Hedensted Municipality

Hedensted Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland formed out of three former municipalities, one of which with the same name, 1 January 2007 on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. Its seat and main town is Hedensted.

Map of the future municipality

Overview

The coastal town municipality south of Aarhus, and sandwiched in between Horsens and Vejle, and bordering Ikast-Brande Municipality to the northwest, covers an area of 551.36 km² and has a total population of 46,747 (1 January 2019). The main town and the site of its municipal council is the inland town of Hedensted. Its mayor from 1 January 2018 is Kasper Glyngø, a member of the Social Democratic Party. The first deputy mayor is Hans Kristian Skibby from the Danish People's Party.

On 1 January 2007, as a result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), the former Juelsminde municipality and most of Tørring-Uldum municipality, where one parish, Grejs, in a local referendum 19 April 2005 chose to become a part of Vejle Municipality, was merged with the former Hedensted municipality that existed from 1970 until 2006.

The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.[1][2]

Locations
Hedensted12,000
Juelsminde4,000
Tørring2,800
Hornsyld1,600
Uldum1,400
Lindved1,400

Politics

Municipal council

Hedensted's municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years.

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Election Party Total
seats		 Turnout Elected
mayor
A C F I K L O V
2005 11 1 1 1 2 11 27 75.1% Jørn Juel Nielsen (A)
2009 8 1 2 1 3 12 71.1% Kirsten Terkilsen (V)
2013 8 1 1 4 13 76.1%
2017 8 1 1 1 4 12 75.1% Kasper Glyngø (A)
Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017

Sources

References
  1. "What is Business Region Aarhus". businessregionaarhus.dk. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
  2. "Tal og statistik" [Figures and Statistics] (in Danish). Byregion Østjylland. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.


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