| Nordanstig Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Nordanstigs kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Image Alt: | A sunset in Harmånger |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Gävleborg County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Bergsjö |
| 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: | Hälsingland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 2132 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.nordanstig.se |
Nordanstig Municipality (Nordanstigs kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. The municipal seat is located in Bergsjö.
The municipality was created in 1974 when Bergsjö, Gnarp, Hassela and Harmånger were amalgamated. The name chosen for the new municipality was taken from a corresponding ecclesiastical entity, Nordanstigs kontrakt, which got this name in 1916 on the initiative of Nathan Söderblom, the archbishop of Uppsala.
The current municipal arms was designed in the mid 80s. It depicts: A horse to symbolize the forest and agricultural industry; the net symbolizes fishing and six net mesh to symbolize the six municipal parishes (Hassela, Bergsjö, Ilsbo, Gnarp, Jättendal and Harmånger).
Olympic gold medalist in slalom from 2018 PyongChang, André Myhrer, is born in Bergsjö, Nordanstig municipality.
This is a demographic table based on Nordanstig 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 9,475 inhabitants, with 7,393 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 47.8% voted for the left coalition and 50.8% 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" | |||||||
| Bergsjö | 2,293 | 1,770 | 46.8 | 51.5 | 79 | 86 | 14 | 23,024 | 30 | ||||||||
| Gnarp | 2,267 | 1,749 | 45.6 | 52.7 | 81 | 93 | 7 | 22,288 | 27 | ||||||||
| Harmånger-Ilsbo | 1,975 | 1,495 | 44.3 | 54.9 | 81 | 90 | 10 | 22,291 | 25 | ||||||||
| Hassela-Älgered | 1,228 | 998 | 53.7 | 45.0 | 79 | 89 | 11 | 21,835 | 24 | ||||||||
| Jättendal-Stocka | 1,712 | 1,381 | 52.1 | 46.5 | 79 | 90 | 10 | 23,018 | 28 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
The manufacturing industry provides 25% of the employment; service and communications 14%; agriculture, forest and fishing industries 6%; education and research 9%.
Largest private employers were (2004):[2]
Nordanstig has one sister city: Holeby in Denmark.