2013 Danish local elections

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98 municipal councils 5 regional councils

Party Leader % Seats +/– Social Democrats Helle Thorning-Schmidt 29.5% 773 −28 Venstre Lars Løkke Rasmussen 26.6% 767 +68 DPP Kristian Thulesen Dahl 10.1% 255 +69 Conservatives Lars Barfoed 8.6% 205 −57 Red–Green J. Schmidt-Nielsen[a] 6.9% 119 +105 SF Annette Vilhelmsen 5.6% 116 −224 Social Liberals Margrethe Vestager 4.8% 62 +12 Liberal Alliance Anders Samuelsen 2.9% 33 +32 Schleswig Party Carsten Leth Schmidt 0.3% 9 +3 Chr. Democrats Stig Grenov 0.5% 6 0 Other 3.8% 99 −4 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Local elections were held on 19 November 2013 in Denmark's 98 municipal councils, contesting 2,444 seats (previous election: 2,468 seats) for the 2014–2017 term of office, and in five regional councils, contesting 205 seats for the 2014–2017 term. Advance voting began on 20 August 2013 in national registration offices in Denmark, hospitals, prisons, etc.^[1] Twelve women held the highest political office of mayor in the municipalities in the 2014–2017 term of office.

Results

Results of regional elections

The Ministry of Economy and Interior stated that voter turnout was 71.7%. 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.

Number of councillors and political parties in the regional councils

Party		Seats	Change
A	Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	67	1
V	Venstre (Venstre)	62	8
O	Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	23	4
C	Conservative People's Party (Konservative Folkeparti)	15	5
Ø	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)	15	13
F	Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	10	22
B	Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)	8	1
I	Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance)	5	5
Total		205

Old and new chairs of the regional councils

On 22 June 2015, Stephanie Lose became chairman of the Region of Southern Denmark. She is from Venstre. Carl Holst became a minister in the government of Denmark.

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Results of municipal elections

The Ministry of Economy and Interior stated that voter turnout was 71.9%. 2,444 councillors were elected.

Number of councillors and political parties in the municipal councils

Sum of 98 local elections
Party		Share of vote		Seats
		Percent	Change	Number	Change
A	Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne)	29.5 %	-1.1 %	773	28
V	Venstre (Venstre)	26.6 %	+1.8 %	767	68
O	Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti)	10.1 %	+2.0 %	255	69
C	Conservative People's Party (Konservative Folkeparti)	08.6 %	-2.4 %	205	57
Ø	Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)	06.9 %	+4.6 %	119	1050
F	Socialist People's Party (Socialistisk Folkeparti)	05.6 %	-8.9 %	116	2240
B	Danish Social Liberal Party (Radikale Venstre)	04.8 %	+1.1 %	62	12
I	Liberal Alliance (Liberal Alliance)	02.9 %	+2.6 %	33	32
S	Schleswig Party (Slesvigsk Parti)	00.3%	+0.1%	9	0 3
K	Christian Democrats (Kristendemokraterne)	00.5%	+0.1%	6
	Others	03.8 %	-0.25 %	99	0 6
Total				2,444	24

Mayors in the municipalities

The mayors (Danish: borgmester; plural: borgmestre) of the 98 municipalities head the council meetings and are the chairmen 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). Mette Touborg is the mayor of Lejre Municipality since 1 January 2010. She is the only one at present^{[as of?]} from the Socialist People's Party to hold the highest political post in a municipality. Rebild Municipality has a new mayor since 1 January 2014, Leon Sebbelin from the Danish Social Liberal Party. Tobias Birch Johansen, the mayor of Læsø Municipality, is a member of the agrarian liberal Venstre, but he is elected on the local list Læsø Listen.

Mayors after the election
Party		Number	Change
	Venstre	48	17
	Social Democrats	33	16
	Conservative People's Party	13	1
	Local parties	2	2
	Danish Social Liberal Party	1	1
	Socialist People's Party	1	1

Old and new mayors in the municipalities

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, namely 1 January 2014 until 31 December 2017. The correct name for the municipality on the somewhat remote island of Bornholm is regional municipality because the municipality also handles tasks not carried out by the other Danish municipalities but by the regions. As just one example, as the only one of the 46 municipalities in eastern Denmark it is a 100% owner of its own public mass transit agency called BAT, formerly Bornholms Amts Trafikselskab. The public traffic agency of the other 45 municipalities in eastern Denmark is Movia, owned by the Capital Region of Denmark, Region Zealand and the 45 municipalities.