Oxelösund Municipality () is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Oxelösund.
In 1950 the Nikolai Rural municipality was dissolved. One part formed the then City of Oxelösund, one of the last newly created cities of Sweden. The rest of Nikolai was incorporated into the neighbouring City of Nyköping. In 1971 the city became a unitary municipality without addition of territory.
Still marked by its industrial past, the politics was historically dominated by the Social Democratic Party, and the industry by the harbour and iron works.
Geography It covers a peninsula in the Baltic Sea, and borders by land only on Nyköping Municipality. With an area of , it is one of Sweden's smallest municipalities.
Elections since the 1972 municipal reform
Riksdag No boundary changes. The Sweden Democrats' numbers were not listed by the SCB agency from 1988 to 1998 due to the party being out of contention for Riksdag entry.
Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right 1973 92.2 7,945 7.3 61.6 0.0 15.7 7.3 0.9 7.6 68.9 30.6 1976 93.1 8,480 6.4 61.4 0.0 14.4 8.6 0.7 8.1 67.8 31.1 1979 91.9 8,755 8.0 62.1 0.0 9.0 8.3 0.6 11.5 70.1 28.8 1982 93.2 8,774 7.7 63.2 1.0 7.8 4.4 0.8 14.4 70.5 26.6 1985 91.6 8,610 7.8 61.4 1.2 4.9 10.5 13.8 69.2 29.2 1988 87.1 8,161 9.0 58.7 5.1 5.1 9.0 1.1 11.5 72.8 25.6 1991 87.8 8,183 6.4 54.6 2.5 3.8 6.4 3.9 13.0 8.7 61.0 27.1 1994 88.8 7,772 8.1 63.3 4.0 2.9 5.0 2.1 12.8 0.8 75.4 22.8 1998 83.2 6,891 14.8 55.2 3.7 2.1 2.9 7.7 12.1 73.7 24.8 2002 80.8 6,791 11.6 56.1 4.7 1.8 8.8 5.8 9.8 0.5 72.4 26.2 2006 81.9 6,944 8.1 50.7 4.7 3.4 5.7 4.6 18.5 2.3 63.5 32.2 2010 85.0 7,526 7.8 44.2 7.2 2.8 5.3 3.3 23.1 4.8 59.2 34.5 2014 86.0 7,597 8.0 44.1 5.2 2.7 3.4 2.8 17.1 14.0 57.3 26.0 2018 86.7 7,545 8.8 39.7 3.1 4.2 3.3 4.7 15.9 18.8 55.8 42.7
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Oxelösund Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
There is a strong income disparity between the four districts on the southern shore and the other three downtown districts. In comparison, the wealthier districts would all be among the upper-half earners in the more affluent Nyköping Municipality, while the lower three would be right near the bottom. In total there were 12,125 inhabitants with 9,072 Swedish citizens of voting age. The political demographics were 52.5% for the left bloc and 45.4% for the right bloc. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Dalgången 1,996 1,606 52.4 46.6 79 82 18 27,583 32Danvik 1,502 1,158 47.6 50.9 87 88 12 30,029 44Frösäng 1,376 1,085 54.5 42.7 74 64 36 20,332 21Norra innerstaden 1,789 1,264 53.8 43.0 64 50 50 20,010 20Peterslund 1,699 1,182 51.6 46.8 89 84 16 28,331 27Sunda 1,675 1,307 53.9 44.9 87 84 16 27,186 33Södra innerstaden 2,088 1,470 54.1 41.7 65 53 47 19,426 20Source: SVT
International relations
Twin towns - Sister cities
Oxelösund is a member of the Douzelage, a unique town twinning association of 24 towns across the European Union. This active town twinning began in 1991 and there are regular events, such as a produce market from each of the other countries and festivals. Discussions regarding membership are also in hand with three further towns (Agros in Cyprus, Škofja Loka in Slovenia, and Tryavna in Bulgaria).
References
External links
Oxelösund Municipality - Official site