Sandviken Municipality
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Sandviken Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.
Name
Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Sandviken Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[1]
In total there were 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.[1] 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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| Barrsätra | 1,865 | 1,445 | 54.3 | 44.9 | 78 | 76 | 24 | 25,756 | 41 |
| Björksätra | 2,633 | 1,423 | 62.7 | 35.2 | 56 | 42 | 58 | 14,756 | 21 |
| Gästrike-Hammarby | 2,049 | 1,647 | 44.4 | 55.0 | 75 | 91 | 9 | 21,597 | 23 |
| Jernvallen N | 1,925 | 1,586 | 54.2 | 44.8 | 86 | 86 | 14 | 27,653 | 39 |
| Jernvallen S | 2,337 | 1,811 | 48.5 | 50.6 | 84 | 85 | 15 | 29,618 | 41 |
| Jäderfors-Norrsätra | 1,999 | 1,206 | 53.3 | 45.6 | 68 | 51 | 49 | 19,538 | 26 |
| Järbo | 2,600 | 2,043 | 41.9 | 56.7 | 83 | 91 | 9 | 25,689 | 28 |
| Kungsgården-Åshammar | 2,528 | 1,944 | 39.6 | 58.9 | 82 | 89 | 11 | 25,224 | 23 |
| Murgården | 2,542 | 1,404 | 66.6 | 31.6 | 55 | 36 | 64 | 14,309 | 19 |
| Sandbacka | 2,372 | 1,866 | 49.2 | 49.8 | 82 | 82 | 18 | 27,126 | 36 |
| Sandviken C | 2,069 | 1,835 | 54.5 | 44.0 | 72 | 72 | 28 | 22,038 | 30 |
| Sandviken N | 2,529 | 2,000 | 50.1 | 49.1 | 88 | 91 | 9 | 29,927 | 45 |
| Stadsparken | 1,879 | 1,655 | 62.3 | 36.6 | 74 | 78 | 22 | 19,961 | 31 |
| Storvik N | 1,672 | 1,321 | 48.0 | 50.7 | 83 | 90 | 10 | 26,163 | 32 |
| Säljan | 2,229 | 1,736 | 46.2 | 53.0 | 88 | 90 | 10 | 31,033 | 42 |
| Vallhov | 2,498 | 1,769 | 52.9 | 46.3 | 80 | 72 | 28 | 25,685 | 36 |
| Årsunda | 2,250 | 1,872 | 42.7 | 56.7 | 88 | 94 | 6 | 27,414 | 30 |
| Österfärnebo | 1,234 | 1,049 | 46.6 | 51.6 | 80 | 92 | 8 | 22,467 | 25 |
| Source: SVT[1] | |||||||||
Sports
Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.[2]
See also
- Sandvik - engineering company founded in Sandviken
References
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External links
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- Sandviken - Official site
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