Herrljunga Municipality | |
Native Name: | Herrljunga kommun |
Native Name Lang: | sv |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Coordinates: | 58.0833°N 15°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Västra Götaland County |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Herrljunga |
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: | Västergötland |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1466 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Iso Code: | SE |
Website: | www.herrljunga.se |
Herrljunga Municipality (Herrljunga kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Herrljunga.
The local government reform of 1952 formed two municipalities, Herrljunga and Gäsene, in the area. Before that the number was 22. In 1974 they were merged to form the present entity.
55% of the population live in built-up areas. The largest of them are:
This is a demographic table based on Herrljunga 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 9,493 residents, including 7,313 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 42.5% voted for the left coalition and 55.8% for the right coalition.
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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" | |||||||
Gäsene Ö | 1,385 | 1,110 | 30.5 | 67.2 | 86 | 91 | 9 | 24,931 | 28 | ||||||||
Herrljunga C | 2,560 | 1,877 | 50.6 | 47.8 | 76 | 73 | 27 | 22,599 | 29 | ||||||||
Herrljunga V | 1,829 | 1,425 | 46.4 | 52.8 | 90 | 89 | 11 | 27,265 | 33 | ||||||||
Herrljunga Ö | 1,563 | 1,251 | 40.4 | 57.9 | 82 | 87 | 13 | 24,824 | 30 | ||||||||
Ljung | 2,156 | 1,650 | 40.6 | 57.7 | 82 | 87 | 13 | 24,651 | 28 | ||||||||
Source: SVT |
Since the 2022 election the municipal government is controlled by a majority consisting of the Social Democrats, Left Party, Centre Party and Liberals with Mats Palm of the Social Democrats as commissioner.[2] The municipal council of Herrljunga has 34 seats.[3]