Oxelösund Municipality Facts for Kids

Oxelösund Municipality (Oxelösunds kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Oxelösund.

In 1950 the Nikolai Rural municipality was dissolved. One part formed the then City of Oxelösund, one of the last newly created cities of Sweden. The rest of Nikolai was incorporated into the neighbouring City of Nyköping. In 1971 the city became a unitary municipality without addition of territory.

Still marked by its industrial past, the politics was historically dominated by the Social Democratic Party, and the industry by the harbour and iron works.

Geography
Elections since the 1972 municipal reform
- Riksdag
Demographics
International relations
- Twin towns - Sister cities
See also

Geography

It covers a peninsula in the Baltic Sea, and borders by land only on Nyköping Municipality. With an area of 35.75 square kilometres (13.80 sq mi), it is one of Sweden's smallest municipalities.

Elections since the 1972 municipal reform

Riksdag

No boundary changes. The Sweden Democrats' numbers were not listed by the SCB agency from 1988 to 1998 due to the party being out of contention for Riksdag entry.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973	92.2	7,945	7.3	61.6	0.0	15.7	7.3	0.9	7.6			68.9	30.6
1976	93.1	8,480	6.4	61.4	0.0	14.4	8.6	0.7	8.1			67.8	31.1
1979	91.9	8,755	8.0	62.1	0.0	9.0	8.3	0.6	11.5			70.1	28.8
1982	93.2	8,774	7.7	63.2	1.0	7.8	4.4	0.8	14.4			70.5	26.6
1985	91.6	8,610	7.8	61.4	1.2	4.9	10.5		13.8			69.2	29.2
1988	87.1	8,161	9.0	58.7	5.1	5.1	9.0	1.1	11.5			72.8	25.6
1991	87.8	8,183	6.4	54.6	2.5	3.8	6.4	3.9	13.0		8.7	61.0	27.1
1994	88.8	7,772	8.1	63.3	4.0	2.9	5.0	2.1	12.8		0.8	75.4	22.8
1998	83.2	6,891	14.8	55.2	3.7	2.1	2.9	7.7	12.1			73.7	24.8
2002	80.8	6,791	11.6	56.1	4.7	1.8	8.8	5.8	9.8	0.5		72.4	26.2
2006	81.9	6,944	8.1	50.7	4.7	3.4	5.7	4.6	18.5	2.3		63.5	32.2
2010	85.0	7,526	7.8	44.2	7.2	2.8	5.3	3.3	23.1	4.8		59.2	34.5
2014	86.0	7,597	8.0	44.1	5.2	2.7	3.4	2.8	17.1	14.0		57.3	26.0
2018	86.7	7,545	8.8	39.7	3.1	4.2	3.3	4.7	15.9	18.8		55.8	42.7

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Oxelösund Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

There is a strong income disparity between the four districts on the southern shore and the other three downtown districts. In comparison, the wealthier districts would all be among the upper-half earners in the more affluent Nyköping Municipality, while the lower three would be right near the bottom. In total there were 12,125 inhabitants with 9,072 Swedish citizens of voting age. The political demographics were 52.5% for the left bloc and 45.4% for the right bloc. 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

Dalgången

1,996

1,606

52.4

46.6

27,583

Danvik

1,502

1,158

47.6

50.9

30,029

Frösäng

1,376

1,085

54.5

42.7

20,332

Norra innerstaden

1,789

1,264

53.8

43.0

20,010

Peterslund

1,699

1,182

51.6

46.8

28,331

Sunda

1,675

1,307

53.9

44.9

27,186

Södra innerstaden

2,088

1,470

54.1

41.7

19,426

Source: SVT

International relations

Twin towns - Sister cities

Oxelösund is a member of the Douzelage, a unique town twinning association of 24 towns across the European Union. This active town twinning began in 1991 and there are regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries and festivals. Discussions regarding membership are also in hand with three further towns (Agros in Cyprus, Škofja Loka in Slovenia, and Tryavna in Bulgaria).