Editing Flen Municipality

{{Infobox settlement
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| name                    = Flen Municipality
| native_name             = ''Flens kommun''<!-- If different from name -->
| native_name_lang        = sv<!-- ISO 639-2 code, e.g. "sv" for Swedish. -->
| settlement_type         = [[Municipalities of Sweden|Municipality]]
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| subdivision_type        = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name        = Sweden
| subdivision_type1       = [[Counties of Sweden|County]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Södermanland County]]
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| seat_type               = [[Administrative centre|Seat]]
| seat                    = [[Flen]]
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| blank_name_sec1         = [[Provinces of Sweden|Province]]
| blank_info_sec1         = [[Södermanland]]
| blank1_name_sec1        = [[Kommunkod|Municipal code]]
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| website                 = [http://www.flen.se www.flen.se]<!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
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'''Flen Municipality''' ({{langx|sv|Flens kommun}}) is a [[municipalities of Sweden|municipality]] in central [[Södermanland County]] in southeast [[Sweden]]. Its seat is located in the [[city status in Sweden|city]] of [[Flen]].

The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the [[Amalgamation (politics)|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 [[:sv:Oppunda härad|Oppunda]] hundred that was split between Flen and [[Nyköping Municipality|Nyköping]] municipalities. It also includes all of the former [[:sv:Villåttinge härad|Villåttinge]] hundred.

==Geography==
Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to {{convert|19|m|ft}} above sea level on the lakes of [[Långhalsen]] and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://minkarta.lantmateriet.se/|title=Min Karta - 58°53'39.8"N 16°43'6"E|publisher=[[Lantmäteriet]]|accessdate=8 September 2022}}</ref> The highest peak is at {{convert|103|m|ft}} on the tripoint between Flen, [[Gnesta Municipality|Gnesta]] and [[Strängnäs Municipality|Strängnäs]] municipalities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://minkarta.lantmateriet.se/|title=Min Karta - 59°12'18.3"N 16°56'13.6"E|publisher=[[Lantmäteriet]]|accessdate=8 September 2022}}</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&nbsp;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.

===[[Swedish Riksdag|Riksdag]]===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
! Year
! Turnout
! Votes
! [[Left Party (Sweden)|V]]
! [[Social Democrats (Sweden)|S]]
! [[Green Party (Sweden)|MP]]
! [[Centre Party (Sweden)|C]]
! [[Liberals (Sweden)|L]]
! [[Christian Democrats (Sweden)|KD]]
! [[Moderate Party|M]]
! [[Sweden Democrats|SD]]
! [[New Democracy (Sweden)|NyD]]
! Left
! Right
|-
| [[1973 Swedish general election|1973]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1973-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1973|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 93.5
| 11,513
| 3.2
| 49.4
| 
| 26.8
| 8.0
| 1.8
| 10.6
| 
| 
| 52.6
| 45.4
|-
| [[1976 Swedish general election|1976]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1976-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1976|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 93.1
| 11,658
| 2.8
| 49.2
| 
| 26.9
| 8.1
| 1.6
| 11.3
| 
| 
| 52.0
| 46.3
|-
| [[1979 Swedish general election|1979]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1979-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1979)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 92.3
| 11,747
| 3.5
| 49.5
| 
| 21.9
| 8.5
| 1.5
| 14.6
| 
| 
| 53.0
| 45.0
|-
| [[1982 Swedish general election|1982]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1982-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1982|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 93.2
| 11,762
| 4.0
| 52.1
| 1.6
| 18.5
| 4.4
| 1.6
| 17.5
| 
| 
| 56.1
| 40.4
|-
| [[1985 Swedish general election|1985]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1985-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1985|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 91.2
| 11,499
| 4.2
| 51.9
| 1.8
| 15.3
| 10.6
| 
| 15.4
| 
| 
| 56.1
| 41.3
|-
| [[1988 Swedish general election|1988]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1988-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1988|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 87.3
| 10,821
| 5.0
| 50.2
| 5.2
| 14.3
| 9.3
| 2.3
| 13.2
| 
| 
| 60.4
| 36.8
|-
| [[1991 Swedish general election|1991]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1991-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1991|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</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 Swedish general election|1994]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1994-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1994|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</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 Swedish general election|1998]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://share.scb.se/ov9993/data/historisk%20statistik/SOS%201911-%2FValstatistiken%2FAllm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998%2FValstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1998-Del-1-Riksdagen.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1998|publisher=SCB|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</ref>
| 81.4
| 9,924
| 12.1
| 43.3
| 4.9
| 6.8
| 2.7
| 11.2
| 17.6
| 
| 
| 60.3
| 38.3
|-
| [[2002 Swedish general election|2002]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val_02/slutresultat/04R/0482/0482.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2002|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</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 Swedish general election|2006]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2006/slutlig/R/kommun/04/82/roster.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2006|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</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 Swedish general election|2010]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/kommun/04/82/index.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2010|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</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 Swedish general election|2014]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2014/slutresultat/R/kommun/04/82/index.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2014|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|access-date=28 July 2017}}</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 Swedish general election|2018]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.val.se/val/val2018/slutresultat/R/kommun/04/82/index.html|title=Flen - Röster - Val 2018|publisher=[[Valmyndigheten]]|language=sv|accessdate=4 November 2021}}</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 [[Swedish Television|SVT]]'s election platform, in turn taken from [[Statistiska Centralbyrån|SCB]] official statistics.<ref name=FlenVal2022>{{cite web|url=https://valresultat.svt.se/2022/riksdagsval-0482-flen.html|title=Valresultat 2022 för Flen i riksdagsvalet|publisher=[[Swedish Television|SVT]]|date=11 September 2022|accessdate=4 January 2023}}</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 Municipality|Nyköping]].<ref name=FlenVal2022/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://valresultat.svt.se/2022/riksdagsval-0480-nykoping.html|title=Valresultat 2022 för Nyköping i riksdagsvalet|publisher=[[Sveriges Television|SVT]]|date=11 September 2022|accessdate=3 January 2023}}</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.

