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Finspång Municipality

*Finspångs kommun*
Finspång Municipality Finspångs kommun
Municipality
	Finspång Castle
	Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 58°42′N 15°48′E / 58.700°N 15.800°E
Country	Sweden
County	Östergötland County
Seat	Finspång
Area
• Total	1,215.05 km2 (469.13 sq mi)
• Land	1,055.28 km2 (407.45 sq mi)
• Water	159.77 km2 (61.69 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)
• Total	21,694
• Density	18/km2 (46/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Östergötland
Municipal code	0562
Website	www.finspong.se

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.

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

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Finspång Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 21,862 residents, including 16,657 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 48.5% voted for the left coalition and 50.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

%

Bergska

1,179

903

52.8

45.7

85

83

17

27,080

37

Brenäs

475

402

40.9

58.2

91

92

8

27,194

38

Centrum

1,227

1,041

54.4

43.9

76

78

22

20,411

30

Grosvad

1,784

1,294

53.5

45.7

78

71

29

23,826

30

Grytgöl

549

447

43.3

55.4

87

96

4

26,006

27

Hagaryd

554

463

42.9

54.7

85

92

8

24,055

31

Hårstorp N

1,609

1,160

52.4

46.1

81

72

28

25,759

39

Hårstorp S

1,631

1,110

50.6

47.2

70

64

36

22,861

32

Hällestad

1,006

773

50.2

48.5

84

91

9

24,064

28

Ljusfallshammar

439

367

41.8

56.3

80

92

8

22,564

28

Lotorp

1,152

865

42.0

56.9

88

91

9

29,181

34

Nyhem

1,524

1,022

52.4

45.9

71

65

35

22,546

30

Regna

582

482

37.1

61.1

77

90

10

21,704

21

Rejmyre

1,087

861

43.0

55.5

79

88

12

23,021

23

Sonstorp

889

694

39.0

60.2

88

93

7

26,287

28

Storängen

1,618

1,246

52.7

46.1

74

70

30

22,035

29

Svälthagen

1,420

1,055

48.8

49.6

81

79

21

24,626

31

Viggestorp

1,451

1,141

46.0

52.6

86

88

12

28,585

39

Östermalm

1,686

1,331

52.4

46.6

80

76

24

23,843

33

Source: SVT^[3]

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^[4]	93.7	15,333	3.9	56.9	0.0	20.6	6.1	2.9	9.3	0.0	0.0
1976^[5]	94.2	15,981	3.3	55.8	0.0	19.5	8.1	2.5	10.3	0.0	0.0
1979^[6]	93.0	16,078	4.5	56.4	0.0	14.7	8.2	2.6	13.1	0.0	0.0
1982^[7]	93.4	16,121	4.3	59.2	1.4	13.2	4.2	2.8	14.9	0.0	0.0
1985^[8]	92.2	16,001	4.6	58.2	1.4	12.5	9.6	0.0	13.6	0.0	0.0
1988^[9]	88.5	15,190	5.5	56.1	4.9	10.3	8.4	4.1	10.5	0.0	0.0
1991^[10]	89.1	15,095	5.1	50.7	2.8	7.5	6.6	8.3	12.3	0.0	6.4
1994^[11]	89.3	15,081	7.4	55.1	4.3	6.9	4.9	5.2	14.1	0.0	1.2
1998^[12]	84.3	13,830	14.5	46.2	4.0	4.4	2.9	11.4	14.9	0.0	0.0
2002^[13]	83.0	13,253	9.4	51.6	4.0	5.7	8.2	9.6	9.6	0.9	0.0
2006^[14]	83.7	13,301	6.6	47.1	4.1	7.0	4.7	7.0	18.0	2.7	0.0
2010^[15]	85.2	13,760	6.1	43.9	5.8	5.6	4.6	5.8	22.2	5.3	0.0
2014^[16]	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