Greenland elects municipal leaders

Voters in Nuuk, Greenland re-elected Agnethe Davidsen as mayor on Tuesday.

Davidsen beat Per Berthelsen, the deputy mayor, by slightly more than 100 votes.

The final results were: Agnethe Davidsen, Siumut Party, 1,279 votes, with 20.68% of the vote; Per Berthelsen, Demokraatit, 1,108 votes, 17.91% of the vote; Malînánguaq Marcussen Mølgaard, Inuit Ataqatigiit, 477 votes; and Doris Jakobsen, Siumut, 263 votes.

The social democratic Siumut Party was the big winner overall in Nuuk’s municipal elections, with its candidates receiving 37.35% of the total vote in Nuuk. They were followed by the newly formed Demokraatit party, Inuit Ataqatigiit (“united Inuit”) and the Atassut (“solidarity”) party.

Overall in Greenland, the Siumut Party won 212 municipal seats and 40.68% of the vote, followed by the Atassut with 156 seats and the IA with 153 seats.

However, candidates from the Demokraatit Party – a conservative voice – had the largest increase: it was up by more than 13 per cent.