Brønderslev Municipality (Danish: Brønderslev Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in North Jutland Region in Denmark. It covers an area of 630 km2 and has a total population of 36,529 (2026).[1] The municipal council is located in the town of Brønderslev.
Brønderslev Municipality
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 Coat of arms | |
 Location in Denmark | |
| Coordinates: 57°16′06″N 9°56′45″E / 57.2683°N 9.9458°E | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | North Jutland |
| Established | 1 January 2007 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mikael Klitgaard |
| Area | |
• Total | 633.38 km2 (244.55 sq mi) |
| Population (1. January 2026)[1] | |
• Total | 36,529 |
| • Density | 57.673/km2 (149.37/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 9700 |
| Website | www |
The municipality was created as the result of 2007 Kommunalreformen, and consists of the former municipalities of Brønderslev and Dronninglund. The resulting municipality was originally named Brønderslev-Dronninglund Municipality (Danish: Brønderslev-Dronninglund Kommune), the longest name of a municipality in Denmark with 32 characters. At their first meeting, the municipal council agreed to shorten the name to its current form: Brønderslev Municipality.[citation needed]
Communities
edit| Brønderslev | 12,522 |
| Hjallerup | 4,192 |
| Dronninglund | 3,435 |
| Asaa | 1,123 |
| Øster Brønderslev | 924 |
| Klokkerholm | 890 |
| Jerslev | 870 |
| Flauenskjold | 669 |
| Agersted | 562 |
| Serritslev | 500 |
Municipal council
editSince 2007, Brønderslev's municipal council has consisted of 27 members, elected every four years.
Below is the current composition of the council
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||
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| A | C | D' | F | I | J | O | V | Æ | Ø | ||||
| 2005 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 29 | 72.7% | Mikael Klitgaard (V) | ||||
| 2009 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 27 | 70.1% | Lene Hansen (A) | |||||
| 2013 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 75.7% | Mikael Klitgaard (V) | ||||
| 2017 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 72.8% | |||||||
| 2021 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 69.94 | ||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021 | |||||||||||||
Twin towns
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References
edit- 1 2 "BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities". The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark.
- ↑ "Folketal 1. januar efter byområder og landdistrikter og tid". Statistics Denmark. 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
- ↑ "Venskabsbyer". bronderslev.dk (in Danish). Brønderslev Kommune. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-14.