Herlev Municipality
Herlev Municipality
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Herlev Municipality (
Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 12 km², and has a total population of 29,215 (1. January 2023). Its mayor is Thomas Gyldal Petersen, a member of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) political party. The former village Herlev
is the largest settlement of the municipal and the site of the municipal council.
Neighboring municipalities are
Gladsaxe to the east and northeast, Furesø Municipality to the north, Ballerup to the west, Glostrup to the southwest, Rødovre to the south, and Copenhagen
to the southeast.
Herlev municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as part of nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).
Politics
Municipal council
Herlev's municipal council consists of 19 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||
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O | V | Ø
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| 2005 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 67.1% | Kjeld Hansen (A) | ||||
| 2009 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 63.6% | |||||||
| 2013 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 69.6% | Thomas Gyldal Petersen (A) | |||||
| 2017 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 68.7% | ||||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 | |||||||||||||
Twin towns – sister cities
Eberswalde, Germany
Gniewkowo, Poland
Höganäs, Sweden
Lieto, Finland
Nesodden, Norway
Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Sermersooq, Greenland
See also
References
- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ "Lidt om Herlev Kommune". mann.dk (in Danish). Lars Mann Pedersen. Retrieved 2021-04-16.
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
External links
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