Herning Municipality
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
Template:Main The city of Herning has a population of 51,193 (1 January 2023). The town has grown rapidly in the 150 years: in 1840 the total population of the village of Herning was just 21.
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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[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]] | Template:Tooltip | [[Christian Democrats (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Danish People's Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Venstre (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | |||||
| 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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