Poll: Social Democrats suffer significant setback in Copenhagen, while the Red Party makes substantial gains
After a century of uninterrupted leadership of Denmark's capital and largest municipality, Copenhagen, it appears the time has come for the Social Democratic Party to relinquish control of the mayoralty if opinion polls accurately predict the municipal elections in less than a month, specifically on November 18, 2025. Read more after the announcement.
According to BT, a new poll conducted by Epinion shows a significant decline for the Social Democratic Party in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, indicating that the party's main candidate in the city, Pernille Rosenkrantz-Theil, is not yet succeeding in winning over voters.
In contrast, the poll showed that the greatest support goes to the Unity Party (Enhedslisten), which received 271,330 votes, followed by the Socialist People's Party (SF) with 21 percent.
According to the article, Rosenkranz-Tyle has recently made headlines with a number of controversial proposals, which have been described as attempts to attract attention and generate media momentum, but she has not been able to translate media attention into actual public support.
The poll, which was recently published, shows that the Social Democratic Party in Copenhagen will only get 10.4% of the votes in the elections scheduled for November 18, according to the latest available figures.
This trend reinforces a similar picture to that revealed by a poll conducted by Megafon for TV2 last week, which a political analyst at BT described as “near disaster” for the party. In that poll as well, the party had fallen to just 13 percent of voting intentions.
It should be noted that the Constructive Institute, which oversaw the new poll, stressed that the figures should be taken with caution, because many things could change before the election, and because the results include a relatively large margin of error.
The survey was conducted between September 4 and October 13, before the Socialist People's Party (SF) announced its own candidate for mayor of Copenhagen, Sisse Marie Welling.
According to the survey data, which included 614 participants, the results were as follows:
- Unity List Party: 27.0%
- Socialist People's Party SF: 21.5%
- Social Democratic Party (Socialdemokratiet): 10.4%
- Conservative Party: 8.3%
- Radikale Venstre (Radical Party): 7.6%
- Liberal Alliance: 7.4%
- Venstre party: 5.5%
- Alternative Party: 5.1%
- Danish People's Party (Dansk Folkeparti): 4.2%
- Local lists or other parties: 1.2%
- Danish Democrats: 1.1%
- Moderate Party: 0.5%
(Source: Constructive Institute)
Of the 1,314 survey participants, about half were still undecided about who they would vote for, but among those who had decided, support for the Social Democratic Party was clearly low, according to the source.
In a statement to TV 2 Kosmopol, Social Democratic Party spokesman Jakob Hougaard said: “When we are in the streets and talking to people, we feel that the election result will be different from what these polls predict.”
The newspaper BT tried to get a comment from the main candidate of the Unity Party, Copenhagen's mayor for technology and environment, Line Barfod, but she did not respond to the request for comment, according to the newspaper.
Among the controversial proposals of candidate Pernille Rosenkranz Till was her call to abolish user fees at nurseries in the capital, Copenhagen, in addition to her proposal last December to impose an additional fee of 50 kroner on metro journeys to and from the airport.
With these facts, the election battle in Copenhagen appears to be becoming more complicated, given the fierce competition between the left-wing red parties, and the declining position of the Social Democratic Party, which has dominated the political scene in the capital for a hundred consecutive years.
