Skärblacka is a

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situated in

Norrköping Municipality Norrköping Municipality (''Norrköpings kommun'') is a municipality in Östergötland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrköping, with some 90,000 inhabitants. It is the largest municipality in Östergötland. ...

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the ...

, Sweden with 4,059 inhabitants in 2010. In everyday use, the town is known as simply ''Blacka''. Until 1971, the town was the administrative centre of Skärblacka municipality, and had a relatively well built-up centre, with an ice rink, swimming pool and secondary school.

Riksdag elections

Skärblacka used to be a strongly left-wing area with an industrial heritage. Throughout the early 21st century, however, the vote share for the

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fell substantially, which saw the right-leaning parties gain more votes than the leftist ones in 2018 after the village had a 40-point left-wing cushion just 16 years prior. Unlike many other industrial villages in the greater region surrounding Skärblacka, the voting population has remained at steady levels ever since it entered Norrköping Municipality in the early 1970s. Between 1973 and 2018 Skärblacka went from being 46 points more left-wing than the national average to leaning slightly right of said average.

Communication

Skärblacka has a train and bus station on the Kimstad –

Finspång Finspång () is a locality and the seat of Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 12,440 inhabitants in 2010. Overview Finspång is a traditional industrial town. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal fa ...

line,

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Link� ...

and

Linköping Linköping () is a city in southern Sweden, with around 105,000 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Chu ...

Industry

The main employers are the paper factory, part of

BillerudKorsnäs Billerud AB is a Swedish pulp and paper manufacturer with headquarters in Solna, Sweden. The company simplified its name from BillerudKorsnäs to Billerud after the acquisition of Verso 2022, an American producer of coated paper. Billerud has ni ...

. They mostly produce paper for bags, sacks and

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. The factory was opened in 1872, but today's industry was built up in the 1960s. Many of the town's inhabitants commute to

and

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Skärblacka: *

Skärblacka IF Skärblacka IF is a Swedish football club located in Skärblacka. Background Skärblacka IF currently plays in Division 5 Östergötland Mellersta which is the sixth tier of Swedish football. They play their home matches at the Skärblacka IP in ...

References

Populated places in Östergötland County Populated places in Norrköping Municipality {{Östergötland-geo-stub