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Viborg Municipality
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Viborg Municipality
Viborg Kommune (Danish) | |
|---|---|
Location in Denmark | |
| Coordinates: 56°27′00″N 9°22′00″E / 56.45°N 9.3667°E | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | Central Denmark |
| Established | 1 January 2007 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Katrine Fusager Rohde (V) |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,421.04 km2 (548.67 sq mi) |
| Population (1 January 2025)[1] | |
• Total | 97,621 |
| • Density | 68.697/km2 (177.92/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8800 |
| Website | www |
Viborg Municipality (Danish: Viborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,421.04 km2 and has a population of 97,621 (1 January 2025). Its administrative seat and largest town is Viborg.
Viborg Municipality is the second-largest municipality in Denmark by area and forms part of Business Region Aarhus and the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.[2][3] It was created on 1 January 2007 as a result of the Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), through the merger of the former municipalities of Bjerringbro, Fjends, Karup, Møldrup, and Tjele and the old Viborg Municipality.
Locations
[edit]| Viborg | 41,000 |
| Bjerringbro | 7,400 |
| Stoholm | 2,500 |
| Karup | 2,200 |
| Løgstrup | 1,900 |
| Frederiks | 1,800 |
| Skals | 1,800 |
| Rødkærsbro | 1,700 |
| Ørum | 1,400 |
| Møldrup | 1,300 |
Politics
[edit]Municipal council
[edit]Viborg'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 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | F | I | K | O | V | Æ | Ø | Å | ||||
| 2005 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 31 | 71.6% | Johannes Stensgaard (A) | |||||
| 2009 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 67.6% | Søren Pape Poulsen (C) | ||||||||
| 2013 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 74.3% | Torsten Nielsen (C) | |||||||
| 2017 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 73.3% | Ulrik Wilbek (V) | |||||||
| 2021 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 70.1% | |||||||
| 2025 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 71.9% | Katrine Fusager Rohde (V) | ||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 and 2021. Data from valg.dk 2025 | |||||||||||||||
Twin cities
[edit]Viborg has a twin city in each of the Nordic countries, as well as in other world regions.
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
- Searchable/printable municipal maps: Krak mapsearch(outline visible but doesn't print out!)
References
[edit]- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ "What is Business Region Aarhus". businessregionaarhus.dk. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
- ^ "Tal og statistik" [Figures and Statistics] (in Danish). Byregion Østjylland. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
External links
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