Thisted municipality is a municipality (Danish: kommune) in North Jutland Region, Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,072 km², and has a total population of 45,549 (2008). The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Thisted.
On 1 January 2007 Thisted municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen (“The Municipal Reform” of 2007), merged with Hanstholm and Sydthy municipalities to form a new Thisted municipality.
Locations
| Thisted | 13,500 |
| Hurup | 2,700 |
| Hanstholm | 2,100 |
| Snedsted | 1,100 |
| Nors | 1,000 |
| Klitmøller | 1,000 |
Thy
Thisted municipality is roughly identical with the traditional district of Thy, except that the municipality includes a small portion of the district Hanherred, but not the southernmost peninsula of Thy, Thyholm.
Politics
Municipal council
Thisted’s municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | F | I | K | O | V | Ø | Å | ||||
| 2005 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 72.1% | Erik Hove Olesen (A) | |||
| 2009 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 68.3% | Lene Kjeldgaard (V) | ||||||
| 2013 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 75.0% | |||||||
| 2017 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 74.4% | Ulla Vestergaard (A) | |||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 | |||||||||||||