Oskarshamn Municipality
Oskarshamn Municipality is a municipality in Kalmar County in south-eastern Sweden, where the city Oskarshamn is seat.
The amalgamations in the present municipality took place in 1967 when three rural municipalities joined the City of Oskarshamn, which was transformed into a municipality of unitary type in 1971.
In 1966 construction started on the first nuclear power plant, OKG, within the present municipality. Since then two more reactors have been built and the plant today produces about 10% of Sweden's electricity. In October 2020 the municipal council voted in favour of the building of Forsmark [Nuclear Power Plant#Waste disposal|Forsmark nuclear waste repository], with the final decision needing to be made by the Swedish government.
Coat of arms
Oskarshamn was named after King Oscar I of Sweden. The top of the coat of arms show the insignia of the King. In the other fields there are symbols for shipping, trade and wealth.Its current design stems from 1942, but it basically only differers from the old in the alignment of the symbols. The coat of arms was re-used for the new municipality after 1971 and the arms of Döderhult and Misterhult became obsolete.
Localities
There are nine urban areas in Oskarshamn Municipality.In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
| # | Locality | Population |
| 1 | Oskarshamn | 17,143 |
| 2 | Påskallavik | 1,077 |
| 3 | Kristdala | 994 |
| 4 | Figeholm | 802 |
| 5 | Fårbo | 520 |
| 6 | Mysingsö | 398 |
| 7 | Emsfors 1) | 353 |
| 8 | Bockara | 351 |
| 9 | Saltvik | 285 |
1) A minor part of Emsfors is in Mönsterås Municipality
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Oskarshamn 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 27,180 residents, including 20,862 Swedish citizens of voting age. 41.6 % voted for the left coalition and 57.2 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.