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Knud Vældgaard Kristensen (born 7 June 1953 in
Farsø Farsø is a town with a population of 3,352 (1 January 2025) in Region Nordjylland in Denmark in the Vesthimmerland Municipality. Farsø was the birthplace of Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. The village ...
) is a Danish mason and politician, and he was son of Åge Kristensen and Inge Kristensen. He a member of Danish party Det Konservative Folkeparti. He is currently retired from politics. Kristensen became a mason in 1973 and has been independent with his own masonry and construction business since 1975 which he founded. It is called Hornum Murer- og Entreprenørforretning (English: Hornum masonry and contracting business). He was a councilor in Aars Municipality from 1986–2006, in the period 1998-2001 as deputy mayor and from 2002–2006 as mayor. In 2006, he was elected municipal council in
Vesthimmerland Municipality Vesthimmerland Municipality () is a '' kommune'' in the North Jutland Region of Denmark. It covers an area of 768,08 km² (2013) and has a total population of 35,818 (2025). The Municipality borders Jammerbugt Municipality to the south and to ...
, but did not become mayor. In 2006 he became Deputy Chairman of Danish Construction in the Region of
North Jutland Region The North Jutland Region (), or in some official sources, the North Denmark Region, is an Regions of Denmark, administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, 2007 Danish municipal refor ...
and in 2007 he became president. Knud Kristensen is his party's labor, housing, animal welfare and food rapporteur and chairman of the Parliament's Labor Market Committee. He was a mayor candidate for Conservative in the municipal elections in 2010, and was elected Mayor with the support of Venstre at the constitution. He then resigned from the parliament. He ran for mayor in the 2017 Municipality election but lost it to Per Bach Laursen. The 29 January 2018 he retired from the city council and politics, because of health reasons, though he did not reject a future comeback.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kristensen, Knud Vaeldgaard 1953 births Living people Conservative People's Party (Denmark) politicians People from Vesthimmerland Municipality