Municipality in Halland County, Sweden
Halmstad Municipality (Halmstads kommun ) is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast, in which the city Halmstad is the seat.
The 1971 local government reform was implemented gradually in the area. In 1967 the rural municipality Simlångsdalen (created in 1952) was amalgamated into the City of Halmstad . The city was converted into a municipality of unitary type in 1971, but the seven surrounding municipalities were not merged into it until 1974.
Politics
Since the 2022 elections, the municipal government is controlled by a majority consisting of the Social Democrats , Moderates and Christian Democrats , with Social Democrat Stefan Pålsson as chairman of the municipal board .[3]
Municipal council
The municipal council has 71 seats, with the governing majority holding a majority with 40 seats.[4]
Localities
There are 21 urban areas (also called a tätort or locality) in Halmstad 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
Halmstad 55,688
2
Oskarström 4,011
3
Fyllinge 2,830
4
Getinge 1,885
5
Frösakull 1,635
6
Trönninge 1,555
7
Åled 1,536
8
Harplinge 1,454
9
Gullbrandstorp 1,435
10
Haverdal 1,401
11
Kvibille 793
12
Steninge 769
13
Gullbranna 727
14
Eldsberga 717
15
Villshärad 628
16
Simlångsdalen 577
17
Laxvik 469
18
Holm 462
19
Sennan 430
20
Tylösand 387
21
Skedala 355
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Halmstad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[5]
In total there were 104,409 residents, including 79,133 Swedish citizens of voting age.[5]
Location
%
%
Andersberg N/V
2,394
1,136
67.9
24.5
56
13
87
14,909
28
Andersberg S
2,606
1,573
69.1
23.4
55
18
82
14,043
26
Bäckagård C
1,451
1,066
50.2
48.2
75
73
27
23,578
47
Bäckagård N
1,733
1,280
42.4
57.1
91
89
11
30,587
60
Bäckagård S
1,508
1,153
38.5
60.8
89
94
6
31,609
65
Centrum N
1,232
1,104
42.3
56.3
83
81
19
23,967
46
Centrum S
1,280
1,129
44.8
54.0
82
80
20
26,726
45
Centrum V
1,424
1,227
47.7
50.5
81
72
28
25,647
44
Centrum Ö-Gamletull
1,409
1,153
49.1
48.7
68
73
27
18,682
51
Eldsberga-Tönnersjö
1,483
1,049
39.7
59.6
86
87
13
27,617
35
Engelbrekt V
1,221
987
50.5
47.7
65
74
26
18,084
47
Engelbrekt Ö
1,186
927
42.4
56.3
65
71
29
20,222
39
Frennarp
1,517
1,138
53.5
45.9
89
87
13
29,137
53
Frösakull V-Tylösand
1,274
1,134
20.7
79.0
75
91
9
31,661
55
Frösakull Ö
1,485
1,211
31.2
68.2
83
91
9
30,103
58
Furet
1,623
1,204
48.1
50.9
86
83
17
30,348
49
Fyllinge N/Ö
1,623
1,309
50.8
47.4
82
60
40
27,333
43
Fyllinge S/V
1,725
1,258
55.2
42.7
75
60
40
24,790
34
Galgberget V
1,319
1,113
37.3
62.1
83
79
21
28,705
55
Galgberget Ö
1,527
1,230
