Talk Elections

On the 17th of November there is local elections in Denmark
I 98 municipals and 5 regions (all of the country) the local politicians for the next 4 years will be elected.

Currently it looks like, SF and DF will be the big winners while Venstre and the Social Liberals will lose.

Some polls (not that they are usefull in any way. Local elections are decided by local things)

Jyllandsposten 12th of October ( () is last election in 2005)
A: Socialdemokraterne: 34,6 procent (34,3)
B: Det Radikale Venstre: 2,7 procent (5,2)
C: Konservative Folkeparti: 9,9 procent (10,3)
F: Socialistisk Folkeparti: 14,3 procent (7,4)
O: Dansk Folkeparti: 8,6 procent (5,9)
V: Venstre: 22,5 procent (27,5)
Ø: Enhedslisten: 1,6 procent (2,7)
Others: 5,9 procent (6,9)

DR 12th of October ( () is last election in 2005)
A: Socialdemokraterne: 28 procent (34,3)
B: Det Radikale Venstre: 4 procent (5,2)
C: Konservative Folkeparti: 11 procent (10,3)
F: Socialistisk Folkeparti: 17 procent (7,4)
O: Dansk Folkeparti: 12 procent (5,9)
V: Venstre: 22 procent (27,5)
Ø: Enhedslisten: 2 procent (2,7)
Andre: 2 procent (6,9)

A bit more about the elections (just for my own fun)
The goal for the Social Democrats are to "win" the post of mayor in the 4 largest cities, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg. Not that difficult since they already hold it in Cph, Aarhus and Aalborg.

Odense:
The Conservative mayor in Odense, Jan Boye is being challenged by the previous mayor Anker Boye (and no they are not related) and it looks like Anker will become mayor thanks to SF's expected gains.

Copenhagen:
Cph was looking like it was going to be the battle because of a fairly unpopular Lord Mayor, the grand old Social Democratic Woman, Ritt Bjerregaard, former EU Commissioner, minister and MP - who completely failed to understand that local governance is about working together not making enemies everywhere - and the fact that SF is extremely popular in the capital. Bjerregaard withdrew after polls showing that the Social Democrats was smaller that SF (20% to 30%). It actually looked like SD was going to loose control of Copenhagen for the first time since the implementation of proportional democracy. But no, SD managed to convince Frank Jensen, runner up for the 2005 SD chairman election and former minister of justice to run. The SD bounced back in the polls (35 % to SF's 25 %) and the 3 left wing parties in the capital made a deal that makes Jensen the next Lord Mayor.

Aarhus:
Is boring. Nicolai Wammen will cruse to victory supported by SF

Aalborg:
Is also boring. The only fun thing is if the mayor Henning Jensen actually is forced to work with SF

Esbjerg:
SD probably won't gain Esbjerg, the 5. largest city. The Venstre mayor is quite popular and the SD bench is weak and fractured.

The mayors of the 2005 election
Mayors:
Red = Social Democrat
Light Brown = Venstre, Danish Liberal Party
Yellow = Conservative People's Party
Dark Red = Socialist People's Party
Gray = Social Liberal Party
Green = Local lists
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Other people's as well - I can't think of much to comment, but I'm certainly reading this thread :)

Really - your knowledge of Danish local politics is that limited ;)

I remember something about Copenhagen being left controlled since the first decade of the twentieth century or something and about there being a small area inside the city that isn't in the city and which is right controlled since ever.

Not bad. Copenhagen has been controlled by SD since 1902 or 03 - The Conservative enclave is Frederiksberg, completely surrounded by Cph and Conservative for 100+ years, basically since urbanisation. Frederiksberg isn't that small. The municipal holds more that 100.000 inhabitants.

Local elections between 1970 and 2001:

Red = Social Democrat
Light Brown = Venstre, Danish Liberal Party
Yellow = Conservative People's Party
Dark Red = Socialist People's Party
Gray = Social Liberal Party
Green = Local lists
Pink = Centre Democrats (only in 1985)
Dark Green = Progress Party (only in 1997)

The mayors of the 1970 election
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The mayors of the 1974 election
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The mayors of the 1978 election
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The mayors of the 1981 election
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Election date changed from March to November. The council members take their places on the first of January

The mayors of the 1985 election
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The mayors of the 1989 election
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The mayors of the 1993 election
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The mayors of the 1997 election
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The mayors of the 2001 election
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Bump!

alright - I'll give you an update soon

The new mayors
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A lot of changes. Venstre was killed on Funen and the Social Democrats lost the Triangle (Fredericia, Vejle, Kolding-area) Those cities has been ruled by the Social Democrats for 80+ years. Conservatives fared much better than expected and SF won two mayorships outside Copenhagen, pretty good.
In terms of votes, the big winners where SF and Danish People's Party. Both parties doubled and had their best local elections ever. SF even won more votes than last national election.

