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Askersund Municipality

Askersunds kommun
Municipality
Askersund Town Hall
Askersund Town Hall
Coat of arms of Askersund Municipality
Coat of arms
Askersund Municipality in Örebro County.png
Country Sweden
County Örebro County
Seat Askersund
Area
 • Total 1,025.21 km2 (395.84 sq mi)
 • Land 819.88 km2 (316.56 sq mi)
 • Water 205.33 km2 (79.28 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 11,340
 • Density 11.061/km2 (28.648/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Närke
Municipal code 1882
Website www.askersund.se

Askersund Municipality (Askersunds kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Askersund.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Askersund was merged with the rural municipalities Hammar and Lerbäck.

Localities

  • Askersund (seat)
  • Zinkgruvan
  • Lerbäck
  • Mariedamm
  • Åmmeberg
  • Åsbro

Twin towns

Askersund's two twin towns with the year of its establishing:

  1. (1945) Eura, Finland Finland
  2. (1990) Jordanów, Poland Poland

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Askersund Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

In total there were 11,518 residents, including 9,144 Swedish citizens of voting age. 44.8% voted for the left coalition and 53.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Elections

These are the results of the elections in the municipality since the first election after the municipal reform, being held in 1973. The exact results of Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by SCB from 1988 to 1998 due to the party's small size at the time. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of eligible people casting any ballots, whereas "Votes" denotes the number of valid votes only.

Riksdag elections

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 90.1 7,452 2.4 47.7 29.9 7.4 4.0 8.5 50.1 45.8
1976 91.2 7,787 2.2 46.5 31.2 7.3 2.7 10.1 48.7 48.6
1979 90.2 7,820 2.9 47.1 24.1 7.7 2.9 14.5 50.0 46.3
1982 90.9 8,058 2.9 50.8 1.2 21.0 5.0 3.3 15.9 53.7 41.9
1985 89.6 7,936 3.0 50.6 0.9 19.9 10.8 14.6 53.6 45.3
1988 86.9 7,651 4.0 49.8 3.5 16.5 9.2 4.8 12.2 57.5 37.9
1991 86.8 7,769 3.2 43.8 2.3 13.1 6.2 9.5 14.8 6.6 47.0 43.6
1994 87.3 7,957 5.6 52.4 3.9 11.0 5.5 5.4 14.9 0.8 61.9 36.8
1998 81.8 7,273 12.8 42.5 3.6 8.5 3.5 11.5 15.8 58.9 39.3
2002 81.0 7,186 8.5 45.4 3.2 10.5 8.7 9.3 11.1 2.1 57.1 39.6
2006 82.7 7,371 5.4 43.9 3.5 10.9 5.2 7.5 18.6 3.7 52.7 42.2
2010 84.8 7,628 4.6 39.4 4.9 8.1 4.9 6.0 25.6 5.8 48.9 44.6
2014 86.7 7,664 4.4 37.9 4.1 8.5 3.1 4.4 17.4 17.7 46.4 33.4
2018 88.6 7,818 5.5 32.2 2.3 9.2 3.0 6.8 16.5 23.3 49.1 49.5
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