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Härjedalen Municipality

Härjedalens kommun
Härjedalen town hall
Härjedalen town hall
Coat of arms of Härjedalen Municipality
Coat of arms
Härjedalen Municipality in Jämtland County.png
Country Sweden
County Jämtland County
Seat Sveg
Area
 • Total 11,934.65 km2 (4,607.99 sq mi)
 • Land 11,364.29 km2 (4,387.78 sq mi)
 • Water 570.36 km2 (220.22 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 10,482
 • Density 0.87828/km2 (2.27474/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Härjedalen, Hälsingland and Dalarna
Municipal code 2361
Website www.herjedalen.se

Härjedalen Municipality (Swedish: Härjedalens kommun, Southern Sami: Herjedaelien tjïelte) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Sveg.

The municipality roughly, but not exactly, corresponds with the traditional province Härjedalen.

The municipality was created in 1974 and is one of two in Sweden with the name of a province (Gotland Municipality is the other). It consists of nine original local government entities (as of 1863).

Geography

With a total area of 11,935 square kilometres (4,608 sq mi), it is Sweden's fifth largest. However, it is largely wilderness, and the municipality is sparsely inhabited. For comparison, the municipality covers as much territory as Uppsala County and Stockholm County combined, but those two counties have over 2,000,000 inhabitants.

Localities

Ljusnan in Ljusnedal
Ljusnan River

There are eight localities (or urban areas) in Härjedalen Municipality:

# Locality Population
1 Sveg 2,633
2 Funäsdalen 798
3 Hede 763
4 Ytterhogdal 603
5 Vemdalen 547
6 Ulvkälla 445
7 Lillhärdal 365
8 Norr-Hede 293

The municipal seat in bold

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Härjedalen 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 8,125 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 50.0% voted for the left coalition and 48.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Riksdag

This table lists the national results since the 1972 Swedish municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats from 1988 to 1998 were not published by the SCB at a municipal level due to the party's small size nationally at the time.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND
1973 85.8 8,298 5.4 55.6 0.0 25.3 6.1 1.1 5.4 0.0 0.0
1976 87.3 8,768 4.6 56.5 0.0 26.2 5.7 1.1 5.6 0.0 0.0
1979 86.6 8,799 5.3 58.2 0.0 21.9 5.2 1.0 8.1 0.0 0.0
1982 87.3 8,828 5.3 59.1 1.1 18.5 3.5 1.1 11.3 0.0 0.0
1985 85.7 8,671 4.6 58.9 1.4 15.5 7.3 0.0 12.3 0.0 0.0
1988 81.1 8,007 6.1 56.8 4.9 14.1 7.5 1.3 9.1 0.0 0.0
1991 83.0 8,059 4.9 51.2 2.7 12.8 5.5 3.0 12.1 0.0 6.2
1994 82.9 8,024 7.2 58.1 5.0 10.9 3.9 1.7 11.8 0.0 0.7
1998 77.4 7,129 17.0 46.8 3.9 8.1 2.8 6.7 12.8 0.0 0.0
2002 74.8 6,650 12.1 50.2 3.6 11.5 6.0 4.6 9.7 0.3 0.0
2006 77.6 6,613 8.2 45.7 2.3 12.9 4.7 3.8 17.2 2.7 0.0
2010 80.6 6,739 6.0 44.6 3.8 9.4 3.8 2.3 22.2 7.0 0.0
2014 82.8 6,765 5.2 42.9 3.0 10.5 2.1 1.9 17.2 15.2 0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected
1973 85.8 8,298 61.0 36.8 0.0 2.2 97.8
1976 87.3 8,768 60.1 37.5 0.0 2.4 97.6
1979 86.6 8,799 63.5 35.2 0.0 1.3 98.7
1982 87.3 8,828 64.4 33.3 0.0 2.3 97.7
1985 85.7 8,671 63.5 35.1 0.0 1.4 98.6
1988 81.1 8,007 67.8 30.7 0.0 1.5 98.5
1991 83.0 8,059 56.1 33.4 0.0 10.5 95.7
1994 82.9 8,024 70.3 26.6 0.0 3.1 96.9
1998 77.4 7,129 67.7 30.4 0.0 1.9 98.1
2002 74.8 6,650 65.9 31.8 0.0 2.3 97.7
2006 77.6 6,613 56.2 38.6 0.0 5.2 94.8
2010 80.6 6,739 54.4 37.7 7.0 0.9 99.1
2014 82.8 6,765 51.1 31.7 15.2 2.0 98.0

Notable natives

See also

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