Editing Sandviken Municipality

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| name                    = Sandviken Municipality
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'''Sandviken Municipality''' ({{langx|sv|Sandvikens kommun}}) is a [[Municipalities of Sweden|municipality]] in [[Gävleborg County]], in east central [[Sweden]]. The seat is the [[urban areas in Sweden|town]] of [[Sandviken]].

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the [[Amalgamation (politics)|amalgamation]] of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.

==Coat of arms==
The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.

==Name==
''Sandviken'' means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout [[Scandinavia]].

==Demographics==
This is a demographic table based on Sandviken 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=SandvikenVal2022>{{cite web|url=https://valresultat.svt.se/2022/riksdagsval-2181-sandviken.html|title=Valresultat 2022 för Sandviken i riksdagsvalet|publisher=[[Swedish Television|SVT]]|language=sv|date=11 September 2022|accessdate=29 November 2023}}</ref>

In total there were 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.<ref name=SandvikenVal2022/> 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! 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;" |
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! 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" |Barrsätra
| 1,865
| 1,445
| 54.3
| 44.9
| 78
| 76
| 24
| 25,756
| 41
|-
| align="left" |Björksätra
| 2,633
| 1,423
| 62.7
| 35.2
| 56
| 42
| 58
| 14,756
| 21
|-
| align="left" |Gästrike-Hammarby
| 2,049
| 1,647
| 44.4
| 55.0
| 75
| 91
| 9
| 21,597
| 23
|-
| align="left" |Jernvallen N
| 1,925
| 1,586
| 54.2
| 44.8
| 86
| 86
| 14
| 27,653
| 39
|-
| align="left" |Jernvallen S
| 2,337
| 1,811
| 48.5
| 50.6
| 84
| 85
| 15
| 29,618
| 41
|-
| align="left" |Jäderfors-Norrsätra
| 1,999
| 1,206
| 53.3
| 45.6
| 68
| 51
| 49
| 19,538
| 26
|-
| align="left" |Järbo
| 2,600
| 2,043
| 41.9
| 56.7
| 83
| 91
| 9
| 25,689
| 28
|-
| align="left" |Kungsgården-Åshammar
| 2,528
| 1,944
| 39.6
| 58.9
| 82
| 89
| 11
| 25,224
| 23
|-
| align="left" |Murgården
| 2,542
| 1,404
| 66.6
| 31.6
| 55
| 36
| 64
| 14,309
| 19
|-
| align="left" |Sandbacka
| 2,372
| 1,866
| 49.2
| 49.8
| 82
| 82
| 18
| 27,126
| 36
|-
| align="left" |Sandviken C
| 2,069
| 1,835
| 54.5
| 44.0
| 72
| 72
| 28
| 22,038
| 30
|-
| align="left" |Sandviken N
| 2,529
| 2,000
| 50.1
| 49.1
| 88
| 91
| 9
| 29,927
| 45
|-
| align="left" |Stadsparken
| 1,879
| 1,655
| 62.3
| 36.6
| 74
| 78
| 22
| 19,961
| 31
|-
| align="left" |Storvik N
| 1,672
| 1,321
| 48.0
| 50.7
| 83
| 90
| 10
| 26,163
| 32
|-
| align="left" |Säljan
| 2,229
| 1,736
| 46.2
| 53.0
| 88
| 90
| 10
| 31,033
| 42
|-
| align="left" |Vallhov
| 2,498
| 1,769
| 52.9
| 46.3
| 80
| 72
| 28
| 25,685
| 36
|-
| align="left" |Årsunda
| 2,250
| 1,872
| 42.7
| 56.7
| 88
| 94
| 6
| 27,414
| 30
|-
| align="left" |Österfärnebo
| 1,234
| 1,049
| 46.6
| 51.6
| 80
| 92
| 8
| 22,467
| 25
|-
| colspan="10" align="left" |Source: [[Sveriges Television|SVT]]<ref name=SandvikenVal2022/>
|}

==Sports==
Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the [[2017 Bandy World Championship]], which was held in [[Göransson Arena]], a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://sandviken.se/nyhetsarkiv/start/bandyvm2017tillsandviken.5.5f164c414cbe00b7a65930e.html | publisher = Sandviken Municipality | title = Bandy-VM 2017 till Sandviken | language = Swedish | date = 20 May 2015 | accessdate = 21 November 2015 }}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Sandvik]] - engineering company founded in Sandviken

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{Commons category-inline}}
*[http://www.sandviken.se Sandviken] - Official site

{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Sandviken
 | N  = [[Ockelbo Municipality|Ockelbo]]
 | E  = [[Gävle Municipality|Gävle]]
 | S  = [[Heby Municipality|Heby]] ([[Uppsala County|Uppsala]])
 | W  = [[Hofors Municipality|Hofors]]<br/>[[Avesta Municipality|Avesta]] ([[Dalarna County|Dalarna]])
 | NW = [[Falun Municipality|Falun]] ([[Dalarna County|Dalarna]])
}}
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{{Localities in Sandviken Municipality}}

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