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Kumla Municipality

Kumla kommun
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Coat of arms of Kumla Municipality
Coat of arms
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Country Sweden
County Örebro County
Seat Kumla
Area
 • Total 206.87 km2 (79.87 sq mi)
 • Land 205.34 km2 (79.28 sq mi)
 • Water 1.53 km2 (0.59 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 20,357
 • Density 98.405/km2 (254.867/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Närke
Municipal code 1881
Website www.kumla.se

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

The present municipality was formed during the latest nationwide local government reform in Sweden, with the amalgamations taking place in 1966 and 1971.

With 207 km2 it is the smallest municipality in Örebro County.

Localities

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Kumla 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 22,123 residents, including 16,456 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 45.6% voted for the left coalition and 53.2% 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 91.1 10,783 5.5 48.2 24.6 9.7 3.5 8.0 53.7 45.8
1976 92.2 11,533 4.6 47.3 25.9 10.6 2.6 8.9 51.9 45.4
1979 91.1 11,745 4.9 49.0 18.9 10.3 3.0 13.5 53.9 42.7
1982 91.9 12,039 5.2 52.1 1.3 16.1 5.7 4.1 15.4 57.3 37.2
1985 91.0 12,030 4.8 51.8 1.2 16.2 12.7 12.9 56.6 41.8
1988 87.3 11,624 6.0 50.0 3.6 12.7 11.3 5.2 10.8 59.6 34.8
1991 88.8 12,111 5.0 43.0 2.0 9.6 8.3 9.8 15.0 7.0 48.0 42.7
1994 87.8 12,127 7.3 50.9 4.0 8.0 6.8 6.5 14.5 1.4 61.2 35.8
1998 82.8 11,489 13.0 43.6 3.3 5.9 4.2 12.1 15.9 59.9 38.1
2002 82.4 11,573 7.8 48.5 3.1 7.2 9.3 10.4 10.1 2.2 59.4 37.0
2006 84.6 12,011 4.7 47.3 2.9 7.4 6.1 8.9 16.5 4.4 54.9 38.9
2010 86.6 13,022 4.2 41.1 4.7 5.2 6.3 6.9 23.4 7.2 50.0 41.8
2014 87.7 13,529 4.3 38.2 5.0 5.1 5.0 5.8 18.0 16.3 47.5 33.9
2018 88.6 13,948 5.6 32.6 2.7 7.1 5.0 8.0 16.9 21.1 47.9 50.9
2022 86.9 14,141 4.3 33.2 2.6 5.6 4.7 5.6 17.3 25.6 45.6 53.2

Twin towns

Kumla's three twin towns with the year of its establishing:

  1. (1968) Frederikssund Municipality, Denmark Denmark
  2. (1981) Sipoo (Sibbo), Finland Finland
  3. (1988) Aurskog-Høland, Norway Norway
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