Jönåker is a

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situated in

Nyköping Municipality Nyköping Municipality ( sv, Nyköpings kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Nyköping, which is containing a majority of the residents. Its southern tip in the district of Tun ...

Södermanland County Södermanland County ( sv, Södermanlands län) is a county or '' län'' on the southeast coast of Sweden. In the local Sörmlandic dialects it is virtually universally shortened and pronounced as Sörmlands län, or simply Sörmland, which is ...

, Sweden with 617 inhabitants in 2010. Jönåker is known locally for being situated right on a steep hill by local standards and the trading house, the so-called "Kalle in the hill" former gas station ( sv, Kalle i Backen). The railway passes through Jönåker, but trains do not stop there, instead twisting around the hill on the route between

Nyköping Nyköping () is a locality and the seat of Nyköping Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 32,759 inhabitants as of 2017. The city is also the capital of Södermanland County. Including Arnö, the locality on the southern shore of the ...

and

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Link� ...

Elections

Jönåker forms the ''Lunda'' constituency in Nyköping Municipality, named after the local church atop the hill that Jönåker sits beneath. Lunda is a swing district in that it can go the way of both traditional blocs, although it is solidly to the right of urban Nyköping throughout its history.

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References

Populated places in Södermanland County Populated places in Nyköping Municipality {{Södermanland-geo-stub