Värnamo Municipality

Värnamo Municipality (Värnamo kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.

This article is about the Swedish municipality. For the town, see Värnamo.
Värnamo Municipality

Värnamo kommun
Municipality
Town hall
Coat of arms
Värnamo Municipality in Jönköping County
Coordinates: 57°11′N 14°02′E
CountrySweden
ProvinceSmåland
CountyJönköping County
Established1 January 1971
SeatVärnamo
Government
 • TypeMunicipal council
 • MayorHans-Göran Johansson (Centre Party)
Area
 • Total1,382.41 km2 (533.75 sq mi)
 • Land1,216.17 km2 (469.57 sq mi)
 • Water166.24 km2 (64.19 sq mi)
Population
 (31 March 2020)[3][4]
 • Total34,599
 • Rank76th
 • Density25/km2 (65/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
Municipal code0683
Websitekommun.varnamo.se (in Swedish)

The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo (itself instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are fourteen original units making up the present municipality.

Geography

There are 11 urban areas (Swedish: tätorter) in Värnamo Municipality.

Urban areas with populations greater than 200. As of 31 December 2019[5]
Urban area Population Land area (km²) Density (people/km²)
Bor 1,300 1.65 778
Bredaryd 1,552 2.23 696
Ekenhaga 223 0.20 1,115
Forsheda 1,502 1.71 878
Horda 368 0.72 511
Hånger 324 0.72 450
Kärda 333 0.45 740
Lanna 368 1.01 364
Rydaholm 1,627 1.68 969
Värnamo 19,741 11.94 1,653
Åminne 211 0.38 555

Governance
Municipal council of Värnamo after the 2018 elections
Party Seats Percent
Swedish Social Democratic Party 15 28.3%
Centre Party 10 20.3%
Moderate Party 8 16.1%
Sweden Democrats 8 14.6%
Christian Democrats 5 10.5%
Liberals 2 4.2%
Left Party 2 3.1%
Green Party 1 2.8%

Värnamo Municipality has been governed by Moderate Party, Centre Party and Christian Democrats since at least 1994, with the addition of Liberals in 2002 and Green Party 2014–2018.[6] Swedish Social Democratic Party has been the largest party every year since the formation of the municipality, with an average of 34 percent of the votes.[7] Centre Party and Christian Democrats were unusually strong, and received more than twice as many votes as the national average in the 2018 elections.[8]

Notable people

Locality in parentheses if not Värnamo.

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References
  1. "Kommunens organisation". Värnamo Kommun (in Swedish). Värnamo Kommun. 2019-06-03. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  2. "Land- och vattenareal per den 1 januari efter region, arealtyp, tabellinnehåll och år". SCB (in Swedish). SCB. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  3. "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31 mars 2020 och befolkningsförändringar 1 januari - 31 mars 2020. Totalt". SCB (in Swedish). SCB. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  4. "Folkmängd och landareal i tätorter, per tätort. Vart femte år 1960 - 2019" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  5. "Folkmängd och landareal i tätorter, per tätort. Vart femte år 1960 - 2019" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  6. "Maktfördelning i kommuner, landsting och regioner 1994 - 2018" (in Swedish). https://skr.se/demokratiledningstyrning/valmaktfordelning/valresultatstyren/styreochmaktfordelning19942018.370.html: Sveriges Kommuner och Regioner. Retrieved 29 August 2020.CS1 maint: location (link)
  7. "Kommunfullmäktigval - valresultat efter region och parti mm. Antal och andelar. Valår 1973 - 2018". Statistikdatabasen. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  8. "Val till kommunfullmäktige - Röster" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
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