Bornholm (Folketing constituency)

Bornholm
Bornholm
Constituency
for the Folketing
Outline map
Location of Bornholm within Denmark
Municipality
RegionCapital
Population39,891 (2022)[1]
Electorate30,825 (2022)
Area589 km2 (2022)[2]
Current constituency
Created2007
Seats2 (2007–present)
Members of the Folketing[3]
List
  •   Peter Juel-Jensen (V)
  •   Lea Wermelin (A)
Created fromBornholm County

Bornholm (Danish: Bornholm) is one of the 12 multi-member constituencies of the Folketing, the national legislature of Denmark. The constituency was established in 2007 following the public administration structural reform. It consists of the municipality of Bornholm and the unincorporated archipelago of Christiansø (Ertholmene). The constituency currently elects two of the 179 members of the Folketing using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2022 general election it had 30,825 registered electors.

  1. ^ "FOLK1A: Population at the first day of the quarter by region, sex, age and marital status". Copenhagen, Denmark: Statistics Denmark. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  2. ^ "ARE207: Area 1. January by region". Copenhagen, Denmark: Statistics Denmark. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  3. ^ "Find et medlem: Du har søgt på storkreds Bornholms Storkreds" (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Folketing. Retrieved 9 February 2023.