Trelleborg Municipality () is the southernmost

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, in

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. Its seat is located in the city

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of 31 December 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the Smygehuk, southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is one ...

. The present municipality was created in 1967 through the amalgamation of the ''City of Trelleborg'' with five rural municipalities. It consists of over thirty original local government units. The municipality boasts 35 kilometers of predominantly sandy beach in the south,

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woods to the north, and in between one of the most fertile soils in the world.

Localities

There are 8

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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Trelleborg Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Trelleborg 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 46,136 residents, including 34,670 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.3% voted for the left coalition and 61.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Elections

Below are the results since the 1973 municipal reform listed. Between 1988 and 1998 the

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' results were not published by the SCB due to the party's small size nationwide. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of the electorate casting a ballot, but "Votes" only applies to valid ballots cast.

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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 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Employment

Municipal work is the most common form of employment in Trelleborg, engaging over 4,000 individuals across 400 diverse roles. Additionally, the Trelleborg municipality ranks among the top ten largest employers in the

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province.

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Trelleborg Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Skåne County