Askersund Municipality () is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Askersund.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Askersund was merged with the rural municipalities Hammar and Lerbäck.
Localities Askersund (seat) Zinkgruvan Lerbäck Mariedamm Åmmeberg Åsbro
Twin towns Askersund's two twin towns with the year of its establishing:
(1945) Eura, Finland (1990) Jordanów, Poland
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Askersund 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 11,518 residents, including 9,144 Swedish citizens of voting age. 44.8% voted for the left coalition and 53.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Hammar-Olshammar 1,496 1,244 38.0 61.2 83 90 10 25,265 22Klockarbacken 1,198 933 42.2 55.6 83 88 12 23,035 30Mariedamm-Lerbäck 1,303 1,006 43.2 55.0 84 91 9 24,647 26Närlunda 1,965 1,521 48.1 50.2 82 86 14 24,026 24Sjöängen 1,954 1,620 50.9 47.4 80 85 15 22,259 29Snavlunda 692 557 51.5 47.5 88 95 5 27,052 32Åmmeberg-Zinkgruvan 1,241 969 41.2 57.5 83 92 8 28,148 21Åsbro 1,669 1,294 43.4 55.2 81 90 10 25,061 25Source: SVT
Elections These are the results of the elections in the municipality since the first election after the municipal reform, being held in 1973. The exact results of Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by SCB from 1988 to 1998 due to the party's small size at the time. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of eligible people casting any ballots, whereas "Votes" denotes the number of valid votes only.
Riksdag elections Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right 1973 90.1 7,452 2.4 47.7 29.9 7.4 4.0 8.5 50.1 45.8 1976 91.2 7,787 2.2 46.5 31.2 7.3 2.7 10.1 48.7 48.6 1979 90.2 7,820 2.9 47.1 24.1 7.7 2.9 14.5 50.0 46.3 1982 90.9 8,058 2.9 50.8 1.2 21.0 5.0 3.3 15.9 53.7 41.9 1985 89.6 7,936 3.0 50.6 0.9 19.9 10.8 14.6 53.6 45.3 1988 86.9 7,651 4.0 49.8 3.5 16.5 9.2 4.8 12.2 57.5 37.9 1991 86.8 7,769 3.2 43.8 2.3 13.1 6.2 9.5 14.8 6.6 47.0 43.6 1994 87.3 7,957 5.6 52.4 3.9 11.0 5.5 5.4 14.9 0.8 61.9 36.8 1998 81.8 7,273 12.8 42.5 3.6 8.5 3.5 11.5 15.8 58.9 39.3 2002 81.0 7,186 8.5 45.4 3.2 10.5 8.7 9.3 11.1 2.1 57.1 39.6 2006 82.7 7,371 5.4 43.9 3.5 10.9 5.2 7.5 18.6 3.7 52.7 42.2 2010 84.8 7,628 4.6 39.4 4.9 8.1 4.9 6.0 25.6 5.8 48.9 44.6 2014 86.7 7,664 4.4 37.9 4.1 8.5 3.1 4.4 17.4 17.7 46.4 33.4 2018 88.6 7,818 5.5 32.2 2.3 9.2 3.0 6.8 16.5 23.3 49.1 49.5
References
External links
Askersund Municipality - Official site