Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden
Hedemora Municipality (Hedemora kommun ) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden . Its seat is in the city of Hedemora .
In 1966 the City of Hedemora was amalgamated with the rural municipality by the same name and with Husby .
Military history
Hedemora town was gathering place for the peasant militia during the Swedish War of Liberation against Denmark . In the victorious Battle of Brunnbäck Ferry in 1521, Peder Svensson from the village ofVibberboda in present day Hedemora Municipality was one of the two leaders (the other was Olof Bonde from Norrbärke in todays Smedjebacken Municipality ).
During the allotment system , the Colonel's Company of Dalarna Regiment had its recruitment area in Hedemora and Husby parishes. The colonels of the regiment had their seat at Husby during this period at Näs kungsgård and Husby kungsgård .[ 3] [ 4]
Localities
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Hedemora Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[ 5]
In total there were 15,435 inhabitants, including 11,840 Swedish citizens of voting age.[ 5] 45.0 % voted for the left coalition and 53.3 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location
%
%
Garpenberg
960
687
43.9
51.1
71
80
20
21,961
28
Hedemora NV
2,781
2,087
43.4
55.1
83
84
16
25,770
33
Hedemora NÖ
2,201
1,719
44.3
54.9
81
80
20
22,988
26
Hedemora SV
2,716
1,923
46.0
52.5
77
78
22
24,753
30
Hedemora SÖ
2,459
2,028
46.1
51.8
78
80
20
22,805
27
Husby
1,453
1,137
45.3
52.7
86
91
9
24,051
38
Långshyttan
1,731
1,375
49.7
48.8
73
77
23
21,728
18
Vikmanshyttan
1,134
884
39.3
60.0
77
87
13
23,791
20
Source: SVT [ 5]
Year
%
Votes
V
S
MP
C
L
KD
M
SD
NyD
Left
Right
1973 [ 6]
91.0
10,649
4.1
49.3
31.0
5.5
2.0
7.7
53.4
44.2
1976 [ 7]
91.3
11,203
3.5
48.3
30.5
6.8
1.5
8.7
51.8
46.1
1979 [ 8]
90.5
11,260
4.4
49.8
24.1
6.9
1.6
12.6
54.1
43.5
1982 [ 9]
91.3
11,378
4.7
50.8
2.6
20.0
3.8
1.8
16.3
55.5
40.0
1985 [ 10]
89.5
11,337
5.7
49.5
2.4
17.0
10.8
14.5
55.2
42.2
1988 [ 11]
85.1
10,615
6.6
47.5
5.6
16.3
9.1
11.4
59.8
36.8
1991 [ 12]
86.2
10,677
5.5
43.1
3.8
13.2
6.3
6.5
14.3
5.9
48.6
40.3
1994 [ 13]
86.0
10,706
5.4
49.3
5.6
12.3
4.8
3.7
14.6
0.9
62.7
35.4
1998 [ 14]
80.1
9,637
16.0
40.0
5.3
8.8
2.5
10.4
15.4
61.3
37.1
2002 [ 15]
75.8
8,916
10.4
42.9
5.1
12.9
7.6
7.9
10.6
0.6
58.4
39.0
2006 [ 16]
78.3
9,177
7.4
40.8
4.7
12.1
4.1
5.3
19.5
3.1
52.9
44.0
2010 [ 17]
81.8
9,686
6.4
36.4
6.1
9.6
3.5
4.6
23.9
8.3
48.9
41.5
2014 [ 18]
84.6
9,923
6.1
35.0
4.5
9.3
2.8
3.1
17.7
17.5
45.6
32.9
2018 [ 19]
85.8
9,824
7.5
30.6
2.9
10.0
2.7
6.9
15.3
22.5
50.9
47.4
Sister cities
Hedemora has five sister cities :
References
External links
Hedemora - Official website (in English and Swedish)
Places adjacent to Hedemora Municipality
Municipalities Municipal seats
International National Geographic