Halmstad Municipality () is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast, in which the city Halmstad is the seat.

The 1971 local government reform was implemented gradually in the area. In 1967 the rural municipality Simlångsdalen (created in 1952) was amalgamated into the City of Halmstad. The city was converted into a municipality of unitary type in 1971, but the seven surrounding municipalities were not merged into it until 1974.

Politics Since the 2022 elections, the municipal government is controlled by a majority consisting of the Social Democrats, Moderates and Christian Democrats, with Social Democrat Stefan Pålsson as chairman of the municipal board.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 71 seats, with the governing majority holding a majority with 40 seats.

Left Party (4) Social Democrats (22) Green Party (2) Hjärta för Halmstad (4) Halmstads Lokala Parti (2) Centre Party (5) Liberals (3) Moderate Party (13) Christian Democrats (5) Sweden Democrats (11)

Localities There are 21 urban areas (also called a tätort or locality) in Halmstad 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 Halmstad 55,688 2 Oskarström 4,011 3 Fyllinge 2,830 4 Getinge 1,885 5 Frösakull 1,635 6 Trönninge 1,555 7 Åled 1,536 8 Harplinge 1,454 9 Gullbrandstorp 1,435 10 Haverdal 1,401 11 Kvibille 793 12 Steninge 769 13 Gullbranna 727 14 Eldsberga 717 15 Villshärad 628 16 Simlångsdalen 577 17 Laxvik 469 18 Holm 462 19 Sennan 430 20 Tylösand 387 21 Skedala 355

