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Wikipedia / Munkfors Municipality

Munkfors Municipality () is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Munkfors.

In 1952 the rural municipality Ransäter got the title of a market town (köping) and the name Munkfors after its only built-up locality. With the local government reform of 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type without addition of territory. The municipality is today the 9th smallest by population in Sweden.

In Ransäter lies the Geijer School, in honour of author Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1843), who was born at the Ransäter farm. A second notable Ransäter native was Tage Erlander (1901–1985), who was Prime Minister of Sweden 1946–1969.

The municipality has one sister city: Lindsborg, Kansas, US

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Munkfors 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 3,679 residents, including 2,714 Swedish citizens of voting age. 56.8% voted for the left coalition and 42.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

%

%

Munkfors C

1,914

1,467

61.5

37.1

73

83

17

20,124

18

Munkfors S

612

432

56.9

42.2

75

85

15

23,453

36

Munkfors V

1,153

815

48.4

50.8

81

84

16

25,469

19

Source: SVT

Elections

Riksdag

These are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year

Turnout

Votes

V

S

MP

C

L

KD

M

SD

ND

1973

94.6

3,933

4.7

67.7

0.0

15.5

6.3

1.0

4.4

0.0

0.0

1976

94.4

3,978

3.6

67.1

0.0

15.8

7.0

0.6

5.7

0.0

0.0

1979

94.2

3,871

4.8

67.4

0.0

13.7

5.3

0.5

8.0

0.0

0.0

1982

93.5

3,758

4.7

69.3

1.1

11.7

3.5

0.8

8.8

0.0

0.0

1985

90.6

3,599

4.9

68.7

0.9

9.4

7.8

0.0

8.1

0.0

0.0

1988

88.8

3,412

5.5

68.9

2.8

9.8

5.9

1.2

5.6

0.0

0.0

1991

88.2

3,326

6.1

63.0

1.6

8.7

5.4

3.2

7.8

0.0

3.5

1994

88.2

3,275

7.7

67.3

2.2

7.3

4.3

1.8

8.0

0.0

0.6

1998

81.3

2,798

16.4

57.1

2.3

5.7

2.9

6.1

8.1

0.0

0.0

2002

80.4

2,576

9.6

59.2

2.9

8.5

6.9

4.1

6.1

1.8

0.0

2006

80.7

2,492

9.1

55.8

2.4

9.7

5.5

2.7

9.5

3.2

0.0

2010

83.9

2,484

6.6

56.1

2.6

7.3

5.9

2.9

11.8

4.9

0.0

2014

85.1

2,463

4.6

58.1

2.1

6.2

3.5

2.0

9.7

11.4

0.0

2018

85.1

2,340

6.1

52.2

1.4

8.1

2.9

3.9

8.3

15.4

0.0

2022

84.1

2,281

5.1

44.0

2.1

5.6

2.4

4.4

10.3

24.9

0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year

Turnout

Votes

Left

Right

SD

Other

Elected

1973

94.6

3,933

72.4

26.0

0.0

1.6

98.4

1976

94.4

3,978

70.7

28.5

0.0

0.8

99.2

1979

94.2

3,871

72.2

27.0

0.0

0.8

99.2

1982

93.5

3,758

74.0

24.0

0.0

2.0

98.0

1985

90.6

3,599

73.6

25.3

0.0

1.1

98.9

1988

88.8

3,412

77.2

21.3

0.0

1.5

98.5

1991

88.2

3,326

69.1

25.1

0.0

5.8

97.4

1994

88.2

3,275

77.2

21.4

0.0

1.4

98.6

1998

81.3

2,798

75.8

22.8

0.0

1.4

98.6

2002

80.4

2,576

71.7

25.6

0.0

2.7

97.3

2006

80.7

2,492

67.3

27.4

0.0

5.3

94.7

2010

83.9

2,484

65.3

27.9

4.9

1.9

98.1

2014

85.1

2,463

64.8

21.4

11.4

2.4

97.6

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