| Fagersta Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Fagersta kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 60°N 64°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Västmanland County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Fagersta |
| 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: | Västmanland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1982 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.fagersta.se |
Fagersta Municipality (Fagersta kommun) is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Fagersta.
The City of Fagersta (instituted in 1944) was in 1967 merged with Västervåla parish (which had been part of Surahammar Municipality since 1963). In 1971 it was transformed into a municipality of unitary type.
The municipal seat, Fagersta, is the only locality within the municipality with more than 200 inhabitants.
Another locality of note is Ängelsberg, a village located on Åmänningen Lake.
Fagersta is historically a left wing stronghold, with mostly a social democratic majority running the town, a trend only broken with a further left majority between 1998–2014. However, a rapid shift saw the right-leaning coalition narrowly win the 2022 Swedish general election vote in the municipality. The local elections still saw the Social Democratic-Left Party combination winning a combined majority of seats.[1]
This is a demographic table based on Fagersta Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[2]
In total there were 13,284 residents, including 9,607 Swedish citizens of voting age.[2] 49.0% voted for the left coalition and 49.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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| Centrum | 2,407 | 1,703 | 53.1 | 45.1 | 68 | 54 | 46 | 20,246 | 25 | ||||||||
| Kolarbyn | 2,079 | 1,234 | 61.7 | 37.4 | 56 | 37 | 63 | 17,905 | 18 | ||||||||
| Meling | 1,806 | 1,304 | 48.4 | 50.4 | 87 | 81 | 19 | 29,805 | 35 | ||||||||
| Per Ols | 2,209 | 1,626 | 45.5 | 54.2 | 85 | 73 | 27 | 28,913 | 28 | ||||||||
| Risbron | 2,153 | 1,580 | 49.8 | 49.1 | 72 | 57 | 43 | 22,908 | 24 | ||||||||
| Västanfors | 1,329 | 1,064 | 44.8 | 54.5 | 83 | 77 | 23 | 25,388 | 31 | ||||||||
| Åvestbo-Västervåla | 1,301 | 1,096 | 39.9 | 58.4 | 84 | 85 | 15 | 28,290 | 27 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
Engelsberg Ironworks, in Ängelsberg, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.