Strömstad Municipality

Template:Short description Template:Infobox settlement Strömstad Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Strömstad.

The municipality got its present boundaries in 1967, when the City of Strömstad was merged with the two adjacent rural municipalities Tjärnö and Vette. Vette had been created in 1952 out of four older entities.

Geography

Strömstad Municipality is located on the Norwegian border and is known to attract large numbers of shoppers from Norway due to the marked price gap, notably in the tax-burdened alcohol and tobacco, but also groceries such as meat and sugar. There are also many deals on automotive services.

Localities

• Kebal
• Stare
• Skee
• Strömstad (seat)

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Strömstad 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=StrömstadVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 13,248 residents, including 9,106 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=StrömstadVal2022/> 41.4% voted for the left coalition and 57.5% 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;" | % % Bojar 1,732 1,137 43.0 56.0 67 63 37 28,210 34 Centrum N 1,925 1,353 52.9 45.8 67 56 44 21,160 25 Centrum S 1,934 1,388 46.3 52.2 71 73 27 26,454 30 Seläter-Hällestrand 1,327 862 39.3 58.9 66 66 34 29,370 35 Skee-Strömstad Ö 2,051 1,345 36.3 62.3 71 72 28 25,262 25 Strömstad N 1,418 820 46.8 52.1 52 57 43 24,811 25 Strömstad S 1,784 1,333 40.2 58.2 71 71 29 26,444 32 Tjärnö/Koster 1,077 868 49.4 48.5 73 82 18 25,120 46 Source: SVT<ref name=StrömstadVal2022/>

External links

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• Strömstad Municipality - Official site
• Strömstad and Koster - Tourist site
• Besökskartan - Map