Herlev Municipality
Template:Infobox settlement Herlev Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in the northwestern suburbs of Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 12 km², and has a total population of 30,784 (1. January 2025). Its mayor is Thomas Gyldal Petersen, a member of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) political party. The former village Herlev is the largest settlement of the municipal and the site of the municipal council. It is best known for being the site of Herlev Hospital.
Neighboring municipalities are Gladsaxe to the east and northeast, Furesø Municipality to the north, Ballerup to the west, Glostrup to the southwest, Rødovre to the south, and Copenhagen to the southeast.
Hostpry
[edit]Herlev municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as part of nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).
Politics
[edit]Municipal council
[edit]Herlev's municipal council consists of 19 members, elected every four years.
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]] | [[Danish Social Liberal Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Danish People's Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Venstre (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | |||||||
| 2005 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 67.1% | Kjeld Hansen (A) | ||||
| 2009 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 63.6% | |||||||
| 2013 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 69.6% | Thomas Gyldal Petersen (A) | |||||
| 2017 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 68.7% | ||||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 | |||||||||||||
Twin towns – sister cities
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- Template:Flagicon Eberswalde, Germany
- Template:Flagicon Gniewkowo, Poland
- Template:Flagicon Höganäs, Sweden
- Template:Flagicon Lieto, Finland
- Template:Flagicon Nesodden, Norway
- Template:Flagicon Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
- Template:Flagicon Sermersooq, Greenland
See also
[edit]References
[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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