Results of regional elections The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.6%. 3,074,840 cast their votes. They voted for 205 seats in the five
regional councils. This number remains unchanged since the first elections for the regional councils in the newly created regions, which were set up 1 January 2007 after the 13 counties were abolished. The regions are not municipalities, but are financed only through
block grants paid by the central government and their constituent municipalities.
Number of councillors and political parties in the Regional Councils Old and new Chairmen of the Regional Councils Results of municipal elections The Danish ministry of economy and interior informed that voter turnout was 70.8%. 3,226,558 cast their votes. They voted for 2432 seats in the 98
municipal councils, a reduction of 12 seats from 2444 after the
previous election. The total countrywide number of seats in the municipal councils can be seen
here and on the pages of the previous elections. They can be accessed from the template at the bottom of the pages.
Number of councillors and political parties in the Municipal Councils The new municipal councils Each municipal council consists of 9-55 seats, distributed over twelve
established parties and a number of
local parties.
Mayors in the municipalities The mayors (Danish:
Borgmester; plural:
Borgmestre) of the 98 municipalities heads the council meetings and is the chairman 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). The final decision on who would be mayor had to be made by the municipal councils no later than Friday, 15 December 2017.
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 2018 until 31 December 2021. The municipality on the somewhat remote island of
Bornholm is called a
Regional Municipality, because the municipality also handles several tasks not carried out by the other Danish municipalities but by the
regions. == Notes ==