Lindesberg Municipality

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Lindesberg Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lindesberg.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Lindesberg and the former market town of Frövi were joined.

Localities

By size, as of 2000:

Riksdag elections

Year	%	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.9	15,758	3.9	45.9		31.3	7.5	2.4	8.6			49.8	47.4
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	92.0	16,420	3.1	45.8		31.6	7.2	1.8	10.2			48.9	49.0
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.4	16,377	4.2	47.3		25.0	7.5	2.1	13.5			51.5	45.9
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	91.4	16,740	4.2	50.7	1.7	20.7	4.4	2.7	15.5			54.9	40.6
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	89.7	16,559	4.5	49.0	2.5	18.3	10.3		15.0			53.5	43.6
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.4	15,627	5.5	47.8	5.2	16.7	9.7	3.8	11.2			58.4	37.6
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.9	15,756	4.6	43.3	3.0	12.3	7.5	8.5	13.7		6.6	47.9	42.0
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.9	16,004	7.0	50.4	5.1	11.4	5.6	4.3	15.0		0.7	62.5	36.3
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.3	14,382	13.7	41.1	4.5	8.6	3.1	11.5	15.6			59.3	38.9
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	79.3	13,989	7.7	47.5	4.0	12.0	8.4	7.6	10.1	1.6		59.3	38.1
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.3	14,165	5.3	43.5	3.6	12.4	4.4	5.4	18.2	5.1		52.4	40.3
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.6	14,845	4.6	38.6	5.2	8.0	5.0	4.8	23.5	9.2		48.4	41.3
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.8	15,348	4.3	36.9	4.7	7.5	2.8	3.7	16.9	20.9		45.9	30.8
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.6	15,280	6.1	31.6	2.6	8.5	2.8	6.1	15.8	25.0		48.7	49.7
2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.5	15,053	5.1	30.2	3.2	6.0	2.7	5.4	15.5	30.1		44.5	53.7

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lindesberg 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=LindesbergVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 23,563 residents with 18,038 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.<ref name=LindesbergVal2022/> The political demographics were 44.5% for the left bloc and 53.7% for the right bloc.<ref name=LindesbergVal2022/> The northeastern part of Lindesberg has a majority of non-Swedish background. It also has the lowest median income and the lowest levels of employment, while the wealthiest district of Linde encircling the town has the highest share of Swedish background in the municipality.<ref name=LindesbergVal2022/> The town of Lindesberg leaned slightly to the left, whereas the countryside had very high shares for the right and in particular the Sweden Democrats.<ref name=LindesbergVal2022/> Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

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%

Fellingsbro V

1,123

876

45.0

52.9

76

85

15

21,926

24

Fellingsbro Ö

1,389

1,076

41.7

55.7

75

82

18

22,187

25

Frövi V

1,847

1,458

48.9

48.7

80

82

18

24,708

26

Frövi Ö

1,626

1,226

47.0

52.1

84

89

11

27,595

34

Guldsmedshyttan

1,399

1,118

40.6

58.4

75

87

13

22,743

24

Gusselby

692

556

31.6

67.2

84

90

10

25,960

23

Linde

1,478

1,141

34.7

64.3

86

92

8

28,154

33

Lindesbergs M

2,199

1,767

50.3

48.1

76

78

22

21,711

32

Lindesbergs NÖ

1,879

1,118

61.7

36.9

62

37

63

18,379

25

Lindesbergs N

1,823

1,348

45.2

54.0

81

72

28

25,758

30

Lindesbergs SÖ

1,428

1,146

46.1

51.5

81

82

18

25,000

33

Lindesbergs V

2,118

1,631

46.7

51.9

83

17

26,477

35

Ramshyttan

679

586

42.1

55.4

83

88

12

23,694

34

Rockhammar

772

616

39.7

57.3

81

87

13

22,997

25

Storå

2,036

1,570

39.0

59.5

75

86

14

22,080

22

Vedevåg

1,075

805

41.9

55.8

79

82

18

24,777

29

Source: SVT<ref name=LindesbergVal2022/>

Twin towns

Lindesberg's five twin towns with the year of its establishing:

(1940) Kuusankoski (Kouvola), Finland Template:Flagicon
(?) Oppdal Municipality, Norway Template:Flagicon
(?) Jammerbugt Municipality, Denmark Template:Flagicon
(1990) Frunzensky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia Template:Flagicon
(1995) Haßberge, Germany Template:Flagicon

Industry

The largest employer is the municipality. After that follow the large hospital, serving the northern parts of Örebro County. Larger companies include Por Pac (Fagerdala Foams), Arvin Meritor and Liab.

References

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External links

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Lindesberg Municipality - Official site

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