Finspång Municipality

Finspång Municipality () is a municipality in Östergötland County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Finspång, with some 21 654 (30 September 2024), inhabitants.

Nature The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.

History Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannonballs was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer. By Louis de Geer (1622-1695), the Finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery developed into the city Finspång. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and aluminum processing.

Localities Finspång (seat) Rejmyre Lotorp Sonstorp Falla Hällestad Ljusfallshammar Grytgöl Igelfors Borggård Butbro Hävla Bränntorp Byle Kolstad Lämmetorp Lövlund Prästköp

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Finspång 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 21,862 residents, including 16,657 Swedish citizens of voting age. 48.5% voted for the left coalition and 50.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Bergska 1,179 903 52.8 45.7 85 83 17 27,080 37Brenäs 475 402 40.9 58.2 91 92 8 27,194 38Centrum 1,227 1,041 54.4 43.9 76 78 22 20,411 30Grosvad 1,784 1,294 53.5 45.7 78 71 29 23,826 30Grytgöl 549 447 43.3 55.4 87 96 4 26,006 27Hagaryd 554 463 42.9 54.7 85 92 8 24,055 31Hårstorp N 1,609 1,160 52.4 46.1 81 72 28 25,759 39Hårstorp S 1,631 1,110 50.6 47.2 70 64 36 22,861 32Hällestad 1,006 773 50.2 48.5 84 91 9 24,064 28Ljusfallshammar 439 367 41.8 56.3 80 92 8 22,564 28Lotorp 1,152 865 42.0 56.9 88 91 9 29,181 34Nyhem 1,524 1,022 52.4 45.9 71 65 35 22,546 30Regna 582 482 37.1 61.1 77 90 10 21,704 21Rejmyre 1,087 861 43.0 55.5 79 88 12 23,021 23Sonstorp 889 694 39.0 60.2 88 93 7 26,287 28Storängen 1,618 1,246 52.7 46.1 74 70 30 22,035 29Svälthagen 1,420 1,055 48.8 49.6 81 79 21 24,626 31Viggestorp 1,451 1,141 46.0 52.6 86 88 12 28,585 39Östermalm 1,686 1,331 52.4 46.6 80 76 24 23,843 33Source: SVT

Elections

Riksdag These are the results of the Riksdag elections of Finspång Municipality since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 93.7 15,333 3.9 56.9 0.0 20.6 6.1 2.9 9.3 0.0 0.0 1976 94.2 15,981 3.3 55.8 0.0 19.5 8.1 2.5 10.3 0.0 0.0 1979 93.0 16,078 4.5 56.4 0.0 14.7 8.2 2.6 13.1 0.0 0.0 1982 93.4 16,121 4.3 59.2 1.4 13.2 4.2 2.8 14.9 0.0 0.0 1985 92.2 16,001 4.6 58.2 1.4 12.5 9.6 0.0 13.6 0.0 0.0 1988 88.5 15,190 5.5 56.1 4.9 10.3 8.4 4.1 10.5 0.0 0.0 1991 89.1 15,095 5.1 50.7 2.8 7.5 6.6 8.3 12.3 0.0 6.4 1994 89.3 15,081 7.4 55.1 4.3 6.9 4.9 5.2 14.1 0.0 1.2 1998 84.3 13,830 14.5 46.2 4.0 4.4 2.9 11.4 14.9 0.0 0.0 2002 83.0 13,253 9.4 51.6 4.0 5.7 8.2 9.6 9.6 0.9 0.0 2006 83.7 13,301 6.6 47.1 4.1 7.0 4.7 7.0 18.0 2.7 0.0 2010 85.2 13,760 6.1 43.9 5.8 5.6 4.6 5.8 22.2 5.3 0.0 2014 86.4 13,971 5.3 43.2 4.6 5.1 3.3 4.6 16.1 15.4 0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 93.7 15,333 60.8 36.0 0.0 3.2 96.8 1976 94.2 15,981 59.1 37.9 0.0 3.0 97.0 1979 93.0 16,078 60.9 36.0 0.0 3.1 96.9 1982 93.4 16,121 63.5 32.3 0.0 4.2 95.8 1985 92.2 16,001 62.8 35.7 0.0 1.5 98.5 1988 88.5 15,190 66.5 29.2 0.0 4.3 95.7 1991 89.1 15,095 55.8 34.7 0.0 9.5 96.9 1994 89.3 15,081 66.8 31.1 0.0 2.1 97.9 1998 84.3 13,830 64.7 33.6 0.0 1.7 98.3 2002 83.0 13,253 65.0 33.1 0.0 1.9 98.1 2006 83.7 13,301 57.8 36.7 0.0 5.5 94.5 2010 85.2 13,760 55.8 38.2 5.3 0.7 99.3 2014 86.4 13,971 53.1 29.1 15.4 2.4 97.6

Twin towns Finspång Municipality has formal twin town treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.

Stromberg, Germany Yvoir, Belgium Givet, France

Today there is no contact with Stromberg or Givet, and contact was broken with Yvoir before being reestablished in 1997.

Finspång also has (informally) established cooperation with seven other cities: Dzierzgoń, Poland Finsterwalde, Germany Joutsa, Finland Nordborg, Denmark Salaspils, Latvia Sibiu, Romania Stade, Germany

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Notable people born in Finspång Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818–1896) - First Prime Minister of Sweden Kerstin Ekman (born 1933) - author Pär Arvidsson (born 1960) - butterfly swimmer Bengt Baron (born 1962) - backstroke swimmer Liselotte Neumann (born 1966) - professional golfer Dan Swanö (born 1973) - musician and music producer Robert Steiner (born 1973) - professional soccer player

Sports The following sports clubs are located in Finspång Municipality:

Sonstorps IK Torstorps IF

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