Torsby Municipality () is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden, bordering Norway. Its seat is located in the town of Torsby.

The name Torsby means Thor's village.

The present municipality consists of eight original local government entities (as of 1863): Dalby, Fryksände, Lekvattnet, Norra Finnskoga, Norra Ny, Nyskoga, Södra Finnskoga, Vitsand and Östmark. In 1952 they were grouped into four larger units and in 1974 they were all united.

There is much Finnish heritage in Torsby Municipality.

Localities

Population centers in the municipality include: Ambjörby Oleby Östmark Stöllet Sysslebäck Torsby (seat)

Transportation Torsby is the end station on the Fryksdal branchline from Karlstad via Kil. There is a small airport with scheduled flights to Stockholm, whilst the nearest international airport is Gardermoen in Norway. The road, E45, passes through the municipality.

Sport Sven-Göran Eriksson and Marcus Berg have their roots in Torsby.

The municipality has a number of skiing centres for both alpine skiing (Hovfjället and Branäs) and cross-country skiing (Mattila and Långberget). A cross-country ski tunnel, which is also the world's longest, opened on June 16, 2006.

Stjerneskolan, a senior high school, specializes in cross-country skiing and biathlon. The most famous former pupil is Gunde Svan. Carl Johan Bergman, who was born in Ekshärad, also studied there for a year.

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Torsby 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 11,448 inhabitants, with 8,766 Swedish citizens of voting age. 44.9% voted for the left coalition and 53.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Likenäs 634 521 52.5 45.3 80 93 7 23,432 24Oleby 1,288 981 42.8 56.6 85 92 8 27,395 31Stöllet 908 694 41.9 56.5 69 82 18 19,017 20Svenneby 1,823 1,377 44.5 54.8 77 86 14 24,864 26Sysslebäck 1,025 789 47.0 51.9 72 78 22 21,290 16Torsby N 2,320 1,706 47.4 51.3 79 81 19 24,329 27Torsby S 1,597 1,270 47.8 50.9 79 86 14 23,269 30Vitsand 769 598 39.0 59.7 74 84 16 21,785 23Östmark 1,084 830 40.5 58.6 74 87 13 22,037 22Source: SVT

Elections

Riksdag These are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 90.6 11,724 8.9 45.6 0.0 28.6 5.5 0.8 9.7 0.0 0.0 1976 90.7 11,376 7.7 44.9 0.0 28.5 6.2 0.7 11.7 0.0 0.0 1979 90.9 11,169 8.0 47.9 0.0 24.5 4.9 0.6 13.6 0.0 0.0 1982 91.0 11,096 7.1 50.6 1.5 20.4 3.3 0.9 16.2 0.0 0.0 1985 88.0 10,545 7.0 49.7 1.3 17.6 7.8 0.0 16.5 0.0 0.0 1988 84.8 9,945 7.0 50.6 4.2 16.8 6.5 1.5 13.3 0.0 0.0 1991 84.6 9,811 6.3 45.5 2.3 14.7 4.7 4.2 17.0 0.0 5.2 1994 86.4 9,873 8.6 52.1 3.6 11.3 2.9 2.3 17.8 0.0 0.7 1998 80.5 8,798 17.2 42.1 3.3 8.4 2.1 6.7 19.4 0.0 0.0 2002 76.6 7,975 11.6 43.6 2.8 12.6 5.9 5.4 15.6 1.2 0.0 2006 78.5 7,842 8.3 44.7 2.5 11.7 3.2 3.9 21.3 2.9 0.0 2010 79.8 7,766 7.2 44.3 2.8 8.8 3.5 3.1 24.3 4.2 0.0 2014 81.3 7,599 5.8 43.5 2.7 8.9 2.5 2.8 17.3 14.4 0.0 2018 83.7 7,509 6.5 35.5 1.9 11.2 3.1 5.2 13.9 21.4 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.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 90.6 11,724 54.5 43.8 0.0 1.7 98.3 1976 90.7 11,376 52.6 46.4 0.0 1.0 99.0 1979 90.9 11,169 55.9 43.0 0.0 1.1 98.9 1982 91.0 11,096 57.7 39.9 0.0 2.4 97.6 1985 88.0 10,545 56.7 41.9 0.0 1.4 98.6 1988 84.8 9,945 61.8 36.6 0.0 1.6 98.4 1991 84.6 9,811 51.8 40.6 0.0 7.8 97.6 1994 86.4 9,873 64.3 34.3 0.0 1.4 98.6 1998 80.5 8,798 62.6 36.6 0.0 0.8 99.2 2002 76.6 7,975 58.0 39.5 0.0 2.5 97.5 2006 78.5 7,842 55.5 40.1 0.0 4.4 95.6 2010 79.8 7,766 54.3 39.7 4.2 1.8 98.2 2014 81.3 7,599 52.0 31.5 14.4 2.1 97.9 2018 83.7 7,509 43.9 33.4 21.4 1.3 98.7

References

External links

Torsby Municipality - Official site Branäs alpine skiing

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