Degerfors Municipality () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in
Örebro County in central
Sweden
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. 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
A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rura ...
(''
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 ...
'') 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
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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.
]
Riksdag
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elections
Twin towns
Degerfors two twin towns
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While there are early examples of inte ...
with the year of its establishing:
#(1985) Oedheim, Germany
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#(1990) Ventspils district, Latvia
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See also
* Vindeln Municipality, Västerbotten County
Västerbotten County (), sometimes called Westrobothnia, is a county or '' län'' in the north of Sweden. It shares the borders with the counties of Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Norrbotten, as well as the Norwegian county of Nordland and the ...
, which up until 1969 had the same name.
References
External links
Degerfors Municipality
- Official site
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Municipalities of Örebro County