Skara Municipality

Skara Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Skara.

The area of the municipality consists of 16 original local government entities. The municipal reform of 1952 grouped them into four new entities. In 1971 the City of Skara was amalgamated with the rural municipalities to form the present unit.

Localities

• Ardala, pop. 745
• Axvall, pop 1 164
• Eggby, pop. 237
• Skara (seat), pop. 11 437
• Varnhem, pop. 662

Varnhem is renowned for its medieval monastery.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Skara 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=SkaraVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 18,708 residents, including 14,210 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=SkaraVal2022/> 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.4% 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;" | % % Ardala 1,724 1,334 35.9 62.7 88 92 8 26,494 27 Axvall 1,794 1,351 42.0 56.5 80 84 16 25,432 40 Centrum 1,725 1,306 51.2 47.3 66 63 37 18,978 30 Gällkvist V-Härlunda 1,883 1,435 45.7 53.3 82 83 17 25,619 29 Gällkvist Ö 1,527 1,207 43.2 55.9 85 87 13 27,279 31 Hindsbo-Händene 1,670 1,237 43.8 55.7 82 79 21 26,082 32 Marieberg 2,197 1,593 51.4 47.2 71 61 39 21,976 25 Skaraberg-Tveta 1,999 1,557 47.3 51.8 84 83 17 27,649 34 Varnhem-Eggby 2,045 1,625 49.4 49.1 89 92 8 28,115 49 Västermalm 2,144 1,565 51.1 47.9 71 67 33 21,806 39 Source: SVT<ref name=SkaraVal2022/>

See also

• Skaraborg County
• Diocese of Skara
• Hans Månsson

External links

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• Skara Municipality - Official site