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Värnamo Municipality

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Värnamo Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.

The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo (itself instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are fourteen original units making up the present municipality.

Geography

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Urban areas in Värnamo municipality<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Urban area Population Land area (km2) Density (people/km2)
Bor 1,304 1.68 776
Bredaryd 1,537 2.21 695
Dannäs 87 0.25 348
Ekenhaga 220 0.20 1,081
Forsheda 1,460 1.70 858
Gällaryd 76 0.30 250
Hjälshammar 92 0.36 260
Horda 363 0.71 515
Hånger 282 0.45 630
Hörle 153 0.38 400
Kärda 333 0.45 745
Lanna 354 1.08 329
Os 58 0.40 140
Rydaholm 1,629 1.73 942
Tånnö 183 0.26 700
Värnamo 19,822 12.14 1,632
Åminne 219 0.38 574

Demographics

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This is a demographic table based on Värnamo 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=VärnamoVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 34,617 inhabitants, including 26,042 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=VärnamoVal2022/> 43.6% voted for the left coalition and 55.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Governance

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Värnamo municipal council after the 2022 elections
Party Seats Percent
Template:Party color cell Social Democrats 14 26.8%
Template:Party color cell Moderates 11 20.6%
Template:Party color cell Sweden Democrats 9 16.7%
Template:Party color cell Centre Party 8 16.4%
Template:Party color cell Christian Democrats 5 10.3%
Template:Party color cell Liberals 2 3.0%
Template:Party color cell Left Party 2 4.0%
Template:Party color cell Green Party 0 1.9%
Other 0 0.2%

Värnamo Municipality has been governed by the Moderate Party, the Centre Party and the Christian Democrats since at least 1994, with the addition of the Liberals in 2002 and the Green Party 2014–2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Social Democratic Party has been the largest party every year since the formation of the municipality, with an average of 34 percent of the votes.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Centre Party (of which the then national leader, Annie Lööf, is from Värnamo) and the Christian Democrats were unusually strong, and received more than twice as many votes as the national average in the 2018 elections.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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