Until 1 January 2007 Ledøje-Smørum was a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in

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(''Sjælland'') island in eastern

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, then merged into Egedal. The municipality covered an area of 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 municipalities to form the new

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. This created a municipality with an area of 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