Uddevalla Municipality () is a

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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

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. Its seat is located in the

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Uddevalla Uddevalla is a Stad (Sweden), town in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It’s the seat of Uddevalla Municipality. In 2015, it had a population of 34,781, making it the largest town fully in Bohuslän. Uddevalla is located where the river Bäveån ...

. The present municipality was created in 1971 when the ''City of Uddevalla'' (which had absorbed the rural municipality Bäve in 1945) was amalgamated with the surrounding municipalities Forshälla, Lane-Ryr, Ljungskile, Skredsvik and parts of Skaftö.

Localities

* Ammenäs * Fagerhult * Herrestad * Hogstorp * Ljungskile * Sunningen *

(seat)

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Uddevalla 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 57,031 residents, including 43,062 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.7% voted for the left coalition and 52.3% for the right coalition.

References

External links

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Uddevalla Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Västra Götaland County *