Uppvidinge Municipality

Uppvidinge Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden, with its seat in the town of Åseda.

The present municipality, which took its name from a hundred, was formed by the local government reform of 1971 when Lenhovda, Nottebäck, Åseda and Älghult were amalgamated. The number of original entities, as of 1863, is six. The first amalgamation in the area (Granhult merged with Nottebäck) took place already in 1915.

The municipality has a rather small population but its slogan states "In a Small Municipality Man Becomes Large".

More than 80% of the area is covered with forests, making it live up to the general public's impression of the "dark" province of Småland. The name Uppvidinge itself means something like forest on a hill. The coat of arms is based on the insignia of Uppvidinge Hundred, from a document from 1568. It depicts a herb of unknown species in a red color.

Localities

There are 5 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Uppvidinge Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Åseda	2,430
2	Lenhovda	1,714
3	Norrhult-Klavreström	1,269
4	Alstermo	859
5	Älghult	481

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Uppvidinge 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=UppvidingeVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 9,423 residents, including 6,679 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=UppvidingeVal2022/> 40.4% voted for the left coalition and 58.1% 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;" | % % Lenhovda 2,309 1,737 40.0 58.9 82 76 24 25,509 22 Nottebäck 1,739 1,253 43.5 55.5 79 77 23 24,445 26 Åseda N 1,853 1,303 38.1 60.4 81 70 30 24,146 24 Åseda S 1,499 992 36.0 61.5 75 70 30 24,374 28 Älghult 2,023 1,394 41.9 56.7 76 71 29 21,680 25 Source: SVT<ref name=UppvidingeVal2022/>

References

Notes

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Uppvidinge Municipality - Official site
• Coat of arms