Trelleborg Municipality (''Trelleborgs kommun'') is the southernmost
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Sweden, in
Skåne County. Its seat is located in the city
Trelleborg
Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the ...
.
The present municipality was created in 1967 through the amalgamation of the ''City of Trelleborg'' with five rural municipalities. It consists of over thirty original local government units.
The municipality boasts 35 kilometers of predominantly sandy beach in the south,
beech woods to the north, and in between one of the most fertile soils in the world.
Localities
There are 8
urban area
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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Trelleborg Municipality.
In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
Elections
Below are the results since the 1973 municipal reform listed. Between 1988 and 1998 the
Sweden Democrats' results were not published by the
SCB due to the party's small size nationwide. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of the electorate casting a ballot, but "Votes" only applies to valid ballots cast.
Riksdag
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.
References
Statistics Sweden
External links
Trelleborg Municipality- Official site
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Municipalities of Skåne County
Municipalities in the Øresund Region