Munkfors Municipality

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Munkfors Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Munkfors.

In 1952 the rural municipality Ransäter got the title of a market town (köping) and the name Munkfors after its only built-up locality. With the local government reform of 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type without addition of territory. The municipality is today the 9th smallest by population in Sweden.

In Ransäter lies the Geijer School, in honour of author Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1843), who was born at the Ransäter farm. A second notable Ransäter native was Tage Erlander (1901–1985), who was Prime Minister of Sweden 1946–1969.

The municipality has one sister city: Lindsborg, Kansas, US

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Munkfors 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=MunkforsVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 3,679 residents, including 2,714 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=MunkforsVal2022/> 56.8% voted for the left coalition and 42.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

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%

Munkfors C

1,914

1,467

61.5

37.1

73

83

17

20,124

18

Munkfors S

612

432

56.9

42.2

75

85

15

23,453

36

Munkfors V

1,153

815

48.4

50.8

81

84

16

25,469

19

Source: SVT<ref name=MunkforsVal2022/>

Elections

Riksdag

These are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND
1973<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	94.6	3,933	4.7	67.7	0.0	15.5	6.3	1.0	4.4	0.0	0.0
1976<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	94.4	3,978	3.6	67.1	0.0	15.8	7.0	0.6	5.7	0.0	0.0
1979<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	94.2	3,871	4.8	67.4	0.0	13.7	5.3	0.5	8.0	0.0	0.0
1982<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	93.5	3,758	4.7	69.3	1.1	11.7	3.5	0.8	8.8	0.0	0.0
1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	90.6	3,599	4.9	68.7	0.9	9.4	7.8	0.0	8.1	0.0	0.0
1988<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.8	3,412	5.5	68.9	2.8	9.8	5.9	1.2	5.6	0.0	0.0
1991<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.2	3,326	6.1	63.0	1.6	8.7	5.4	3.2	7.8	0.0	3.5
1994<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	88.2	3,275	7.7	67.3	2.2	7.3	4.3	1.8	8.0	0.0	0.6
1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	81.3	2,798	16.4	57.1	2.3	5.7	2.9	6.1	8.1	0.0	0.0
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.4	2,576	9.6	59.2	2.9	8.5	6.9	4.1	6.1	1.8	0.0
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	80.7	2,492	9.1	55.8	2.4	9.7	5.5	2.7	9.5	3.2	0.0
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	83.9	2,484	6.6	56.1	2.6	7.3	5.9	2.9	11.8	4.9	0.0
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.1	2,463	4.6	58.1	2.1	6.2	3.5	2.0	9.7	11.4	0.0
2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	85.1	2,340	6.1	52.2	1.4	8.1	2.9	3.9	8.3	15.4	0.0
2022<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	84.1	2,281	5.1	44.0	2.1	5.6	2.4	4.4	10.3	24.9	0.0

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.

Year	Turnout	Votes	Left	Right	SD	Other	Elected
1973	94.6	3,933	72.4	26.0	0.0	1.6	98.4
1976	94.4	3,978	70.7	28.5	0.0	0.8	99.2
1979	94.2	3,871	72.2	27.0	0.0	0.8	99.2
1982	93.5	3,758	74.0	24.0	0.0	2.0	98.0
1985	90.6	3,599	73.6	25.3	0.0	1.1	98.9
1988	88.8	3,412	77.2	21.3	0.0	1.5	98.5
1991	88.2	3,326	69.1	25.1	0.0	5.8	97.4
1994	88.2	3,275	77.2	21.4	0.0	1.4	98.6
1998	81.3	2,798	75.8	22.8	0.0	1.4	98.6
2002	80.4	2,576	71.7	25.6	0.0	2.7	97.3
2006	80.7	2,492	67.3	27.4	0.0	5.3	94.7
2010	83.9	2,484	65.3	27.9	4.9	1.9	98.1
2014	85.1	2,463	64.8	21.4	11.4	2.4	97.6