Stadsdeel Centrum is a deelgemeente

Deelgemeente

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 of the municipality of Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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, North-Holland, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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. This stadsdeel

Stadsdeel

A stadsdeel is the name used for city districts in some of the larger municipalities of the Netherlands.Amsterdam calls 7 of its 8 deelgemeenten stadsdeel...

 was founded in 2002. Prior to 2002 it was managed by the local government of Amsterdam. This part of the city has 81,100 inhabitants and has a surface of 8.04 square kilometres (of which is 0.22 km² water)

Neighborhoods in stadsdeel Centrum

• Burgwallen Oude Zijde
  Burgwallen Oude Zijde
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• Burgwallen Nieuwe Zijde
  Burgwallen Nieuwe Zijde
  Burgwallen Nieuwe Zijde is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands....
  
  
• Grachtengordel
  Grachtengordel (Amsterdam)
  Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010...
  
  -West
• Grachtengordel
  Grachtengordel (Amsterdam)
  Grachtengordel is a neighborhood in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The seventeenth-century canals of Amsterdam, located in the center of Amsterdam, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in August 2010...
  
  -Zuid
• Nieuwmarkt
  Nieuwmarkt
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   en Lastage
  Lastage
  Lastage is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands....
  
  
• Westelijke Eilanden
  Westelijke Eilanden (Amsterdam)
  Westelijke Eilanden is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands....
  
   en Gouden Reael
  Gouden Reael
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• Haarlemmerbuurt
  Haarlemmerbuurt (Amsterdam)
  Haarlemmerbuurt is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands....
  
  
• Jordaan
  Jordaan
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• Weteringschans
• Weesperbuurt en Plantage
  Plantage (Amsterdam)
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• Oostelijke Eilanden
  Oostelijke Eilanden
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   en Kadijken

Dayly governing board

Since 2010 is Jeanine van Pinxteren (Groenlinks) the stadsdeel president. Between 2006 and 2010 was Els Iping

Els Iping

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 (PvdA

Labour Party (Netherlands)

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) stadsdeel president. She succeeded Anne Lize van der Stoel (VVD).

Stadsdeel council

The council was founded in 2002, with the deelgemeente. The number of council members was set at 27, but in 2006 it was raised with 2 till 29.

Deelraad seats
Party	2002	2006	2010
PvdA Labour Party (Netherlands) The Labour Party , is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands. Since the 2003 Dutch General Election, the PvdA has been the second largest political party in the Netherlands. The PvdA was a coalition member in the fourth Balkenende cabinet following 22 February 2007...	7	7	5
VVD People's Party for Freedom and Democracy The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a conservative-liberal political party located in the Netherlands. The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is often perceived as an economic liberal party in contrast to the social-liberal Democrats 66 alongside which it sits in...	7	6	6
Groenlinks	6	6	8
SP Socialist Party (Netherlands) The Socialist Party is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. After the 2006 general election, the Socialist Party became one of the major parties of the Netherlands with 25 seats of 150, an increase of 16 seats. The party was in opposition against the fourth Balkenende cabinet...
5	3
D66 Democrats 66 Democrats 66 is a progressive and social-liberal political party in the Netherlands. D66 was formed in 1966 by a group of politically unaligned, young intellectuals, led by journalist Hans van Mierlo. The party's main objective was to democratise the political system; it proposed to create an...	3	2	7
AA/DG	2	2
Opheffen.nu
1
CDA	1
Mokum Mobiel	1
Totaal	27	29	29

The underlined numbers form the coalition.

External links

• www.centrum.amsterdam.nl Website of the city section.