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Lindesberg Municipality

Lindesbergs kommun
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Coat of arms of Lindesberg Municipality
Coat of arms
Lindesberg Municipality in Örebro County.png
Country Sweden
County Örebro County
Seat Lindesberg
Area
 • Total 1,488.65 km2 (574.77 sq mi)
 • Land 1,382.76 km2 (533.89 sq mi)
 • Water 105.89 km2 (40.88 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 22,992
 • Density 15.4449/km2 (40.0020/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Västmanland
Municipal code 1885
Website www.lindesberg.se

Lindesberg Municipality (Lindesbergs kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lindesberg.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Lindesberg and the former market town of Frövi were joined.

Localities

By size, as of 2000:

Riksdag elections

Year % Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 90.9 15,758 3.9 45.9 31.3 7.5 2.4 8.6 49.8 47.4
1976 92.0 16,420 3.1 45.8 31.6 7.2 1.8 10.2 48.9 49.0
1979 90.4 16,377 4.2 47.3 25.0 7.5 2.1 13.5 51.5 45.9
1982 91.4 16,740 4.2 50.7 1.7 20.7 4.4 2.7 15.5 54.9 40.6
1985 89.7 16,559 4.5 49.0 2.5 18.3 10.3 15.0 53.5 43.6
1988 85.4 15,627 5.5 47.8 5.2 16.7 9.7 3.8 11.2 58.4 37.6
1991 85.9 15,756 4.6 43.3 3.0 12.3 7.5 8.5 13.7 6.6 47.9 42.0
1994 86.9 16,004 7.0 50.4 5.1 11.4 5.6 4.3 15.0 0.7 62.5 36.3
1998 80.3 14,382 13.7 41.1 4.5 8.6 3.1 11.5 15.6 59.3 38.9
2002 79.3 13,989 7.7 47.5 4.0 12.0 8.4 7.6 10.1 1.6 59.3 38.1
2006 81.3 14,165 5.3 43.5 3.6 12.4 4.4 5.4 18.2 5.1 52.4 40.3
2010 84.6 14,845 4.6 38.6 5.2 8.0 5.0 4.8 23.5 9.2 48.4 41.3
2014 86.8 15,348 4.3 36.9 4.7 7.5 2.8 3.7 16.9 20.9 45.9 30.8
2018 87.6 15,280 6.1 31.6 2.6 8.5 2.8 6.1 15.8 25.0 48.7 49.7
2022 84.5 15,053 5.1 30.2 3.2 6.0 2.7 5.4 15.5 30.1 44.5 53.7

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lindesberg 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 23,563 residents with 18,038 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote. The political demographics were 44.5% for the left bloc and 53.7% for the right bloc. The northeastern part of Lindesberg has a majority of non-Swedish background. It also has the lowest median income and the lowest levels of employment, while the wealthiest district of Linde encircling the town has the highest share of Swedish background in the municipality. The town of Lindesberg leaned slightly to the left, whereas the countryside had very high shares for the right and in particular the Sweden Democrats. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Twin towns

Lindesberg's five twin towns with the year of its establishing:

  1. (1940) Kuusankoski (Kouvola), Finland Finland
  2. (?) Oppdal, Norway Norway
  3. (?) Jammerbugt Municipality, Denmark Denmark
  4. (1990) Frunzensky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia Russia
  5. (1995) Haßberge, Germany Germany

Industry

The largest employer is the municipality. After that follow the large hospital, serving the northern parts of Örebro County. Larger companies include Por Pac (Fagerdala Foams), Arvin Meritor and Liab.

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