Jane Vallebo Thorngaard Heitmann (born 5 November 1968 in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the

Folketing The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands ...

for the Venstre political party. She was elected into parliament at the

2011 Danish general election General elections were held in Denmark on 15 September 2011 to elect the 179 members of the Folketing. Of those 179, 175 members were elected in Denmark, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The incumbent centre-right coalition led by ...

Political career

Heitmann was in the municipal council of Faaborg Municipality from 2006 and until 2007 where it was merged with the municipalities of Broby, Ringe, Ryslinge and Årslev to form the new Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality. She sat in the municipal council in this new municipality from its foundation in 2007 and until 2017, where local political Ole Pedersen took over her seat. Heitmann was first elected into the Folketing at the 2011 election, where she received 4,196 votes. She was reelected in

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with 4,677 votes and in

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with 4,420 votes.

External links

Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)

References

Living people 1968 births Politicians from Copenhagen Danish municipal councillors Venstre (Denmark) politicians Women members of the Folketing Members of the Folketing 2011–2015 Members of the Folketing 2015–2019 Members of the Folketing 2019–2022 21st-century Danish women politicians {{DEFAULTSORT:Heitmann, Jane