Hedensted Municipality

Hedensted Municipality

*Hedensted Kommune* (Danish)
Hedensted Municipality Hedensted Kommune (Danish)
Municipality
	As Hoved as seen from As Vig
	Coat of arms
	Location in Denmark
	Coordinates: 55°46′14″N 9°41′58″E / 55.7705°N 9.6994°E
Country	Denmark
Region	Central Denmark
Established	1 January 2007
Government
• Mayor	Ole Vind
Area
• Total	551.36 km2 (212.88 sq mi)
Population (1. January 2024)
• Total	47,725
• Density	87/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.hedensted.dk

Hedensted Municipality (Danish: Hedensted Kommnue) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland formed out of three former municipalities, one of which with the same name, 1 January 2007 on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. Its seat and main town is Hedensted.

Overview

The coastal town municipality south of Aarhus, and sandwiched in between Horsens and Vejle, and bordering Ikast-Brande Municipality to the northwest, covers an area of 551.36 km² and has a total population of 47,725 (1. January 2024). The main town and the site of its municipal council is the inland town of Hedensted. Its mayor from 1 January 2022 is Ole Vind, a member of the centre-right Venstre party.

On 1 January 2007, as a result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), the former Juelsminde municipality and most of Tørring-Uldum municipality, where one parish, Grejs, in a local referendum 19 April 2005 chose to become a part of Vejle Municipality, was merged with the former Hedensted municipality that existed from 1970 until 2006.

The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.^[2]^[3]

Locations

Hedensted	13,000
Juelsminde	4,000
Tørring	3,000
Hornsyld	1,600
Lindved	1,400
Uldum	1,400
Øster Snede	1,200
Rask Mølle	1,100
Daugård	1,100

Politics

Municipal council

Hedensted's municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years.

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Election	Party									Total seats	Turnout	Elected mayor
Election	A	C	D	F	I	K	L	O	V	Total seats	Turnout	Elected mayor
2005	11	1				1	1	2	11	27	75.1%	Jørn Juel Nielsen (A)
2009	8	1		2		1		3	12		71.1%	Kirsten Terkilsen (V)
2013	8			1		1		4	13		76.1%	Kirsten Terkilsen (V)
2017	8			1	1	1		4	12		75.1%	Kasper Glyngø (A)
2021	9	2	1	1		2		2	10		70.0%	Ole Vind (V)
Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021

References

^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
^ "What is Business Region Aarhus". businessregionaarhus.dk. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
^ "Tal og statistik" [Figures and Statistics] (in Danish). Byregion Østjylland. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.