Viborg Municipality

Viborg Municipality (Danish: Viborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,421.04 km², and has a population of 97,621 (1. January 2025). Søren Pape Poulsen was chosen as mayor again for a second term of office 2014–17, but before the first year of his second term had passed, he accepted an offer to become chairman of his party, and a new mayor had to be chosen among the municipal council members. Its mayor from 3 September 2014 is Torsten Nielsen, also a member of the Conservative People's Party. He is mayor in the rest of the 2014-17 term of office.

Viborg Municipality Viborg Kommune (Danish)
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location in Denmark
Coordinates: 56°27′00″N 9°22′00″E
Country	Denmark
Region	Central Denmark
Established	1 January 2007
Government
• Mayor	Ulrik Wilbek
Area
• Total	1,421.04 km2 (548.67 sq mi)
Population  (1. January 2025)[1]
• Total	97,621
• Density	69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.viborg.dk

The main city and the site of its municipal council is the city of Viborg.

On 1 January 2007 Viborg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Bjerringbro, Fjends, Karup, Møldrup, and Tjele municipalities to form an enlarged Viborg municipality.

The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.^[2][3]

Locations

Viborg	41,000
Bjerringbro	7,400
Stoholm	2,500
Karup	2,200
Løgstrup	1,900
Frederiks	1,800
Skals	1,800
Rødkærsbro	1,700
Ørum	1,400
Møldrup	1,300

Politics

Municipal council

Viborg's municipal council consists of 31 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	K	O	V	Ø
2005	14	1	2	1	1	2	10		31	71.6%	Johannes Stensgaard (A)
2009	10		3	5		2	11			67.6%	Søren Pape Poulsen (C)
2013	9		6	1		2	12	1		74.3%	Torsten Nielsen (C)
2017	9		7	2		2	10	1		73.3%	Ulrik Wilbek (V)
Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017

Twin cities

Viborg has a twin city in each of the Nordic countries, as well as in other world regions.

Dalvík, Iceland Greifswald, Germany Hamar, Norway

Kecskemét, Hungary León, Nicaragua Lund Municipality, Sweden

Nevers, France Porvoo, Finland Zabrze, Poland

See also

• World Map at Lake Klejtrup

Sources

• Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
• Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
• Searchable/printable municipal maps: Krak mapsearch(outline visible but doesn't print out!)