Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Infobox Belgium Municipality
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Sint-Joost-ten-Node (Dutch) or Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (French, usually shortened to "Saint-Josse") is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.

On 1 January 2007 the municipality had a total population of 23,785. The total area is 1.14 km² which gives a population density of 20,664 inhabitants per km². With only 1.14 km², Saint-Josse-ten-Noode is the municipality with the smallest territory in Belgium.

Foreign population

source : Institut National de Statistiques

While foreigners were a majority in 1995, nowadays most of the population has Belgian citizenship, which has resulted in a sharp increase of municipal councillors with a foreign background, benefitting from the open proportional electoral system: from 0 in 1988 to 2 (from Morocco) in 1994, a near majority of 13 (7 from Morocco, 5 from Turkey) out of 27 in 2000 (including 3 aldermen) and a majority of 20 out of 27 [Citation
url=http://www.stjosse.irisnet.be/fr/vie-politique-histoire/vie_politique.htm
title=Conseil communal
publisher=Commune de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
accessdate=2007-12-09] in 2007 (including 6 aldermen out of 9 [including alderman Eric Jassin, of mixed Belgian-Moroccan parentage Citation
url=http://www.stjosse.irisnet.be/fr/vie-politique-histoire/vie_politique.htm
title=Collège des bourgmestre et échevins
publisher=Commune de Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
accessdate=2007-12-09] ) .

Mayors of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

From: "Histoire de Saint Josse Ten Noode et de Schaerbeek - VAN BEMMEL - 1869" and other sources available at the local public library.

* O'KELLY André-Etienne-Joseph 1800 1808
* DE GLIMES (GLIM) Jacques-Joseph 1808
* AERTS Théodore-Nicolas-Joseph 1813
* DE GLIMES (GLIM) Jacques-Joseph 1815
* WAUVERMANS Jean-François 1813 1823
* VERBIST Urbain Henri 1823 1842
* WILLEMS Léonard Constant 29/12/1842 1846
* GILLON Jacques Joseph Damas 18/04/1846 1867
* SAINCTELETTE Louis Guillaume Felix 13/02/1867
* JOTTRAND Fritz 1870 1884
* STEURS Armand 1885 1899
* FRICK Henri 1900 1926
* PETRE Georges 1926 1942 alderman, then mayor from 1926 until his destitution and assassination by the Rexists in 1942)
* DERY Joseph 1944 1947
* SAINT-REMI André 1947 1953
* CUDELL Guy 1953 1999
* DEMANNEZ Jean 1999 (councillor in 1976, alderman in 1977, mayor since 1999, reelected in 2000 and 2006)

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