Hedemora Municipality () is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is in the city of Hedemora.
In 1966 the City of Hedemora was amalgamated with the rural municipality by the same name and with Husby.
Military history Hedemora town was gathering place for the peasant militia during the Swedish War of Liberation against Denmark. In the victorious Battle of Brunnbäck Ferry in 1521, Peder Svensson from the village ofVibberboda in present day Hedemora Municipality was one of the two leaders (the other was Olof Bonde from Norrbärke in today's Smedjebacken Municipality).
During the allotment system, the Colonel's Company of Dalarna Regiment had its recruitment area in Hedemora and Husby parishes. The colonels of the regiment had their seat at Husby during this period at Näs kungsgård and Husby kungsgård.
Localities Hedemora (seat) Långshyttan Vikmanshyttan Garpenberg Västerby Husby
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Hedemora Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
In total there were 15,435 inhabitants, including 11,840 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.0% voted for the left coalition and 53.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Garpenberg 960 687 43.9 51.1 71 80 20 21,961 28Hedemora NV 2,781 2,087 43.4 55.1 83 84 16 25,770 33Hedemora NÖ 2,201 1,719 44.3 54.9 81 80 20 22,988 26Hedemora SV 2,716 1,923 46.0 52.5 77 78 22 24,753 30Hedemora SÖ 2,459 2,028 46.1 51.8 78 80 20 22,805 27Husby 1,453 1,137 45.3 52.7 86 91 9 24,051 38Långshyttan 1,731 1,375 49.7 48.8 73 77 23 21,728 18Vikmanshyttan 1,134 884 39.3 60.0 77 87 13 23,791 20Source: SVT
Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 91.0 10,649 4.1 49.3 31.0 5.5 2.0 7.7 53.4 44.21976 91.3 11,203 3.5 48.3 30.5 6.8 1.5 8.7 51.8 46.11979 90.5 11,260 4.4 49.8 24.1 6.9 1.6 12.6 54.1 43.51982 91.3 11,378 4.7 50.8 2.6 20.0 3.8 1.8 16.3 55.5 40.01985 89.5 11,337 5.7 49.5 2.4 17.0 10.8 14.5 55.2 42.21988 85.1 10,615 6.6 47.5 5.6 16.3 9.1 11.4 59.8 36.81991 86.2 10,677 5.5 43.1 3.8 13.2 6.3 6.5 14.3 5.9 48.6 40.31994 86.0 10,706 5.4 49.3 5.6 12.3 4.8 3.7 14.6 0.9 62.7 35.41998 80.1 9,637 16.0 40.0 5.3 8.8 2.5 10.4 15.4 61.3 37.12002 75.8 8,916 10.4 42.9 5.1 12.9 7.6 7.9 10.6 0.6 58.4 39.02006 78.3 9,177 7.4 40.8 4.7 12.1 4.1 5.3 19.5 3.1 52.9 44.02010 81.8 9,686 6.4 36.4 6.1 9.6 3.5 4.6 23.9 8.3 48.9 41.52014 84.6 9,923 6.1 35.0 4.5 9.3 2.8 3.1 17.7 17.5 45.6 32.92018 85.8 9,824 7.5 30.6 2.9 10.0 2.7 6.9 15.3 22.5 50.9 47.42022 83.3 9,867 5.6 29.3 3.5 6.2 2.1 6.2 16.1 28.8 44.6 53.3
Sister cities Hedemora has five sister cities:
Bauska, Latvia Ishozi-Ishunju-Gera, Tanzania Nord-Fron, Norway Nysted, Denmark Vehkalahti, Finland
References
External links
Hedemora - Official website