The national result:
A: 30,7% (-3,6) 803 M (-96)
B: 3,7 % (-1,5) 50 M (-36)
C: 11% (+0,7) 263 M (+6)
F: 14,5% (+7,1) 340 M (+178)
I: 0,3% (+0,3) 1 M (+1)
L: 4,6% (-2) 114 M (+46)
O: 8,1% (2,1) 186 M (+61)
V: 24,8% (-2,7) 697 M (-108)
Ø: 2,3% (-0,4) 14 M (-10)

Is there a site with detailed figures?

www.kmdvalg.dk for both regional and municipal elections

Diolch yn fawr!

Might make a few maps later.

Currently going through the results and doing a map of leading party (mostly as a badly disguised excuse to learn more about local politics in Denmark, lol)... and... well... what sort of place is Lolland?

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Errors certain, but I had fun anyway - I love how the obviously different political cultures of different places seem to show up so well. Key is for future reference, or something. Btw, if I ever do party vote maps for an election in Denmark I won't use purple for SF - just using it to distinguish easily from the Social Democrats.

A lolworthy one?

Yes, I thought that name wonderful as well... but what I was getting at; SD first, SF second in what is presumably a fairly rural area. It doesn't seem to be a personal vote issue or anything as the same was true of the regional elections there...

I just noticed that I actually thought of Langeland when I read "Lolland".

And looking for the real name of the island, I found this (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_d%C3%A4nischer_Inseln) great list on the German wiki. Seems a lot of smaller Danish islands have been bleeding population.

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Same, but for the regional elections.

Why is there such a marked contrast in voting patterns in Jutland between the uber-right wing southwest/west and the more left-wing northeast/north?

Also, why is Copenhagen and its suburbia so left-wing? In the rest of Scandinavia, the right is usually proportionately stronger in the capital city and part of its suburbia (especially Stockholm and Helsinki).

And here comes the man with the answers (I spend my childhood in the area). Lolland and Falster are areas that traditionally has been dominated by SD. I might be rural but the main agricultural product was (and is) sugarbeads the requeres real fatories to process. On top of that was that main city on Lolland, Nakskov dominated by an enormous shipyard that closed some years ago and other factories that gave Nakskov a distict working class population.
The very strong SF precense is actually a personal vote - or was. in 1998 Flemming Bonne from SF became the mayor of Nakskov municipal via a coalition of all other parties that SD, breaking a 80 years SD dominance of(and majority in) Nakskov. Bonne became very popular and SF won 50 % of the votes in Nakskov at the next election, nearly running out of candidates on the list. They had 12 persons on the list, 10 were elected :D. Nakskov joined 7 other municipals in 2005 to form Lolland municipal and Bonne nearly became mayor but was prevented from that by a coalition of SD and Venstre. SF got 63,7 % of the votes in Nakskov at that election. Bonne left local politics after that and ran for parliament in 2007 and got elected via a huge personal vote in Lolland - winning the district for SF (the only one outside Copenhagen).
I was personnally quite surpriced that SF in Lolland managed to keep the vote at this election without Bonne, but the combination of SF's popularity in general and an area that has experienced an extremely well run municipal under SF, kept then on top and made Lolland SF's best municipal
PS I do get the reference to Lollard - it's funny the other way around for Danes :D

Remember that Al's maps only shows the largest party which twists the map a bit. My Mayor map gives a better overall impression of the left-right distribution.
Western Jutland is our bible belt and the Triangle Area (Vejle-Kolding-Fredericia) changed significantly in this election, mainly because of some unpopular mayors.
I don't know for sure why Cph is more left wing that Stockholm, but one reason could be that most of the industry in DK was concentrated around Cph, while Sweden have other major industrial cities like Göteborg (Gothenburg), Örebro and Jonköping.
The suburbs of Cph are quite diverse. The western suburbs are middel class wellfare support areas (Ballerup, Herlev, Gladsaxe), the southern are poorer (Brøndby, Ishøj, Hvidovre) and the northern quite afluent. These do not vote SD. Gentofte and Lyngby are Conservative bastions. It was one of the strengths of SD that they managed to dominate Cph and very different suburbs. These days SD's party machine is one of the major reasons that they hang on to the areas.   

