Flen Municipality () is a municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen (instituted in 1949), the market town (köping) Malmköping and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the former Oppunda hundred that was split between Flen and Nyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the former Villåttinge hundred.
Geography Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to above sea level on the lakes of Långhalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area. The highest peak is at on the tripoint between Flen, Gnesta and Strängnäs municipalities.
Localities Figures from Statistics Sweden, 2004.
Flen 6,107 Malmköping 2,006 Hälleforsnäs 1,737 Sparreholm 799 Skebokvarn 225 Mellösa 549 Bettna 410 Vadsbro 118
Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a köping) already in 1785.
Elections The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.
Riksdag Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right 1973 93.5 11,513 3.2 49.4 26.8 8.0 1.8 10.6 52.6 45.4 1976 93.1 11,658 2.8 49.2 26.9 8.1 1.6 11.3 52.0 46.3 1979 92.3 11,747 3.5 49.5 21.9 8.5 1.5 14.6 53.0 45.0 1982 93.2 11,762 4.0 52.1 1.6 18.5 4.4 1.6 17.5 56.1 40.4 1985 91.2 11,499 4.2 51.9 1.8 15.3 10.6 15.4 56.1 41.3 1988 87.3 10,821 5.0 50.2 5.2 14.3 9.3 2.3 13.2 60.4 36.8 1991 87.0 10,765 4.1 45.4 3.1 11.8 7.0 6.4 15.6 6.1 49.5 40.8 1994 87.7 10,924 6.1 52.1 5.0 9.2 5.1 3.6 17.1 0.7 63.2 35.0 1998 81.4 9,924 12.1 43.3 4.9 6.8 2.7 11.2 17.6 60.3 38.3 2002 80.3 9,724 7.5 48.1 4.5 7.5 9.2 8.6 12.1 1.0 60.1 37.4 2006 81.9 9,911 5.4 46.5 4.3 8.7 4.9 5.6 20.2 2.7 56.2 39.4 2010 84.7 10,271 5.5 38.7 5.9 8.2 4.8 4.9 24.2 6.9 50.1 42.3 2014 85.4 10,136 5.5 36.2 4.9 7.5 3.4 3.5 18.6 17.8 46.6 33.0 2018 86.0 10,118 6.2 33.0 3.5 8.3 3.2 5.6 16.9 21.2 51.7 46.9
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Flen Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
Flen is a poor municipality by lower Svealand standards. As of 2022 it was a rather segregated municipality with very high levels of ethnic minority populations concentrated south of the railway, while people of Swedish background are in a sizeable majority in the outer parts of town and in the countryside. Every district was beneath the median income of its southern neighbour Nyköping. In total there were 16,271 inhabitants with 11,959 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote. The political demographics were 50.4 % for the left bloc and 48.4 % for the right bloc, with the left dominating the town and the right sizeably winning the villages and countryside. No district reached 35% college graduates and unemployment was high throughout much of the municipality. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Bettna 1,502 1,199 42.2 56.5 82 88 12 24,876 30Flens C 1,359 877 64.8 34.2 63 52 48 18,802 25Flens N 1,479 1,197 51.0 48.0 80 79 21 24,872 30Flens S 1,554 893 68.5 27.5 50 26 74 14,764 19Flens V 1,218 965 57.1 42.3 71 63 37 20,676 26Flens Ö 1,284 963 47.3 50.4 74 66 34 23,164 31Helgesta-Hyltinge 1,558 1,289 46.3 52.6 82 85 15 23,559 34Hälleforsnäs 1,684 1,160 53.2 45.9 63 64 36 19,390 23Malmköping V 1,546 1,104 42.4 56.6 68 73 27 20,273 23Malmköping Ö 1,796 1,303 47.0 51.2 77 84 16 22,908 30Mellösa 1,291 1,009 47.5 51.6 83 89 11 25,069 34Source: SVT
Sister City Vareš, Bosnia and Herzegovina
References
External links
Flen Municipality - Official site