Graft-De Rijp

Template:Infobox settlement Graft-De Rijp (Template:IPA) is a former municipality in the province of North Holland in the Netherlands. Since January 2015 it has been a part of Alkmaar.

It is twinned with Chalfont St Giles in England.

Population centres

The municipality of Graft-De Rijp contained the following towns and villages: De Rijp, Graft, Markenbinnen, Noordeinde, Oost-Graftdijk, Starnmeer, West-Graftdijk.

• Former weigh house and Town hall of De Rijp, designed by Jan Leeghwater in 1630
  Former weigh house and Town hall of De Rijp, designed by Jan Leeghwater in 1630
• Town Hall of Graft, built in 1613 in the style of Hendrick de Keyser
  Town Hall of Graft, built in 1613 in the style of Hendrick de Keyser

Local government

The municipal council of Graft-De Rijp consisted of 13 seats, which at the final election, in 2010, were divided as follows:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• PvdA - 5 seats
• VVD - 3 seats
• CDA - 3 seats
• Het Verschil - 2 seats

An election was held in November 2014 for a council for the new merged Alkmaar municipality that commenced work on 1 January 2015, replacing Graft-De Rijp council.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

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• Official website of former municipality (2014)

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