2025 Sorø municipal election

2025 Sorø municipal election
18 November 2025

All 25 seats to the Sorø municipal Council
13 seats needed for a majority
 
A
C
V
Party Social Democrats Conservatives Venstre
Last election 8 seats, 30.3% 8 seats, 29.6% 3 seats, 10.6%
Current seats 8 9 2

 
F
TBD
Ø
Party Green Left New Right Red–Green Alliance
Last election 2 seats, 9.8% 1 seat, 5.1% 1 seat, 4.6%
Current seats 2 1 1

 
O
B
M
Party Danish People's Party Social Liberals Moderates
Last election 1 seat, 4.6% 1 seat, 3.0% Did not stand
Current seats 0 1 1

Incumbent Mayor

Gert Jørgensen
Conservatives



The 2025 Sorø Municipal election will be held on November 18, 2025, to elect the 25 members to sit in the regional council for the Sorø Municipal council, in the period of 2026 to 2029.[1]

Background

Following the 2021 election, Gert Jørgensen from Conservatives became mayor for his third term. [2] However, Jørgensen, is set to not run for a fourth term, and the Conservatives mayoral canddiate, will instead be Lars Schmidt. [3]

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. Sorø Municipality had 25 seats in 2025.

Elecotral Alliances

Electoral Alliance 1

Party[4] Political position
B Social Liberals Centre to Centre-left
M Moderates Centre to Centre-right
TBD Sorø Sammen Local politics

Opinion polls

Polling
firm
Fieldwork
date
Sample
size
A C V F Ø O B I M Æ Å Others Lead
2024 european parliament election 9 Jun 2024 16.5 8.5 14.3 19.0 5.2 8.3 5.6 5.9 6.0 8.6 2.1 2.5
2022 general election 1 Nov 2022 29.6 5.2 11.8 10.2 3.4 3.7 2.7 6.0 10.4 8.7 2.6 5.4 17.8
2021 regional election 16 Nov 2021 35.6 16.8 16.2 7.5 5.4 5.3 4.0 1.4 0.4 7.5 18.8
2021 municipal election 16 Nov 2021 30.3
(8)
29.6
(8)
10.6
(3)
9.8
(2)
4.6
(1)
4.6
(1)
3.0
(1)
1.0
(0)
6.5
(1)
0.7

References

  1. ^ "Kommunalvalg". valg.im.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  2. ^ "K står til at snuppe borgmesterpost fra S | Nyheder". altinget (in Danish). 21 November 2021. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
  3. ^ "Gert Jørgensen genopstiller ikke som borgmester". tv2east.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.
  4. ^ "Valgforbund på midten - tre partier går sammen". sn.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2025-05-29.