46.3
51.3
80
76
24
26,260
47
Gamletull N/Ö
1,620
1,329
48.1
49.2
80
72
28
23,089
45
Gamletull V
1,629
1,454
43.8
55.1
84
84
16
29,237
56
Getinge N
1,382
975
46.5
52.7
81
81
19
25,550
32
Getinge S-Rävinge
1,365
993
47.4
51.5
87
87
13
25,685
35
Gullbrandstorp N
1,458
1,055
41.5
57.7
90
93
7
31,244
54
Gullbrandstorp S
1,480
1,181
40.2
58.8
87
92
8
27,667
54
Gullbranna-Laxvik
1,321
1,051
37.9
61.2
87
88
12
28,394
42
Gustavsfält N
1,341
989
57.3
39.8
74
41
59
23,054
30
Gustavsfält S
1,450
950
59.1
37.4
66
34
66
18,750
32
Harplinge
2,080
1,518
47.4
51.5
88
91
9
28,341
48
Haverdal
1,870
1,571
43.0
56.2
83
92
8
29,203
57
Holm-Vapnö
1,423
916
38.9
60.8
88
86
14
29,207
45
Kattegatt Ö
1,341
1,128
47.0
52.3
80
81
19
28,026
50
Kvibille-Slättåkra
1,753
1,314
39.4
59.3
87
91
9
26,918
40
Kärleken-Sofieberg V
1,696
1,236
46.3
52.7
88
87
13
30,281
54
Kärleken-Sofieberg Ö
1,446
1,099
48.4
50.6
87
86
14
29,206
53
Linehed N
1,508
1,324
52.7
45.6
77
47
53
22,272
37
Linehed S
1,603
1,089
63.6
32.7
56
29
71
15,919
29
Mickedala
1,666
1,272
49.6
49.6
82
87
13
30,951
62
Nyatorp N
1,713
1,348
45.5
52.8
79
72
28
24,985
46
Nyatorp S
1,443
1,124
43.7
54.1
72
64
36
21,400
40
Nyhem S
1,754
1,264
49.2
47.9
57
55
45
13,621
52
Nyhem V
1,752
1,289
53.4
44.8
74
57
43
22,129
40
Nyhem Ö
1,722
1,251
58.8
37.3
58
46
54
16,424
36
Oskarström N
1,603
1,116
46.1
52.3
80
75
25
24,570
28
Oskarström S/V
1,592
1,050
46.2
51.7
73
67
33
21,315
24
Oskarström Ö
1,792
1,322
45.1
54.3
85
83
17
25,927
35
Rotorp N
1,576
1,329
54.3
44.3
75
77
23
26,030
49
Rotorp S-Alet
1,383
1,097
48.7
49.7
83
87
13
29,857
56
Simlångsdalen
1,610
1,234
41.3
58.1
88
90
10
26,287
34
Skedala-Marbäck
1,442
1,154
36.7
62.6
89
90
10
29,346
35
Slottsjord-Kattegatt V
1,253
1,079
46.5
52.2
76
78
22
23,965
48
Snöstorp S/V
1,891
1,385
47.3
52.1
87
74
26
29,402
46
Snöstorp Ö-Brogård
1,630
1,202
49.1
49.7
87
81
19
28,642
46
Stenhuggeriet
1,391
1,108
36.3
63.4
85
91
9
33,849
58
Steninge-Särdal
1,400
1,099
45.6
53.5
87
91
9
30,903
62
Söndrum C
1,343
1,091
39.3
60.2
89
91
9
30,697
58
Söndrum N
1,699
1,245
36.5
63.1
89
90
10
31,322
58
Söndrum S-Eketånga
1,464
1,124
39.4
59.7
87
89
11
32,915
65
Trönninge
1,871
1,356
40.2
58.5
85
83
17
28,171
38
Vallås N
1,672
1,309
57.7
39.7
72
61
39
19,496
36
Vallås S
1,571
1,157
58.5
40.5
71
54
46
20,129
34
Vallås V
1,724
1,186
61.3
34.8
56
48
52
16,381
25
Vallås Ö
1,678
1,289
54.0
44.6
79
67
33
24,257
39
Åled V
1,396
1,007
43.8
55.6
88
90
10
28,927
40
Åled Ö-Sennan
1,292
970
40.4
59.0
84
86
14
25,776
36
Östra Förstaden
1,300
1,123
46.1
52.4
79
78
22
25,674
50
Source: SVT [5]
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