Degerfors Municipality () is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Degerfors.
The northern part of the municipality was before 1925 part of Karlskoga Municipality, from which it was detached to form a new entity. It became a market town (köping) in 1943. In 1967 it was amalgamated with a part of the dissolved Svartå Municipality.
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Degerfors 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 7,456 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 53.6% voted for the left coalition and 45.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Bossåsen 1,373 1,039 49.0 50.1 81 87 13 27,595 25Bruket 1,480 1,148 52.9 45.9 74 80 20 22,993 24Jannelund 1,727 1,330 63.7 35.3 59 67 33 17,262 21Stora Valla 1,574 1,215 59.4 39.3 68 75 25 20,864 20Strömtorp 1,821 1,488 47.9 50.7 83 86 14 26,813 26Svartå 605 478 53.3 44.0 74 83 17 22,995 24Åtorp 939 758 47.8 51.0 84 91 9 25,582 27Source: SVT
Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 94.7 7,533 4.9 63.1 18.7 5.3 2.3 5.2 68.0 29.21976 95.0 8,034 4.7 61.9 19.3 5.9 2.1 5.9 66.7 31.01979 94.1 8,194 5.7 62.8 14.3 6.6 2.0 8.1 68.5 29.11982 94.5 8,292 6.5 65.4 1.0 11.5 3.6 2.0 9.9 72.0 25.01985 93.4 8,225 7.4 64.2 1.2 10.1 8.0 9.0 71.6 27.11988 90.1 7,767 8.8 63.7 3.4 8.2 6.8 2.5 6.3 75.8 21.31991 89.7 7,691 7.4 59.7 2.1 6.4 5.4 4.9 8.6 5.3 67.1 25.31994 89.3 7,608 9.9 63.8 3.2 5.9 4.4 2.8 8.8 1.0 76.8 21.81998 83.4 6,847 17.7 54.8 3.4 4.5 2.3 7.5 8.7 75.9 23.02002 82.3 6,491 13.3 60.8 2.5 5.3 6.0 5.2 5.1 0.9 76.7 21.72006 82.3 6,302 11.2 57.6 2.7 5.4 3.2 5.2 9.8 2.9 71.5 23.62010 86.1 6,494 10.8 52.7 4.9 4.1 3.1 4.5 13.8 5.4 68.4 25.62014 86.4 6,426 8.1 51.2 4.0 4.2 1.9 3.4 10.6 14.4 63.3 20.12018 87.1 6,415 10.2 44.1 2.4 5.4 2.4 4.0 10.7 19.9 62.0 36.92022 84.9 6,261 7.7 39.6 2.4 3.9 2.3 4.2 12.0 26.6 53.6 45.0
Twin towns Degerfors two twin towns with the year of its establishing:
(1985) Oedheim, Germany (1990) Ventspils district, Latvia
See also Vindeln Municipality, Västerbotten County, which up until 1969 had the same name.
References
External links
Degerfors Municipality - Official site