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Vejen Municipality (Template:Langx) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 817 km2, and has a total population of 42,702 (2025). Its mayor is Frank Schmidt-Hansen, representing the Conservative People's Party..
The municipality is part of Triangle Region and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.<ref name="Culture Metropolis">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="East Jutland">Template:Cite web</ref>
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Vejen. One of the attractions of the area is the Vejen Art Museum.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
History
[edit]On 1 January 2007 Vejen municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Brørup, Holsted, and Rødding municipalities to form an enlarged Vejen municipality.
Locations in Vejen Municipality
[edit]| Vejen | 9,800 |
| Brørup | 4,500 |
| Holsted | 3,100 |
| Rødding | 2,600 |
| Jels | 2,000 |
| Askov | 1,900 |
| Skodborg | 1,300 |
| Bække | 1,000 |
| Gesten | 950 |
| Store Andst | 800 |
Politics
[edit]Vejen's municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has nine political committees.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Municipal council
[edit]Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[New Right (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Liberal Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | Template:Tooltip | Template:Tooltip | [[Danish People's Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Venstre (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | ||||||
| 2005 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 27 | 70.4% | Egon Fræhr (V) | ||||||
| 2009 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 67.2% | |||||||||
| 2013 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 72.5% | ||||||||
| 2017 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 71.9% | |||||||
| 2021 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 68.3% | Frank Schmidt-Hansen (C) | ||||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||||
References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- 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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