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Skärblacka
Skärblacka is located in Östergötland
Skärblacka
Skärblacka
Location in Östergötland
Skärblacka is located in Sweden
Skärblacka
Skärblacka
Location in Sweden
Country Sweden
Province Östergötland
County Östergötland County
Municipality Norrköping Municipality
Area
 • Total 3.89 km2 (1.50 sq mi)
Population
 (31 December 2010)
 • Total 4,059
 • Density 1,043/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Skärblacka is a locality situated in Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 4,059 inhabitants in 2010. In everyday use, the town is known as simply Blacka.

Until 1971, the town was the administrative centre of Skärblacka municipality, and had a relatively well built-up centre, with an ice rink, swimming pool and secondary school.

Riksdag elections

Skärblacka used to be a strongly left-wing area with an industrial heritage. Throughout the early 21st century, however, the vote share for the Social Democrats fell substantially, which saw the right-leaning parties gain more votes than the leftist ones in 2018 after the village had a 40-point left-wing cushion just 16 years prior. Unlike many other industrial villages in the greater region surrounding Skärblacka, the voting population has remained at steady levels ever since it entered Norrköping Municipality in the early 1970s. Between 1973 and 2018 Skärblacka went from being 46 points more left-wing than the national average to leaning slightly right of said average.

Year % Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 91.7 2,600 4.0 67.8 16.3 4.2 2.2 5.4 71.8 25.9
1976 93.5 2,852 2.8 66.0 16.2 5.8 1.8 7.4 68.8 29.3
1979 92.1 2,897 3.9 64.7 11.8 7.8 2.3 11.5 68.6 30.1
1982 91.8 2,911 4.2 65.0 1.1 10.1 3.6 2.6 13.3 69.2 27.1
1985 91.2 2,899 3.7 63.6 0.8 9.7 9.5 12.6 67.3 31.8
1988 87.8 2,736 4.5 61.4 4.1 7.8 8.0 3.1 10.8 70.1 26.6
1991 87.1 2,658 4.3 55.1 2.4 5.0 5.0 6.6 13.4 7.0 59.4 30.0
1994 87.7 2,822 6.4 60.9 3.6 4.4 4.2 4.0 13.8 1.2 70.9 26.3
1998 80.8 2,475 11.2 53.4 3.5 2.9 1.9 9.2 15.2 68.2 29.3
2002 80.5 2,429 6.9 58.6 2.9 3.7 8.7 7.5 9.7 1.3 68.5 29.7
2006 83.0 2,461 5.8 52.4 3.1 4.7 4.2 5.9 16.5 3.1 61.3 31.2
2010 87.2 2,534 5.1 43.3 4.4 4.1 5.2 4.4 25.3 6.7 52.7 39.0
2014 87.0 2,589 3.4 40.6 3.6 4.4 2.5 4.1 17.7 21.7 47.6 28.7
2018 87.3 2,589 5.9 35.1 2.5 5.1 3.1 5.6 16.1 25.4 48.7 50.2

Communication

Skärblacka has a train and bus station on the KimstadFinspång line, Norrköping, Finspång and Linköping.

Industry

The main employers are the paper factory, part of BillerudKorsnäs. They mostly produce paper for bags, sacks and wallpaper. The factory was opened in 1872, but today's industry was built up in the 1960s. Many of the town's inhabitants commute to Norrköping and Finspång.

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Skärblacka:

  • Skärblacka IF
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