Really? Ah, got to love random coincidence on threads about voting patterns ;D

Thanks for the explanation - I'd guessed industrial-agriculture for the left lean in general, but the strength of SF was the surprise. Makes sense now.

^^^


That's a pretty good explanation, as brief explanations go.

I always thought Jens was a Copenhagen city boy.

Probably a case of jumping to conclusions over some throwaway comment. :D

Or me not really having any reason for mentioning my childhood islands until now - and the fact that I've lived in Copenhagen the last decade :D

For the fun of it, and mostly for my own sake: Here is a walk through of the 98 municipalities (well 29 of them for now)
The order is like this:
First line: Name of municipality (Mayors party): X gain from Y (mayors name)
Second line: Mandates 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 = A = Social Democrats (SD)
2 = B = Social-Liberal Party (RV)
3 = C = Conservative People's Party (C)
4 = F = Socialist People's Party (SF)
5 = K = Christian Democrats (KD)
6 = O = Danish People's Party (DF)
7 = V = Venstre (V)
8 = Ø = Unity List (EL)
9 = L = Local lists (their name and mandate distribution if more than one list)
Third line: Description (my own personal opinion)

Region Hovedstaden (A):

Albertslund (A): No change (Steen Christiansen - took over during the period from Finn Aaberg (A))
9 0 2 6 0 2 1 1 0
As red as you get it. Part of the very left wing Vestegn (Western boroughs) SD looses its majority (down to 9 from 11), but the new mayor Steen Christensen has no problem staying in office since SF gains 4 and Ø hangs on with 1. In all 16 of 21 mandates and 70,2 % to AFØ - Don't say that housing doesn't decide what people vote

Allerød (C): No change (Erik Lund - took over during the period from Eva Nejstgaard (C))
3 1 4 4 0 1 4 0 4 (1 Lokallisten for Allerød, 1 Blovstrød-listen, 2 Det Nye Allerød)
Typical northern affluent exurb ruled by V or C. But it became a lot more fun this time around. Looked like V was going to take the mayorat on election night excluding the sitting mayor from C. He (and SF and the local list Blovstrød-listen) then offered the post to SD who took it, until V and C a week later decised to take it back to Erik Lund (C) leaving Flemming Villadsen from SD the post as 1st deputy mayor. Fun fun fun :D

Ballerup (A): No change (Ove E. Dalsgaard)
15 0 2 4 0 2 2 0 0
Boring. The local king Ove E. Dalsgaard continue to rule with a majority. SF second party. 19 of 25 mandates to SD and SF

Bornholm (A): L to A (Winni Grosbøll)
8 1 1 4 1 1 8 0 3 Borgerlisten Bornholm
The lovely island in the Baltic Sea saw a change in rule from local list to SD. The local lists suffered heavy losses primarily because the list of the former SD mayor of Nexø didn't run - local politics isn't that fun when you're not in power ;)

Brøndby (A): No change (Ib Terp)
7 0 1 4 0 4 2 0 1 (Demokratiske Socialister)
SD looses majority (-4) but stays in power thanks to SF (+3). Brøndby is packed with social housing and high proportion of other ethnicities and Danish poor. Lets put it this way, SF (4) and DF (4) are both larger that  C and V together (1+2).

Dragør (A): No change (Allan Horst)
4 0 3 1 0 1 3 0 3 (Tværpolitisk Liste)
Well played by SD who cheated C in 2005 and got the mayorat and hung on to the post again despite no-socialist majority. SF won a mandate here for the first time since 1993 because they managed to persuate someone to run :D - Dragør is a quite rich area in the Southernmost part of Amager and remained independent in 2005 because the local list, Tværpolitisk liste completly mismanaged the municipal and have left it heavily in debt. Tårnby to the North bacially didn't want to take over the debt!

