Osby Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Osby.
The amalgamation during the 1970s' local government reform took place in the area on 1 January 1974, when the former market town Osby (itself instituted as such in 1937) was merged with three adjacent rural municipalities.
Localities There are 3 localities (or built-up areas) in Osby 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 Osby 6,947 2 Lönsboda 1,899 3 Killeberg 575
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Osby 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 13,238 residents, including 9,888 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.9% voted for the left coalition and 61.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Loshult/Killeberg 1,305 889 37.5 61.8 83 77 23 25,801 34Osby NV 2,198 1,517 40.6 58.0 75 68 32 22,597 31Osby NÖ 1,814 1,294 34.9 63.6 78 76 24 22,325 29Osby N 1,698 1,383 37.1 61.9 74 77 23 21,577 27Osby SV 1,570 1,238 39.4 59.9 86 82 18 25,310 32Osby S 1,767 1,372 35.7 63.5 86 84 16 27,089 35Örkened 1,434 1,107 37.9 61.5 88 91 9 25,385 29Örkened C 1,452 1,088 37.7 61.5 70 75 25 19,499 21Source: SVT
Elections Riksdag Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD 2014 85.5 8,244 3.4 35.2 4.3 5.9 2.7 4.9 16.1 25.4 2018 87.0 8,385 3.9 28.2 2.2 7.3 2.4 7.3 16.1 31.2
International relations The municipality is twinned with:
Gribskov Municipality (formerly Græsted-Gilleleje), Denmark
References Statistics Sweden
External links
Osby - Official site Osby.info - local portal Osby - www.osby.nu Osby parish