| Vejle Municipality | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Denmark |
| Subdivision Type1: | Region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Southern Denmark |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Seat: | City of Vejle |
| Leader Party: | Venstre |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jens Ejner Christensen |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population As Of: | 1. January 2024 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 121696 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Vejle Municipality (Danish: Vejle Kommune) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1058.43km2 (2013),[2] and has a population of 121,696 (1. January 2024). Its mayor is Jens Ejner Christensen, a member of the agrarian liberal party Venstre. Vejle Municipality's offices are located in its largest population center, the city of Vejle.
In its current configuration, Vejle Municipality was formed under the Municipal Reform of 2007 (Kommunalreformen) by merging the previously existing Vejle Municipality with the neighboring municipalities of Børkop, Egtved, Give (except for properties in two parishes Lindeballe and Ringive occupied by Billund Airport, which became part of Billund Municipality), Jelling, as well as the parish of Grejs, which formerly belonged to the municipality of Tørring-Uldum.
The municipality is part of Triangle Region and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.[3] [4]
The central administration of the Region of Southern Denmark is in Vejle, located in the former Vejle County offices at Damhaven 12.
| Largest cities and villages in Vejle Municipality[5] | ||||
| Rank | Name | Population (2015) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53,975 | |||
| 2 | 5,152 | |||
| 3 | 4,516 | |||
| 4 | 3,383 | |||
| 5 | 2,855 | |||
| 6 | 2,294 | |||
| 7 | 2,103 | |||
| 8 | 1,706 | |||
| 9 | 1,463 | |||
| 10 | 1,374 | |||
Vejle's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has ten political committees.[6]
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats | Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 70.3% | Leif Skov (A) | ||||||
| 2009 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 66.0% | Arne Sigtenbjerggaard (V) | |||||||
| 2013 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 71.3% | ||||||
| 2017 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 70.5% | Jens Ejner Christensen (V) | ||||||
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 67.1% | |||||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||||