Skellefteå Municipality () is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Skellefteå.

History Most of the amalgamations leading to the present municipality took place in 1967 when the then "City of Skellefteå" was merged with the rural municipality by the same name and also with the municipalities Jörn, Bureå and Byske. The enlarged city became a municipality of unitary type with the new local government act in 1971, and in 1974 the municipalities Burträsk and Lövånger were added.

Geography The municipality borders in the south to Robertsfors Municipality, and clockwise to Umeå, Vindeln, Norsjö, Arvidsjaur and Piteå municipalities. Skellefteå is the largest coastline municipality by area, being roughly 15 percent larger than the second largest, Örnsköldsvik Municipality.

Skellefteå is situated around Skellefte River, a river that runs through the city. There is also a very central mountain, Vitberget, which is popular for skiing in the wintertime, and hiking in the summer.

Localities There are 20 localities (or urban areas) in Skellefteå Municipality:

# Locality Population 1 Skellefteå 32,425 2 Ursviken 4,054 3 Skelleftehamn 3,120 4 Bureå 2,345 5 Kåge 2,205 6 Bergsbyn 1,818 7 Byske 1,731 8 Burträsk 1,632 9 Boliden 1,515 10 Jörn 877 11 Ersmark 865 12 Lövånger 779 13 Medle 558 14 Kusmark 437 15 Örviken 411 16 Södra Bergsbyn och Stackgrönnan 406 17 Ostvik 392 18 Bygdsiljum 370 19 Drängsmark 353 20 Myckle 343

The municipal seat in bold

Economy The largest employer in Skellefteå Municipality is the mining company Boliden AB, with about 1,200 employees, in some mines around Boliden and two metallurgical plants, one in Boliden and the other one, Rönnskärsverken near Skelleftehamn. Alimak produces elevators.

Elections

Riksdag These are the results of the elections to the Riksdag for Skellefteå Municipality since the 1972 municipal reform. SCB did not publish the party's results for the Sweden Democrats between 1988 and 1998 because of the party's small size nationally.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 89.9 45,977 3.8 49.4 0.0 24.8 9.1 3.7 8.6 0.0 0.0 1976 90.7 49,133 3.4 49.8 0.0 24.8 9.7 3.1 8.8 0.0 0.0 1979 90.8 49,788 4.1 51.3 0.0 20.6 10.0 3.3 10.1 0.0 0.0 1982 90.9 50,472 4.1 54.5 0.9 18.6 6.8 3.6 11.3 0.0 0.0 1985 89.8 50,354 4.9 53.1 0.8 17.4 13.7 0.0 9.6 0.0 0.0 1988 86.5 48,522 5.4 52.9 3.5 14.3 10.9 5.0 7.2 0.0 0.0 1991 87.2 49,170 4.8 50.6 2.3 13.1 9.0 8.3 8.9 0.0 2.8 1994 88.0 50,073 7.4 57.1 4.7 9.6 6.9 4.6 8.9 0.0 0.3 1998 83.0 46,467 15.5 48.5 4.0 6.2 4.8 10.2 9.1 0.0 0.0 2002 81.4 44,967 11.4 50.6 3.5 10.2 9.4 8.4 5.0 0.4 0.0 2006 83.3 45,981 8.9 50.3 4.3 10.1 6.0 6.3 11.0 1.4 0.0 2010 85.6 48,020 9.5 49.6 5.8 6.0 5.7 5.4 14.3 2.9 0.0 2014 86.7 48,779 9.3 50.2 5.3 5.8 3.8 4.0 10.7 7.8 0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 89.9 45,977 53.2 42.5 0.0 4.3 95.7 1976 90.7 49,133 53.2 43.3 0.0 3.5 96.5 1979 90.8 49,788 55.4 40.7 0.0 3.9 96.1 1982 90.9 50,472 58.6 36.7 0.0 4.7 95.3 1985 89.8 50,354 58.0 39.7 0.0 2.1 97.7 1988 86.5 48,522 61.8 32.4 0.0 5.8 94.2 1991 87.2 49,170 55.4 39.3 0.0 5.3 97.5 1994 88.0 50,073 69.2 30.0 0.0 0.8 99.2 1998 83.0 46,467 68.0 30.3 0.0 1.7 98.3 2002 81.4 44,967 65.5 33.0 0.0 3.5 96.5 2006 83.3 45,981 63.5 33.4 0.0 3.1 96.9 2010 85.6 48,020 64.9 31.4 2.9 0.8 99.2 2014 86.7 48,779 64.8 24.3 7.8 3.1 96.9

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Skellefteå Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

