Heby Municipality

Heby Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Heby.

The first municipality with the name Heby was created in 1952, during the first of the two nationwide municipal reforms in Sweden, through the amalgamation of three original units in Västmanland County. The name was taken from the settlement Heby, which had been a municipalsamhälle (a kind of borough) since 1887. In 1971 three more former entities were added.

Geography

The Dalälven River forms Heby's northern border. The municipality also has substantial forests with animals such as elk, deer, fox, bear and lynx.

Localities

• Harbo
• Heby (seat)
• Huggle
• Morgongåva
• Runhällen
• Tärnsjö
• Vittinge
• Östervåla

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Heby 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=HebyVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 14,282 residents, including 10,903 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=HebyVal2022/> 43.3% voted for the left coalition and 55.0% 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;" | % % Harbo 1,707 1,323 39.0 59.4 82 88 12 24,564 27 Morgongåva 2,707 1,995 46.0 52.6 78 78 22 23,655 32 Tärnsjö 2,135 1,658 42.4 55.8 76 86 14 21,820 18 Västerlövsta V 2,486 1,868 47.3 50.9 79 79 21 23,875 31 Västerlövsta Ö 2,266 1,759 41.7 56.8 83 86 14 24,335 27 Östervåla 2,981 2,300 42.6 55.9 81 90 10 23,110 21 Source: SVT<ref name=HebyVal2022/>

Notability

Heby used to be part of Västmanland County, which borders Uppsala County to the west. In September 2005 it was reported that the municipality was permitted to be part of Uppsala County after intense lobbying in the late 1990s, following a municipal poll in 1998 where the majority was in support of the county transition. The transition took place on January 1, 2007. There were, however, forces who worked for the transition not to take place.

External links

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• Heby Municipality - Official site