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Degerfors Municipality
Degerfors kommun
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| Country | Sweden | |
| County | Örebro County | |
| Seat | Degerfors | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 436.15 km2 (168.40 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 385.62 km2 (148.89 sq mi) | |
| • Water | 50.53 km2 (19.51 sq mi) | |
| Area as of January 1, 2010. | ||
| Population
(June 30, 2012)
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| • Total | 9,677 | |
| • Density | 22.1873/km2 (57.465/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) | |
| ISO 3166 code | SE | |
| Province | Värmland and Närke | |
| Municipal code | 1862 | |
| Website | www.degerfors.se | |
Degerfors Municipality (Degerfors kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Degerfors.
The northern part of the municipality was before 1925 part of Karlskoga Municipality, from which it was detached to form a new entity. It became a market town (köping) in 1943. In 1967 it was amalgamated with a part of the dissolved Svartå Municipality.
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Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Degerfors Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
In total there were 7,456 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 53.6% voted for the left coalition and 45.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
| Location | Residents | Citizen adults |
Left vote | Right vote | Employed | Swedish parents |
Foreign heritage |
Income SEK |
Degree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | ||||||||
| Bossåsen | 1,373 | 1,039 | 49.0 | 50.1 | 81 | 87 | 13 | 27,595 | 25 |
| Bruket | 1,480 | 1,148 | 52.9 | 45.9 | 74 | 80 | 20 | 22,993 | 24 |
| Jannelund | 1,727 | 1,330 | 63.7 | 35.3 | 59 | 67 | 33 | 17,262 | 21 |
| Stora Valla | 1,574 | 1,215 | 59.4 | 39.3 | 68 | 75 | 25 | 20,864 | 20 |
| Strömtorp | 1,821 | 1,488 | 47.9 | 50.7 | 83 | 86 | 14 | 26,813 | 26 |
| Svartå | 605 | 478 | 53.3 | 44.0 | 74 | 83 | 17 | 22,995 | 24 |
| Åtorp | 939 | 758 | 47.8 | 51.0 | 84 | 91 | 9 | 25,582 | 27 |
| Source: SVT | |||||||||
Riksdag elections
| Year | % | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | NyD | Left | Right |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 94.7 | 7,533 | 4.9 | 63.1 | 18.7 | 5.3 | 2.3 | 5.2 | 68.0 | 29.2 | |||
| 1976 | 95.0 | 8,034 | 4.7 | 61.9 | 19.3 | 5.9 | 2.1 | 5.9 | 66.7 | 31.0 | |||
| 1979 | 94.1 | 8,194 | 5.7 | 62.8 | 14.3 | 6.6 | 2.0 | 8.1 | 68.5 | 29.1 | |||
| 1982 | 94.5 | 8,292 | 6.5 | 65.4 | 1.0 | 11.5 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 9.9 | 72.0 | 25.0 | ||
| 1985 | 93.4 | 8,225 | 7.4 | 64.2 | 1.2 | 10.1 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 71.6 | 27.1 | |||
| 1988 | 90.1 | 7,767 | 8.8 | 63.7 | 3.4 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 2.5 | 6.3 | 75.8 | 21.3 | ||
| 1991 | 89.7 | 7,691 | 7.4 | 59.7 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 8.6 | 5.3 | 67.1 | 25.3 | |
| 1994 | 89.3 | 7,608 | 9.9 | 63.8 | 3.2 | 5.9 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 8.8 | 1.0 | 76.8 | 21.8 | |
| 1998 | 83.4 | 6,847 | 17.7 | 54.8 | 3.4 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 7.5 | 8.7 | 75.9 | 23.0 | ||
| 2002 | 82.3 | 6,491 | 13.3 | 60.8 | 2.5 | 5.3 | 6.0 | 5.2 | 5.1 | 0.9 | 76.7 | 21.7 | |
| 2006 | 82.3 | 6,302 | 11.2 | 57.6 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 9.8 | 2.9 | 71.5 | 23.6 | |
| 2010 | 86.1 | 6,494 | 10.8 | 52.7 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 13.8 | 5.4 | 68.4 | 25.6 | |
| 2014 | 86.4 | 6,426 | 8.1 | 51.2 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 1.9 | 3.4 | 10.6 | 14.4 | 63.3 | 20.1 | |
| 2018 | 87.1 | 6,415 | 10.2 | 44.1 | 2.4 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 4.0 | 10.7 | 19.9 | 62.0 | 36.9 | |
| 2022 | 84.9 | 6,261 | 7.7 | 39.6 | 2.4 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 4.2 | 12.0 | 26.6 | 53.6 | 45.0 |
Twin towns
Degerfors two twin towns with the year of its establishing:
See also
In Spanish: Municipio de Degerfors para niños
