Pajala Municipality

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Pajala Municipality (Template:Langx; Meänkieli and Finnish: Pajalan kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, bordering Finland. Its seat is located in the locality of Pajala.

In 1884 Tärendö was detached from Pajala Municipality, forming a municipality of its own. In 1914 Pajala Municipality was once again split when Junosuando broke away. They were reunited in 1971, when Korpilombolo was added as well.

Finnish and Meänkieli have the official status of being minority languages in the municipality.<ref>Welcome to Pajala</ref>

History

File:Pajala prästgård, juli 2004.jpg

Pajala vicar's mansion, (Læstadiuspörtet)

Its geographical location infers that Pajala Municipality has always been a natural trading place, where people from Sweden, Finland and the native Sami people gathered. The annual Pajala market traces its history from the 18th century.

The home of Lars Levi Læstadius, famed botanist and Christian revivalist movement founder is located in Pajala. It is the red house to the right; it is now a museum. The yellow house in the middle was used as the local Lutheran vicar's mansion from 1850 up to present day. Template:Clear left

Geography

The municipality is one of Sweden's largest, geographically, at around 8,000 km², or roughly the size of the historical province of Södermanland, which - compared to Pajala Municipality's population of approximately 6,500 - has more than one million inhabitants.

In Pajala is also Jupukkamasten, a 335 metre tall guyed mast for FM- and TV-transmission, which together with three other guyed masts of the same height is the tallest structure in Sweden.

Localities

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

#	Locality	Population
1	Pajala	1,985
2	Korpilombolo	548
3	Junosuando	345
4	Kangos	278

The municipal seat in bold

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Pajala 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=PajalaVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 4,657 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.<ref name=PajalaVal2022/> 56.0% voted for the left coalition and 42.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

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%

Junosuando

954

818

50.4

47.7

79

88

12

21,675

21

Korpilombolo

1,187

854

48.2

50.6

83

87

13

22,130

21

Pajala N

1,308

1,018

62.3

36.5

84

83

17

23,715

27

Pajala S

1,502

1,122

60.3

38.4

82

77

23

22,906

29

Tärendö

1,015

845

61.6

37.9

85

90

10

22,792

27

Source: SVT<ref name=PajalaVal2022/>

Government and politics

Riksdag

These are the results since the 1972 municipal reform. Norrbotten Party participated in 1994 but the results were not published by SCB due to the party's small size at the time.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND	NP/SP
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.4	6,065	24.2	44.6	0.0	17.6	3.2	2.3	7.7	0.0	0.0	0.0
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.7	5,978	22.4	46.7	0.0	17.1	2.8	2.1	8.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	89.0	5,877	19.6	45.9	0.0	14.0	3.2	2.5	9.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.3	5,841	19.5	50.3	0.5	11.9	1.6	2.1	10.2	0.0	0.0	0.0
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.4	5,791	19.6	53.0	0.4	11.6	4.9	0.0	10.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.9	5,341	18.4	51.1	2.1	9.7	5.2	2.9	8.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.8	5,192	18.6	50.1	1.3	8.4	4.4	4.8	8.1	0.0	2.8	0.0
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.8	5,394	20.3	50.4	2.1	6.1	3.4	3.3	8.2	0.0	0.3	0.0
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.6	4,861	30.1	42.4	2.1	4.4	1.6	7.6	9.4	0.0	0.0	0.0
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	77.8	4,392	19.5	35.5	2.5	4.2	2.2	7.9	5.0	0.0	0.0	21.6
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	77.1	4,049	22.8	45.9	2.1	4.8	2.3	5.6	10.0	1.4	0.0	4.2
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.5	4,100	18.8	51.3	2.1	3.3	2.1	5.5	12.6	3.9	0.0	0.0
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.9	4,024	17.9	46.2	2.3	3.3	1.6	5.3	9.5	11.4	0.0	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	88.4	6,065	68.8	28.5	0.0	2.7	97.3
1976	88.7	5,978	69.1	28.1	0.0	2.8	97.2
1979	89.0	5,877	65.5	26.6	0.0	7.9	92.1
1982	88.3	5,841	69.8	23.7	0.0	6.5	93.5
1985	87.4	5,791	72.6	26.9	0.0	0.5	99.5
1988	81.9	5,341	71.6	23.0	0.0	5.4	94.6
1991	81.8	5,192	68.7	25.7	0.0	5.6	97.2
1994	84.8	5,394	72.8	21.0	0.0	6.2	93.8
1998	80.6	4,861	74.6	23.0	0.0	2.4	97.6
2002	77.8	4,392	57.5	19.3	0.0	23.2	76.8
2006	77.1	4,049	70.8	22.7	0.0	6.5	93.5
2010	81.5	4,100	72.2	23.5	3.9	0.4	99.6
2014	80.9	4,024	66.4	19.7	11.4	2.5	97.5