Large cannons fade
Meanwhile, the story was completely different for large parties, the Liberal Party and the Social Democrats.
The Social Democrats received the most votes (28.5 percent), but it was a decrease of 3.9 percent compared to 2017.
Four years ago, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s party secured 47 mayors, a number that has fallen to 36 with only 12 mayoral posts left to be decided.
The Blue Bloc leaders Venstre also slipped by 1.9 percent compared to 2017, but have landed on 35 mayors so far, only one less than four years ago.
DF left in limbo
But it looks really hard for the Danish People’s Party, which across the board endured a completely abysmal election.
DF experienced a decline in all 98 municipalities and went from securing 8.8 percent of the vote nationwide in 2017 to just 4.1 percent last night.
The catastrophic election has led party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahl to open up for a total renewal of the party – also his position.
But DF’s misery seemed to be Nye Borgerlige’s win, with the right-wing party snatching 3.6 percent of the vote – an increase of 2.7 percent compared to 2017.
Other parties that did better than four years ago were the Socialist People’s Party (up 1.9 percent), the Unity List (1.4 percent), the Radicals (1 percent) and the Christian Democrats (0.3 percent).
Big drama in CPH
There was a lot of drama in Copenhagen late last night, when the capital got a new mayor and witnessed the end of an era at the same time.
The good news for the Social Democrats is that they keep the mayoral seat again in Sophie Hæstorp Andersen.
The bad news is that the party was displaced as the most popular in the capital for the first time in over a century.
The Unity List, which also won on Bornholm, received 24.6 percent of the vote, while the Social Democrats took a sharp decline of 10.3 percentage points to land at 17.3 percent.
The tendency for the Social Democrats was similar in Odense, Aarhus and Aalborg – the party got a big hit among the voters, but managed to hold on to the mayor’s chair.
In neighboring Frederiksberg, there was also a historic change of guard when the Conservatives lost their mayoral post for the first time in 112 years.
Conservatives did well on their own, but were unable to secure a blue bloc majority, something the red bloc was capable of.
Check who got the mayoralty in your municipality.
Finally, the regional election was also underway and gave the following result in Denmark’s five regions.
Zealand: Heino Knudsen (Social Democracy)
Capital: Lars Gaardhøj (Social Democrats)
In the middle Jutland: Anders Kühnau (Social Democracy)
South Denmark: Stephanie Lose (Left)
North Jutland: Mads Duedahl (Left)
Source: The Nordic Page