Finspång Municipality

Municipality in Östergötland County, Sweden

Finspång Municipality Finspångs kommun
Municipality
Finspång Castle
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 58°42′N 15°48′E / 58.700°N 15.800°E / 58.700; 15.800
Country	Sweden
County	Östergötland County
Seat	Finspång
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,215.05 km² (469.13 sq mi)
• Land	1,055.28 km² (407.45 sq mi)
• Water	159.77 km² (61.69 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	21,694
• Density	18/km² (46/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Östergötland
Municipal code	0562
Website	www.finspong.se

Finspång Municipality (Finspångs kommun) is a municipality in Östergötland County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Finspång, with some 13,000 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 cannon balls 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.^[3]

In total there were 21,862 residents, including 16,657 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 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

Residents

Citizen
adults

Left vote

Right vote

Employed

Swedish
parents

Foreign
heritage

Income
SEK

Degree

Bergska

1,179

903

52.8

45.7

27,080

Brenäs

475

402

40.9

58.2

27,194

Centrum

1,227

1,041

54.4

43.9

20,411

Grosvad

1,784

1,294

53.5

45.7

23,826

Grytgöl

549

447

43.3

55.4

26,006

Hagaryd

554

463

42.9

54.7

24,055

Hårstorp N

1,609

1,160

52.4

46.1

25,759

Hårstorp S

1,631

1,110

50.6

47.2

22,861

Hällestad

1,006

773

50.2

48.5

24,064

Ljusfallshammar

439

367

41.8

56.3

22,564

Lotorp

1,152

865

42.0

56.9

29,181

Nyhem

1,524

1,022

52.4

45.9

22,546

Regna

582

482

37.1

61.1

21,704

Rejmyre

1,087

861

43.0

55.5

23,021

Sonstorp

889

694

39.0

60.2

26,287

Storängen

1,618

1,246

52.7

46.1

22,035

Svälthagen

1,420

1,055

48.8

49.6

24,626

Viggestorp

1,451

1,141

46.0

52.6

28,585

Östermalm

1,686

1,331

52.4

46.6

23,843

Source: SVT^[3]

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^[4]	93.7	15,333	3.9	56.9	0.0	20.6	6.1	2.9	9.3	0.0	0.0
1976^[5]	94.2	15,981	3.3	55.8	0.0	19.5	8.1	2.5	10.3	0.0	0.0
1979^[6]	93.0	16,078	4.5	56.4	0.0	14.7	8.2	2.6	13.1	0.0	0.0
1982^[7]	93.4	16,121	4.3	59.2	1.4	13.2	4.2	2.8	14.9	0.0	0.0
1985^[8]	92.2	16,001	4.6	58.2	1.4	12.5	9.6	0.0	13.6	0.0	0.0
1988^[9]	88.5	15,190	5.5	56.1	4.9	10.3	8.4	4.1	10.5	0.0	0.0
1991^[10]	89.1	15,095	5.1	50.7	2.8	7.5	6.6	8.3	12.3	0.0	6.4
1994^[11]	89.3	15,081	7.4	55.1	4.3	6.9	4.9	5.2	14.1	0.0	1.2
1998^[12]	84.3	13,830	14.5	46.2	4.0	4.4	2.9	11.4	14.9	0.0	0.0
2002^[13]	83.0	13,253	9.4	51.6	4.0	5.7	8.2	9.6	9.6	0.9	0.0
2006^[14]	83.7	13,301	6.6	47.1	4.1	7.0	4.7	7.0	18.0	2.7	0.0
2010^[15]	85.2	13,760	6.1	43.9	5.8	5.6	4.6	5.8	22.2	5.3	0.0
2014^[16]	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.

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:

(Source and more information: [1] Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish))

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:

References

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Finspång i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1973 (page 162)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1976 (page 157)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1979 (page 181)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1982 (page 182)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1985 (page 183)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1988 (page 164)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1991 (page 23)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1994 (page 37)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1998 (page 34)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2002" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2006" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2010" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Finspångs kommun 2014" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 22 August 2017.