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Thisted Municipality
View on WikipediaThisted Municipality (Danish: Thisted Kommune) is a kommune in North Jutland Region, Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,072 km2, and has a total population of 42,698 (2025). The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Thisted.
Key Information
On 1 January 2007 Thisted municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Hanstholm and Sydthy municipalities to form a new Thisted municipality.
Locations
[edit]Thy
[edit]Thisted municipality is roughly identical with the traditional district of Thy, except that the municipality includes a small portion of the district Hanherred, but not the southernmost peninsula of Thy, Thyholm.
Potential name change
[edit]In November 2023, the municipal council voted, by 17 to 10, to advance with a proposal to change the name of the municipality to Thy Municipality. The next step is to have a feel among the citizens to see whether it should be changed. A final decision is set to take place on February 27, 2024.[2] [3]
Politics
[edit]Municipal council
[edit]Thisted's municipal council consists of 27 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 | B | C | F | I | K | O | V | Ø | Å | ||||
| 2005 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 72.1% | Erik Hove Olesen (A) | |||
| 2009 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 68.3% | Lene Kjeldgaard (V) | ||||||
| 2013 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 75.0% | |||||||
| 2017 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 74.4% | Ulla Vestergaard (A) | |||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 | |||||||||||||
Notable people
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- Niels Andersen (1835 in Ydby, Thisted County - 1911) a Danish businessman and politician; created the first large construction company in Denmark; lived in Søholm from 1877
- Andreas Riis Carstensen (1844 in Sennels, near Thisted – 1906) a Danish painter who specialized in maritime scenes, notably of Greenland.
- Johan Skjoldborg (1861 in Øsløs in Thisted – 1936) a Danish educator, novelist, playwright and memoirist
- Andrew Petersen (1870 near Thisted – 1953) was a patternmaker, foundry company executive and politician in New York City
- Aage Oxenvad (1884 in Gettrup near Thisted – 1944) a Danish clarinetist who played in the Royal Danish Orchestra from 1909
- Erik Aalbæk Jensen (1923 in Thy – 1997) a Danish writer and Lutheran minister
- Bent Larsen (1935 in Tilsted near Thisted – 2010) a Danish chess grandmaster and author
- Jonas Vingegaard (born 1996 in Hillerslev) a Danish cyclist
References
[edit]- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ "Thisted eller Thy? Nu har byrådet taget stilling". tv2nord.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- ^ "Borgerne i Thisted Kommune skal tage stilling til et navneskift". tv2.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2023-11-28.
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
External links
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- Municipality's official website (In Danish)
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