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Falun Municipality

Falu kommun
Falun Town Hall
Falun Town Hall
Coat of arms of Falun Municipality
Coat of arms
Falun Municipality in Dalarna County.png
Country Sweden
County Dalarna County
Seat Falun
Area
 • Total 2,288.319436 km2 (883.525074 sq mi)
 • Land 2,051.899436 km2 (792.242801 sq mi)
 • Water 236.42 km2 (91.28 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 55,775
 • Density 24.37378/km2 (63.1278/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Dalarna
Municipal code 2080
Website www.falun.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

Falun Municipality (Falu kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Falun. Falun is the second biggest city and provincial capital of Dalarna County. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine.

The present municipality was formed at the time of the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Falun and six surrounding rural municipalities were amalgamated.

Localities

  • Aspeboda
  • Bengtsheden
  • Bjursås
  • Danholn
  • Grycksbo
  • Falun (seat)
  • Linghed
  • Sundborn
  • Svärdsjö
  • Sågmyra
  • Toftbyn
  • Vika

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Falun 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 59,762 residents, including 46,002 Swedish citizens of voting age. 51.8% voted for the left coalition and 46.7% for the right coalition.

Riksdag elections

Year % Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 89.2 30,135 3.8 40.1 32.1 9.3 1.6 12.7 43.9 54.1
1976 90.8 32,507 3.8 38.0 30.8 11.7 1.1 14.2 41.8 56.7
1979 89.1 33,105 4.9 38.7 24.4 10.3 1.2 20.0 43.6 54.7
1982 90.2 34,386 4.5 41.9 2.3 19.3 6.1 1.7 24.1 46.4 49.5
1985 88.4 34,444 4.4 40.8 1.7 14.9 15.9 22.1 45.2 52.8
1988 83.7 32,920 5.2 39.4 6.1 13.3 14.3 3.3 18.1 50.8 45.7
1991 84.6 33,704 3.8 34.2 3.9 10.3 9.9 7.4 21.9 6.7 37.9 49.6
1994 85.5 34,446 6.0 41.5 7.0 9.6 8.5 4.2 21.5 0.9 54.4 43.8
1998 81.1 32,490 12.4 33.2 5.8 5.3 4.6 12.6 22.2 51.4 44.8
2002 79.2 32,593 8.6 38.4 5.6 8.4 12.5 7.5 15.3 1.1 52.6 43.7
2006 82.2 34,442 5.9 33.8 6.1 10.5 6.3 5.9 25.5 2.5 45.8 48.2
2010 85.4 36,559 5.5 31.5 8.1 8.1 5.7 5.0 28.9 5.5 45.1 47.6
2014 87.4 38,251 5.9 30.2 7.2 8.0 4.5 3.8 23.2 12.8 43.3 39.5
2018 88.8 39,461 8.2 28.0 4.9 11.8 4.6 6.0 19.7 15.3 52.9 45.6

Sister cities

The following places have sister cities agreements with Falun:

Falun also has two cooperation towns without formal sistering treaty:

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Municipio de Falun (Suecia) para niños

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