Osby Municipality
The amalgamation during the 1970s' local government reform took place in the area on 1 January 1974, when the former market town Osby (itself instituted as such in 1937) was merged with three adjacent rural municipalities.
Localities
There are 3 localities (or built-up areas) in Osby Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
# | Locality | Population |
---|---|---|
1 | Osby | 6,947 |
2 | Lönsboda | 1,899 |
3 | Killeberg | 575 |
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Osby 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 13,238 residents, including 9,888 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.9% voted for the left coalition and 61.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location | Residents | Citizen adults |
Left vote | Right vote | Employed | Swedish parents |
Foreign heritage |
Income SEK |
Degree |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | % | ||||||||
Loshult/Killeberg | 1,305 | 889 | 37.5 | 61.8 | 83 | 77 | 23 | 25,801 | 34 |
Osby NV | 2,198 | 1,517 | 40.6 | 58.0 | 75 | 68 | 32 | 22,597 | 31 |
Osby NÖ | 1,814 | 1,294 | 34.9 | 63.6 | 78 | 76 | 24 | 22,325 | 29 |
Osby N | 1,698 | 1,383 | 37.1 | 61.9 | 74 | 77 | 23 | 21,577 | 27 |
Osby SV | 1,570 | 1,238 | 39.4 | 59.9 | 86 | 82 | 18 | 25,310 | 32 |
Osby S | 1,767 | 1,372 | 35.7 | 63.5 | 86 | 84 | 16 | 27,089 | 35 |
Örkened | 1,434 | 1,107 | 37.9 | 61.5 | 88 | 91 | 9 | 25,385 | 29 |
Örkened C | 1,452 | 1,088 | 37.7 | 61.5 | 70 | 75 | 25 | 19,499 | 21 |
Source: SVT |
Elections
Year | Turnout | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2014 | 85.5 | 8,244 | 3.4 | 35.2 | 4.3 | 5.9 | 2.7 | 4.9 | 16.1 | 25.4 |
2018 | 87.0 | 8,385 | 3.9 | 28.2 | 2.2 | 7.3 | 2.4 | 7.3 | 16.1 | 31.2 |
International relations
The municipality is twinned with:
Gribskov Municipality (formerly Græsted-Gilleleje), Denmark
References
- ^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
- ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
- ^ "Valresultat 2022 för Osby i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Valresultat Riksdag Osby kommun 2014" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Valresultat Riksdag Osby kommun 2018" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "vänorter - Osby Kommun". www.osby.se. Archived from the original on 2009-04-17.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Osby - Official site
- Osby.info - local portal
- Osby - www.osby.nu
- Osby parish