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Falkenberg Municipality

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name	Falkenberg Municipality
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image_caption	Falkenberg Town Hall
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Falkenberg Municipality () is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast. The town Falkenberg is the municipal seat.

The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Falkenberg was amalgamated with six rural municipalities (themselves formed by the 1952 local government reform) and part of a seventh. There are 24 original entities within the area.

Today, Falkenberg holds a strong position in the food and beverage industry with companies such as Arla Foods, Carlsberg and SIA Glass having plants in the city. In the inland Gekås, a major department store, draws visitors from all over the country. Falkenberg is also a tourist city, mainly for its many beaches.

Economy

The main income for the Municipality is tourism from around Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Holland and Norway. The food industry is important. Here has Carlsberg Brewery a plant with 570 employees and Arla Foods who makes cheese has a factory with 400 employees. Other important workplaces is the Gekås shoppingcentre in Ullared which has more than 1,100 employees. The centre is a "Mecka" for low-price shoppers and the company earns more than 2 700 000 000 (340 500 000 US Dollars) kronor each year. The shoppingcentre in Wal-Mart style (almost without food)company has 3,800,000 visitors each year which makes it Sweden's most visited place.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Falkenberg Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

In total there were 46,717 inhabitants, including 35,872 Swedish citizens of voting age. 47.7% voted for the left coalition and 51.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location	Swedish Social Democratic Party}};color:#FFFFFF;"		Moderate Party}};color:#FFFFFF;"
1 V Gärdet-Hamnen	1,855	1,524	50.0	49.1
2 Arvidstorp	2,249	1,729	56.2	43.0
3 Herting	2,184	1,634	51.8	46.6
4 V Gärdet-Smedjeholm	1,963	1,512	51.6	46.6
5 Centrum	1,798	1,645	49.8	49.4
6 Ö Gärdet-Vindlien	2,103	1,646	57.0	42.6
7 N Skrea Strand	1,485	1,224	38.7	60.9
8 Hjortsberg	1,958	1,633	50.9	48.3
9 Tånga-Sloalyckan	2,098	1,515	57.2	41.7
10 Falkagård-Stafsinge	1,845	1,349	54.4	44.7
11 Slätten	1,616	1,257	55.9	43.6
12 S Skrea-Strand	1,771	1,314	38.3	61.1
Glommen-Olofsbo	1,878	1,602	44.4	54.6
Köinge-Okome	1,094	849	44.0	54.5
Ljungby	1,214	937	42.9	56.8
Långås-Morup	1,339	898	43.6	55.8
Skogstorp	2,287	1,663	52.4	46.4
Skrea-Ringsegård	2,120	1,587	45.6	53.3
Slöinge	1,371	985	48.2	50.3
Tröingeberg	2,398	1,730	49.2	49.8
Ugglarp-Långasand	1,127	952	44.3	54.7
Ullared	1,496	1,149	40.9	57.8
Vessigebro	1,666	1,239	47.9	50.9
Vinbergs samhälle	1,482	1,050	41.7	57.0
Årstad	1,703	1,257	39.0	60.1
Älvsered	1,339	1,026	35.4	63.5
Ätran-Fegen	1,278	966	39.4	59.2
Source: SVT

Politics

The Right Party was the major party until 1931, when the Social Democratic Party gained that position. The municipality has, however, been a stronghold for the centre-right, whose parties have led the municipality thereafter, except for the period between 1994-1998 and 2018-. The current mayor is Per Svensson (Socialdemokratic Party) and the deputy mayor is Annelie Andelén (Centre).

Number of seats in the municipal assembly	Party	url=http://www.val.se/val/val_98/slutres/kommun/pmk1382.html	title=Valmyndigheten: Procent och mandatfördelning kommunfullmäktigvalet 1998	access-date=2008-12-08	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610025024/http://www.val.se/val/val_98/slutres/kommun/pmk1382.html	archive-date=2011-06-10	url-status=dead }}
Moderata samlingspartiet	8	7	9	11	9	9	11
Centerpartiet	12	10	12	11	10	10	10
Liberalerna	2	4	2	3	2	3	2
Kristdemokraterna	4	3	2	2	2	2	3
Miljöpartiet de Gröna	2	2	2	2	2	1	2
Socialdemokraterna	15	16	18	17	18	18	20
Vänsterpartiet	2	2	2	2	2	2	3
Aktiv Politik	3	4	2
SPI	3	3
Sverigedemokraterna			2	3	6	6	10

Localities

There are 17 urban areas (also called a tätort, or locality) in Falkenberg Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Falkenberg	18,972
2	Skogstorp	2,180
3	Slöinge	974
4	Ullared	820
5	Skrea	789
6	Vessigebro	774
7	Glommen	687
8	Vinberg	598
9	Långås	516
10	Älvsered	475
11	Heberg	463
12	Ätran	400
13	Ringsegård	383
14	Bergagård	265
15	Årstad	258
16	Morup	248
17	Vinbergs kyrkby	216

Parks

Bengtesgård meadow, a nature reserve

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — Sister cities

The municipality is twinned with:

Iceland Borgarfjörður, Iceland
Poland Gniezno, Poland
FRO Leirvík, Faroe Islands
Finland Pieksämäki, Finland
Norway Ullensaker, Norway

Notable natives

Pär Zetterberg, football player
Niclas Alexandersson, football player
Magnus Svensson, football player
Stellan Bengtsson, former world champion, table tennis
Per-Gunnar Andersson, race driver
Lizzy DeVine, former lead singer of Vains Of Jenna
J.P White, former bassist of Vains Of Jenna
Nicki Kin, former guitarist of Vains Of Jenna
Jacki Stone, former drummer Vains Of Jenna

References

Statistics Sweden

References

World News - WN.Com [http://wn.com/Falkenberg_Municipality Falkenberg Municipality] Retrieved 2020-01-18
(11 September 2022). "Valresultat 2022 för Falkenberg i riksdagsvalet". [[Swedish Television.
"Valmyndigheten: Procent och mandatfördelning kommunfullmäktigvalet 1998".
"Valmyndigheten: Val till kommunfullmäktige i Falkenberg".
(July 2025). "Val till kommunfullmäktige i Falkenberg".
"Val till kommunfullmäktige i Falkenberg".
"Val till kommunfullmäktige i Falkenberg".
"Bengtesgårds Ängs Naturreservat - Nature reserve near Långås".
"Vänorter - Falkenbergs kommun".

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