| Klippan Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Klippans kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 56.1333°N 21°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Skåne County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Klippan |
| 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: | Scania |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1276 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
Klippan Municipality (Swedish: Klippans kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Klippan.
The municipality was created in 1974 through the amalgamation of the market town Klippan (itself instituted in 1945) with the rural municipality of Riseberga and part of Östra Ljungby.
Söderåsen National Park is partly situated within the municipality.
There were five localities in the municipality in 2018.[1]
This is a demographic table based on Klippan 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 17,742 residents, including 12,988 Swedish citizens of voting age.[2] 33.6% voted for the left coalition and 64.7% 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" | |||||||
| Klippan N-Gråmanstorp | 1,708 | 1,207 | 37.5 | 60.8 | 74 | 66 | 34 | 20,729 | 27 | ||||||||
| Klippan NÖ-Solslätt | 1,680 | 1,202 | 37.0 | 62.0 | 78 | 73 | 27 | 23,484 | 29 | ||||||||
| Klippan SÖ-Nyslätt | 2,266 | 1,667 | 35.9 | 61.8 | 71 | 73 | 27 | 20,850 | 23 | ||||||||
| Klippan V | 2,107 | 1,496 | 37.4 | 60.5 | 70 | 64 | 36 | 19,950 | 26 | ||||||||
| Krika-Bonnarp | 1,363 | 997 | 28.5 | 70.9 | 83 | 81 | 19 | 27,632 | 27 | ||||||||
| Ljungbyhed N | 1,440 | 1,078 | 32.7 | 66.2 | 70 | 79 | 21 | 20,946 | 27 | ||||||||
| Ljungbyhed S | 1,268 | 972 | 32.3 | 66.5 | 76 | 85 | 15 | 21,989 | 32 | ||||||||
| Riseberga-Färingtofta | 1,258 | 986 | 34.1 | 64.6 | 77 | 84 | 16 | 23,404 | 37 | ||||||||
| Stidsvig | 995 | 696 | 32.6 | 65.4 | 80 | 79 | 21 | 24,801 | 27 | ||||||||
| Storäng-Vedby | 2,101 | 1,581 | 30.9 | 67.5 | 86 | 86 | 14 | 26,815 | 30 | ||||||||
| Östra Ljungby | 1,556 | 1,106 | 29.0 | 69.0 | 78 | 79 | 21 | 23,065 | 23 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
The Church of St. Peter, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, was completed in 1966.[3]