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Köping Municipality

Köpings kommun

Köping Town Hall

Flag	Coat of arms

Sweden

Köping

Area

• Total

648.88 km² (250.53 sq mi)

• Land

607.76 km² (234.66 sq mi)

• Water

41.12 km² (15.88 sq mi)

Area as of January 1, 2010.

Population

(June 30, 2012)

• Total

24,923

• Density

38.4093/km² (99.4795/sq mi)

Time zone

UTC+1 (CET)

• Summer (DST)

UTC+2 (CEST)

1983

Website

www.koping.se

Köping Municipality (Swedish: Köpings kommun) is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Köping.

The municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Köping was merged with the municipalities of Kolsva, Medåker and Munktorp forming a new municipality of unitary type.

Localities

Kolsva
Munktorp
Köping (seat)

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Köping 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 26,115 residents, including 19,584 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.0% voted for the left coalition and 53.0% 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

Byjorden-Odensvi

2,240

1,712

43.3

54.6

22,353

Elund-Ållesta

2,134

1,603

40.2

59.6

30,421

Hästhagen

2,008

1,560

40.7

58.0

29,045

Karlberg

1,852

1,417

41.4

57.5

25,384

Karlsdal

1,859

1,460

49.8

49.0

22,020

Kolsva V

1,933

1,521

42.8

55.8

23,332

Kolsva Ö

1,601

1,177

39.6

59.7

24,366

Munktorp

1,821

1,431

42.4

56.9

28,198

Nyckelberget

1,955

1,431

47.9

51.2

23,605

Nygård-Skogsbrynet

1,851

1,004

73.8

24.7

15,334

Skogsborg

1,682

1,247

49.5

49.4

22,569

Tunadal

1,826

1,426

53.1

45.8

18,458

Ullvi

1,450

1,139

45.2

54.4

28,750

Östanås

1,903

1,456

47.0

52.2

24,463

Source: SVT

Riksdag elections

Year	%	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973	90.5	16,091	5.3	54.1		23.6	6.7	2.2	7.3			59.5	37.5
1976	91.7	16,913	4.0	53.5		23.1	8.2	1.8	8.8			57.5	40.2
1979	90.3	16,811	5.6	54.3		17.5	8.3	1.6	12.0			59.8	37.8
1982	91.6	17,217	5.8	56.5	1.2	15.1	4.7	1.9	14.5			62.4	34.3
1985	88.7	16,986	6.0	55.1	1.2	12.3	10.5		13.0			61.1	35.8
1988	84.4	16,156	6.9	52.5	4.8	10.7	9.9	2.6	10.8			64.2	31.4
1991	84.9	16,164	5.5	48.5	2.7	8.1	7.5	6.7	14.7		5.9	54.1	37.0
1994	86.0	16,328	8.5	54.1	5.4	8.9	6.0	2.8	15.4		0.9	66.5	31.1
1998	79.3	14,575	16.2	44.1	3.5	5.6	3.2	9.6	16.0			63.8	34.4
2002	77.3	14,046	9.9	48.8	3.3	7.0	10.3	6.8	11.0	0.9		62.0	35.1
2006	78.9	14,556	6.6	45.1	3.3	8.6	5.6	5.0	19.9	3.4		55.1	39.1
2010	82.6	15,546	6.8	41.0	5.1	6.4	5.4	3.9	23.5	7.0		52.8	39.1
2014	83.9	15,938	5.6	40.7	4.0	6.0	3.7	3.1	17.4	17.4		50.2	30.3
2018	85.9	16,390	6.4	34.6	2.3	6.7	3.3	5.9	15.6	23.9		50.0	48.8

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