Ballerup Municipality
Ballerup Kommune (Template:IPA) is a municipality (Template:Langx) in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. It is located approximately 15 kilometers from central Copenhagen. The municipality covers an area of 34.09 km2, and has a population of 52,939 (1. January 2025).<ref name="BY2"/> It is also the name of the municipal seat, Ballerup.
Overview
As of March 2025, the mayor is Jesper Würtzen of the Social Democrats.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Other than Ballerup, the towns that make up the municipality are Måløv and Skovlunde.
Neighboring municipalities are Herlev to the east, Furesø and Gladsaxe to the north, Egedal to the west, and Albertslund, Glostrup and Rødovre to the south.
The geography of Ballerup municipality was not affected on 1 January 2007 by the nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).
Economy
The municipality is home to companies such as GN Store Nord, Orbicon and Leo Pharma and Toms International.
Politics
Municipal council
Ballerup's municipal council consists of 25 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 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 68.5% | Ove E. Dalsgaard (A) | ||||
| 2009 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 64.1% | |||||||
| 2013 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 71.0% | Jesper Würtzen (A) | ||||||
| 2017 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 70.2% | ||||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 | |||||||||||||
Twin towns – sister cities
Template:See also Ballerup is twinned with:<ref name=twins>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
- Template:Flagicon East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom
Ballerup also cooperates with Ystad in Sweden.<ref name=twins/>
See also
References
- 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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