Lindesberg Municipality () is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lindesberg.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Lindesberg and the former market town of Frövi were joined.

Localities By size, as of 2000: Lindesberg (seat) Frövi Storå Fellingsbro Vedevåg Stråssa Gusselby Ramsberg Rockhammar Fryggesboda

Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 90.9 15,758 3.9 45.9 31.3 7.5 2.4 8.6 49.8 47.41976 92.0 16,420 3.1 45.8 31.6 7.2 1.8 10.2 48.9 49.01979 90.4 16,377 4.2 47.3 25.0 7.5 2.1 13.5 51.5 45.91982 91.4 16,740 4.2 50.7 1.7 20.7 4.4 2.7 15.5 54.9 40.61985 89.7 16,559 4.5 49.0 2.5 18.3 10.3 15.0 53.5 43.61988 85.4 15,627 5.5 47.8 5.2 16.7 9.7 3.8 11.2 58.4 37.61991 85.9 15,756 4.6 43.3 3.0 12.3 7.5 8.5 13.7 6.6 47.9 42.01994 86.9 16,004 7.0 50.4 5.1 11.4 5.6 4.3 15.0 0.7 62.5 36.31998 80.3 14,382 13.7 41.1 4.5 8.6 3.1 11.5 15.6 59.3 38.92002 79.3 13,989 7.7 47.5 4.0 12.0 8.4 7.6 10.1 1.6 59.3 38.12006 81.3 14,165 5.3 43.5 3.6 12.4 4.4 5.4 18.2 5.1 52.4 40.32010 84.6 14,845 4.6 38.6 5.2 8.0 5.0 4.8 23.5 9.2 48.4 41.32014 86.8 15,348 4.3 36.9 4.7 7.5 2.8 3.7 16.9 20.9 45.9 30.82018 87.6 15,280 6.1 31.6 2.6 8.5 2.8 6.1 15.8 25.0 48.7 49.72022 84.5 15,053 5.1 30.2 3.2 6.0 2.7 5.4 15.5 30.1 44.5 53.7

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Lindesberg 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 23,563 residents with 18,038 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote. The political demographics were 44.5% for the left bloc and 53.7% for the right bloc. The northeastern part of Lindesberg has a majority of non-Swedish background. It also has the lowest median income and the lowest levels of employment, while the wealthiest district of Linde encircling the town has the highest share of Swedish background in the municipality. The town of Lindesberg leaned slightly to the left, whereas the countryside had very high shares for the right and in particular the Sweden Democrats. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Fellingsbro V 1,123 876 45.0 52.9 76 85 15 21,926 24Fellingsbro Ö 1,389 1,076 41.7 55.7 75 82 18 22,187 25Frövi V 1,847 1,458 48.9 48.7 80 82 18 24,708 26Frövi Ö 1,626 1,226 47.0 52.1 84 89 11 27,595 34Guldsmedshyttan 1,399 1,118 40.6 58.4 75 87 13 22,743 24Gusselby 692 556 31.6 67.2 84 90 10 25,960 23Linde 1,478 1,141 34.7 64.3 86 92 8 28,154 33Lindesbergs M 2,199 1,767 50.3 48.1 76 78 22 21,711 32Lindesbergs NÖ 1,879 1,118 61.7 36.9 62 37 63 18,379 25Lindesbergs N 1,823 1,348 45.2 54.0 81 72 28 25,758 30Lindesbergs SÖ 1,428 1,146 46.1 51.5 81 82 18 25,000 33Lindesbergs V 2,118 1,631 46.7 51.9 83 83 17 26,477 35Ramshyttan 679 586 42.1 55.4 83 88 12 23,694 34Rockhammar 772 616 39.7 57.3 81 87 13 22,997 25Storå 2,036 1,570 39.0 59.5 75 86 14 22,080 22Vedevåg 1,075 805 41.9 55.8 79 82 18 24,777 29Source: SVT

Twin towns

Lindesberg's five twin towns with the year of its establishing:

(1940) Kuusankoski (Kouvola), Finland (?) Oppdal Municipality, Norway (?) Jammerbugt Municipality, Denmark (1990) Frunzensky District, Saint Petersburg, Russia (1995) Haßberge, Germany

Industry The largest employer is the municipality. After that follow the large hospital, serving the northern parts of Örebro County. Larger companies include Por Pac (Fagerdala Foams), Arvin Meritor and Liab.

References

External links

Lindesberg Municipality - Official site