Lejre Municipality

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Lejre Municipality

| native_name = {{native name|da|Lejre Kommune}}

| settlement_type = Municipality

| image_skyline = Lejre-brume.jpg

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| image_caption = Lejre municipality is primarily rural

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| image_map = Map DK Lejre.PNG

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Denmark

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Zealand

| established_title = Established

| established_date = {{#property:P571}}

| seat_type = Seat

| seat = Kirke Hvalsø

| government_footnotes =

| leader_party = V

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Tina Mandrup

| unit_pref = Metric

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| area_total_km2 = 240.07

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| population_footnotes = [https://m.statbank.dk/tableInfo/BY2?lang=en BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities] The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark

| population_total = 29347

| population_as_of = 1. January 2024

| population_density_km2 = auto

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| area_code = {{#property:P473}}

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Lejre Municipality ({{langx|da|Lejre Kommune}}) is a kommune in the Region Zealand of Denmark.

The current municipality was established on 1 January 2007 as a result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merging the former Lejre Municipality with Bramsnæs Municipality and Hvalsø Municipality to form a new Lejre Municipality.

28 September 2016 Carsten Rasmussen took over as mayor from Mette Touborg, who was leaving for a new job. She had been the mayor since 1 January 2010. She was the only one from the left wing Socialist People's Party to hold the highest political position in a municipality, whereas he is from the Social Democrats.

Local companies include the chocolate manufacturer Friis-Holm.

Settlements

The municipality consists of the following settlements (populations as of 2011):

class="wikitable" style="float:left; margin-right:1em"
Kirke Hvalsø	align="center"\| 3,941
Lejre	align="center"\| 2,343
Osted	align="center"\| 2,073
Kirke Hyllinge	align="center"\| 1,984
Ejby	align="center"\| 1,876

class="wikitable" style="float:left; margin-right:1em"
Gevninge	align="center"\| 1,711
Kirke Såby	align="center"\| 1,676
Kirke Sonnerup	align="center"\| 965
Gershøj	align="center"\| 688
Lyndby	align="center"\| 561

and

Politics

=Municipal council=

Lejre's municipal council consists of 25 members, elected every four years. Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2"| Election

! colspan="9"| Party

! rowspan="2"| Total
seats

! rowspan="2"| Turnout

! rowspan="2"| Elected
mayor

style="background:#B5211D;"|Social Democrats (Denmark)

|style="background:#843A93;"|Danish Social Liberal Party

|style="background:#89A920;"|Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

|style="background:#C9096C;"|Socialist People's Party (Denmark)

|style="background:#1CB1B7;"|Liberal Alliance (Denmark)

|style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Socialistisk Lokalliste|{{font color|white|L}}}}

|style="background:#F4D44D;"|Danish People's Party

|style="background:#254C85;"|Venstre (Denmark)

|style="background:#FF0000;"|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)

2005

|7

|1

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|

|2

|1

|12

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|

|rowspan="4"|25

|77.1%

|Flemming Jensen (V)

2009

|6

|1

|2

|6

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"|

|1

|9

|72.2%

|rowspan="2"|Mette Touborg (F)

2013

|3

|style="background:#CDC9C9;"|

|1

|9

|1

|2

|8

|1

|80.6%

2017

|6

|1

|2

|5

|style="background:#CDC9C9;"|

|2

|8

|1

|78.3%

|Carsten Rasmussen (A)

colspan="14"|Data from [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2005/adk.htm Kmdvalg.dk 2005], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2009/adk.htm 2009], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2013/Default.htm 2013] and [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2017/KMDValgKV.html 2017]

Notable people

Ole Søndergaard (1876 in Allerslev – 1958) a Danish landscape painter
Jørgen Jørgensen (1888 in Kornerup – 1974) a Danish politician and party leader
Karen Strand (1924 in Kirke Hyllinge – 2000) a Danish goldsmith and jewellery designer
Patricia Crone (1945 in Kyndeløse – 2015) a Danish-American author, Orientalist and historian specializing in early Islamic history

Notes

References

Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011050224/http://kommune.eniro.dk/danmarkskort/ Eniro new municipalities map]

External links

[http://www.lejre.dk Municipality's official website]
[http://www.nylejre.dk/ The new Lejre Municipality's official website (Danish only)]

{{Geographic location

| Centre = Lejre

| N = Frederikssund (Hovedstaden)

| E = Roskilde

| SE = Køge

| SW = Ringsted

| W = Holbæk

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Category:Municipalities of Region Zealand

Category:Municipalities of Denmark

Category:Populated places established in 2007