Editing Dragør Municipality (section)

==1970 Danish Municipal Reform==
Not until four years after the [[1970 Danish Municipal Reform]] on 1 April 1974 two new municipalities were formed in [[Copenhagen County]], namely Dragør Municipality, formed by the merger of [[Dragør]] (an independent parish from 1 April 1954) and [[Store Magleby]] [[parish]]es  and [[Høje-Taastrup Municipality]], which from that date also included [[:da:Sengeløse Sogn|Sengeløse parish]] (which - as an already existing parish - was also made an independent municipality from 1 April 1970 until 31 March 1974; but it was considered too small to remain as an independent municipality). The inhabitants would have preferred to remain as independent municipalities. [[Store Magleby]], which was larger in area than Dragør, had a large number of [[Subdivision (land)|subdivision]]s (Danish (singular): parcel;udstykning) with owner-occupied homes built on the boundary with Dragør (as far away from the noise as possible from planes landing at [[Copenhagen Airport]], and taking restrictions in building regulations (inside city (built-up area) limits versus outside city limits) into consideration) before the merger.
Because the voters of [[Store Magleby]] and [[Sengeløse]] were almost exclusively owner-occupiers, who voted center-rightwing, whereas [[Høje-Taastrup]] Municipality and [[Dragør]] Municipality to a large extent consisted of tenants who rented their apartments and who voted center-leftwing, there were heated debates and reluctance among the voters of [[Store Magleby]] and [[Sengeløse]] about joining the new municipalities. This was because the center-rightwing voters would be in a minority at elections for their local councils.