Askersund Municipality


Askersund Municipality is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Askersund.
The present municipality was created in 1971, when the former City of Askersund was merged with the rural municipalities Hammar and Lerbäck.
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Localities

Twin towns

Askersund's two twin towns with the year of its establishing:
  1. Eura, Finland
  2. Jordanów, Poland

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Askersund 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 11,518 residents, including 9,144 Swedish citizens of voting age. 44.8% voted for the left coalition and 53.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Elections

These are the results of the elections in the municipality since the first election after the municipal reform, being held in 1973. The exact results of Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by SCB from 1988 to 1998 due to the party's small size at the time. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of eligible people casting any ballots, whereas "Votes" denotes the number of valid votes only.