Lekeberg Municipality () is a

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Örebro County Örebro County () is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland. It is frequently culturally divided into the hilly northern region of ...

in central

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. Its seat is located in the town of Fjugesta, with around 2,000 inhabitants. Lekeberg was first formed as a municipality in connection with the local government reform of 1952 by the amalgamation of five smaller units. In 1967 two more

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es were added. The next reform of 1971 placed the area within

Örebro Municipality Örebro Municipality () is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Örebro. The municipality was created from the ''City of Örebro'' and surrounding rural municipalities in 1971 and with some areas ...

. It was re-established in 1995 within its 1967 borders.

Geography

Mostly woods and farm lands, with

Garphyttan National Park Garphyttan National Park () is a Swedish national park in Kilsbergen west of Örebro in Lekeberg Municipality Lekeberg Municipality () is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Fjugesta, with aro ...

, established in 1909, located within the municipality. The largest industry sector is

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ing. Many farmers have further specialized on hog and

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farming. Other industries are small companies within

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and

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industries, as well as craftswork and other small enterprises.

Localities

Over 200 inhabitants: * Fjugesta (seat) * Gropen * Hidinge *

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* Mullhyttan

Demographics

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

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 8,596 residents, including 6,359 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 41.8% voted for the left coalition and 56.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Elections

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From the

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election onwards the municipality was in existence due to the split with

. The exact results of

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were not listed at a municipal level by SCB from 1994 to 1998 due to the party's small size at the time. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of eligible people casting any ballots, whereas "Votes" denotes the number of valid votes only. Blocs This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1994 to 2006. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election.

Sights

The

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of Riseberga was the home of

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s of the

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in the

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. It burnt down in 1546, and remaining stones were used in the building of a local

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some hundreds years later. The

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of Riseberga is

's largest of that kind, with 1,216 seats.

Twin towns

Lekeberg's

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with the year of its establishing: # (1996)

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References

External links

Lekeberg Municipality
- Official site {{Authority control Municipalities of Örebro County