Egedal (V): V gain from V (Willy Eliasen)
4 1 6 3   0 1 5 0   1 (Egedal-listen)
No mistake! 4 years ago the former Ølstykke mayor Svend Kjærsgaard Jensen (V) cheated Willy Eliasen and became mayor - and got excluted from V. This time around Eliasen had it under control and Kjærsgaard, who ran on a local list has to settle with a place on the council. Egedal is one of the municipal where they have reduced the number of members of the council, which I dislike. The parties advocating this move, C and V thanksfully got punished loosing 2 and 5 mandates. It is a way of keeping the smaller parties out of local politics. In Egedal the thresshold was de facto raised from ca 3,7 % to ca 4,8 % (27 to 21 mandates)

Fredensborg (A): A gain from V (Thomas Lykke Pedersen)
8 2 4 4   0 1 7 0   1 (Focus Fredensborg)
The current Venstre mayor didn't run for reelection. The SD-candidate Pedersen mananged to put together a coalition of all parties except the local list

Frederiksberg (C): No change (Jørgen Glenthøj - - took over during the period from Mads Lebech (C))
6 1 12 4 0 0 1 1 0
The Conservative bastion Frederiksberg stayed that way. The green island in the read ocean, as Frederiksberg is called, is completely sourounded by CPH and a bastion of what we call social-conservatism. There was a possibility that the majority might change, but thanks to lack of coorporation between SD and SF that didn't happen. The back story is that SF decides to be a part of last years budget, getting a pretty neat deal. The minute the deal was signed the internal squable i SF started. The board claimed that the SF negosiater Wehmüller had gone beyond what they had agree on beforehand and the board wanted to leave the agreement. Wehmüller stayed by the agreement she had signed with the Conservatives, while the other SF-member Fram (who didn't run for reelection) voted against. SD's young and somewhat unexperienced candidate for mayor, Kathrine Lester, responded by kicking SF out of the electoral alliance between SD, SF and EL. Lots of fun followed and the fact was that the lack of electoral alliance cost SF a mandate, that went to the Conservative. A pitty for SF and very much a pitty for Lester, who might have had a shot at the mayorat, if she hadn't ended the coorporation with SF.

Frederikssund (A): No change (Ole Find Jensen)
10 0 3 3 0 2 5 0 0
Another municipality where the number of council members were reduced (don't like it!) so nearly everybody lost mandates. But still solid socialist majority in the old industrial city.

More Region Hovedstaden:

Furesø (A): A gain from V (Ole Bondo Christensen)
8 1 4 2 0 1 4 0 1 (Fokuslisten)
The sitting V+C majority reduced the number of council members (25 to 21) and lost heavily. Love it :D. V lost 6 mandates and is left with 4. The Northern part of Furesø, Farum, was until 2002 a V model municipality with all sorts of Liberalist politics. That collapsed and the then mayor (and former minister for taxation), Peter Brixtofte, is currently serving time for corruption! The punishment came this time around. Another reason was probably that V decided to ditch their sitting mayor, Jesper Bach, and run another candidate for mayor. Bach didn't really felt that the party wanted him, and logically enough left the party. Another former V mayor, Lars Carpens (former mayor of Farum after Brixtofte) ran on his own local list (Fokuslisten) and got elected - and took his revenge on V who choose Bach over him in 2005 and voted for SD's candidate, Bondo. Furesø is also 1 of the only 2 municipalities where SF didn't gain any mandate (in 3 SF lost mandates, the remaining 93 saw gains).

Gentofte (C): No change (Hans Toft)
3 2 10 2 0 0 2 0 0
Nothing changes in the riches area in Denmark. This Northern suburb is its own world and extremely rich and conservative. C has ruled it forever and event gained a mandate this time. The only positive thing is that the number of council members were enhanced to 19 from 17. V tried to run a high profile candidate, sitting MP Eyvind Vesselbo and lost 0,6 %-points. Better that the national average, but not impressive. The socialist parties improved and now has 25 % of the votes!

