Vänersborg Municipality

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

The present municipality was created during the local government reform in the early 1970s. In 1971 the City of Vänersborg became a municipality of unitary type and three years later it was amalgamated with three surrounding municipalities. The number of original local government entities (as of 1863) is eight.

Localities

• Brålanda, 1,500 inhabitants
• Frändefors, 600
• Katrinedal, 300
• Nordkroken, 400
• Vargön, 5,000
• Vänersborg (seat), 22,000

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Vänersborg 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=VänersborgVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 39,574 residents, including 30,181 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=VänersborgVal2022/> 47.4% voted for the left coalition and 51.3% 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;" | % % Blåsut 1,379 1,092 50.2 49.2 88 92 8 30,490 58 Brinketorp/Restad 1,346 994 50.8 48.3 80 82 18 28,514 50 Brålanda/Sundals Ryr 2,255 1,721 34.0 64.8 79 85 15 23,291 27 Centrala Vargön/V Tunhem 1,850 1,424 47.2 51.4 76 81 19 22,764 36 Centrala Vänersborg 2,018 1,658 52.5 46.0 73 77 23 21,327 40 Centrala Vänersborg N 1,891 1,659 53.7 45.7 78 90 10 23,875 48 Centrala Vänersborg S 2,050 1,672 51.4 46.3 71 69 31 20,573 40 Flanaden 1,920 991 66.5 30.0 50 21 79 14,095 19 Frändefors S/Vänerkusten 1,701 1,315 39.6 59.7 88 93 7 30,999 50 Frändefors V 1,274 999 33.9 65.4 85 96 4 26,563 28 Frändefors Ö/Vänerkusten 2,148 1,676 34.7 63.7 83 90 10 25,171 26 Hedmanstorget/Mariero Ö 2,071 1,483 59.0 39.0 66 60 40 19,942 35 Lyckhem S/Tenggrenstorp 1,483 1,145 53.1 44.8 72 66 34 22,398 34 Lyckhem V/Centrum V 1,897 1,598 49.7 49.1 78 85 15 25,338 46 Mariedal/Fridhem 2,004 1,485 48.6 50.1 80 77 23 26,556 42 Onsjö N 1,704 1,476 47.5 51.9 88 89 11 29,687 49 Onsjö S 1,394 993 47.9 51.6 82 87 13 29,994 49 Siviken/Väne Ryr 1,404 1,095 38.0 61.2 87 93 7 28,386 33 Torpa 1,491 1,006 59.2 39.5 60 45 55 18,389 26 Vargön NÖ 1,524 1,142 46.9 51.7 82 90 10 26,829 37 Vargön N/Nordkroken 1,946 1,441 47.4 52.0 87 91 9 29,764 46 Vänernäs/Lilleskog 1,465 1,125 44.7 54.6 84 91 9 27,628 41 Öxnered/Vassända 1,359 991 51.2 48.5 87 92 8 31,615 55 Source: SVT<ref name=VänersborgVal2022/>

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

The following cities are twinned with Vänersborg:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• Template:Flagicon Arsuk, Sermersooq, Greenland
• Template:Flagicon Åland, Finland
• Template:Flagicon Eiði, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands
• Template:Flagicon Herning, Midtjylland, Denmark
• Template:Flagicon Lich, Hesse, Germany
• Template:Flagicon Husby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• Template:Flagicon Kangasala, Western Finland, Finland
• Template:Flagicon Siglufjörður, Eyjafjörður, Iceland
• Template:Flagicon Holmestrand, Vestfold, Norway
• Template:Flagicon Räpina, Põlva County, Estonia

References

• Article on Swedish Wikipedia
• Article Vänersborg - From Nordisk familjebok

External links

• Vänersborg Municipality - Official site
• The local newspaper (TTELA)