Registered jobseekers during each mayor's tenure

Every mayor since 1991, ranked by how registered jobseekers changed from their first day in office, next to Greenland over the same months. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

#	Mayor	City	In office	Total	vs Greenland	Per year	Chart
1	Asii Chemnitz Narup	Nuuk	1 Jan 2009 – 11 Jun 2019	+11.8% Dec 2008 → May 2019	+16.9 pts Greenland −5.2%	+1.1%/yr
2	Laannguaq Lynge	Nuuk	24 Oct 1991 – 1 May 1993	+8.6% Sep 1991 → Apr 1993	−8.7 pts Greenland +17.3%	+5.4%/yr
3	Avaaraq S. Olsen	Nuuk	15 Jun 2022 – now	−9.0% May 2022 → Sep 2026	+4.9 pts Greenland −13.9%	−2.1%/yr
4	Charlotte Ludvigsen	Nuuk	11 Jun 2019 – 15 Jun 2022	−25.1% May 2019 → May 2022	+2.9 pts Greenland −28.0%	−9.2%/yr
5	Agnethe Davidsen	Nuuk	1 May 1993 – 1 Dec 2007	−25.3% Apr 1993 → Nov 2007	+0.6 pts Greenland −25.9%	−2.0%/yr
6	Nikolaj Heinrich	Nuuk	1 Dec 2007 – 1 Jan 2009	−38.1% Nov 2007 → Dec 2008	−17.9 pts Greenland −20.2%	−35.8%/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last month complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that period had no data, or because the period cut it); Greenland is measured over the same months. Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in %; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. people, average of the last twelve months · Statistics Greenland, registered jobseekers (ARXLED1), the Nuuk district's towns, from the municipal labour offices' records, averaged over the trailing twelve months, from 1989; the country's line is every town's (the settlements are counted only from 2010); Statistics Greenland warns that recording practice and the pension age have changed · city (Nuuk town's residents) data · as of Sep 2026.