Herning Municipality
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Herning Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of Template:Cvt and has a population of 90,006 (1 January 2025). Its mayor is Dorte West, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party.
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the Town of Herning.
History
On 1 January 2007, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), Herning municipality was merged with former Aulum-Haderup, Trehøje, and Aaskov municipalities to form the new Herning municipality.
Locations
| Herning | 50,531 |
| Sunds | 4,235 |
| Vildbjerg | 4,017 |
| Aulum | 3,273 |
| Kibæk | 2,699 |
| Gullestrup | 2,008 |
| Sønder Felding | 1,436 |
| Sørvad | 1,117 |
The city of Herning
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Politics
Municipal council
Herning's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||
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| 2005 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 31 | 73.7% | Lars Krarup (V) | |||
| 2009 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 71.1% | |||||
| 2013 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 75.3% | |||||
| 2017 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 74.2% | ||||
| 2021 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 68.8% | Dorte West (V) | |||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||
Notable people
- Gudmund Hatt (1884–1960), archaeologist and cultural geographer
Twin towns – sister cities
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- Template:Flagicon Arsuk, Greenland
- Template:Flagicon Countryside, Åland Islands, Finland
- Template:Flagicon Eiði, Faroe Islands
- Template:Flagicon Holmestrand, Norway
- Template:Flagicon Husby, Germany
- Template:Flagicon Kangasala, Finland
- Template:Flagicon Siglufjörður, Iceland
- Template:Flagicon Vänersborg, Sweden
See also
References
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
- Searchable/printable municipal map: Krak mapsearch (outline of municipality visible but doesn't print out)
External links
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