Overview
- Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen acknowledged heavier-than-expected losses as the party’s municipal vote share fell to 23.2% from 28.4% in 2021, though it remains the largest local party nationally.
- In Copenhagen, the Red‑Green Alliance led with 22.1% and the Green Left won 17.9%, while the Social Democrats dropped to 12.7% and their candidate Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil conceded.
- The result ends the Social Democrats’ unbroken record of supplying every lord mayor since the current municipal system began in 1938.
- The party also ceded control in several former strongholds, including Frederikshavn, Køge, Fredericia, Gladsaxe and Holstebro.
- The campaign’s final week saw DDoS attacks on government, municipal and party websites claimed by pro‑Russian group NoName057(16), which authorities had said were expected.