There were 73,333 residents, including 56,888 Swedish citizens of voting age. 63.1% voted for the left coalition and 35.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Alhem-Norrbacka 1,386 1,183 62.9 36.4 86 93 7 28,511 48Anderstorp N 1,334 1,053 66.0 33.0 71 77 23 21,600 33Anderstorp S 1,680 1,131 69.8 29.2 80 85 15 23,768 33Anderstorp Ö 1,581 1,437 70.3 27.8 67 73 27 21,206 36Bergsbyn 1,764 1,290 63.0 36.1 91 95 5 29,755 48Boliden 2,038 1,400 56.8 41.2 72 73 27 22,211 28Brännan-Mobacken 1,782 1,350 68.8 30.7 86 93 7 28,970 57Bureå N 1,484 1,114 69.4 29.3 82 92 8 24,256 34Bureå S 1,373 1,021 57.8 40.5 81 87 13 25,274 31Burträsk C 1,822 1,389 63.4 35.9 80 85 15 21,938 25Burträskbygden 2,327 1,852 59.8 39.3 83 92 8 25,042 32Byske C 1,792 1,370 60.7 37.5 80 87 13 22,630 28Byske-Fällfors 1,440 1,239 57.0 42.0 85 94 6 23,842 24Centrum N 1,411 1,327 59.1 39.8 81 88 12 26,935 44Centrum S 1,714 1,529 65.1 33.9 76 89 11 24,095 47Drängsmark-Ostvik 1,761 1,338 60.2 39.3 87 97 3 28,124 31Erikslid 1,903 1,606 67.6 31.9 79 90 10 25,245 48Getberget-Norrvalla 1,558 1,310 67.2 32.0 85 90 10 26,782 41Hjoggböle 1,515 1,154 55.4 43.1 88 96 4 26,466 33Jörn 1,229 975 63.1 36.3 75 85 15 20,833 24Kåge N 1,470 1,071 63.7 35.9 89 92 8 27,248 40Kåge S 1,677 1,318 57.3 42.1 87 95 5 29,053 41Kågedalen 2,112 1,642 57.5 41.8 90 95 5 26,915 27Lövånger 2,141 1,613 63.1 36.0 79 84 16 21,900 34Morö Backe C 1,628 1,161 67.3 31.2 62 68 32 17,689 22Morö Backe V 1,307 916 61.3 38.3 94 92 8 30,028 53Morö Backe Ö 1,767 1,247 65.0 34.4 88 91 9 29,119 47Moröhöjden 1,135 1,028 64.8 35.2 83 90 10 24,480 38Morön-Hedensbyn 1,520 1,101 70.6 28.7 92 94 6 30,890 49Myckle-Medle 1,189 893 60.9 38.0 89 95 5 28,826 49Norrhammar 1,524 1,334 67.2 32.1 84 91 9 26,974 47Prästbordet 1,803 1,519 65.7 33.3 83 89 11 25,213 43Sjungande Dalen 1,763 1,368 68.7 30.4 80 83 17 24,444 47Skelleftehamn V 1,501 1,028 61.3 37.2 78 80 20 24,371 25Skelleftehamn Ö 1,736 1,224 65.2 32.0 71 74 26 21,528 26Skråmträsk-Klutmark 1,381 1,066 54.9 44.1 88 95 5 28,028 36Stackgrännan-Örviken 1,592 1,183 58.3 40.1 91 94 6 30,052 43Stämningsgården 1,629 1,187 65.2 34.0 83 90 10 28,270 46Sunnanå C 2,033 1,508 67.3 32.1 88 93 7 28,848 54Sunnanå S 1,682 1,329 62.9 36.1 88 94 6 30,161 48Sörböle 1,301 944 64.8 34.3 86 91 9 29,729 47Ursviken 2,400 1,810 62.9 35.5 85 91 9 26,883 38Yttre Ursviken 1,586 1,156 66.5 32.3 90 94 6 29,447 44Älvsbacka V 1,288 1,112 62.4 36.3 80 85 15 25,341 44Älvsbacka Ö 1,274 1,062 63.3 35.9 86 91 9 29,144 48Source: SVT

Twin towns – sister cities

Skellefteå is twinned with:Official site Pardubice, Czech Republic Raahe, Finland Rana, Norway

Tongling, China Vesthimmerland, Denmark

Notable natives Jan Erixon, ice hockey player Andreas Hedlund, musician Stieg Larsson, journalist and author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Joakim Nyström, tennis player Victoria Silvstedt, model Margot Wallström, politician The Wannadies, pop group

See also Norra Västerbotten, local newspaper Skellefteå AIK, local sports club, mostly famous for ice hockey

References

External links

Skellefteå Municipality – Official site Tourism site