Ikast-Brande Municipality
Ikast-Brande Municipality (Danish: Ikast-Brande Kommune) is a municipality (Danish: kommune) in Region Midtjylland in Denmark. It covers an area of 733.69 km and has a population of 42,737 (1. January 2024).
On 1 January 2007 Ikast-Brande municipality was created as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), consisting of the former municipalities of Brande, Ikast, and Nørre-Snede.
Locations
Ikast | 16,000 |
Brande | 7,400 |
Bording | 2,400 |
Engesvang | 2,000 |
Nørre Snede | 1,800 |
Ejstrupholm | 1,600 |
Politics
Municipal council
Ikast-Brande's municipal council consists of 23 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 | C | D | F | K | L | O | V | |||||||
2005 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 27 | 73.9% | Carsten Kissmeyer (V) | |||||
2009 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 71.4% | ||||||
2013 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 23 | 75.3% | |||||||
2017 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 72.5% | Ib Lauritsen (V) | |||||||
2021 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 66.7% | |||||||
Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 |
References
- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD a.k.a. Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ikast-Brande Kommune.
- Ikast-Brande municipality's official website (in Danish)