| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 2017 North Denmark Regional council election |
| Previous Year: | 2017 |
| Next Election: | 2025 North Denmark Regional council election |
| Next Year: | 2025 |
| Seats For Election: | All 41 seats to the North Denmark Regional Council |
| Majority Seats: | 21 |
| Turnout: | 310,538 (67.8%) 3.6pp |
| Election Date: | 16 November 2021 |
| Image1: | A |
| Party1: | Social Democrats |
| Last Election1: | 18 seats, 41.5% |
| Seats1: | 15 |
| Seat Change1: | 3 |
| Popular Vote1: | 108,637 |
| Percentage1: | 35.0% |
| Swing1: | 6.5% |
| Party2: | Venstre |
| Last Election2: | 11 seats, 24.5% |
| Seats2: | 11 |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 78,337 |
| Percentage2: | 25.2% |
| Swing2: | 0.7% |
| Image3: | C |
| Party3: | Conservatives |
| Last Election3: | 4 seats, 8.5% |
| Seats3: | 7 |
| Seat Change3: | 3 |
| Popular Vote3: | 49,069 |
| Percentage3: | 15.8% |
| Swing3: | 7.3% |
| Image4: | Ø |
| Party4: | Red–Green Alliance |
| Last Election4: | 2 seats, 4.3% |
| Seats4: | 2 |
| Seat Change4: | 0 |
| Popular Vote4: | 14,370 |
| Percentage4: | 4.6% |
| Swing4: | 0.3% |
| Image5: | D |
| Party5: | New Right |
| Last Election5: | 0 seats, 1.0% |
| Seats5: | 2 |
| Seat Change5: | 2 |
| Popular Vote5: | 13,233 |
| Percentage5: | 4.3% |
| Swing5: | 3.3% |
| Image6: | F |
| Party6: | Green Left |
| Last Election6: | 1 seat, 3.4% |
| Seats6: | 2 |
| Seat Change6: | 1 |
| Popular Vote6: | 13,073 |
| Percentage6: | 4.2% |
| Swing6: | 0.8% |
| Image7: | O |
| Party7: | Danish People's Party |
| Last Election7: | 4 seats, 8.8% |
| Seats7: | 1 |
| Seat Change7: | 3 |
| Popular Vote7: | 12,060 |
| Percentage7: | 3.9% |
| Swing7: | 4.9% |
| Image8: | B |
| Party8: | Danish Social Liberal Party |
| Last Election8: | 1 seat, 3.1% |
| Seats8: | 1 |
| Seat Change8: | 0 |
| Popular Vote8: | 11,520 |
| Percentage8: | 3.7% |
| Swing8: | 0.6% |
| Chairperson | |
| Posttitle: | Chairperson after election |
| Before Election: | Ulla Astman |
| Before Party: | Social Democrats |
| After Election: | Mads Duedahl |
| After Party: | Venstre |
The 2021 North Denmark Regional election was held on November 16, 2021, to elect the 41 members to sit in the regional council for the North Denmark Region, in the period of 2022 to 2025.
Prior to this election, and ever since the creation of the 5 Danish regions in the 2007 Municipal reform, the Social Democrats had been the largest party and held the chairperson's seat for North Denmark, and following the 2017 election, Ulla Astman had secured her third consecutive term as the chairperson .[1]
In this election, Astman would stand to get elected for a fourth term while Mads Duedahl from Venstre would be the main candidate for the opposition. In a result that was seen as a surprise,[2] [3] the parties commonly associated with the blue bloc of Danish politics had won 21 seats, and a change of control became a possibility. On the night following the election results, Mads Duedahl gave an interview announcing that he had found a majority to back him as the new chairperson.[4]
After the result, the 2020 Danish mink cull was seen as a possible reason to the Social Democrats losing control of the regional council for the first time.[5] [6]
Electoral Alliance 1
| Party | Political Position | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | Danish Social Liberal Party | Centre to Centre-left | ||
| F | Green Left | Centre-left to Left-wing | ||
| G | Vegan Party | Centre-left to Left-wing | ||
| R | Kommunistisk Parti | Local Politics | ||
| T | Trafikalt Folkeparti | Local Politics | ||
| Ø | Red–Green Alliance | Left-wing to Far-left | ||
| Å | The Alternative | Centre-left to Left-wing | ||
Electoral Alliance 2
| Party | Political Position | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D | New Right | Right-wing | ||
| O | Danish People's Party | Right-wing | ||
| V | Venstre | Centre-right | ||
Electoral Alliance 3
| Party | Political Position | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Conservatives | Centre-right | ||
| I | Liberal Alliance | Centre-right to Right-wing | ||
| K | Christian Democrats | Centre to Centre-right | ||