page_title: Vejle
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Vejle / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Nørretorv in Vejle, Denmark Dansk: Nørretorv i Vejle
context_page_description: Vejle is a town in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality and the Region of Southern Denmark. The city has a population of 57,655, making it the ninth largest city in Denmark. Vejle Municipality has a population of 111,743. The city is part of the Triangle Region, which includes the neighbouring cities of Kolding and Fredericia.
  Vejle is most known for its forested hills, fjord, harbour, shopping, pedestrian mall, and windmill.
context_section_description: Ever since Social Democrat Christian Jacobsen became Vejle's first elected mayor in 1919, the town has been a stronghold for the Social Democrats and trade unions.  The longest serving Social Democratic mayor was Willy Sørensen, a union leader who joined the city council in 1937 and held the mayor's post for 31 years, from 1946 until his death in 1978.
  In 1993, the Social Democratic dynasty was broken, when a candidate from a coalition of opposition parties, Flemming Christiansen, became mayor.  In 2009, the Social Democrats were out of power again when Liberal candidate Arne Sigtenbjerggaard won the elections.
  Several natives of Vejle have also made a career in national politics, including former Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (Liberal), the former Minister of the Treasury Troels Lund Poulsen (Liberal), former Minister of Health Torben Lund (Social Democrat), and former Minister of Transportation Flemming Hansen (Conservative).
caption: Nørretorv square at the northern end of the pedestrian mall
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