Flen Municipality (Flens kommun) is a municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.
Flen Municipality
Flens kommun | |
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Municipality | |
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Coat of arms | |
| Coordinates: 59°03′N 16°35′E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| County | Södermanland County |
| Seat | Flen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 826.04 km2 (318.94 sq mi) |
| • Land | 718.83 km2 (277.54 sq mi) |
| • Water | 107.21 km2 (41.39 sq mi) |
| Area as of 1 January 2014. | |
| Population (31 December 2021)[2] | |
| • Total | 16,316 |
| • Density | 20/km2 (51/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | SE |
| Province | Södermanland |
| Municipal code | 0482 |
| Website | www.flen.se |
The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen (instituted in 1949), the market town (köping) Malmköping and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the former Oppunda hundred that was split between Flen and Nyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the former Villåttinge hundred.
Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to 19 metres (62 ft) above sea level on the lakes of Långhalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area.[3] The highest peak is at 103 metres (338 ft) on the tripoint between Flen, Gnesta and Strängnäs municipalities.[4]
Figures from Statistics Sweden, 2004.
Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a köping) already in 1785.
The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.
| Year | Turnout | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | NyD | Left | Right |
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| 1973[5] | 93.5 | 11,513 | 3.2 | 49.4 | 26.8 | 8.0 | 1.8 | 10.6 | 52.6 | 45.4 | |||
| 1976[6] | 93.1 | 11,658 | 2.8 | 49.2 | 26.9 | 8.1 | 1.6 | 11.3 | 52.0 | 46.3 | |||
| 1979[7] | 92.3 | 11,747 | 3.5 | 49.5 | 21.9 | 8.5 | 1.5 | 14.6 | 53.0 | 45.0 | |||
| 1982[8] | 93.2 | 11,762 | 4.0 | 52.1 | 1.6 | 18.5 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 17.5 | 56.1 | 40.4 | ||
| 1985[9] | 91.2 | 11,499 | 4.2 | 51.9 | 1.8 | 15.3 | 10.6 | 15.4 | 56.1 | 41.3 | |||
| 1988[10] | 87.3 | 10,821 | 5.0 | 50.2 | 5.2 | 14.3 | 9.3 | 2.3 | 13.2 | 60.4 | 36.8 | ||
| 1991[11] | 87.0 | 10,765 | 4.1 | 45.4 | 3.1 | 11.8 | 7.0 | 6.4 | 15.6 | 6.1 | 49.5 | 40.8 | |
| 1994[12] | 87.7 | 10,924 | 6.1 | 52.1 | 5.0 | 9.2 | 5.1 | 3.6 | 17.1 | 0.7 | 63.2 | 35.0 | |
| 1998[13] | 81.4 | 9,924 | 12.1 | 43.3 | 4.9 | 6.8 | 2.7 | 11.2 | 17.6 | 60.3 | 38.3 | ||
| 2002[14] | 80.3 | 9,724 | 7.5 | 48.1 | 4.5 | 7.5 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 12.1 | 1.0 | 60.1 | 37.4 | |
| 2006[15] | 81.9 | 9,911 | 5.4 | 46.5 | 4.3 | 8.7 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 20.2 | 2.7 | 56.2 | 39.4 | |
| 2010[16] | 84.7 | 10,271 | 5.5 | 38.7 | 5.9 | 8.2 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 24.2 | 6.9 | 50.1 | 42.3 | |
| 2014[17] | 85.4 | 10,136 | 5.5 | 36.2 | 4.9 | 7.5 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 18.6 | 17.8 | 46.6 | 33.0 | |
| 2018[18] | 86.0 | 10,118 | 6.2 | 33.0 | 3.5 | 8.3 | 3.2 | 5.6 | 16.9 | 21.2 | 51.7 | 46.9 |
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