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Heby Municipality

Heby kommun
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Coat of arms of Heby Municipality
Coat of arms
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Country Sweden
County Uppsala County
Seat Heby
Area
 • Total 1,231.6947 km2 (475.5600 sq mi)
 • Land 1,171.7447 km2 (452.4132 sq mi)
 • Water 59.95 km2 (23.15 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 13,367
 • Density 10.8525/km2 (28.1079/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Uppland
Municipal code 0331
Website www.heby.se

Heby Municipality (Heby kommun) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Heby.

The first municipality with the name Heby was created in 1952, during the first of the two nationwide municipal reforms in Sweden, through the amalgamation of three original units in Västmanland County. The name was taken from the settlement Heby, which had been a municipalsamhälle (a kind of borough) since 1887. In 1971 three more former entities were added.

Geography

The Dalälven River forms Heby's northern border. The municipality also has substantial forests with animals such as elk, deer, fox, bear and lynx.

Localities

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Heby 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 14,282 residents, including 10,903 Swedish citizens of voting age. 43.3% voted for the left coalition and 55.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Notability

Heby used to be part of Västmanland County, which borders Uppsala County to the west. In September 2005 it was reported that the municipality was permitted to be part of Uppsala County after intense lobbying in the late 1990s, following a municipal poll in 1998 where the majority was in support of the county transition. The transition took place on January 1, 2007. There were, however, forces who worked for the transition not to take place.

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