Editing Bornholm (section)

== Municipality ==
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{| class="wikitable" style="float: right;"
|+Result of referendum 29 May 2001 on merger of municipalities with the county 1 January 2003
|- align="center"
! rowspan="2" |Municipality
! colspan="2" |Yes
! colspan="2" |No
|-
!Votes!!Percent!!Votes!!Percent
|-
|Allinge-Gudhjem
!3,590!!74!!1,287!!26
|-
|Hasle
!2,886!!70!!1,219!!30
|-
|Nexø
!3,218!!59!!2,252!!41
|-
|Rønne
!7,754!!85!!1,366!!15
|-
|Aakirkeby
!3,131!!74!!1,118!!26
|-
|Total:27821
!20,579!!74!!7,242!!26
|}
[[File:Færgeforbindelser fra Bornholm.jpg|thumb|right|Ferry routes to and from Bornholm]] 
[[Image:Bornholms-Amt.png|thumb|180px|right|Bornholm and [[Christiansø]] hundreds and 5 municipalities (1970–2002) in green colour and 21 municipalities before 1 April 1970]] 
[[File:Bornholm municipality numbered.svg|thumb|180px|right|Parishes in [[Church of Denmark]] numbered]]
[[File:Flag of Denmark Bornholm.svg|right|thumb|180px|Unofficial [[flag of Bornholm]] (the tourist flag)]]
[[File:Flag Denmark Bornholmsflaget.svg|right|thumb|180px|Unofficial flag of Bornholm. The [[Flag of Denmark|Dannebrog]] is clearly visible with the green cross inserted in the white cross.]]
[[File:Coat of arms of Bornholm.png|right|thumb|180px|Old coat of arms of Bornholm.<ref>{{cite book |last=Svane |first=Erling |title=Det danske Rigsvåben og Kongevåben |year=1994 |publisher=Odense Universitetsforlag | pages = 169–179}}</ref>]]

Bornholm Regional Municipality is the local authority ([[Danish language|Danish]], ''kommune'') covering the entire island. Its formal name is Bornholm Municipality. It is given the right in the law establishing it to be called Bornholm Regional Municipality. (For explanation read on). It is the [[:da:Folkeafstemningen om kommunesammenlægning på Bornholm 2001|result of a merger]] of the five former (1 April 1970 until 2002) municipalities on the island ([[Allinge-Gudhjem Municipality|Allinge-Gudhjem]], [[Hasle, Bornholm|Hasle]], [[Nexø]], [[Rønne]] and [[Aakirkeby]]) and the former [[Bornholm County]]. Bornholm Regional Municipality was also a county in its own right during its first four years from 1 January 2003 until 31 December 2006. From 1 January 2007 all counties were abolished, and Bornholm became part of the [[Capital Region of Denmark]] whose main responsibility is the health service. In the [[Bill (law)|bill]] (Danish ''forslag'') (''Bill of Law on merger of the municipalities of Bornholm'') presented 30 January 2002 by the Minister of Interior and Health to [[Folketinget]], it says in §1 that (1st sentence) "The 1st of January 2003 Bornholm Municipality is established by a merger of (names of municipalities mentioned, and county's name mentioned), and (2nd sentence) Bornholm Municipality is called Bornholm Regional Municipality". 

The island had 21 municipalities until March 1970, of which 6 were market towns and 15 parishes. In addition to supervising parish municipalities, which was the responsibility of the counties in ''all'' of Denmark, the market town municipalities of Bornholm were supervised by Bornholm County as well and not by the Interior Ministry as was the case in the rest of Denmark. The seat of the municipal council is the island's main town, Rønne. The voters decided to merge the county with the municipalities in a referendum 29 May 2001, effective from 1 January 2003. The question on the [[ballot]] was, "Do you want the six municipal entities of Bornholm to be joined to form one municipal entity as of 1 January 2003?" 73.9% voted in favour. The lowest percentage for the merger was in [[Nexø]] municipality (966 more people voting "Yes" than "No"), whose mayor, Annelise Molin, a Social Democrat, spoke out against the merger. It was required that each municipality had more "Yes" votes than "No" votes. Otherwise the merger would have to be abandoned altogether. The six municipal entities had up to 122 councillors (of which county clls were 18, from 1998 15), reduced to 89 in the municipalities from the 1990s, in the 1970s and the new regional municipality would have 27 councillors from the start 1 January 2003. They were reduced to 23 from 1 January 2018 ([[2017 Danish local elections|election November 2017]]). From 1 January 2003 until 31 December 2006 the 27 cllrs were called Regional Council (Danish ''Regionsråd''), from 1 January 2007 changed to Municipal Board (Danish ''Kommunalbestyrelse'') as is the usual term in almost all Danish municipalities. This was to avoid confusion with the Regional Council in Region Hovedstaden, and in the other regions

