Editing Sønderborg Municipality (section)

==Politics==
Sønderborg's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has 11 political committees.<ref>{{cite web |title=Politik {{!}} Sønderborg Kommune |url=https://sonderborgkommune.dk/politik |website=Sønderborg Kommune |access-date=10 September 2023 |language=da}}</ref>

===Municipal council===
Below are the municipal councils elected since the [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|Municipal Reform of 2007]].

{| class="wikitable" 
! rowspan="2"| Election
! colspan="9"| Party
! rowspan="2"| Total<br/>seats
! rowspan="2"| Turnout
! rowspan="2"| Elected<br/>mayor
|-
|style="background:#B5211D;"|'''[[Social Democrats (Denmark)|{{font color|white|A}}]]'''
|style="background:#89A920;"|'''[[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|{{font color|white|C}}]]'''
|style="background:#004450;"|'''[[New Right (Denmark)|{{font color|white|D}}]]'''
|style="background:#C9096C;"|'''[[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|{{font color|white|F}}]]'''
|style="background:#8B8989;"|'''{{tooltip|2=Fælleslisten|{{font color|white|L}}}}'''
|style="background:#F4D44D;"|'''[[Danish People's Party|{{font color|white|O}}]]'''
|style="background:#236B8E;"|'''[[Schleswig Party|{{font color|white|S}}]]'''
|style="background:#254C85;"|'''[[Venstre (Denmark)|{{font color|white|V}}]]'''
|style="background:#FF0000;"|'''[[Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)|{{font color|white|Ø}}]]'''
|-
|[[2005 Danish local elections|2005]]
|15
|1
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="4"|
|style="background:#CDC9C9;"|
|6
|1
|1
|7
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|
|rowspan="5"|31
|76.2%
|[[Jan Prokopek Jensen]] (A)
|-
|[[2009 Danish local elections|2009]]
|12
|1
|2
|8
|2
|1
|5
|69.3%
|[[Aase Nyegaard]] (L)
|-
|[[2013 Danish local elections|2013]]
|12
|1
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"|
|2
|3
|3
|9
|1
|74.1%
|rowspan="3"|[[Erik Lauritzen]] (A)
|-
|[[2017 Danish local elections|2017]]
|15
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|
|1
|3
|5
|7
|style="background:#CDC9C9;"|
|74.5%
|-
|[[2021 Danish local elections|2021]]
|14
|1
|style="background:#CDC9C9;"|
|1
|3
|11
|1
|69.0%
|-
|colspan="15"|Data from [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2005/adk.htm Kmdvalg.dk 2005], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2009/adk.htm 2009], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2013/Default.htm 2013], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2017/KMDValgKV.html 2017] and [https://kmdvalg.dk/KV/2021/K84733540.htm 2021]
|}

===2007 administrative reform===
On 1 January 2007, as part of [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007)]], the former Sønderborg municipality, located on Als and the mainland, was combined with [[Augustenborg Municipality|Augustenborg]] (on Als), [[Broager Municipality|Broager]], [[Gråsten]], [[Nordborg]] (on Als), [[Sydals]] (on Als), and [[Sundeved]] municipalities to form a new Sønderborg municipality. The municipality shares the number one position with [[Lolland Municipality]] of being formed through the merger of most former municipalities in the reform of 2007:seven (7). The former Sønderborg municipality covered an area of {{convert|54|km2|0|abbr=on}}, and had a population of 30,555 (2005). Its last mayor was Arne Peder Hansen, a member of the [[Venstre (Denmark)|Venstre]] (Liberal Party) [[Politics of Denmark|political party]].