Copenhagen County (Folketing constituency)

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Copenhagen County
Copenhagen County in Denmark
Population
• Total	444,739 (electorate in '05)

The Copenhagen County District (Danish: Københavns Amtskreds) was an electoral district for the Danish parliament (Folketing) from 1920 to 2006.^[1] The county constituency consisted of Copenhagen County. The constituency was dissolved in the structural reform of 2007. Most of the area is now in the Greater Copenhagen constituency. However, the Amager district [da] was transferred to the Copenhagen constituency, while three former municipalities to the north were transferred to the North Zealand constituency.

The county district was divided into the following constituencies, with their constituent municipalities in parentheses:

• Gentofte district (consisting of the part of Gentofte Municipality that lies west of a line from the municipal border through Lyngbyvej, Bernstorffsvej, Femvejen and Vilvordevej and from there northwest along Klampenborgvej to the municipal border)
• Lyngby district (consisting of Lyngby-Taarbæk and Søllerød municipalities)
• Ballerup district (consisting of Ballerup, Ledøje-Smørum, and Værløse municipalities)
• Glostrup district [da] (consisting of Albertslund, Glostrup, Høje-Taastrup, Ishøj, and Vallensbæk municipalities)
• Hellerup district [da] (consisting of the part of Gentofte Municipality that lies east of a line from the municipal border through Lyngbyvej, Bernstorffsvej, Femvejen and Vilvordevej and from here northwest along Klampenborgvej to the municipal border)
• Gladsaxe district (consisting of Gladsaxe Municipality)
• Hvidovre district (consisting of Brøndby andHvidovre municipalities)
• Amager district [da] (consisting of Dragør and Tårnby municipalities)
• Rødovre district (consisting of Herlev and Rødovre municipalities)