Until January 1, 2007 Ledøje-Smørum was a municipality (

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, '' kommune'') in

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(''Sjælland'') island in eastern

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, then merged into

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. The municipality covered an area of 31 km² (12 mi²) and had a total population of 10,525 (2005), northwest of nearby

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History

The last mayor of Ledøje-Smørum was Jens Jørgen Nygaard, a member of the Conservative People's Party (''Det Konservative Folkeparti'')

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. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Smørum. The municipality had been created in 1970 as the result of a ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing

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es: * Ledøje Parish * Smørum Parish. Ledøje-Smørum municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Stenløse and

Ølstykke Ølstykke Stationsby, commonly known as Ølstykke, is a town in Egedal Municipality, serving as its municipal seat. Until January 1, 2010, Ølstykke was an independent city, but today it has merged with Stenløse and forms the urban area of Øl ...

municipalities to form the new

Egedal municipality Egedal Kommune is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark. It covers an area of with a total population of 42,297 (1 April 2014). Its mayor is Karsten Søndergaard, a member of the Liberal Party (''Venstre'') politic ...

. This created a municipality with an area of 126 km² (49 mi²) and a total population of 39,267 (2005). The new municipality belongs to

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("Capital Region").

References

* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta
delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors: https://web.archive.org/web/20061208085744/http://kommune.eniro.dk/region/media/nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map]

External links

Egedal municipality's official website (Danish only)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ledoje-Smorum Former municipalities of Denmark