The Danish local elections of 2017 will be held on 21 November 2017 for Denmark's 98 municipality councils and five regional councils. All seats will be contested for the 2018–21 term of office, together with 205 seats in five regional councils. In the previous election there were 2,444 seats.
Results
Results of regional elections
Number of councillors and political parties in the Regional Councils
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 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 2014 until 31 December 2017. The correct name for the municipality on the somewhat remote island of Bornholm is Regional Municipality, because the municipality also handles tasks not carried out by the other Danish municipalities but by the regions.
