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Köping Municipality

Köpings kommun
Köping Town Hall
Köping Town Hall
Flag of Köping Municipality
Flag
Coat of arms of Köping Municipality
Coat of arms
Köping Municipality in Västmanland County2.png
Country Sweden
County Västmanland County
Seat 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)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Västmanland
Municipal code 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.

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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