Gagnef Municipality () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Dalarna County
Dalarna County () is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden (Svealand). It borders on the counties of Uppsala, Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It also borders on the Norwegian counties of Hedmark and Trøndelag to ...
in central
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. Its seat is located in the town of
Djurås with 2,257 inhabitants, with the largest town being Mockfjärd with 2365 inhabitants. The locality of
Gagnef itself is a smaller village.
In 1971 "old" Gagnef was amalgamated with ''Floda'', forming the present municipality.
The industry is dominated by small and semi-small companies mainly operating in the
forest industry
The wood industry or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry – when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade, and the production of primary forest products and wood products (e.g. fu ...
.
Geographically, the two rivers of the
Västerdal River
Västerdalälven (literally ''West Dal River'') is a 300 km long river in Sweden that flows southeast through Dalarna. Its sources are Görälven and Fuluälven and the end point is Djurås, in the municipality of Gagnef, where it connect ...
and the
Österdal River flow together in Gagnef to form the
Dal River, as represented in the municipality's coat of arms.
Localities
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Björbo
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Bäsna
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Djurmo
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Djurås (seat)
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Floda
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Gagnef
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Mockfjärd
Mockfjärd is a urban areas of Sweden, locality situated in Gagnef Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 1,937 inhabitants in 2010 and 1,919 in 2013.
File:Mockfjärdsskolan.JPG, The school in Mockfjärd
File:Mockfjärds kyrka from North.JPG, ...
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Sifferbo
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Gagnef 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 10,500 residents, including 8,044 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 44.1% voted for the left coalition and 55.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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Riksdag
The Riksdag ( , ; also or , ) is the parliament and the parliamentary sovereignty, supreme decision-making body of the Kingdom of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral parliament with 349 members (), elected proportional rep ...
elections
References
External links
Gagnef Municipality
– Official site
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Municipalities of Dalarna County