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
! rowspan="3" |Location
! {{tooltip|2=Number of residents in district, regardless of age or citizenship status|Residents}}
! {{tooltip|2=Swedish citizens above the age of 18, automatically eligible to vote|Citizen {{br}} adults}}
! {{tooltip|2=Social Democrats, Left Party, Centre Party, Green Party, %|Left vote}}
! {{tooltip|2=Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals, %|Right vote}}
! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers, %|Employed}}
! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born in Sweden with at least one Swedish-born parent, %|Swedish {{br}} parents}}
! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born abroad or in Sweden with two foreign-born parents, %|Foreign {{br}} heritage}}
! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the median income received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in Swedish kronor|Income {{br}} [[Swedish kronor|SEK]]}}
! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as any degree accumulated after high school, %|Degree}}
|-
!
! 
! style="background:{{party color|Swedish Social Democratic Party}};color:#FFFFFF;" |
! style="background:{{party color|Moderate Party}};color:#FFFFFF;" |
! 
! 
! 
! 
! 
|-
! data-sort-type="number" | 
! data-sort-type="number" | 
! data-sort-type="number" | %
! data-sort-type="number" | %
! data-sort-type="number" | 
! data-sort-type="number" | 
! data-sort-type="number" | 
! data-sort-type="number" | 
! data-sort-type="number" | 
|-
| align="left" |Bettna
| 1,502
| 1,199
| 42.2
| 56.5
| 82
| 88
| 12
| 24,876
| 30
|-
| align="left" |Flens C
| 1,359
| 877
| 64.8
| 34.2
| 63
| 52
| 48
| 18,802
| 25
|-
| align="left" |Flens N
| 1,479
| 1,197
| 51.0
| 48.0
| 80
| 79
| 21
| 24,872
| 30
|-
| align="left" |Flens S
| 1,554
| 893
| 68.5
| 27.5
| 50
| 26
| 74
| 14,764
| 19
|-
| align="left" |Flens V
| 1,218
| 965
| 57.1
| 42.3
| 71
| 63
| 37
| 20,676
| 26
|-
| align="left" |Flens Ö
| 1,284
| 963
| 47.3
| 50.4
| 74
| 66
| 34
| 23,164
| 31
|-
| align="left" |Helgesta-Hyltinge
| 1,558
| 1,289
| 46.3
| 52.6
| 82
| 85
| 15
| 23,559
| 34
|-
| align="left" |Hälleforsnäs
| 1,684
| 1,160
| 53.2
| 45.9
| 63
| 64
| 36
| 19,390
| 23
|-
| align="left" |Malmköping V
| 1,546
| 1,104
| 42.4
| 56.6
| 68
| 73
| 27
| 20,273
| 23
|-
| align="left" |Malmköping Ö
| 1,796
| 1,303
| 47.0
| 51.2
| 77
| 84
| 16
| 22,908
| 30
|-
| align="left" |Mellösa
| 1,291
| 1,009
| 47.5
| 51.6
| 83
| 89
| 11
| 25,069
| 34
|-
| colspan="10" align="left" |Source: [[Swedish Television|SVT]]<ref name=FlenVal2022/>
|}

==Sister City==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[http://www.flen.se/ Flen Municipality] - Official site

{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Flen
 | N  = [[Eskilstuna Municipality|Eskilstuna]]
 | NE = [[Strängnäs Municipality|Strängnäs]]
 | E  = [[Gnesta Municipality|Gnesta]]
 | S  = [[Nyköping Municipality|Nyköping]]
 | W  = [[Katrineholm Municipality|Katrineholm]]
}}
{{Södermanland County}}
{{Localities in Flen Municipality}}

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