Alvesta Municipality should not be confused with Avesta Municipality.
| Alvesta Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Alvesta kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 56.9°N 47°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Kronoberg County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Alvesta |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Småland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 0764 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.alvesta.se |
Alvesta Municipality (Alvesta kommun) is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden. Its seat is in Alvesta.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when the market town (köping) Alvesta (instituted in 1945) was amalgamated with four surrounding rural municipalities. Amalgamations had also taken place in 1952 and 1963. The number of original local government entities within the present municipality is twelve.
The municipal arms are from 1951 and depict three bees and a winged wheel. This symbolizes the railway that is so vital for the industry, while the bees signify the hard-working spirit that the locals pride themselves with.
The municipality boasts nature areas and is suitable for fishing, canoeing or playing golf.
The mansion of Huseby is a popular place to visit, located some 15 kilometers south of the town Alvesta, and hosts a couple of museums. There are also old churches scattered around the municipality, some medieval, among them the Alvesta Church.
There are 6 urban areas (or tätort) in Alvesta Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
| Locality | Population | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alvesta | 7,647 | |
| 2 | 1,852 | ||
| 3 | 1,773 | ||
| 4 | 638 | ||
| 5 | 354 | ||
| 6 | 229 |
This is a demographic table based on Alvesta Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[1]
In total there were 20,256 inhabitants, including 14,578 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 42.0% voted for the left coalition and 56.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | |||||||
| Alvesta N | 2,001 | 1,268 | 51.4 | 43.7 | 60 | 39 | 61 | 17,538 | 25 | ||||||||
| Alvesta S-Blädinge | 2,673 | 1,893 | 48.7 | 48.3 | 74 | 60 | 40 | 21,641 | 32 | ||||||||
| Alvesta V | 1,966 | 1,280 | 53.5 | 41.2 | 68 | 45 | 55 | 22,221 | 25 | ||||||||
| Aringsås | 1,871 | 1,362 | 41.1 | 58.2 | 87 | 79 | 21 | 27,599 | 41 | ||||||||
| Hjortsberga | 987 | 745 | 31.8 | 66.5 | 89 | 89 | 11 | 27,377 | 34 | ||||||||
| Lekaryd-Härlöv | 2,089 | 1,514 | 39.1 | 58.9 | 90 | 81 | 19 | 28,830 | 41 | ||||||||
| Moheda Ö | 1,228 | 956 | 43.0 | 55.9 | 88 | 90 | 10 | 27,395 | 31 | ||||||||
| Skatelöv | 1,548 | 1,189 | 37.8 | 61.1 | 86 | 93 | 7 | 26,906 | 32 | ||||||||
| Slätthög-Mistelås | 2,352 | 1,773 | 37.6 | 61.6 | 86 | 89 | 11 | 23,855 | 32 | ||||||||
| Vislanda | 2,419 | 1,753 | 36.5 | 62.3 | 84 | 81 | 19 | 25,350 | 25 | ||||||||
| Västra Torsås | 1,122 | 845 | 39.5 | 59.4 | 83 | 88 | 12 | 23,676 | 29 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
Some well-known natives of Alvesta are the national famous magician Joe Labero and the ATP tennis player Jonas Björkman. The former world #1 in the same sport, Mats Wilander, was originally from Torpsbruk in the north part of the municipality.
Swan J. Turnblad (1860–1933) American newspaper publisher associated with Svenska Amerikanska Posten, a Swedish language newspaper once published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born in Tubbemåla in Vislanda parish.
Result of the 2010 election: