Vimmerby Municipality (''Vimmerby kommun'') is a

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Kalmar County Kalmar County () is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland. The counties are mainly administrative units. Geo ...

, south-eastern

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. Its seat is located in the

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Vimmerby Vimmerby () is a city status in Sweden, city and the seat of Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden with 10,934 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Stångån is a small river running through the city. Vimmerby had its charter as early as the f ...

Stångån Stångån is a small river in southern Sweden, 185 km long and with a drainage basin of 2440 km2. It flows from the highlands of eastern Småland in the south to lake Roxen in the north. At the outlet near Linköping, the average discha ...

is a small

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

running through the municipality. The municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when the ''City of Vimmerby'' was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type.

Localities

There are 6

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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vimmerby 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.

Government and politics

Distribution of the 49 seats in the municipal council after the 2010 election: *

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties For ...

17 *

Moderate Party The Moderate Party ( sv, Moderata samlingspartiet , ; M), commonly referred to as the Moderates ( ), is a liberal-conservative political party in Sweden. The party generally supports tax cuts, the free market, civil liberties and economic liber ...

13 * Centre Party 9 *

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3 *

Sweden Democrats The Sweden Democrats ( sv , Sverigedemokraterna ; SD ) is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Sweden. As of 2022, it is the largest member of Sweden's right-wing governing bloc to which it provides confidence and supply, a ...

2 *

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

2 * Liberal People's Party 1 Results of the

2010 Swedish general election General elections were held in Sweden on 19 September 2010 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag. The main contenders of the election were the governing centre-right coalition the Alliance, consisting of the Moderate Party, the Centre Party, t ...

in Vimmerby: *

35.6% *

25.6% * Centre Party 12.4% *

6.3% *

4.6% * Left Party 4.2% * Liberal People's Party 3.9%

Sister cities

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are cities or towns related to one another in size and history. *

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, U.S. *

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, Finland *

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, Lithuania

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Vimmerby Municipality
- Official site {{authority control Municipalities of Kalmar County