Sandviken Municipality () 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.

In total there were 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Barrsätra 1,865 1,445 54.3 44.9 78 76 24 25,756 41Björksätra 2,633 1,423 62.7 35.2 56 42 58 14,756 21Gästrike-Hammarby 2,049 1,647 44.4 55.0 75 91 9 21,597 23Jernvallen N 1,925 1,586 54.2 44.8 86 86 14 27,653 39Jernvallen S 2,337 1,811 48.5 50.6 84 85 15 29,618 41Jäderfors-Norrsätra 1,999 1,206 53.3 45.6 68 51 49 19,538 26Järbo 2,600 2,043 41.9 56.7 83 91 9 25,689 28Kungsgården-Åshammar 2,528 1,944 39.6 58.9 82 89 11 25,224 23Murgården 2,542 1,404 66.6 31.6 55 36 64 14,309 19Sandbacka 2,372 1,866 49.2 49.8 82 82 18 27,126 36Sandviken C 2,069 1,835 54.5 44.0 72 72 28 22,038 30Sandviken N 2,529 2,000 50.1 49.1 88 91 9 29,927 45Stadsparken 1,879 1,655 62.3 36.6 74 78 22 19,961 31Storvik N 1,672 1,321 48.0 50.7 83 90 10 26,163 32Säljan 2,229 1,736 46.2 53.0 88 90 10 31,033 42Vallhov 2,498 1,769 52.9 46.3 80 72 28 25,685 36Årsunda 2,250 1,872 42.7 56.7 88 94 6 27,414 30Österfärnebo 1,234 1,049 46.6 51.6 80 92 8 22,467 25Source: SVT

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.

See also Sandvik - engineering company founded in Sandviken

References

External links

Sandviken - Official site