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Hedemora Municipality

Hedemora kommun
Hedemora Town Hall
Hedemora Town Hall
Coat of arms of Hedemora Municipality
Coat of arms
Hedemora Municipality in Dalarna County.png
Country Sweden
County Dalarna County
Seat Hedemora
Area
 • Total 934.04 km2 (360.63 sq mi)
 • Land 839.92 km2 (324.29 sq mi)
 • Water 94.12 km2 (36.34 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 15,195
 • Density 16.2680/km2 (42.1340/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Dalarna
Municipal code 2083
Website www.hedemora.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

Hedemora Municipality (Hedemora kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is in the city of Hedemora.

In 1966 the City of Hedemora was amalgamated with the rural municipality by the same name and with Husby.

Military history

Hedemora town was gathering place for the peasant militia during the Swedish War of Liberation against Denmark. In the victorious Battle of Brunnbäck Ferry in 1521, Peder Svensson from the village ofVibberboda in present day Hedemora Municipality was one of the two leaders (the other was Olof Bonde from Norrbärke in todays Smedjebacken Municipality).

During the allotment system, the Colonel's Company of Dalarna Regiment had its recruitment area in Hedemora and Husby parishes. The colonels of the regiment had their seat at Husby during this period at Näs kungsgård and Husby kungsgård.

Localities

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Hedemora 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 15,435 inhabitants, including 11,840 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.0 % voted for the left coalition and 53.3 % 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 91.0 10,649 4.1 49.3 31.0 5.5 2.0 7.7 53.4 44.2
1976 91.3 11,203 3.5 48.3 30.5 6.8 1.5 8.7 51.8 46.1
1979 90.5 11,260 4.4 49.8 24.1 6.9 1.6 12.6 54.1 43.5
1982 91.3 11,378 4.7 50.8 2.6 20.0 3.8 1.8 16.3 55.5 40.0
1985 89.5 11,337 5.7 49.5 2.4 17.0 10.8 14.5 55.2 42.2
1988 85.1 10,615 6.6 47.5 5.6 16.3 9.1 11.4 59.8 36.8
1991 86.2 10,677 5.5 43.1 3.8 13.2 6.3 6.5 14.3 5.9 48.6 40.3
1994 86.0 10,706 5.4 49.3 5.6 12.3 4.8 3.7 14.6 0.9 62.7 35.4
1998 80.1 9,637 16.0 40.0 5.3 8.8 2.5 10.4 15.4 61.3 37.1
2002 75.8 8,916 10.4 42.9 5.1 12.9 7.6 7.9 10.6 0.6 58.4 39.0
2006 78.3 9,177 7.4 40.8 4.7 12.1 4.1 5.3 19.5 3.1 52.9 44.0
2010 81.8 9,686 6.4 36.4 6.1 9.6 3.5 4.6 23.9 8.3 48.9 41.5
2014 84.6 9,923 6.1 35.0 4.5 9.3 2.8 3.1 17.7 17.5 45.6 32.9
2018 85.8 9,824 7.5 30.6 2.9 10.0 2.7 6.9 15.3 22.5 50.9 47.4

Sister cities

Hedemora has five sister cities:

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