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Halmstad 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 104,409 residents, including 79,133 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.2% voted for the left coalition and 52.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Andersberg N/V 2,394 1,136 67.9 24.5 56 13 87 14,909 28Andersberg S 2,606 1,573 69.1 23.4 55 18 82 14,043 26Bäckagård C 1,451 1,066 50.2 48.2 75 73 27 23,578 47Bäckagård N 1,733 1,280 42.4 57.1 91 89 11 30,587 60Bäckagård S 1,508 1,153 38.5 60.8 89 94 6 31,609 65Centrum N 1,232 1,104 42.3 56.3 83 81 19 23,967 46Centrum S 1,280 1,129 44.8 54.0 82 80 20 26,726 45Centrum V 1,424 1,227 47.7 50.5 81 72 28 25,647 44Centrum Ö-Gamletull 1,409 1,153 49.1 48.7 68 73 27 18,682 51Eldsberga-Tönnersjö 1,483 1,049 39.7 59.6 86 87 13 27,617 35Engelbrekt V 1,221 987 50.5 47.7 65 74 26 18,084 47Engelbrekt Ö 1,186 927 42.4 56.3 65 71 29 20,222 39Frennarp 1,517 1,138 53.5 45.9 89 87 13 29,137 53Frösakull V-Tylösand 1,274 1,134 20.7 79.0 75 91 9 31,661 55Frösakull Ö 1,485 1,211 31.2 68.2 83 91 9 30,103 58Furet 1,623 1,204 48.1 50.9 86 83 17 30,348 49Fyllinge N/Ö 1,623 1,309 50.8 47.4 82 60 40 27,333 43Fyllinge S/V 1,725 1,258 55.2 42.7 75 60 40 24,790 34Galgberget V 1,319 1,113 37.3 62.1 83 79 21 28,705 55Galgberget Ö 1,527 1,230 46.3 51.3 80 76 24 26,260 47Gamletull N/Ö 1,620 1,329 48.1 49.2 80 72 28 23,089 45Gamletull V 1,629 1,454 43.8 55.1 84 84 16 29,237 56Getinge N 1,382 975 46.5 52.7 81 81 19 25,550 32Getinge S-Rävinge 1,365 993 47.4 51.5 87 87 13 25,685 35Gullbrandstorp N 1,458 1,055 41.5 57.7 90 93 7 31,244 54Gullbrandstorp S 1,480 1,181 40.2 58.8 87 92 8 27,667 54Gullbranna-Laxvik 1,321 1,051 37.9 61.2 87 88 12 28,394 42Gustavsfält N 1,341 989 57.3 39.8 74 41 59 23,054 30Gustavsfält S 1,450 950 59.1 37.4 66 34 66 18,750 32Harplinge 2,080 1,518 47.4 51.5 88 91 9 28,341 48Haverdal 1,870 1,571 43.0 56.2 83 92 8 29,203 57Holm-Vapnö 1,423 916 38.9 60.8 88 86 14 29,207 45Kattegatt Ö 1,341 1,128 47.0 52.3 80 81 19 28,026 50Kvibille-Slättåkra 1,753 1,314 39.4 59.3 87 91 9 26,918 40Kärleken-Sofieberg V 1,696 1,236 46.3 52.7 88 87 13 30,281 54Kärleken-Sofieberg Ö 1,446 1,099 48.4 50.6 87 86 14 29,206 53Linehed N 1,508 1,324 52.7 45.6 77 47 53 22,272 37Linehed S 1,603 1,089 63.6 32.7 56 29 71 15,919 29Mickedala 1,666 1,272 49.6 49.6 82 87 13 30,951 62Nyatorp N 1,713 1,348 45.5 52.8 79 72 28 24,985 46Nyatorp S 1,443 1,124 43.7 54.1 72 64 36 21,400 40Nyhem S 1,754 1,264 49.2 47.9 57 55 45 13,621 52Nyhem V 1,752 1,289 53.4 44.8 74 57 43 22,129 40Nyhem Ö 1,722 1,251 58.8 37.3 58 46 54 16,424 36Oskarström N 1,603 1,116 46.1 52.3 80 75 25 24,570 28Oskarström S/V 1,592 1,050 46.2 51.7 73 67 33 21,315 24Oskarström Ö 1,792 1,322 45.1 54.3 85 83 17 25,927 35Rotorp N 1,576 1,329 54.3 44.3 75 77 23 26,030 49Rotorp S-Alet 1,383 1,097 48.7 49.7 83 87 13 29,857 56Simlångsdalen 1,610 1,234 41.3 58.1 88 90 10 26,287 34Skedala-Marbäck 1,442 1,154 36.7 62.6 89 90 10 29,346 35Slottsjord-Kattegatt V 1,253 1,079 46.5 52.2 76 78 22 23,965 48Snöstorp S/V 1,891 1,385 47.3 52.1 87 74 26 29,402 46Snöstorp Ö-Brogård 1,630 1,202 49.1 49.7 87 81 19 28,642 46Stenhuggeriet 1,391 1,108 36.3 63.4 85 91 9 33,849 58Steninge-Särdal 1,400 1,099 45.6 53.5 87 91 9 30,903 62Söndrum C 1,343 1,091 39.3 60.2 89 91 9 30,697 58Söndrum N 1,699 1,245 36.5 63.1 89 90 10 31,322 58Söndrum S-Eketånga 1,464 1,124 39.4 59.7 87 89 11 32,915 65Trönninge 1,871 1,356 40.2 58.5 85 83 17 28,171 38Vallås N 1,672 1,309 57.7 39.7 72 61 39 19,496 36Vallås S 1,571 1,157 58.5 40.5 71 54 46 20,129 34Vallås V 1,724 1,186 61.3 34.8 56 48 52 16,381 25Vallås Ö 1,678 1,289 54.0 44.6 79 67 33 24,257 39Åled V 1,396 1,007 43.8 55.6 88 90 10 28,927 40Åled Ö-Sennan 1,292 970 40.4 59.0 84 86 14 25,776 36Östra Förstaden 1,300 1,123 46.1 52.4 79 78 22 25,674 50Source: SVT

Twin towns – sister cities Halmstad is twinned with: Gentofte, Denmark Hanko, Finland Nikopol, Ukraine Stord, Norway

In addition to its twin towns, Halmstad Municipality also cooperates with Asti in Italy and Moshi in Tanzania.

See also University College of Halmstad Hallandsposten Swedish Army Swedish Air Force

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Halmstad Municipality - Official site