Comparability

Comparability - geographical

Not relevant for these statistics.

Comparability over time

In connection with the municipal reform of 2007, the number of municipalities in which to hold elections was reduced from 271 to 98, and also the 14 county council elections were reduced to five regional council elections. The City of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg Municipality were not part of the county division and did not hold elections to the county councils. Over time, the number of elected candidates for the local councils has been reduced in several municipalities. A little less than 20 municipalities in the vicinity of Greater Copenhagen as well as a few others were not affected by the mergers of the municipal reform, and as a result they are directly comparable over time. The remaining municipalities were merged to geographically larger municipalities for which a new local council had to be elected. Consequently, the election results for these municipalities before and after the municipal reform of 2007 are not comparable. The same applies for the fourteen counties that were merged into five regions.

For the majority of municipalities, it meant that the geographical scope of the municipality increased considerably, and that a new local council had to be elected for the new larger geographical area which had previously been covered by two or more municipalities and a corresponding number of local councils. In the same way, the five regions, each of which covers a far larger area than the fourteen counties respectively, cannot be compared with the fourteen counties.

Coherence - cross domain

Not relevant for these statistics.

Coherence - internal

Not relevant for these statistics.