Arvika Municipality () is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Arvika.
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Arvika was amalgamated with five rural municipalities of Glava, Gunnarskog, Älgå, Brunskog and Stavnäs.
Arvika is most known for the annual Arvika Festival that attracts international artists.
Localities Arvika (seat) Edane Glava Gunnarskog Jössefors Klässbol Sulvik Åmotfors (partly)
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Arvika 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 25,838 residents, including 19,885 Swedish citizens of voting age. 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Agneteberg 2,520 1,866 50.5 48.8 74 79 21 23,474 29Degerängen 1,424 1,010 57.3 41.7 77 77 23 25,911 31Dottevik 1,552 1,120 54.5 43.8 65 72 28 20,548 39Edane-Mangskog 2,670 2,028 50.3 49.0 85 92 8 25,446 36Glava 972 724 46.9 51.9 72 83 17 20,590 24Gunnarskog-Bogen 1,937 1,518 41.8 57.7 83 91 9 24,764 28Haga 1,260 1,030 51.4 47.5 78 88 12 23,790 30Jössefors 1,325 991 43.0 56.4 78 90 10 26,552 29Minneberg 1,464 1,176 53.3 45.0 72 78 22 21,998 32Rosendal 1,255 1,017 52.8 46.5 79 83 17 25,712 33Solberga 1,986 1,686 57.8 41.0 69 79 21 19,079 35Solvik 1,615 1,249 50.7 48.8 86 94 6 28,410 38Stavnäs-Högerud 1,418 1,091 47.3 52.0 85 91 9 25,712 30Styckåsen 1,382 1,134 61.1 38.5 67 76 24 18,497 28Taserud 1,340 953 52.0 47.3 86 87 13 28,520 47Älgå-Ny 1,718 1,292 42.5 57.3 85 90 10 26,020 28Source: SVT
Notable natives Kenny Bräck, racing driver Per Eklund, rally and rallycross driver Tommy Kristoffersson, rallycross and racing driver Håkan Hagegård, opera singer Kjellaug Nordsjö, icon painter August Warberg, actor Jacob de la Rose, ice hockey player Hjalmar Frisell, military commander and sport shooter
Politics Result of the 2018 municipality election (loss or gain from 2014 elections): Moderate Party 18.36% (+3.35%) Centre Party 12.46% (+2.02%) Liberals 3.37% (−1.04%) Christian Democrats 2.84% (+0.92%) Swedish Social Democratic Party 39.18% (−7.53%) Left Party 6.75% (−0.35%) Green Party 3.05% (−2.32%) Sweden Democrats 11.95% (+3.38%) Feminist Initiative 1.87 (+1.66%) Other parties 0.16% (−0.08%)
References
External links
Arvika Municipality – Official site Arvika Festival – Official site
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