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Lilla Edet Municipality

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Lilla Edet Municipality () is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Lilla Edet.

The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the market town (köping) Lilla Edet (instituted as late as 1951) was merged with Flundre (part of), Inlands Torpe and Lödöse.

Population figures from Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005.

  • Lilla Edet (seat) (pop. 4,936)
  • Lödöse (pop. 1,265)
  • Göta (pop. 962)
  • Nygård (pop. 436)
  • Hjärtum (pop. 384)

Of these localities, Lödöse is nationally known for being the original location of the city of Gothenburg. In the medieval age it was a busy city and hosted an important Swedish harbor, until it was moved to its present location in 1473, and little remained. Today it has an interesting museum with many objects.

Industry

The largest employer in Lilla Edet Municipality apart from the government is the paper mill "SCA Hygiene Products AB Edet Bruk", with some 500 employees. It has been in operation for some 120 years, and is best known today for its manufacturing of the toilet paper brand "Edet", available in every store in Sweden.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lilla Edet 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 14,502 residents, including 10,601 Swedish citizens of voting age. 41.7% voted for the left coalition and 56.5% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

LocationSwedish Social Democratic Party}};color:#FFFFFF;"Moderate Party}};color:#FFFFFF;"%%
Göta1,9911,33439.159.7
Hjärtum-Utby1,7241,36642.755.8
Lilla Edet N1,9091,41948.948.4
Lilla Edet S1,8051,28640.258.0
Lödöse-Tunge2,0251,41943.954.3
Nygård-Prässebo1,7331,31538.259.4
Ström1,6801,19744.154.4
Västerlanda1,6351,26537.061.7
Source: SVT

Friendship cities

  • Finland Nurmijärvi, Finland

References

References

  1. (11 September 2022). "Valresultat 2022 för Lilla Edet i riksdagsvalet". [[Swedish Television.
  2. "Vänorter". Lilla Edets kommun.
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