Gladsaxe (A): No change (Karin Søjberg Holst)
9 1 3 5 0 2 4 1 0
Another vestegn SD model municipality. Middle class, well educated, happy to pay for excellent schools, daycare and all the other nice things in the social democratic paradise ;). Holst stays as mayor despite loosing 2 mandates. SF second party, wining 3. EL looses 2 mandates because their high profile candidate i 2005, Søren Søndergaard, is a MEP these days. SD-SF-EL looses 1 mandate i total despite gaining i votes. One of the funny things about d'Hondt system, and because EL wasn't part of any electoral alliance (these where ABF and CIOV)

Glostrup (V): V gain from A (John Engelhardt)
6 0 2 4 0 3 3 0 1 (Glostruplisten)
Treason!!! to put it in simple terms. SD lost Glostrup because no. 4 on SF's list Charlotte Brangstrup, who got 94 personal votes, left SF and voted for the V candidate. ABFØ has 54,6 % of the votes to CGVO's 45,3 % and Glostrup is along with the rest of Vestegnen left wing. The two scenarios are: 1) Engelhardt is a success and V wins the next election or 2) VCO looses heavily in 2013 - Brangstrup is finished in local politics anyway (perhaps)

Gribskov (C): C gain from V (Jan Ferdinandsen)
6 0 2 4 0 2 9 0 0
This one was a bit funny. Gribskov is the PM's home municipality and his wife Sólrun was a candidate and got elected. That didn't prevent V from loosing 5 mandates (yet again V lost heavily in a municipality were they had reduced the number of council members). CVO still helt the majority, but C was fast and made a deal with S and SF, giving C the mayorate and S and SF some nice committee chairmanships.

Halsnæs (A): No change (Helge Friis)
8 0 1 3 0 3 6 0 0
SD and SF keeps the power in this old industrial municipality - SD looses 5 because the idiots reduced the number of council members. When will they ever lean.

Helsingør (V): V gain from C (Johannes Hetch-Nielsen)
7 0 8 4 0 2 2 1 1 (Lokaldemokraterne)
On election night it looked like SD was going to take back Helsingør after 16 years of Conservative rule. SD, SF and DF made a deal, but a day later DF droped out and supported Per Tersbøl from C along with lokaldemokraterne (SD renegades). That held a couple of weeks until AFØ persuaded one of the two V-members to make an agreement, that makes him mayor supported by AFØ. There was some talk in Venstre about evicting Hecht-Nielsen but nothing has happened yet. But Hecht-Nielsen himself stated that he only intents to stay as mayor the next 4 years. In my book is he dead man walking. Everybody knows that he doesn't run the show, including the civil servants. Se Tersbøl being toppled live on this link http://front.xstream.dk/euroword/mediamaker_player.php

Herlev (A): No change (Kjeld Hansen)
11 0 2 4 0 1 1 0 0
The non-socialist parties holds 4 of 21 mandates! Vestegn

Hillerød (A): No change (Kirsten Jensen - took over during the period from Nick Hækkerup (A), a member of the Hækkerup Clan, who got elected to parliament in '07)
8 1 4 3 0 1 8 0 2 (Fælleslisten)
SD lost 7 of its 15 mandates and the majority secured by popular Hækkerup i 2005, but hung on thanks to the skillfulness of Jensen, who is a former MEP and MP. She secured support from SF, Social Liberals (B) and Fælleslisten (local list), who won 2, 1 and 1 mandates. Pretty impressive political work and I'm pretty sure that Jensen is going to regain some of the losses next time.

Hvidovre (A): No change (Milton Graff Pedersen - took over during the period from Britta Christensen (A))
7 0 1 4 0 3 2 0 4 (3 Hvidovrelisten, 1 Liste T, de rød-grønne)
SD, SF and a local EL affiliate hangs on to the majority despite loosing popular longtime mayor Britta Christensen (she left because of illness). The defection of one SD member to Hvidovrelisten didn't change this.

Even More Region Hovedstaden:

Høje-Taastrup (C): No change (Michael Ziegler)
7 1 9 2 0 1 1 0 0
A triumph for the sitting Conservative mayor, Ziegler, who isn't dependent on RV as he was in the last term. C gets nearly 40 % in this suburb municipality that is part of Vestegnen, but never has been as firmly leftwing as the rest of the area. Fewer social housing, more suburbian sprawl.

Hørsholm (C): C gain from C (Morten Slotved)
1 1 7 1 0 1 6 0 2 (Borgerlisten i Hørsholm)
The sitting mayor Uffe Thorndahl left C last year after heavily criticising the MP for abuse of public funds during his time as county (amts) mayor. That didn't hurt C that got 36 % of the votes in this very rich North Coast municipality. The socialist parties gained massively going from 9,1 % to 14,6 % but A lost while SF won 1, so still 2 of 19 mandates ;).

