Sölvesborg Municipality ( Sölvesborgs kommun ) is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden . It borders to Bromölla Municipality , Olofström Municipality and Karlshamn Municipality . The town Sölvesborg is the seat of the municipality.
6-485: The present municipality was formed in 1971 when the City of Sölvesborg was amalgamated with the rural municipalities Gammalstorp and Mjällby . The Sölvesborg Party was formed ahead of the 2002 election by a group of former Green Party members. Party councillors are Dan Boberg and Bo Sandquist. In the 2002 elections the party got 4.7% of the votes (472 votes) and two seats in the municipal assembly ( kommunfullmäktige ) In
12-542: A Tätort or locality) in Sölvesborg Municipality. In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters. A minor part of Valje is also situated in the municipality. The main part of Valje is, however, in Bromölla Municipality . This is a demographic table based on Sölvesborg Municipality's electoral districts in
18-746: Is twinned with: Kommunfullm%C3%A4ktige A municipal council ( Swedish : Kommunfullmäktige ) is the decision-making body governing each of the 290 municipalities of Sweden . Though the Swedish Local Government Act ( Swedish : Kommunallagen ) uses the term "municipal assembly" in an English translation of the Act, "municipal council" and even "city council" are used as well, even in official contexts in English by several of Sweden's largest municipalities, including Stockholm , Malmö , and Gothenburg . This system of administrative division
24-411: The 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 17,519 residents, including 13,897 Swedish citizens of voting age. 35.4% voted for the left coalition and 63.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income. All parishes belonged to Lister Hundred : Sölvesborg
30-437: The 2006 elections the party got 2.7% of the votes (277 votes) and one seat in the municipal assembly. The municipality otherwise reflect the same political majorities as in its neighbouring municipalities of Bromölla , Olofström and Karlshamn . In December 2018 Louise Erixon, partner of Jimmie Åkesson , the populist party's leader of Sweden Democrats , was made mayor of Sölvesborg. There are 10 urban areas (also called
36-517: Was established with the municipal reform of 1971. Prior to this reform, municipal governance in Sweden was conducted by either a kommunalfullmäktige (municipal council in rural areas) or a stadsfullmäktige (city council in urban areas). The number of members in each assembly can range from 21 to 101, depending on the population of the municipality in question. Members of the assemblies are chosen to serve for four-year terms through elections using
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