Värnamo Municipality () is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.
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
+Urban areas in Värnamo municipalityUrban areaPopulationLand area (km2)Density (people/km2)Bor1,3041.68776Bredaryd1,5372.21695Dannäs870.25348Ekenhaga2200.201,081Forsheda1,4601.70858Gällaryd760.30250Hjälshammar920.36260Horda3630.71515Hånger2820.45630Hörle1530.38400Kärda3330.45745Lanna3541.08329Os580.40140Rydaholm1,6291.73942Tånnö1830.26700Värnamo19,82212.141,632Åminne2190.38574
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Värnamo 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 34,617 inhabitants, including 26,042 Swedish citizens of voting age. 43.6% voted for the left coalition and 55.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Apladalen 1,547 1,187 41.3 57.5 86 75 25 28,183 40Bor 1,857 1,416 41.4 57.3 87 85 15 27,167 31Bredaryd 996 734 31.9 66.4 88 83 17 26,819 30Bredaryd inner 1,510 1,080 37.9 61.0 83 75 25 25,961 23Forsheda 1,865 1,371 40.0 59.0 85 77 23 26,431 26Fryele 1,118 885 38.1 61.2 88 88 12 27,989 35Gröndal 1,775 1,278 43.9 55.3 90 76 24 30,942 48Horda 1,182 856 36.8 62.4 87 83 17 26,352 30Hornaryd 1,556 1,193 49.7 49.3 89 69 31 28,709 36Hånger 1,405 1,065 38.9 60.4 91 91 9 28,623 39Kärda 760 581 37.4 60.8 87 84 16 27,400 40Lillegård 1,269 1,056 39.3 59.8 81 74 26 25,401 32Mossle 1,559 1,002 59.3 39.6 75 47 53 24,564 36Norregård 1,440 1,088 47.3 51.0 84 69 31 27,163 36Nylund 1,552 1,210 44.7 55.0 91 80 20 30,008 41Nöbbele 1,095 871 36.9 61.8 91 91 9 28,995 40Pilagården 1,694 1,430 46.2 52.7 81 65 35 24,226 32Rydaholm 2,046 1,405 33.8 65.6 78 70 30 22,708 24Rörstorp 1,499 1,205 46.2 52.9 87 69 31 26,922 35Skogsfällan 1,702 1,196 60.3 38.5 79 39 61 23,896 24Trälleborg 1,793 1,326 47.5 50.4 78 55 45 24,419 33Vråen 1,549 1,199 57.2 41.8 78 62 38 22,740 26Västhorja 1,848 1,408 43.4 56.2 91 85 15 31,337 45Source: SVT
Governance
Party Seats Percent Social Democrats 14 26.8% Moderates 11 20.6% Sweden Democrats 9 16.7% Centre Party 8 16.4% Christian Democrats 5 10.3% Liberals 2 3.0% Left Party 2 4.0% Green Party 0 1.9% Other 0 0.2%
Värnamo Municipality has been governed by the Moderate Party, the Centre Party and the Christian Democrats since at least 1994, with the addition of the Liberals in 2002 and the Green Party 2014–2018. The 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. The Centre Party (of which the then national leader, Annie Lööf, is from Värnamo) and the Christian Democrats were unusually strong, and received more than twice as many votes as the national average in the 2018 elections.
References
External links
Värnamo kommun - official website