Bjuv Municipality () is a

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in South Sweden in southern

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. Its seat is located in the town of

Bjuv Bjuv is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Bjuv Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 6,832 inhabitants in 2010. References

Findus was located in Bjuv before relocating to Germany and they make frozen food to stores ...

. The amalgamations connected to the 1971 local government reform in Sweden took place in this area in 1974, when "old" ''Bjuv'' (a market town (''

köping ''Köping'' was a Swedish denomination for a market town since the Middle Ages, derived from the Old Norse word '' kaupang''. The designation was officially abolished with the municipal reform of 1971, when Sweden was subdivided into the Munic ...

'') since 1946) was amalgamated with ''Billesholm'' and ''Ekeby''.

History

The municipal arms depicts a mining torch lighting up a dark area. The reason is that Bjuv Municipality has had a coal mining industry since the 18th century. In the end of the 19th century, the clay industry flourished, based on the coal.

Localities

There were two

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in the municipality in 2018.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Bjuv Municipality's electoral districts in the

2022 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...

sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 15,817 residents, including 10,979 Swedish citizens of voting age. 35.1% voted for the left coalition and 63.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

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