Lekeberg Municipality Facts for Kids

Lekeberg Municipality (Lekebergs kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Fjugesta, with around 2,000 inhabitants.

Lekeberg was first formed as a municipality in connection with the local government reform of 1952 by the amalgamation of five smaller units. In 1967 two more parishes were added. The next reform of 1971 placed the area within Örebro Municipality. It was re-established in 1995 within its 1967 borders.

Geography
- Localities
Demographics
Elections
- Riksdag
Sights
Twin towns

Geography

Mostly woods and farm lands, with Garphyttan National Park, established in 1909, located within the municipality.

The largest industry sector is farming. Many farmers have further specialized on hog and chicken farming.

Other industries are small companies within wood and carpentry industries, as well as craftswork and other small enterprises.

Localities

Over 200 inhabitants:

Fjugesta (seat)
Gropen
Hidinge
Lanna
Mullhyttan

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lekeberg 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 8,596 residents, including 6,359 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 41.8% voted for the left coalition and 56.6% 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

Hidinge

2,209

1,532

42.1

57.2

31,819

Knista N & Ö

1,636

1,217

46.2

52.2

21,690

Knista V

1,394

1,047

44.6

54.2

24,515

Kräcklinge

1,530

1,167

36.7

61.2

26,944

Kvistbro V

1,032

817

39.6

58.0

24,082

Kvistbro Ö

795

579

40.8

56.1

26,674

Source: SVT

Elections

Riksdag

From the 1994 election onwards the municipality was in existence due to the split with Örebro Municipality. The exact results of Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by SCB from 1994 to 1998 due to the party's small size at the time. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of eligible people casting any ballots, whereas "Votes" denotes the number of valid votes only.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND
1994	87.2	4,517	5.0	39.3	5.3	18.1	5.3	8.3	16.8	0.0	1.4
1998	80.3	4,264	10.7	32.7	4.4	14.0	3.7	15.9	16.7	0.0	0.0
2002	81.8	4,347	6.5	36.5	3.7	18.0	8.9	11.8	11.2	2.4	0.0
2006	83.6	4,519	4.1	34.8	3.6	17.2	4.9	10.0	18.9	4.7	0.0
2010	86.4	4,761	4.5	30.7	5.3	12.9	4.4	8.9	24.8	7.5	0.0
2014	88.4	4,939	4.3	30.0	4.3	13.4	3.1	6.8	16.9	18.2	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 1994 to 2006. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election.

Year	Turnout	Votes	Left	Right	SD	Other	Elected
1994	87.2	4,517	49.6	48.5	0.0	1.9	98.1
1998	80.3	4,264	47.8	50.3	0.0	1.9	98.1
2002	81.8	4,347	46.7	49.9	0.0	3.5	96.5
2006	83.6	4,519	42.5	51.0	0.0	6.5	93.5
2010	86.4	4,761	40.5	51.0	7.5	1.0	99.0
2014	88.4	4,939	38.6	40.2	18.2	3.0	97.0

Sights

The monastery ruin of Riseberga was the home of nuns of the Cistercian order in the medieval age. It burnt down in 1546, and remaining stones were used in the building of a local church some hundreds years later.

The amphitheatre of Riseberga is Sweden's largest of that kind, with 1,216 seats.

Twin towns

Lekeberg's twin town with the year of its establishing:

(1996) Dundaga, Latvia

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