Kävlinge Municipality () is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in
Scania County in southern
Sweden
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. Its seat is located in the town of
Kävlinge
Kävlinge () is a locality and the seat of Kävlinge Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 32,341 inhabitants in 2021.
In 1996, a train containing large amounts of ammonia derailed and around 9,000 people had to be evacuated from the area. T ...
.
Localities
There are nine
urban area
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s (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kävlinge 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.
Barsebäck was the location of a
nuclear power plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP), also known as a nuclear power station (NPS), nuclear generating station (NGS) or atomic power station (APS) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power st ...
, opened in the 1970s, but after decades of Danish protests -
Copenhagen
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being located just across the
Öresund Sound - it closed in 2005.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Kävlinge Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election
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sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
In total there were 32,305 inhabitants, including 23,627 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 38.0% voted for the left coalition and 61.2% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
]
Elections
Below are the results since the 1973 municipal reform listed. Between 1988 and 1998 the Sweden Democrats
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' 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
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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.
Twinnings
* Alatskivi Parish, Estonia
References
Statistics Sweden
External links
Kävlinge
- Official site
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Municipalities of Skåne County