| Kruisem | |
| Picture-Legend: | Casier Castle |
| Map: | Kruisem East-Flanders Belgium Map.svg |
| Map-Legend: | Location of Kruisem in East Flanders |
| Arms: | Blason ville be Kruisem.svg |
| Flag: | Flag of Kruisem.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Oudenaarde |
| Nis: | 45068 |
| Mayor: | Joop Verzele (CD&V) |
| Majority: | CD&V |
| Postal-Codes: | 9750, 9770, 9771, 9772 |
| Telephone-Area: | 09 |
| Web: | www.kruisem.be |
Kruisem (pronounced as /nl/) is a municipality in the Belgian province of East Flanders that was established on 1 January 2019 from the merging of the municipalities of Kruishoutem and Zingem.
The merged municipality has an area of 71.59 km2 and a population of 15,876 people as of 2022.[1] The municipality consists of the deelgemeentes Huise, Kruishoutem,, Ouwegem, and Zingem.[2]
See also: Fusion of the Belgian municipalities. The Flemish Government provides incentives for municipalities to voluntarily merge. The municipal councils of Kruishoutem and Zingem approved a merge in 2017, which was ratified by Flemish decree of 4 May 2018 alongside several other merges, all to be effective per 1 January 2019.
As of 1 January 2018, the municipality of Kruishoutem had a population of 8,086 and Zingem a population of 7,552.
The first elections for the new municipality were held during the regular local elections of 14 October 2018, electing a municipal council for the legislative period of 2019–2024. CD&V obtained a majority of seats in the municipal council (14 out of 25). Joop Verzele becomes mayor of Kruisem.