2021 Solrød municipal election

2021 Solrød municipal election

16 November 2021
All 19 seats to the Solrød Municipal Council 10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	13,177 (73.4%) 1.7pp
First party Second party Third party   V A H Party Venstre Social Democrats VoresSolrød Last election 8 seats, 36.3% 4 seats, 18.6% Did Not Stand Seats won 4 4 3 Seat change 4 0 3 Popular vote 2,553 2,187 2,084 Percentage 19.6% 16.8% 16.0% Swing 16.7% 1.8% New   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   I C L Party Liberal Alliance Conservatives Havdruplisten Last election 1 seat, 6.9% 1 seat, 6.5% 1 seat, 6.9% Seats won 3 3 1 Seat change 2 2 0 Popular vote 1,944 1,473 831 Percentage 14.9% 11.3% 6.4% Swing 8% 4.8% 0.5%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   O F B Party Danish People's Party Green Left Danish Social Liberal Party Last election 1 seat, 8.8% 1 seat, 5.0% 1 seat, 3.7% Seats won 1 0 0 Seat change 0 1 1 Popular vote 604 489 129 Percentage 4.6% 3.8% 1.0% Swing 4.2% 1.2% 2.7%
Mayor before election Niels Hörup Venstre Mayor after election Emil Blücher Liberal Alliance

Ever since the 2007 municipal reform, and prior to this election, the election results had led to Niels Hörup from Venstre becoming mayor. All the elections had given Venstre 8 seats. In the 2017 election, the blue bloc had won 11 seats.

However this election was quite remarkable in multiple ways. First off this would become Liberal Alliance best result in any municipality in the 2017 Danish local elections, as they won 14.9% of the vote, an 8% increase compared to 2017. This would also be the only municipal election in 2017 where no party won above 20% of the vote. The result would be very split, with 5 parties winning 3 or 4 seats. Venstre would still become the party to receive the most votes, but would lose 4 seats.

On election night, at first, it looked like the Conservatives had won the mayor's position. However to great frustration from the Conservatives, the Liberal Alliance had decided to support the Social Democrats. The day following the election, Jonas Ring Madsen from the Social Democrats could declare that he had secured the mayor's position.

On November 22, 2021, however, Emil Blücher from Liberal Alliance could announce that he would become the new mayor, as the Conservatives, Venstre and local party Havdrup Listen supported him as the new mayor.

This would mark the first mayor position of Liberal 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. Solrød Municipality had 19 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

Party	Political Position
Danish Social Liberal Party	Centre to Centre-left
Conservatives	Centre-right
Havdruplisten	Local Party

Electoral Alliance 3

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Solrød Municipality
	Venstre	2,553	19.56	4	-4
	Social Democrats	2,187	16.76	4	0
	VoresSolrød	2,084	15.97	3	New
	Liberal Alliance	1,944	14.90	3	+2
	Conservatives	1,473	11.29	3	+2
	Havdruplisten	831	6.37	1	0
	Danish People's Party	604	4.63	1	0
	Green Left	489	3.75	0	-1
	New Right	449	3.44	0	0
	Red–Green Alliance	306	2.35	0	New
	Danish Social Liberal Party	129	0.99	0	-1
Total		13,049	100.00	19	0
Valid votes		13,049	99.03
Invalid votes		30	0.23
Blank votes		98	0.74
Total votes		13,177	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		17,964	73.35
Source: KMD