Kinda Municipality | |
Native Name: | Kinda kommun |
Native Name Lang: | sv |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Östergötland County |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Kisa |
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: | Östergötland |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | 0513 |
Iso Code: | SE |
Website: | www.kinda.se |
Kinda Municipality (Kinda kommun) is a municipality in Östergötland County, southeast Sweden. The municipal seat is located in the town Kisa, with some 4,000 inhabitants.
The present municipality was created in 1974 through the amalgamation of three municipalities called Norra Kinda, Södra Kinda and Västra Kinda (North, South and West Kinda respectively), which had been formed in 1952 from the nine original entities. The name was taken from the old Kinda Hundred.
This is a demographic table based on Kinda 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 10,040 residents, including 7,765 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 46.1% voted for the left coalition and 52.4% 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" | |||||||
Horn-Hycklinge | 1,440 | 1,200 | 39.4 | 56.2 | 83 | 92 | 8 | 22,604 | 31 | ||||||||
Kisa samhälle | 1,577 | 1,255 | 47.1 | 52.3 | 87 | 89 | 11 | 23,855 | 24 | ||||||||
Kisa SÖ | 1,704 | 1,273 | 45.8 | 53.6 | 78 | 81 | 19 | 22,286 | 26 | ||||||||
Kisa V | 1,642 | 1,216 | 45.6 | 53.0 | 82 | 83 | 17 | 23,560 | 22 | ||||||||
Rimforsa N | 1,775 | 1,373 | 50.5 | 48.4 | 84 | 94 | 6 | 25,137 | 41 | ||||||||
Rimforsa S | 1,902 | 1,448 | 47.1 | 52.0 | 90 | 95 | 5 | 28,181 | 46 | ||||||||
Source: SVT |
Naturewise, the municipality is above all known for the Kinda Canal, a waterway of canals taking boat tours from lake Roxen south through Linköping, ending in Horn. The total of distance is 90 km.