Arvika Municipality | |
Native Name: | Arvika kommun |
Native Name Lang: | sv |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Coordinates: | 59.65°N 47°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
Subdivision Type1: | County |
Subdivision Name1: | Värmland County |
Seat Type: | Seat |
Seat: | Arvika |
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: | Värmland |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1784 |
Iso Code: | SE |
Website: | www.arvika.se |
Arvika Municipality (Arvika kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Arvika.
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Arvika was amalgamated with five rural municipalities of Glava, Gunnarskog, Älgå, Brunskog and Stavnäs.
Arvika is most known for the annual Arvika Festival that attracts international artists.
This is a demographic table based on Arvika 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 25,838 residents, including 19,885 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% 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" | |||||||
Agneteberg | 2,520 | 1,866 | 50.5 | 48.8 | 74 | 79 | 21 | 23,474 | 29 | ||||||||
Degerängen | 1,424 | 1,010 | 57.3 | 41.7 | 77 | 77 | 23 | 25,911 | 31 | ||||||||
Dottevik | 1,552 | 1,120 | 54.5 | 43.8 | 65 | 72 | 28 | 20,548 | 39 | ||||||||
Edane-Mangskog | 2,670 | 2,028 | 50.3 | 49.0 | 85 | 92 | 8 | 25,446 | 36 | ||||||||
Glava | 972 | 724 | 46.9 | 51.9 | 72 | 83 | 17 | 20,590 | 24 | ||||||||
Gunnarskog-Bogen | 1,937 | 1,518 | 41.8 | 57.7 | 83 | 91 | 9 | 24,764 | 28 | ||||||||
Haga | 1,260 | 1,030 | 51.4 | 47.5 | 78 | 88 | 12 | 23,790 | 30 | ||||||||
Jössefors | 1,325 | 991 | 43.0 | 56.4 | 78 | 90 | 10 | 26,552 | 29 | ||||||||
Minneberg | 1,464 | 1,176 | 53.3 | 45.0 | 72 | 78 | 22 | 21,998 | 32 | ||||||||
Rosendal | 1,255 | 1,017 | 52.8 | 46.5 | 79 | 83 | 17 | 25,712 | 33 | ||||||||
Solberga | 1,986 | 1,686 | 57.8 | 41.0 | 69 | 79 | 21 | 19,079 | 35 | ||||||||
Solvik | 1,615 | 1,249 | 50.7 | 48.8 | 86 | 94 | 6 | 28,410 | 38 | ||||||||
Stavnäs-Högerud | 1,418 | 1,091 | 47.3 | 52.0 | 85 | 91 | 9 | 25,712 | 30 | ||||||||
Styckåsen | 1,382 | 1,134 | 61.1 | 38.5 | 67 | 76 | 24 | 18,497 | 28 | ||||||||
Taserud | 1,340 | 953 | 52.0 | 47.3 | 86 | 87 | 13 | 28,520 | 47 | ||||||||
Älgå-Ny | 1,718 | 1,292 | 42.5 | 57.3 | 85 | 90 | 10 | 26,020 | 28 | ||||||||
Source: SVT |
Result of the 2018 municipality election (loss or gain from 2014 elections):[2]