Härjedalen Municipality: Difference between revisions

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Härjedalen Municipality (Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Sveg.

The municipality roughly, but not exactly, corresponds with the traditional province Härjedalen.

The municipality was created in 1974 and is one of two in Sweden with the name of a province (Gotland Municipality is the other). It consists of nine original local government entities (as of 1863).

Geography

With a total area of Template:Convert, it is Sweden's fifth largest. However, it is largely wilderness, and the municipality is sparsely inhabited. For comparison, the municipality covers as much territory as Uppsala County and Stockholm County combined, but those two counties have over 2,000,000 inhabitants.

Localities

File:Sveg station Mars 2013.jpg

Sveg railway station.

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Ljusnan River

There are eight localities (or urban areas) in Härjedalen Municipality:<ref>Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005</ref>

#	Locality	Population
1	Sveg	2,633
2	Funäsdalen	798
3	Hede	763
4	Ytterhogdal	603
5	Vemdalen	547
6	Ulvkälla	445
7	Lillhärdal	365
8	Norr-Hede	293

The municipal seat in bold

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Härjedalen 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=HärjedalenVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 8,125 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.<ref name=HärjedalenVal2022/> 50.0% voted for the left coalition and 48.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

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Funäsdalen

2,261

1,797

53.1

45.5

84

88

12

25,000

37

Hede-Vemdalen

2,282

1,901

49.1

49.7

86

90

10

24,067

28

Lillhärdal-Ängersjö

1,327

1,094

41.5

56.7

81

92

8

22,506

24

Sveg-Glöte

2,095

1,587

47.1

51.1

80

81

19

22,281

27

Sveg-Ytterhogdal

2,143

1,746

55.4

43.9

78

85

15

21,092

22

Source: SVT<ref name=HärjedalenVal2022/>

Riksdag

This table lists the national results since the 1972 Swedish municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats from 1988 to 1998 were not published by the SCB at a municipal level due to the party's small size nationally at the time.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.8	8,298	5.4	55.6	0.0	25.3	6.1	1.1	5.4	0.0	0.0
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.3	8,768	4.6	56.5	0.0	26.2	5.7	1.1	5.6	0.0	0.0
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.6	8,799	5.3	58.2	0.0	21.9	5.2	1.0	8.1	0.0	0.0
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.3	8,828	5.3	59.1	1.1	18.5	3.5	1.1	11.3	0.0	0.0
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.7	8,671	4.6	58.9	1.4	15.5	7.3	0.0	12.3	0.0	0.0
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.1	8,007	6.1	56.8	4.9	14.1	7.5	1.3	9.1	0.0	0.0
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	83.0	8,059	4.9	51.2	2.7	12.8	5.5	3.0	12.1	0.0	6.2
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	82.9	8,024	7.2	58.1	5.0	10.9	3.9	1.7	11.8	0.0	0.7
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	77.4	7,129	17.0	46.8	3.9	8.1	2.8	6.7	12.8	0.0	0.0
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	74.8	6,650	12.1	50.2	3.6	11.5	6.0	4.6	9.7	0.3	0.0
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	77.6	6,613	8.2	45.7	2.3	12.9	4.7	3.8	17.2	2.7	0.0
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.6	6,739	6.0	44.6	3.8	9.4	3.8	2.3	22.2	7.0	0.0
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	82.8	6,765	5.2	42.9	3.0	10.5	2.1	1.9	17.2	15.2	0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year	Turnout	Votes	Left	Right	SD	Other	Elected
1973	85.8	8,298	61.0	36.8	0.0	2.2	97.8
1976	87.3	8,768	60.1	37.5	0.0	2.4	97.6
1979	86.6	8,799	63.5	35.2	0.0	1.3	98.7
1982	87.3	8,828	64.4	33.3	0.0	2.3	97.7
1985	85.7	8,671	63.5	35.1	0.0	1.4	98.6
1988	81.1	8,007	67.8	30.7	0.0	1.5	98.5
1991	83.0	8,059	56.1	33.4	0.0	10.5	95.7
1994	82.9	8,024	70.3	26.6	0.0	3.1	96.9
1998	77.4	7,129	67.7	30.4	0.0	1.9	98.1
2002	74.8	6,650	65.9	31.8	0.0	2.3	97.7
2006	77.6	6,613	56.2	38.6	0.0	5.2	94.8
2010	80.6	6,739	54.4	37.7	7.0	0.9	99.1
2014	82.8	6,765	51.1	31.7	15.2	2.0	98.0

Notable natives

Henning Mankell, author
Anna Carin Zidek, sportsperson
Marcus Högström, ice hockey professional

References

External links

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Härjedalen Municipality Template:Webarchive - Official site

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