Laholm Municipality

Laholm Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Halland County in southwest Sweden. The seat is located in Laholm.

The amalgamation process during the local government reform in the 1970s took place in two steps. In 1971 the City of Laholm merged with two rural municipalities forming the unitary municipality and three years later four more units were added.

Localities

There are 14 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Laholm Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2010.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Laholm	6,150
2	Mellbystrand	1,619
3	Veinge	1,190
4	Knäred	1,088
5	Våxtorp	970
6	Lilla Tjärby	914
7	Vallberga	657
8	Genevad	565
9	Skummeslövsstrand	491
10	Skottorp	475
11	Ränneslöv	413
12	Hishult	332
13	Ysby	260
14	Hasslöv	228

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Laholm 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=LaholmVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 26,276 residents, including 20,080 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=LaholmVal2022/> 38.3% voted for the left coalition and 60.6% for the right coalition. 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;" | % % Hasslöv-Skottorp 1,405 992 33.3 66.4 83 84 16 25,943 33 Hishult 972 728 34.5 64.6 81 88 12 22,683 23 Knäred 1,822 1,339 37.1 61.7 75 76 24 21,313 25 Laholm C 2,387 1,923 48.8 49.9 76 77 23 21,414 32 Laholm N 1,878 1,489 38.3 61.2 82 80 20 24,808 31 Laholm V 2,334 1,819 41.4 58.0 85 80 20 26,538 38 Laholm Ö 2,587 1,766 45.3 53.3 74 66 34 23,139 32 Mellbystrand 2,482 2,097 34.1 65.0 85 93 7 28,355 46 Ränneslöv 1,312 1,019 33.4 65.3 88 90 10 25,243 27 Skummeslöv 1,842 1,540 33.2 66.0 84 89 11 27,297 52 Tjärby 1,541 1,097 40.0 58.7 81 77 23 24,695 28 Vallberga-Ysby 1,497 1,101 33.6 64.7 84 79 21 24,612 25 Veinge 1,878 1,360 37.5 61.3 80 84 16 23,809 29 Våxtorp 2,339 1,810 38.3 60.9 83 85 15 23,663 26 Source: SVT<ref name=LaholmVal2022/>

Elections

Below are the results listed since the 1973 municipal reform. Between 1988 and 1998 the Sweden Democrats' results were not published by the SCB due to the party's small size nationwide. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of the electorate casting a ballot, but "Votes" only applies to valid ballots cast.

Riksdag

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	91.9	12,714	1.2	27.4	0.0	54.1	5.0	0.5	11.5	0.0	0.0
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	92.5	13,792	1.2	26.8	0.0	51.1	7.2	0.5	13.2	0.0	0.0
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	91.5	14,103	1.9	27.9	0.0	41.5	7.7	0.5	20.2	0.0	0.0
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	91.6	14,270	2.1	30.2	1.3	37.4	4.3	1.2	23.2	0.0	0.0
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	89.6	14,108	1.9	31.1	1.7	31.0	11.4	0.0	22.8	0.0	0.0
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.9	13,666	2.5	32.2	5.6	30.0	9.4	1.9	18.3	0.0	0.0
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.1	14,203	1.9	27.1	3.4	22.1	6.5	6.6	22.8	0.0	8.6
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.9	14,444	3.5	35.1	5.3	21.3	4.4	3.6	23.8	0.0	1.8
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.1	13,544	7.1	28.7	4.1	13.3	2.9	13.7	23.4	0.0	0.0
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	79.0	13,404	4.7	32.9	3.5	16.3	10.2	11.4	16.6	1.2	0.0
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.4	14,180	3.7	28.7	3.4	15.9	5.5	6.4	27.9	6.1	0.0
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.0	15,135	3.2	25.3	4.6	12.9	5.7	4.7	33.4	8.7	0.0
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.0	15,661	3.0	27.0	5.1	11.3	3.9	3.9	24.8	18.3	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 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year	Turnout	Votes	Left	Right	SD	Other	Elected
1973	91.9	12,714	28.6	70.6	0.0	0.8	99.2
1976	92.5	13,792	28.0	71.5	0.0	0.5	99.5
1979	91.5	14,103	29.8	69.4	0.0	0.8	99.2
1982	91.6	14,270	32.3	64.9	0.0	2.9	97.1
1985	89.6	14,108	33.0	65.2	0.0	1.8	98.2
1988	85.9	13,666	40.3	57.7	0.0	2.0	98.0
1991	86.1	14,203	29.0	58.0	0.0	13.0	95.6
1994	85.9	14,444	43.9	53.1	0.0	3.0	97.0
1998	81.1	13,544	39.9	53.3	0.0	6.8	93.2
2002	79.0	13,404	41.1	54.5	0.0	4.4	95.6
2006	81.4	14,180	35.8	55.7	0.0	8.5	91.5
2010	84.0	15,135	33.1	56.7	8.7	1.5	98.5
2014	86.0	15,661	35.1	43.9	18.3	2.7	97.3

Pictures

• Water power plant
  Water power plant
• Silo
  Silo
• Old railway station
  Old railway station
• Old bridge
  Old bridge
• Church in Våxtorp
  Church in Våxtorp

References

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• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Laholm Municipality - Official site