Ishøj (A): No change (Ole Bjørstorp)
11 0 1 3 0 2 2 0 0
Solid majority for SD in this southern suburb packed with social housing. SD and SF has been allied since the 70'ties and that continues. SD gained 2 and SF 1 mandate. 14 of 17 mandates and 70 % to the socialists.

København (A): No change (Frank Jensen)
17 5 4 13 0 4 6 6 0
The former minister for Justice and loosing '05 SD-chairman candidate, Frank Jensen took over from Ritt Bjerregaard (A) despite loosing 4 mandates. This wasn't really a surprice since SF's Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard early in the campain gave up in his attempt to win the Lord Mayorship and settled with the powerfull position as Technical and Environmental Mayor (committee chairmen are called mayors in CPH and holds quite at lot of power).
SF won big, almost doubling and EL got a very good election but no new mandates. The Social-liberal Klaus Bondam ran a campain focused on preventing DF from gaining the The Employment and Integration mayorship and mananged to minimice RV's losses (-2), but it looked like on election night that Bondam was to become mayor again, but but but - during the night he made a deal with V and, wait for it.... Danish People's Party :D hurray - and became Integration Mayor on DF mandates.
The administration in CHP is divided into 1 Lord Mayor and 6 Mayors. The Lord Mayor mananges the money and distribute them to the 6 mayors, who are responsible for the different areas of the city administration. The 6 are: Culture and Leisure (Pia Allerslev (V) same as last term), Children and Youth (Anne Vang (A) who took over from Kjeldgaard), Health and Care (Ninna Thomsen (F) who took over from Mogens Lønborg (C)), Social Services (Mikkel Warming (Ø)same as last term), Technical and Enviroment (Bo Asmus Kjeldgaard (F) who took over from Bondam) and Employment and Integration (Klaus Bondam (B) who took over from Jakob Hougaard (A))
2005-2009 2 A, 1 B, 1 C, 1F, 1 V & 1 Ø mayor
2010-2013 2 A, 1 B, 2 F, 1 V & 1 Ø mayor

Lyngby-Taarbæk (V): V gain from C (Søren P. Rasmussen)
4 2 4 4 0 1 6 0 0
On election night it looked like Hans Henrik Madsen from SF was going to become mayor supported by C and SD. Traditionally Lyngby has been run by a coalition of C and SD, but they lost their majority. But the next day C got an offer from V where C regained the mayorat (the local Conservatives were also under some pressure from the national leaders that didn't like C-mandates placing a SF-man in the mayor chair) - But it doesn't end here. On the constituating meeting, V committed a coup d'etat and got the mayorat via support from SF, SD, RV and DF.
See it live on this link http://www.digicast.dk/ltk/011209

Rudersdal (V): No change (Erik Fabrin)
3 1 4 2 0 0 9 0 4 (Lokallisten)
The current (and soon former) leader of Local Government Denmark (Kommunernes landsforening) http://www.kl.dk/English/ Erik Fabrin despite loosing 5 mandates (again primarily because of a reduced number of council members). All parties except Lokallisten was part of the agreement. Rudersdal is another rich municipality on the North Coast.

Rødovre (A): No change (Erik Nielsen)
11 0 1 3 0 3 1 0 0
SD kept their majority and SF gained two. Vestegn classic - SD is largest party and SF second in all Vestegn municipalities.

Tårnby (A): No change (Henrik Zimino)
8 0 1 4 0 4 2 0 0
SD lost the majority, but made a deal with SF that gained 2 mandates. One of them is my friend Lars, whos boyfriend Lars is a member for D. Pretty unique Lars (F) and Lars (A) :D

Vallensbæk (C): No change (Kurt Hockerup)
4 0 8 1 0 1 1 0 0
A part of the North Coast on the South Coast - no social housing (they are all in the neighbour municipalities) and lots of suburbia. SF gained representation for the first time in a looooong time.

Great stuff :)

Personal service for my one reader ;)

Hey! I'm here! I'm reading too!

Why is Bornholm in the Capital Region?

Because of the Treaty of Roskilde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Roskilde ;)
Jokes aside - Since the loss of Scania and the rest of East Denmark, Bornholm has been administrated together with North Sealand and Copenhagen, probably because the ferry traveled between CPH and Rønne.

CPH is Copenhagen?

I'm sorry, Max. You forgot to say: "What is Copenhagen" ;)

The Danish abbreviation is KBH.
CPH is also the airport code for Copenhagen Airport Kastrup