Särna is a locality situated in Älvdalen Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 719 inhabitants in 2010.
History The two parishes Särna and Idre were originally part of Norway but were occupied by an expedition of Swedish peasants from Älvdalen in 1644. The 1645 Treaty of Brömsebro was ambiguous regarding the status of the parishes, but when the exact path of the border was to be decided in 1751, Norway accepted a border west of Idre and Särna.
During the German occupation of Norway 1940-45 Särna was considered the only safe escape to Sweden because its police was the only reliable anti-Nazi police along the border.
In 1971, the three municipalities Särna, Idre (which itself had been split off from Särna in 1916) and Älvdalen were amalgamated to form the present municipality of Älvdalen.
Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 75.6 856 7.4 52.2 25.2 9.2 2.1 3.5 59.6 38.01976 81.7 923 5.7 54.4 24.1 8.7 2.2 4.6 60.1 37.31979 80.4 916 4.1 57.5 21.1 7.5 2.3 7.4 61.7 36.01982 83.7 949 4.3 59.2 0.4 19.8 4.6 1.7 10.1 63.3 34.61985 75.1 832 5.0 56.1 1.6 18.3 8.3 10.5 61.2 37.01988 75.6 790 6.3 60.6 3.8 13.7 6.5 2.3 6.8 70.8 27.01991 76.4 811 6.9 53.9 2.1 12.3 5.4 4.1 8.6 6.3 60.8 30.51994 79.9 840 7.5 62.1 3.0 11.1 3.9 1.9 8.6 1.5 72.6 25.51998 64.1 626 16.6 52.7 3.5 8.0 2.6 5.6 10.1 72.8 26.22002 66.4 630 8.6 56.5 4.3 9.2 6.0 5.6 7.3 0.2 69.4 28.12006 72.5 646 6.2 47.8 1.7 10.1 3.3 3.4 16.1 3.7 55.7 32.82010 75.7 655 5.5 48.4 1.4 8.7 1.5 2.6 19.7 10.5 55.3 32.52014 82.2 649 4.9 43.3 0.6 7.4 1.2 2.6 12.3 25.1 48.8 23.62018 81.0 621 4.8 30.3 0.8 7.2 2.4 6.3 9.0 36.9 43.2 54.6
Climate Särna has a continentally-influenced subarctic climate with mild summers and cold winters. The cold extremes in winter are associated with the high altitude and being the Scandinavian spot farthest from the sea. This in turn also contributes to high diurnal temperature variation and significant frost has been recorded in all months of the year.
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