Flen Municipality

Flen Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.

The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen (instituted in 1949), the market town (köping) Malmköping and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the former Oppunda hundred that was split between Flen and Nyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the former Villåttinge hundred.

Geography

Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to Template:Convert above sea level on the lakes of Långhalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The highest peak is at Template:Convert on the tripoint between Flen, Gnesta and Strängnäs municipalities.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Localities

Figures from Statistics Sweden, 2004.

• Flen 6,107
• Malmköping 2,006
• Hälleforsnäs 1,737
• Sparreholm 799
• Skebokvarn 225
• Mellösa 549
• Bettna 410
• Vadsbro 118

Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a köping) already in 1785.

Elections

The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.

Riksdag

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	93.5	11,513	3.2	49.4		26.8	8.0	1.8	10.6			52.6	45.4
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	93.1	11,658	2.8	49.2		26.9	8.1	1.6	11.3			52.0	46.3
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	92.3	11,747	3.5	49.5		21.9	8.5	1.5	14.6			53.0	45.0
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	93.2	11,762	4.0	52.1	1.6	18.5	4.4	1.6	17.5			56.1	40.4
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	91.2	11,499	4.2	51.9	1.8	15.3	10.6		15.4			56.1	41.3
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.3	10,821	5.0	50.2	5.2	14.3	9.3	2.3	13.2			60.4	36.8
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.0	10,765	4.1	45.4	3.1	11.8	7.0	6.4	15.6		6.1	49.5	40.8
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.7	10,924	6.1	52.1	5.0	9.2	5.1	3.6	17.1		0.7	63.2	35.0
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.4	9,924	12.1	43.3	4.9	6.8	2.7	11.2	17.6			60.3	38.3
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.3	9,724	7.5	48.1	4.5	7.5	9.2	8.6	12.1	1.0		60.1	37.4
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.9	9,911	5.4	46.5	4.3	8.7	4.9	5.6	20.2	2.7		56.2	39.4
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.7	10,271	5.5	38.7	5.9	8.2	4.8	4.9	24.2	6.9		50.1	42.3
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.4	10,136	5.5	36.2	4.9	7.5	3.4	3.5	18.6	17.8		46.6	33.0
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.0	10,118	6.2	33.0	3.5	8.3	3.2	5.6	16.9	21.2		51.7	46.9

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Flen 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=FlenVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

Flen is a poor municipality by lower Svealand standards.<ref name=FlenVal2022/> As of 2022 it was a rather segregated municipality with very high levels of ethnic minority populations concentrated south of the railway, while people of Swedish background are in a sizeable majority in the outer parts of town and in the countryside. Every district was beneath the median income of its southern neighbour Nyköping.<ref name=FlenVal2022/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In total there were 16,271 inhabitants with 11,959 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.<ref name=FlenVal2022/> The political demographics were 50.4 % for the left bloc and 48.4 % for the right bloc, with the left dominating the town and the right sizeably winning the villages and countryside.<ref name=FlenVal2022/> No district reached 35% college graduates and unemployment was high throughout much of the municipality.<ref name=FlenVal2022/> Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

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;" | % % Bettna 1,502 1,199 42.2 56.5 82 88 12 24,876 30 Flens C 1,359 877 64.8 34.2 63 52 48 18,802 25 Flens N 1,479 1,197 51.0 48.0 80 79 21 24,872 30 Flens S 1,554 893 68.5 27.5 50 26 74 14,764 19 Flens V 1,218 965 57.1 42.3 71 63 37 20,676 26 Flens Ö 1,284 963 47.3 50.4 74 66 34 23,164 31 Helgesta-Hyltinge 1,558 1,289 46.3 52.6 82 85 15 23,559 34 Hälleforsnäs 1,684 1,160 53.2 45.9 63 64 36 19,390 23 Malmköping V 1,546 1,104 42.4 56.6 68 73 27 20,273 23 Malmköping Ö 1,796 1,303 47.0 51.2 77 84 16 22,908 30 Mellösa 1,291 1,009 47.5 51.6 83 89 11 25,069 34 Source: SVT<ref name=FlenVal2022/>

Sister City

• Template:Flagicon Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina

External links

• Flen Municipality - Official site