| Sorsele Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Sorsele kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Västerbotten County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Sorsele |
| 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: | Lapland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 2422 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.sorsele.se |
Sorsele Municipality (Suorsán kommuvdna; Southern Sami: Suarsan tjïelte) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Sorsele.
Sorsele Municipality covers an area of 8,012 km2. It is the eleventh largest municipality by size, but has one of the smallest populations.
The municipality has not been affected by the two local government reforms of the 20th century, but has had its large size since the municipal system was implemented in 1863.
The name appears to stem from the Sami word sourge, which means branch, and sel, which is of Swedish origin and refers to a kind of stream. This refers to the protected Vindel River (Swedish: Vindelälven), which flows through the town and municipality of Sorsele.
Geography wise, around half of the municipal area is part of the Vindelfjällens Nature Reserve.
There is only one locality (or urban area) in Sorsele Municipality:[1]
This is a demographic table based on Sorsele 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 2,461 residents, including 1,843 Swedish citizens of voting age.[2] 56.6% voted for the left coalition and 42.4% 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" | |||||||
| Gargnäs | 420 | 311 | 55.2 | 43.8 | 78 | 78 | 22 | 19,821 | 30 | ||||||||
| Sorsele | 2,041 | 1,532 | 56.5 | 42.6 | 86 | 88 | 12 | 22,985 | 26 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||