Askersund Municipality

Askersund Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Askersund.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Askersund was merged with the rural municipalities Hammar and Lerbäck.

Localities

• Askersund (seat)
• Zinkgruvan
• Lerbäck
• Mariedamm
• Åmmeberg
• Åsbro

Twin towns

Askersund's two twin towns with the year of its establishing:

1. (1945) Eura, Finland Template:Flagicon
2. (1990) Jordanów, Poland Template:Flagicon

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Askersund Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=AskersundVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 11,518 residents, including 9,144 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=AskersundVal2022/> 44.8% voted for the left coalition and 53.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % Hammar-Olshammar 1,496 1,244 38.0 61.2 83 90 10 25,265 22 Klockarbacken 1,198 933 42.2 55.6 83 88 12 23,035 30 Mariedamm-Lerbäck 1,303 1,006 43.2 55.0 84 91 9 24,647 26 Närlunda 1,965 1,521 48.1 50.2 82 86 14 24,026 24 Sjöängen 1,954 1,620 50.9 47.4 80 85 15 22,259 29 Snavlunda 692 557 51.5 47.5 88 95 5 27,052 32 Åmmeberg-Zinkgruvan 1,241 969 41.2 57.5 83 92 8 28,148 21 Åsbro 1,669 1,294 43.4 55.2 81 90 10 25,061 25 Source: SVT<ref name=AskersundVal2022/>

Elections

These are the results of the elections in the municipality since the first election after the municipal reform, being held in 1973. The exact results of Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by SCB from 1988 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.

Riksdag elections

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.1	7,452	2.4	47.7		29.9	7.4	4.0	8.5			50.1	45.8
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	91.2	7,787	2.2	46.5		31.2	7.3	2.7	10.1			48.7	48.6
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.2	7,820	2.9	47.1		24.1	7.7	2.9	14.5			50.0	46.3
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.9	8,058	2.9	50.8	1.2	21.0	5.0	3.3	15.9			53.7	41.9
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	89.6	7,936	3.0	50.6	0.9	19.9	10.8		14.6			53.6	45.3
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.9	7,651	4.0	49.8	3.5	16.5	9.2	4.8	12.2			57.5	37.9
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.8	7,769	3.2	43.8	2.3	13.1	6.2	9.5	14.8		6.6	47.0	43.6
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	87.3	7,957	5.6	52.4	3.9	11.0	5.5	5.4	14.9		0.8	61.9	36.8
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.8	7,273	12.8	42.5	3.6	8.5	3.5	11.5	15.8			58.9	39.3
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.0	7,186	8.5	45.4	3.2	10.5	8.7	9.3	11.1	2.1		57.1	39.6
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	82.7	7,371	5.4	43.9	3.5	10.9	5.2	7.5	18.6	3.7		52.7	42.2
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.8	7,628	4.6	39.4	4.9	8.1	4.9	6.0	25.6	5.8		48.9	44.6
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	86.7	7,664	4.4	37.9	4.1	8.5	3.1	4.4	17.4	17.7		46.4	33.4
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.6	7,818	5.5	32.2	2.3	9.2	3.0	6.8	16.5	23.3		49.1	49.5

External links

• Askersund Municipality - Official site