Falun Municipality

Falun Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Falun. Falun is the second biggest city and provincial capital of Dalarna County. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine.

The present municipality was formed at the time of the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Falun and six surrounding rural municipalities were amalgamated.

Localities

• Aspeboda
• Bengtsheden
• Bjursås
• Danholn
• Grycksbo
• Falun (seat)
• Linghed
• Sundborn
• Svärdsjö
• Sågmyra
• Toftbyn
• Vika

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Falun Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=FalunVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 59,762 residents, including 46,002 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=FalunVal2022/> 51.8% voted for the left coalition and 46.7% for the right coalition.

Location Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % Aspeboda 1,504 1,138 45.4 53.3 90 93 7 29,773 45 Bjursås V 1,639 1,251 41.6 56.8 87 94 6 25,712 25 Bjursås Ö 2,032 1,604 47.8 51.0 83 91 9 24,691 35 Boda-Toftbyn 1,453 1,144 41.4 57.4 86 96 4 26,905 32 Bojsenburg 2,071 1,354 58.6 37.5 62 65 35 18,041 31 Borgärdet-Lumsheden 1,949 1,528 43.6 55.6 81 91 9 23,031 31 Britsarvet 1,270 1,104 60.4 38.5 83 90 10 25,453 68 Danholn-Karlsbyheden 1,400 1,079 50.1 49.3 85 93 7 25,936 38 Elsborg 1,654 1,172 62.6 35.8 78 68 32 22,560 44 Enviken 1,634 1,312 38.9 60.0 88 93 7 25,108 26 Gruvan 2,129 1,661 54.9 44.1 89 92 8 30,067 58 Gruvriset 2,232 1,468 49.6 49.0 88 90 10 29,376 56 Grycksbo 1,922 1,488 53.0 45.8 84 88 12 25,077 32 Haraldsbo 1,178 879 52.5 44.3 81 81 19 26,236 43 Herrhagen 1,738 1,329 57.1 38.8 67 66 34 19,082 29 Hosjö Näs 1,829 1,377 51.1 47.9 85 88 12 28,084 50 Hosjö Sandviken 1,415 1,114 47.2 51.3 86 87 13 27,558 44 Hyttgården 1,615 1,394 49.7 48.7 87 89 11 27,108 49 Hälsingberg 1,948 1,372 56.4 42.0 78 79 21 25,418 49 Hälsinggården 1,215 949 53.9 45.1 89 86 14 28,730 55 Karlberg 1,416 1,043 57.6 40.3 68 85 15 22,444 57 Kristine 1,076 1,063 51.6 46.8 83 88 12 27,776 52 Kvarnberget-Ö Främby 2,065 1,585 58.1 40.5 79 80 20 24,833 44 Kyrkbacken 1,450 1,172 58.1 40.1 88 91 9 30,861 73 Källviken-V Främby 1,608 1,189 49.3 49.9 84 88 12 29,334 49 Kämparvet 1,399 1,242 55.0 43.0 72 83 17 23,106 52 Linghed 906 681 33.4 64.8 82 94 6 24,906 30 Lugnet 1,444 1,136 57.1 41.6 87 90 10 31,068 73 Nedre Norslund 1,597 1,120 58.6 38.3 71 61 39 19,807 34 Pilbo-Samuelsdal 1,525 1,114 51.7 47.1 89 92 8 31,448 53 Slätta 1,194 827 61.9 37.5 89 88 12 30,111 57 Stenslund 1,632 1,182 56.3 42.9 93 91 9 33,764 70 Sundbornsbyn 1,481 1,146 47.1 52.1 87 93 7 27,608 47 Varpan 1,468 1,165 48.6 50.2 88 94 6 31,972 55 Vika 1,821 1,413 42.8 56.3 86 93 7 28,185 42 Ångbryggeriet 1,179 1,013 52.2 46.5 83 90 10 26,453 49 Östanfors 1,142 946 58.2 40.8 86 90 10 29,254 60 Övre Norslund 1,532 1,248 60.5 38.0 84 85 15 26,319 56 Source: SVT<ref name=FalunVal2022/>

Riksdag elections

Year	%	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	89.2	30,135	3.8	40.1		32.1	9.3	1.6	12.7			43.9	54.1
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.8	32,507	3.8	38.0		30.8	11.7	1.1	14.2			41.8	56.7
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	89.1	33,105	4.9	38.7		24.4	10.3	1.2	20.0			43.6	54.7
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.2	34,386	4.5	41.9	2.3	19.3	6.1	1.7	24.1			46.4	49.5
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.4	34,444	4.4	40.8	1.7	14.9	15.9		22.1			45.2	52.8
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	83.7	32,920	5.2	39.4	6.1	13.3	14.3	3.3	18.1			50.8	45.7
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.6	33,704	3.8	34.2	3.9	10.3	9.9	7.4	21.9		6.7	37.9	49.6
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.5	34,446	6.0	41.5	7.0	9.6	8.5	4.2	21.5		0.9	54.4	43.8
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.1	32,490	12.4	33.2	5.8	5.3	4.6	12.6	22.2			51.4	44.8
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	79.2	32,593	8.6	38.4	5.6	8.4	12.5	7.5	15.3	1.1		52.6	43.7
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	82.2	34,442	5.9	33.8	6.1	10.5	6.3	5.9	25.5	2.5		45.8	48.2
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.4	36,559	5.5	31.5	8.1	8.1	5.7	5.0	28.9	5.5		45.1	47.6
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.4	38,251	5.9	30.2	7.2	8.0	4.5	3.8	23.2	12.8		43.3	39.5
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.8	39,461	8.2	28.0	4.9	11.8	4.6	6.0	19.7	15.3		52.9	45.6

Local politics

The Falu Party is a party with local interests.

Sister cities

The following places have sister cities agreements with Falun:

• Template:Flag icon Hamina, Finland
• Template:Flag icon Grudziądz, Poland
• Template:Flag icon Gütersloh, Germany
• Template:Flag icon Vordingborg, Denmark

Falun also has two cooperation towns without formal sistering treaty:

• Template:Flag icon Kimberley, South Africa
• Template:Flag icon Pskov, Russia

External links

• Template:Official website
• Dalarna College - Situated in Falun