance 2

Electoral Alliance 3

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Kerteminde Municipality
	Social Democrats	5,075	36.57	10	+3
	Conservatives	4,616	33.26	9	+2
	Venstre	971	7.00	2	-1
	Green Left	763	5.50	1	-1
	Danish People's Party	639	4.60	1	-2
	Red–Green Alliance	595	4.29	1	0
	New Right	593	4.27	1	New
	Danish Social Liberal Party	382	2.75	0	-1
	Frie Lokale	146	1.05	0	New
	Christian Democrats	99	0.71	0	New
Total		13,879	100.00	25	0
Valid votes		13,879	98.50
Invalid votes		44	0.31
Blank votes		167	1.19
Total votes		14,090	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		19,398	72.64
Source: KMD