The merger was approved in a law by the [[Folketing]] 19 (and signature by [[Margrethe II of Denmark|the head of state]] 25) March 2002, transferring the tasks of the abolished county and old municipalities to the new Bornholm Regional Municipality. The first regional mayor in the first three years from 2003 until 2005 was Thomas Thors (born 28 July 1949), a physician and member of the [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Social Democrats]] and previously the last mayor of Rønne Municipality for five years from 1998 until 2002. He became a mayor again in 2021. Bjarne Kristiansen, who was the last mayor of [[Hasle, Bornholm|Hasle]] {{frac|2|1|2}} years from the summer of 2000 until 2002, representing the local Borgerlisten political party, served as mayor for four years from 1 January 2006 until 2009. From 1 January 2007, Bornholm became a part of the [[Capital Region of Denmark]]. From 1 January 2010 until 31 December 2020 the mayor was Winni Grosbøll, a high school teacher and a member of the [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Social Democrats]] (''Socialdemokratiet'') [[Politics of Denmark|political party]]. The deputy mayor Morten Riis was mayor for a short interlude from 1 January until 4 January 2021. He is from the [[Red–Green Alliance (Denmark)|Red-Green Alliance]]. Thomas Thors, who was elected again in 2017, became mayor again from 4 January 2021. After the [[2021 Danish local elections]] Jacob Trøst became mayor from January 2022. He is from the [[The Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Conservative party]]. This was after an agreement (''aftale om konstituering'') between the Red-Green Alliance, amongst whom Morten Riis will be deputy mayor, and the [[Danish People's Party]] with the Conservatives.

===Municipal council===
Bornholm's municipal council today consists of 23 members, elected every four years. In the first four local elections in the newly created municipality there were 27 members elected to the municipal council. The 2002 local election only took place on Bornholm. From the election in 2017 the number of councillors elected was reduced to 23 members, serving their [[term of office]] from 1 January 2018 until 31 December 2021.

Below are the election results to [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|the new merged municipal council beginning with the first election 29 May 2002]].

{| class="wikitable" 
! rowspan="2" | Election
! colspan="12" | 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:#843A93;" |'''[[Danish Social Liberal Party|{{font color|white|B}}]]'''
| style="background:#89A920;" |'''[[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|{{font color|white|C}}]]'''
| style="background:#C9096C;" |'''[[Green Left (Denmark)|{{font color|white|F}}]]'''
| style="background:#EC7D14;" |'''[[Christian Democrats (Denmark)|{{font color|white|K}}]]'''
| style="background:#8B8989;" |'''{{tooltip|{{font color|white|L}}|Borgerlisten Bornholm}}'''
| style="background:#F4D44D;" |'''[[Danish People's Party|{{font color|white|O}}]]'''
| style="background:#8B8989;" |'''{{tooltip|{{font color|white|R}}|Regionslisten}}'''
| style="background:#254C85;" |'''[[Venstre (Denmark)|{{font color|white|V}}]]'''
| style="background:#8B8989;" |'''{{tooltip|{{font color|white|W}}|Bornholmerlisten}}'''
| style="background:#FF0000;" |'''[[Red–Green Alliance (Denmark)|{{font color|white|Ø}}]]'''
| style="background:#00FF00;" |'''[[The Alternative (Denmark)|{{font color|white|Å}}]]'''
|-
|[[2002 Bornholm local election|2002]]
|8
| rowspan="2" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|1
|1
|9
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|8
| rowspan="3" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
| rowspan="3" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
| rowspan="4" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
| rowspan="4" |27
|79.3%
|Thomas Thors (A)
|-
|[[2005 Danish local elections|2005]]
|7
|2
|3
|1
|2
|1
|5
|6
|78.0%
|Bjarne Kristiansen (L)
|-
|[[2009 Danish local elections|2009]]
|8
|1
|1
|4
|1
|3
|1
| rowspan="4" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|8
|72.1%
| rowspan="3" |Winni Grosbøll (A)<br />Morten Riis (Ø)(1{{spaced ndash}}4 January 2021)<br/>Thomas Thors (A)(4 Jan{{spaced ndash}}Dec 2021)
|-
|[[2013 Danish local elections|2013]]
|12
|1
|2
| style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|1
| rowspan="3" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|2
|6
|1
|2
|77.1%
|-
|[[2017 Danish local elections|2017]]
|8
| rowspan="2" style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
| style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|1
|1
|4
|5
|1
|2
|1
|rowspan="2"|23
|75.6%
|-
|[[2021 Danish local elections|2021]]
|4
|3
| style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|1
|4
|2
|2
|7
| style="background:#CDC9C9;" |
|72.91%
|Jacob Trøst (C)
|-
| colspan="99" |Data from [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/ KMDValg.dk]
|}