Guldborgsundlisten, formerly Nyt Nykøbing Falster and then Nyt Guldborgsund, is a Danish local political party set in

Guldborgsund Municipality Guldborgsund is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Sjælland in Denmark, created on 1 January 2007 from six (6) former municipalities on the two islands Lolland in the west and Falster in the east bordering the Guldborgsund strait. ...

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Guldborgsundlisten's John Brædder has been

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in the municipality from 2010 to 2021. At the election in 2017 in Denmark, the party got over 33% of all the votes in the municipality, and thus became the local list with the highest vote share in the whole country.Municipal elections on 21 November 2017
KMD.dk. Retrieved 10 Dec 2022. In the municipal elections in 2021, the party lost two mandates, and the post of mayor passed to Simon Hansen from the Social Democrats.

History

Nyt Nykøbing Falster ran with 22 candidates in Nykøbing Falster Municipality in

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a multi-national coalition in an invasion of Afghanistan ...

. Here, they received 6,345 votes, equal to 37.36% of all votes in that municipality, giving them 9 seats in the municipal council. The party changed name to Nyt Guldborgsund after this election. The party ran with 32 candidates in

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris (dwarf planet), Er ...

, where they received 6,044 votes in Guldborgsund Municipality. This was equal to 16.7% of all votes in that municipality, and gave them 5 seats in the municipal council. Nyt Guldborgsund ran with 13 candidates in

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

. The party received 3,576 votes, 10.7% of all votes in Guldborgsund Municipality. This resulted in 4 seats in the municipal council. After this election, the name of the party was changed to Guldborgsundlisten. In

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment ...

, the party ran with 27 candidates in Guldborgsund Municipality. They received 6,573 votes, equal to 18.1% of all votes in that municipality. This resulted in six seats in the municipal council.Kmdvalg.dk
/ref> The elected politicians for the list was chairman John Brædder, Peter Bring-Larsen, Martin Lohse, Helle Munk, Poul-Henrik Pedersen and Jens Erik Boesen.

Guldborgsundlisten politicians

Party chairman

*John Brædder

Election results

Municipal elections

Municipal council (Danish ''kommunalbestyrelse'') seats numbered a total of 29 in municipal elections 2005, 2009, 2013, and 2017. In municipal elections 2001, mentioned in the table, there were 21 seats in the municipality of

Nykøbing Falster Nykøbing Falster (; originally named Nykøbing) is a southern Danish city, seat of the Guldborgsund ''kommune''. It belongs to Region Sjælland. The city lies on Falster, connected by the Frederick IX Bridge over the Guldborgsund (''Gul ...

, which was one of six municipalities that would merge 1 January 2007 to form

References

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