Laholm Municipality () is a municipality in Halland County in southwest Sweden. The seat is located in Laholm.

The amalgamation process during the local government reform in the 1970s took place in two steps. In 1971 the City of Laholm merged with two rural municipalities forming the unitary municipality and three years later four more units were added.

Localities There are 14 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Laholm Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2010. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population 1 Laholm 6,150 2 Mellbystrand 1,619 3 Veinge 1,190 4 Knäred 1,088 5 Våxtorp 970 6 Lilla Tjärby 914 7 Vallberga 657 8 Genevad 565 9 Skummeslövsstrand 491 10 Skottorp 475 11 Ränneslöv 413 12 Hishult 332 13 Ysby 260 14 Hasslöv 228

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Laholm 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 26,276 residents, including 20,080 Swedish citizens of voting age. 38.3% voted for the left coalition and 60.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Hasslöv-Skottorp 1,405 992 33.3 66.4 83 84 16 25,943 33Hishult 972 728 34.5 64.6 81 88 12 22,683 23Knäred 1,822 1,339 37.1 61.7 75 76 24 21,313 25Laholm C 2,387 1,923 48.8 49.9 76 77 23 21,414 32Laholm N 1,878 1,489 38.3 61.2 82 80 20 24,808 31Laholm V 2,334 1,819 41.4 58.0 85 80 20 26,538 38Laholm Ö 2,587 1,766 45.3 53.3 74 66 34 23,139 32Mellbystrand 2,482 2,097 34.1 65.0 85 93 7 28,355 46Ränneslöv 1,312 1,019 33.4 65.3 88 90 10 25,243 27Skummeslöv 1,842 1,540 33.2 66.0 84 89 11 27,297 52Tjärby 1,541 1,097 40.0 58.7 81 77 23 24,695 28Vallberga-Ysby 1,497 1,101 33.6 64.7 84 79 21 24,612 25Veinge 1,878 1,360 37.5 61.3 80 84 16 23,809 29Våxtorp 2,339 1,810 38.3 60.9 83 85 15 23,663 26Source: SVT

Elections Below are the results listed since the 1973 municipal reform. Between 1988 and 1998 the Sweden Democrats' results were not published by the SCB due to the party's small size nationwide. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of the electorate casting a ballot, but "Votes" only applies to valid ballots cast.

Riksdag Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 91.9 12,714 1.2 27.4 0.0 54.1 5.0 0.5 11.5 0.0 0.0 1976 92.5 13,792 1.2 26.8 0.0 51.1 7.2 0.5 13.2 0.0 0.0 1979 91.5 14,103 1.9 27.9 0.0 41.5 7.7 0.5 20.2 0.0 0.0 1982 91.6 14,270 2.1 30.2 1.3 37.4 4.3 1.2 23.2 0.0 0.0 1985 89.6 14,108 1.9 31.1 1.7 31.0 11.4 0.0 22.8 0.0 0.0 1988 85.9 13,666 2.5 32.2 5.6 30.0 9.4 1.9 18.3 0.0 0.0 1991 86.1 14,203 1.9 27.1 3.4 22.1 6.5 6.6 22.8 0.0 8.6 1994 85.9 14,444 3.5 35.1 5.3 21.3 4.4 3.6 23.8 0.0 1.8 1998 81.1 13,544 7.1 28.7 4.1 13.3 2.9 13.7 23.4 0.0 0.0 2002 79.0 13,404 4.7 32.9 3.5 16.3 10.2 11.4 16.6 1.2 0.0 2006 81.4 14,180 3.7 28.7 3.4 15.9 5.5 6.4 27.9 6.1 0.0 2010 84.0 15,135 3.2 25.3 4.6 12.9 5.7 4.7 33.4 8.7 0.0 2014 86.0 15,661 3.0 27.0 5.1 11.3 3.9 3.9 24.8 18.3 0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 91.9 12,714 28.6 70.6 0.0 0.8 99.2 1976 92.5 13,792 28.0 71.5 0.0 0.5 99.5 1979 91.5 14,103 29.8 69.4 0.0 0.8 99.2 1982 91.6 14,270 32.3 64.9 0.0 2.9 97.1 1985 89.6 14,108 33.0 65.2 0.0 1.8 98.2 1988 85.9 13,666 40.3 57.7 0.0 2.0 98.0 1991 86.1 14,203 29.0 58.0 0.0 13.0 95.6 1994 85.9 14,444 43.9 53.1 0.0 3.0 97.0 1998 81.1 13,544 39.9 53.3 0.0 6.8 93.2 2002 79.0 13,404 41.1 54.5 0.0 4.4 95.6 2006 81.4 14,180 35.8 55.7 0.0 8.5 91.5 2010 84.0 15,135 33.1 56.7 8.7 1.5 98.5 2014 86.0 15,661 35.1 43.9 18.3 2.7 97.3

Pictures

References

Statistics Sweden

External links

Laholm Municipality - Official site