Ovanåker 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
Gävleborg County
Gävleborg County () is a Counties of Sweden, county or ''län'' on the Baltic Sea coast of Sweden. It borders the counties of Uppsala County, Uppsala, Västmanland County, Västmanland, Dalarna County, Dalarna, Jämtland County, Jämtland and Và ...
, east central
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...
. The municipal seat is located in
Edsbyn.
The subdivision reform of 1952 saw the amalgamation of "old" Ovanåker with ''Voxna'' (both formed by the first local government acts of 1862). In 1977 ''Alfta'' (which 1974-1976 had been in
Bollnäs Municipality
Bollnäs Municipality () is a municipality in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Bollnäs.
The municipality evolved during a series of local government reforms in the 1950s and 1970s. It consists of six original entit ...
) was added.
Localities
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Alfta
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Edsbyn (seat)
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Knåda
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Ovanåker
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Roteberg
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Runemo
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Viksjöfors
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Ovanåker Municipality's electoral districts in the
2022 Swedish general election
General elections were held in Sweden on 11 September 2022 to elect the 349 members of the Riksdag who in turn elected the Prime Minister of Sweden. Under the constitution, regional and municipal elections were also held on the same day. The pr ...
sourced from
SVT's election platform, in turn taken from
SCB official statistics.
In total there were 11,705 residents, including 9,015 Swedish citizens of voting age.
[ 47.5% voted for the left coalition and 51.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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References
External links
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Municipalities of Gävleborg County
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