Hallstahammar Municipality () is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Hallstahammar.
In 1971 "old" Hallstahammar (with the status of a köping since 1943) was amalgamated with parts of the dissolved Kolbäck rural municipality to form the present unitary municipality.
The municipal slogan is "Bo hos oss" ("Live with us"), which reflects the ambition of the present municipal leadership to boost population figures.
Geography The municipality is subdivided into two parishes: Hallstahammar-Berg and Kolbäck-Säby. Hallstahammar-Berg in the north is situated along forest lands; Kolbäck-Säby in the south is a centre of communications by roads and railways as well as the intersecting river. Strömsholm, in the southern part of Kolbäck, borders Lake Mälaren and has open fields around its Royal Castle.
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Hallstahammar 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 16,581 residents, including 12,314 Swedish citizens of voting age. 47.7% voted for the left coalition and 50.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Barnängen 1,397 1,083 51.4 46.8 76 66 34 22,305 27Eldsboda 1,584 1,214 43.5 55.9 82 78 22 25,895 32Fredhem 1,880 1,336 47.8 51.1 87 78 22 27,630 34Kolbäcks C 1,268 985 47.0 51.8 80 85 15 22,629 28Lövboås 1,844 1,238 59.8 38.3 67 49 51 20,436 24Nibble 2,321 1,551 47.4 50.2 69 56 44 19,763 20Näs 1,563 1,213 47.4 51.1 87 84 16 27,369 38Strömsholm 1,375 1,111 42.5 56.3 85 88 12 28,842 42Tuna 1,832 1,393 50.3 47.9 81 72 28 23,568 29Tunbo 1,517 1,190 43.2 55.1 87 84 16 27,313 33Source: SVT
Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 91.9 10,459 6.7 59.8 17.9 6.9 1.1 7.2 66.5 32.01976 92.3 10,852 5.2 59.4 16.5 8.5 1.2 8.8 64.6 33.81979 91.4 10,682 5.8 60.4 11.3 8.9 0.9 11.6 66.2 31.91982 92.1 10,976 6.8 62.2 0.8 9.6 4.4 1.4 14.3 69.1 28.31985 90.0 10,764 7.4 60.7 0.9 7.4 10.1 13.3 68.1 30.81988 85.7 10,231 8.0 59.2 3.1 6.7 9.3 1.6 10.6 70.3 26.61991 86.4 10,177 5.6 55.0 1.8 4.5 7.5 4.7 12.3 7.8 60.6 29.01994 86.5 9,938 8.5 61.3 3.3 4.3 5.1 2.3 12.6 1.3 73.0 24.31998 79.5 8,745 16.2 49.7 3.6 3.7 3.3 8.3 14.0 69.6 29.32002 77.1 8,345 10.6 52.3 3.3 4.3 9.8 8.3 8.3 1.9 66.2 30.82006 79.3 8,588 7.5 49.1 3.7 5.3 5.9 7.2 16.0 2.8 60.3 34.52010 82.4 9,203 7.3 47.0 4.8 3.5 6.1 4.3 20.4 5.7 59.0 34.32014 83.9 9,655 6.1 45.0 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.3 15.0 16.6 55.1 25.92018 85.8 10,063 8.0 36.2 2.2 5.3 4.0 5.1 14.7 23.3 51.6 47.02022 83.2 10,125 5.9 34.9 2.6 4.3 2.9 4.9 14.8 28.2 47.7 50.7
Communications By train, Hallstahammar is 10 minutes from the centre of Västerås (a larger city), and about an hour from the Central Station of Stockholm. There is also a connection to the larger city of Eskilstuna via a bridge over Lake Mälaren.
Good car transport is provided by European route E18 that passes between Kolbäck and Hallstahammar.
Notable places One of Sweden's foremost riding gymnasiums is located in Strömsholm, as part of the Kantzowska Gymnasium. The Church of Kolbäck goes back to the 13th century and has interior decorations paid for by Queen Hedvig Eleonora in the 17th century. The Church of Säby was beautifully restored in the 1630s.
References
External links
Hallstahammar Municipality - Official site