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Degerfors Municipality

Degerfors kommun
Degerfors Municipality Office
Degerfors Municipality Office
Coat of arms of Degerfors Municipality
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Degerfors Municipality in Örebro County.png
Country Sweden
County Örebro County
Seat Degerfors
Area
 • Total 436.15 km2 (168.40 sq mi)
 • Land 385.62 km2 (148.89 sq mi)
 • Water 50.53 km2 (19.51 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 9,677
 • Density 22.1873/km2 (57.465/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Värmland and Närke
Municipal code 1862
Website www.degerfors.se

Degerfors Municipality (Degerfors kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Degerfors.

The northern part of the municipality was before 1925 part of Karlskoga Municipality, from which it was detached to form a new entity. It became a market town (köping) in 1943. In 1967 it was amalgamated with a part of the dissolved Svartå Municipality.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Degerfors 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 7,456 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 53.6% voted for the left coalition and 45.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Riksdag elections

Year % Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 94.7 7,533 4.9 63.1 18.7 5.3 2.3 5.2 68.0 29.2
1976 95.0 8,034 4.7 61.9 19.3 5.9 2.1 5.9 66.7 31.0
1979 94.1 8,194 5.7 62.8 14.3 6.6 2.0 8.1 68.5 29.1
1982 94.5 8,292 6.5 65.4 1.0 11.5 3.6 2.0 9.9 72.0 25.0
1985 93.4 8,225 7.4 64.2 1.2 10.1 8.0 9.0 71.6 27.1
1988 90.1 7,767 8.8 63.7 3.4 8.2 6.8 2.5 6.3 75.8 21.3
1991 89.7 7,691 7.4 59.7 2.1 6.4 5.4 4.9 8.6 5.3 67.1 25.3
1994 89.3 7,608 9.9 63.8 3.2 5.9 4.4 2.8 8.8 1.0 76.8 21.8
1998 83.4 6,847 17.7 54.8 3.4 4.5 2.3 7.5 8.7 75.9 23.0
2002 82.3 6,491 13.3 60.8 2.5 5.3 6.0 5.2 5.1 0.9 76.7 21.7
2006 82.3 6,302 11.2 57.6 2.7 5.4 3.2 5.2 9.8 2.9 71.5 23.6
2010 86.1 6,494 10.8 52.7 4.9 4.1 3.1 4.5 13.8 5.4 68.4 25.6
2014 86.4 6,426 8.1 51.2 4.0 4.2 1.9 3.4 10.6 14.4 63.3 20.1
2018 87.1 6,415 10.2 44.1 2.4 5.4 2.4 4.0 10.7 19.9 62.0 36.9
2022 84.9 6,261 7.7 39.6 2.4 3.9 2.3 4.2 12.0 26.6 53.6 45.0

Twin towns

Degerfors two twin towns with the year of its establishing:

  1. (1985) Oedheim, Germany Germany
  2. (1990) Ventspils District, Latvia Latvia
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