Falkenberg Municipality

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Falkenberg Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast. The town Falkenberg is the municipal seat.

The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Falkenberg was amalgamated with six rural municipalities (themselves formed by the 1952 local government reform) and part of a seventh. There are 24 original entities within the area.

Today, Falkenberg holds a strong position in the food and beverage industry with companies such as Arla Foods, Carlsberg and SIA Glass having plants in the city. In the inland Gekås, a major department store, draws visitors from all over the country. Falkenberg is also a tourist city, mainly for its many beaches.

EconomyEdit

The main income for the Municipality is tourism from around Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Holland and Norway. The food industry is important. Here has Carlsberg Brewery a plant with 570 employees and Arla Foods who makes cheese has a factory with 400 employees. Other important workplaces is the Gekås shoppingcentre in Ullared which has more than 1,100 employees. The centre is a "Mecka" for low-price shoppers and the company earns more than 2 700 000 000 (340 500 000 US Dollars) kronor each year.<ref name="datarecord">World News - WN.Com Falkenberg Municipality Retrieved 2020-01-18</ref> The shoppingcentre in Wal-Mart style (almost without food)company has 3,800,000 visitors each year which makes it Sweden's most visited place.Template:Citation needed

DemographicsEdit

This is a demographic table based on Falkenberg Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=FalkenbergVal2022>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In total there were 46,717 inhabitants, including 35,872 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=FalkenbergVal2022/> 47.7% voted for the left coalition and 51.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

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%

1 V Gärdet-Hamnen

1,855

1,524

50.0

49.1

78

22

24,103

31

2 Arvidstorp

2,249

1,729

56.2

43.0

78

72

28

22,520

31

3 Herting

2,184

1,634

51.8

46.6

78

69

31

25,125

35

4 V Gärdet-Smedjeholm

1,963

1,512

51.6

46.6

81

75

25

23,479

31

5 Centrum

1,798

1,645

49.8

49.4

80

77

23

22,586

32

6 Ö Gärdet-Vindlien

2,103

1,646

57.0

42.6

84

73

27

27,270

34

7 N Skrea Strand

1,485

1,224

38.7

60.9

85

15

28,104

42

8 Hjortsberg

1,958

1,633

50.9

48.3

78

85

15

23,021

38

9 Tånga-Sloalyckan

2,098

1,515

57.2

41.7

72

54

46

22,152

31

10 Falkagård-Stafsinge

1,845

1,349

54.4

44.7

76

61

39

22,668

28

11 Slätten

1,616

1,257

55.9

43.6

86

14

27,856

39

12 S Skrea-Strand

1,771

1,314

38.3

61.1

87

91

9

31,562

51

Glommen-Olofsbo

1,878

1,602

44.4

54.6

85

92

8

25,745

38

Köinge-Okome

1,094

849

44.0

54.5

84

86

14

24,346

28

Ljungby

1,214

937

42.9

56.8

88

92

8

26,417

30

Långås-Morup

1,339

898

43.6

55.8

81

19

24,156

27

Skogstorp

2,287

1,663

52.4

46.4

82

72

28

25,295

31

Skrea-Ringsegård

2,120

1,587

45.6

53.3

89

92

8

29,961

50

Slöinge

1,371

985

48.2

50.3

80

20

22,584

29

Tröingeberg

2,398

1,730

49.2

49.8

88

83

17

28,257

36

Ugglarp-Långasand

1,127

952

44.3

54.7

85

93

7

27,270

48

Ullared

1,496

1,149

40.9

57.8

80

81

19

22,357

24

Vessigebro

1,666

1,239

47.9

50.9

83

87

13

24,829

32

Vinbergs samhälle

1,482

1,050

41.7

57.0

84

16

25,925

24

Årstad

1,703

1,257

39.0

60.1

84

85

15

25,060

32

Älvsered

1,339

1,026

35.4

63.5

82

85

15

21,436

21

Ätran-Fegen

1,278

966

39.4

59.2

81

86

14

22,145

24

Source: SVT<ref name=FalkenbergVal2022/>

PoliticsEdit

The Right Party was the major party until 1931, when the Social Democratic Party gained that position. The municipality has, however, been a stronghold for the centre-right, whose parties have led the municipality thereafter, except for the period between 1994-1998 and 2018-. The current mayor is Per Svensson (Socialdemokratic Party) and the deputy mayor is Annelie Andelén (Centre).

Number of seats in the municipal assembly
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Moderata samlingspartiet	8	7	9	11	9	9	11
Centerpartiet	12	10	12	11	10	10	10
Liberalerna	2	4	2	3	2	3	2
Kristdemokraterna	4	3	2	2	2	2	3
Miljöpartiet de Gröna	2	2	2	2	2	1	2
Socialdemokraterna	15	16	18	17	18	18	20
Vänsterpartiet	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
Aktiv Politik	3	4	2
SPI	3	3
Sverigedemokraterna			2	3	6	6	10

LocalitiesEdit

There are 17 urban areas (also called a tätort, or locality) in Falkenberg Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Falkenberg	18,972
2	Skogstorp	2,180
3	Slöinge	974
4	Ullared	820
5	Skrea	789
6	Vessigebro	774
7	Glommen	687
8	Vinberg	598
9	Långås	516
10	Älvsered	475
11	Heberg	463
12	Ätran	400
13	Ringsegård	383
14	Bergagård	265
15	Årstad	258
16	Morup	248
17	Vinbergs kyrkby	216