Tranemo Municipality () is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...
in western
Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the town of
Tranemo.
There are twelve original municipal units (as of 1863) in the area. The municipal reform of 1952 created four larger entities. The next reform was implemented in two steps with amalgamations taking place in 1967 and 1974, leading to the present municipality.
The name comes from the bird ''Trana'', which means
crane.
The
coat of arms
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, granted in 1975, show a crane with a
glass blowing
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belge. Glass blowing is an old industry in the municipality, with the first glass blower established in 1741.
Controversies
In 2021, Tranemo Municipality hired a poet to create one poem a week about Tranemo Municipality for 1 year. The project drew heavy criticism because of its cost – nearly 1 million Swedish crowns (
SEK). This happened at the same time when municipality demanded 17 million
SEK in cost savings from the municipal schools.
This incident resulted in a major crisis in Tranemo municipality.
Localities
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in Tranemo Municipality with population numbers from 2004 to 2006:
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Tranemo 3,205
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Limmared 1,445
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Länghem 1,178
*
Dalstorp
Dalstorp is a locality situated in Tranemo Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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824
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Grimsås 779
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Ambjörnarp 310
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Ljungsarp 274
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Uddebo 263
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Sjötofta 239
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Nittorp 211
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Tranemo 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 11,931 residents, including 8,981 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 45.8% voted for the left coalition and 52.8% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
]
References
External links
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Tranemo Municipality
- Official site
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Municipalities of Västra Götaland County