Ludvika Municipality () is a municipality in Dalarna County, central Sweden. It has its seat in the town of Ludvika.

In 1971 the City of Ludvika (itself instituted as such in 1919) was amalgamated with the adjacent municipalities of Grangärde and Säfsnäs, forming the present entity.

Localities Figures as of 2004.

Ludvika 13,724 Grängesberg 3,356 Sunnansjö 758 Saxdalen 752 Fredriksberg 741 Nyhammar 682 Sörvik 540 Blötberget 529 Persbo/Gräsberg 459 Gonäs 432 Landforsen/Håksberg 438 Grangärde 374 Other/countryside 2,967

Economy These were the largest employers in Ludvika in 2005: Hitachi ABB Power Grids 2,400 County medical facilities 600 Spendrups brewery 285 VBU Västerbergslagens Utbildningscentrum 220 RSV Tax Office 110 Samhall-gruppen 80 GIA Industri AB 75 Brunnsviks folkhögskola 75 Connex Sverige AB 70 Seco Tools AB 70 ISS Cleaning 60

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Ludvika 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 19,610 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 48.8 % voted for the left coalition and 49.8 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Björkås-Stallbacken 1,971 1,542 42.0 56.7 76 87 13 24,444 20Blötberget-Gonäs 1,144 884 41.9 57.1 78 90 10 25,559 28Fredriksberg 753 599 65.0 32.8 74 83 17 20,190 24Högberget 1,597 1,070 52.6 46.4 77 70 30 26,692 47Knutsbo 1,858 1,338 48.8 50.5 90 82 18 31,600 56Kyrkbyn-Nyhammar 1,783 1,430 47.9 50.4 80 90 10 23,048 26Lorentsberga 1,765 1,334 51.3 47.9 86 83 17 28,276 42Ludvika gård 2,065 1,319 55.4 43.0 64 59 41 19,595 31Ludvika Ulrika 2,266 1,664 49.0 50.3 73 71 29 22,487 35Magneten 1,397 989 48.0 51.2 77 66 34 26,360 40Marnäs 2,065 1,601 52.4 46.3 69 68 32 21,042 32Näset 2,188 1,393 61.1 36.7 53 49 51 16,501 25Sunnansjö-Saxdalen 1,929 1,561 40.0 58.6 81 92 8 23,389 26Sörvik-Håksberg 2,072 1,610 43.8 54.9 88 90 10 29,261 40Öraberget 1,588 1,276 46.2 50.9 76 84 16 22,523 17Source: SVT

Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 89.0 21,040 9.3 56.6 20.5 5.1 1.2 6.8 65.8 32.41976 90.4 22,021 7.8 57.4 19.5 6.3 0.9 7.7 65.2 33.51979 90.1 21,727 8.7 59.1 13.2 6.3 1.1 10.9 67.7 30.51982 91.1 21,687 8.2 61.7 1.7 11.1 3.5 1.0 12.6 70.0 27.21985 89.3 20,718 8.9 59.5 1.7 8.5 9.3 12.0 68.4 29.81988 84.9 19,133 9.4 57.4 5.4 8.3 7.7 2.2 9.5 72.1 25.51991 85.0 18,880 6.7 53.5 2.6 6.2 6.1 5.2 12.1 6.6 60.1 29.51994 86.1 18,636 9.5 60.1 4.8 4.9 4.6 2.4 12.1 1.0 74.4 24.01998 80.4 16,620 20.8 46.7 3.6 2.7 2.7 8.5 13.1 71.1 27.02002 77.5 15,521 13.2 53.9 3.9 4.6 7.7 5.9 8.9 1.1 71.0 27.12006 79.2 15,656 10.0 49.2 3.2 6.1 4.4 4.0 16.6 2.9 62.4 31.12010 82.7 16,552 8.2 45.1 5.1 3.9 5.0 3.3 20.7 7.6 58.4 32.92014 85.5 16,841 7.6 40.6 4.6 4.1 3.1 2.4 15.4 20.0 52.9 25.02018 87.1 16,868 8.3 35.4 2.9 6.6 3.5 4.5 14.1 23.2 53.1 45.32022 84.3 16,327 6.2 35.2 2.8 4.6 2.9 4.7 14.1 28.1 48.8 49.8

Twin Towns & Sister cities Ludvika has three twin towns: Bad Honnef, Germany Imatra, Finland Kontiolahti, Finland

Sports

Many sport teams have their origins in Ludvika Municipality. The soccer teams "Östansbo IS" (ÖIS), "Ludvika FK" (LFK, male) and "IFK Ludvika" (female) come from Ludvika and play in divisions 4 and 3. All three also have junior teams. There is also an ice-hockey team, Ludvika Hockey Förening Lightning. Other teams include ping-pong teams as well as other sports.

References

External links

Ludvika - Official site