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Hallstahammar Municipality

Hallstahammars kommun
Hallstahammar Town Hall
Hallstahammar Town Hall
Coat of arms of Hallstahammar Municipality
Coat of arms
Hallstahammar Municipality in Västmanland County.png
Country Sweden
County Västmanland County
Seat Hallstahammar
Area
 • Total 181.88 km2 (70.22 sq mi)
 • Land 171.09 km2 (66.06 sq mi)
 • Water 10.79 km2 (4.17 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 15,139
 • Density 83.236/km2 (215.581/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Västmanland
Municipal code 1961
Website www.hallstahammar.se

Hallstahammar Municipality (Hallstahammars kommun) is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Hallstahammar.

In 1971 "old" Hallstahammar (with the status of a köping since 1943) was amalgamated with parts of the dissolved Kolbäck rural municipality to form the present municipality of unitary type.

The municipal slogan is "Bo hos oss" ("Live with us"), which reflects the ambition of the present municipal leadership to boost population figures.

Geography

The municipality is subdivided into two parishes: Hallstahammar-Berg and Kolbäck-Säby. They are distinctive from each other: Hallstahammar-Berg in the north is situated along forest lands; Kolbäck-Säby in the south is a centre of communications by roads and railways as well as the intersecting river. Strömsholm, in the southern part of Kolbäck, borders to Lake Mälaren and has open fields around its Royal Castle.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Hallstahammar 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 16,581 residents, including 12,314 Swedish citizens of voting age. 47.7% voted for the left coalition and 50.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Riksdag elections

Year % Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 91.9 10,459 6.7 59.8 17.9 6.9 1.1 7.2 66.5 32.0
1976 92.3 10,852 5.2 59.4 16.5 8.5 1.2 8.8 64.6 33.8
1979 91.4 10,682 5.8 60.4 11.3 8.9 0.9 11.6 66.2 31.9
1982 92.1 10,976 6.8 62.2 0.8 9.6 4.4 1.4 14.3 69.1 28.3
1985 90.0 10,764 7.4 60.7 0.9 7.4 10.1 13.3 68.1 30.8
1988 85.7 10,231 8.0 59.2 3.1 6.7 9.3 1.6 10.6 70.3 26.6
1991 86.4 10,177 5.6 55.0 1.8 4.5 7.5 4.7 12.3 7.8 60.6 29.0
1994 86.5 9,938 8.5 61.3 3.3 4.3 5.1 2.3 12.6 1.3 73.0 24.3
1998 79.5 8,745 16.2 49.7 3.6 3.7 3.3 8.3 14.0 69.6 29.3
2002 77.1 8,345 10.6 52.3 3.3 4.3 9.8 8.3 8.3 1.9 66.2 30.8
2006 79.3 8,588 7.5 49.1 3.7 5.3 5.9 7.2 16.0 2.8 60.3 34.5
2010 82.4 9,203 7.3 47.0 4.8 3.5 6.1 4.3 20.4 5.7 59.0 34.3
2014 83.9 9,655 6.1 45.0 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.3 15.0 16.6 55.1 25.9
2018 85.8 10,063 8.0 36.2 2.2 5.3 4.0 5.1 14.7 23.3 51.6 47.0
2022 83.2 10,125 5.9 34.9 2.6 4.3 2.9 4.9 14.8 28.2 47.7 50.7

Communications

With train it takes 10 minutes to central Västerås (a larger city), and about an hour to the Central Station of Stockholm. It is also possible to travel straight south, passing the bridge over Lake Mälaren to the larger city Eskilstuna. Good car transport is provided by European route E18 that passes between Kolbäck and Hallstahammar.

Notability

One of Sweden's foremost riding gymnasiums is located in Strömsholm, as part of the Kantzowska Gymnasium. The Church of Kolbäck goes back to the 13th century and has interior decorations paid for by Queen Hedvig Eleonora in the 17th century. The Church of Säby was beautifully restored in the 1630s.

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