She refused to overeat. Now, the mayor's goal has been achieved and more.

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She refused to play it safe. Now, the goal of becoming mayor has been achieved and more.

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The Conservatives had ambitions to retain their 14 mayor positions as a minimum.

Despite a decline in national political opinion polls, the Conservatives are surpassing their own ambitions by retaining their 14 mayor positions, and potentially gaining more. Photo: Claus Fisker/Ritzau Scanpix 35 minutes ago

It sounded ambitious when party leader Mona Juul revealed the party's ambitions at the Conservative summer group meeting ahead of the municipal elections.

The party aimed to retain a minimum of 14 mayor positions - or gain even more. An ambition she has held firm to. (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/live-seneste-nyt-fra-kommunalvalget?focusId=10545054)

And with names on 89 of 98 mayor positions, the Conservatives have surpassed themselves and, so far, secured 16 mayor positions.

At present, the party has captured the mayor chain and, as a result, has new mayors in Egedal, Hillerød, Ringsted, Kerteminde, Læsø, Samsø, and Langeland.

See the map to see which municipalities the Conservatives have secured mayor positions in:

Before the votes were counted, Mona Juul said that she refused "to play it safe" and, as a minimum, had the ambition to retain the party's 14 mayor positions.

- Speaking of my ambitions down to the floorboards, that's not for me. Playing it safe a little when I have the strongest team, that's not what I'm interested in, she said.

See clip here:

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Pape-power-wave in 2021

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For the 2021 municipal elections, the Conservatives rode the wave of former leader Søren Pape Poulsen's popularity and, as a result, secured 14 mayor positions.

However, since then, the party has both lost ground in the parliamentary elections in 2022 and in national political opinion polls.

Mona Juul was presented as party leader in March 2024.

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Losing votes

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Even though the party gains more mayor positions, it loses votes. In total, the Conservatives become the third largest party nationwide with 12.7% of the votes. This is a decline of 2.5 percentage points.

One of the places where the party has lost votes is the former conservative stronghold Frederiksberg, where the party loses 6.6 percentage points.

Here the party hoped to reclaim the mayor position from the Social Democrats, but it was not successful.

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