Finspång Municipality

Finspång Municipality (Finspångs kommun) is a municipality in Östergötland County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Finspång, with some 13,000 inhabitants.

Finspång Municipality

Finspångs kommun
Municipality
Finspång Castle
Coat of arms
CountrySweden
CountyÖstergötland County
SeatFinspång
Area
 • Total1,215.05 km2 (469.13 sq mi)
 • Land1,055.28 km2 (407.45 sq mi)
 • Water159.77 km2 (61.69 sq mi)
 Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
 (31 December 2019)[2]
 • Total21,912
 • Density18/km2 (47/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
ProvinceÖstergötland
Municipal code0562
Websitewww.finspong.se
Finspång castle

Nature

The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.

History

Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer. By Louis de Geer (1622-1695), the Finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery developed into the city Finspång. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and aluminum processing.

Localities

Elections

Riksdag

These are the results of the Riksdag elections of Finspång Municipality 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[3] 93.7 15,333 3.9 56.9 0.0 20.6 6.1 2.9 9.3 0.0 0.0
1976[4] 94.2 15,981 3.3 55.8 0.0 19.5 8.1 2.5 10.3 0.0 0.0
1979[5] 93.0 16,078 4.5 56.4 0.0 14.7 8.2 2.6 13.1 0.0 0.0
1982[6] 93.4 16,121 4.3 59.2 1.4 13.2 4.2 2.8 14.9 0.0 0.0
1985[7] 92.2 16,001 4.6 58.2 1.4 12.5 9.6 0.0 13.6 0.0 0.0
1988[8] 88.5 15,190 5.5 56.1 4.9 10.3 8.4 4.1 10.5 0.0 0.0
1991[9] 89.1 15,095 5.1 50.7 2.8 7.5 6.6 8.3 12.3 0.0 6.4
1994[10] 89.3 15,081 7.4 55.1 4.3 6.9 4.9 5.2 14.1 0.0 1.2
1998[11] 84.3 13,830 14.5 46.2 4.0 4.4 2.9 11.4 14.9 0.0 0.0
2002[12] 83.0 13,253 9.4 51.6 4.0 5.7 8.2 9.6 9.6 0.9 0.0
2006[13] 83.7 13,301 6.6 47.1 4.1 7.0 4.7 7.0 18.0 2.7 0.0
2010[14] 85.2 13,760 6.1 43.9 5.8 5.6 4.6 5.8 22.2 5.3 0.0
2014[15] 86.4 13,971 5.3 43.2 4.6 5.1 3.3 4.6 16.1 15.4 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 93.7 15,333 60.8 36.0 0.0 3.2 96.8
1976 94.2 15,981 59.1 37.9 0.0 3.0 97.0
1979 93.0 16,078 60.9 36.0 0.0 3.1 96.9
1982 93.4 16,121 63.5 32.3 0.0 4.2 95.8
1985 92.2 16,001 62.8 35.7 0.0 1.5 98.5
1988 88.5 15,190 66.5 29.2 0.0 4.3 95.7
1991 89.1 15,095 55.8 34.7 0.0 9.5 96.9
1994 89.3 15,081 66.8 31.1 0.0 2.1 97.9
1998 84.3 13,830 64.7 33.6 0.0 1.7 98.3
2002 83.0 13,253 65.0 33.1 0.0 1.9 98.1
2006 83.7 13,301 57.8 36.7 0.0 5.5 94.5
2010 85.2 13,760 55.8 38.2 5.3 0.7 99.3
2014 86.4 13,971 53.1 29.1 15.4 2.4 97.6

Twin towns

Finspång Municipality has formal twin town treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.

Today there is no contact with Stromberg or Givet, and contact was broken with Yvoir before being reestablished in 1997.

Finspång also has (informally) established cooperation with seven other cities:

(Source and more information: (in Swedish))

Notable people born in Finspång

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Finspång Municipality:

gollark: Oh, there's Site Null here too, it stores the disk key.
gollark: At some point.
gollark: I'll send you the location of GTech™ Apiohydroaquaform 1.
gollark: At some point. Consider moving it underwater.
gollark: A small one.

See also
  • Finspång Fief Hundred

References
  1. "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31 december 2019" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  3. "Riksdagsvalet 1973 (page 162)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  4. "Riksdagsvalet 1976 (page 157)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  5. "Riksdagsvalet 1979 (page 181)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  6. "Riksdagsvalet 1982 (page 182)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  7. "Riksdagsvalet 1985 (page 183)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  8. "Riksdagsvalet 1988 (page 164)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  9. "Riksdagsvalet 1991 (page 23)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  10. "Riksdagsvalet 1994 (page 37)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  11. "Riksdagsvalet 1998 (page 34)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  12. "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2002" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  13. "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2006" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  14. "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2010" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  15. "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2014" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.

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