Viborg Municipality

Viborg Municipality () 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 97,874 (1 January 2026). Its administrative seat and largest town is Viborg.

Viborg Municipality is the second-largest municipality in Denmark by area and forms part of Business Region Aarhus and the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016. It was created on 1 January 2007 as a result of the Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), through the merger of the former municipalities of Bjerringbro, Fjends, Karup, Møldrup, and Tjele and the old Viborg Municipality.

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 Totalseats Turnout Electedmayor20051412112103171.6%Johannes Stensgaard (A)2009103521167.6%Søren Pape Poulsen (C)2013961212174.3%Torsten Nielsen (C)2017972210173.3%Ulrik Wilbek (V)20218711121170.1%202568221641171.9%Katrine Fusager Rohde (V)Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 and 2021. Data from valg.dk 2025

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

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