Gislaved Municipality
Gislaved Municipality
Gislaveds kommun | ||
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Municipal code 0662 | | |
Website | www.gislaved.se |
Gislaved Municipality (Gislaveds kommun) is a
The municipality was created in 1974, when Gislaved locality where amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are seventeen original units making up the present municipality. Within Sweden, and as part of
History
The municipality has been inhabited for a long time, but without any significant
There are 19 churches in the municipality, the oldest from 1350. In the small town of Burseryd is a church bell that is even older. Its inscription was made with the
Geography
There are six
Gislaved used to have a large tire factory under the same name as the town but it has shut down.
Localities
There are eight urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Gislaved Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2015. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
# | Locality | Population |
---|---|---|
1 | Gislaved |
10,180 |
2 | Anderstorp | 5,076 |
3 | Smålandsstenar | 4,564 |
4 | Hestra | 1,327 |
5 | Reftele | 1,289 |
6 | Burseryd | 932 |
7 | Skeppshult | 360 |
8 | Broaryd | 284 |
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Gislaved Municipality's electoral districts in the
In total there were 29,515 inhabitants, including 21,367 Swedish citizens of voting age.[5] 41.4% voted for the left coalition and 57.7% 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | % | ||||||||
Anderstorp C | 1,647 | 1,194 | 36.1 | 63.4 | 89 | 78 | 22 | 28,347 | 29 |
Anderstorp N | 1,947 | 1,445 | 38.6 | 60.7 | 81 | 65 | 35 | 25,019 | 25 |
Anderstorp S | 1,778 | 1,176 | 38.9 | 59.2 | 80 | 55 | 45 | 25,251 | 27 |
Burseryd-Sandvik | 1,400 | 1,019 | 40.4 | 59.0 | 81 | 78 | 22 | 24,926 | 24 |
Gislaved C | 1,755 | 1,274 | 51.9 | 46.6 | 77 | 48 | 52 | 23,583 | 26 |
Gryteryd-S Hestra | 925 | 677 | 29.2 | 69.9 | 89 | 86 | 14 | 26,417 | 23 |
Gullvivan | 1,944 | 1,110 | 66.3 | 32.8 | 60 | 27 | 73 | 17,919 | 18 |
Gyllenfors-Hult | 1,449 | 1,118 | 45.9 | 53.1 | 80 | 62 | 38 | 24,645 | 20 |
Henja | 1,653 | 1,165 | 48.5 | 51.0 | 80 | 55 | 45 | 25,151 | 22 |
Lundåker | 1,696 | 1,240 | 46.7 | 52.2 | 85 | 64 | 36 | 26,928 | 28 |
Norra Hestra | 1,967 | 1,482 | 38.2 | 61.2 | 87 | 84 | 16 | 26,502 | 32 |
Reftele | 1,947 | 1,474 | 36.8 | 62.2 | 86 | 81 | 19 | 26,970 | 24 |
Smålandsstenar C | 2,228 | 1,531 | 39.9 | 59.5 | 82 | 67 | 33 | 26,715 | 28 |
Smålandsstenar V | 1,970 | 1,505 | 39.0 | 60.0 | 86 | 73 | 27 | 25,953 | 26 |
Smålandsstenar Ö | 1,615 | 1,158 | 35.9 | 63.0 | 80 | 66 | 34 | 25,059 | 22 |
Sörgården | 1,798 | 1,374 | 42.3 | 56.6 | 89 | 73 | 27 | 28,288 | 33 |
Våthult-Bosebo | 836 | 664 | 38.7 | 60.8 | 86 | 89 | 11 | 27,600 | 31 |
Ås-Kållerstad | 960 | 761 | 33.0 | 66.9 | 91 | 92 | 8 | 28,355 | 25 |
Source: SVT[5] |
Politics
Municipal council
Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
V | S | MP | KP | MiG | SD | WeP | C | L | KD | M | |||
1973 | 1 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 49 | 93.60% | |||||
1976 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 91.90% | ||||||
1979 | 1 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 90.20% | ||||||
1982 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 90.50% | |||||
1985 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 88.10% | |||||
1988 | 1 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 84.60% | ||||
1991 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 84.50% | ||||
1994 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 84.90% | |||||
1998 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 77.75% | ||||
2002 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 76.42% | ||||
2006 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 77.56% | |||
2010 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 80.33% | |||
2014 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 82.18% | |||
2018 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 81.01% | ||
2022 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 77.37% | |||
Data from Statistics Sweden and Swedish Election Authority. |
Mayors
List of mayors
Name and party | Period | |
---|---|---|
C | Arvid Persson | 1974–1977 |
C | Thage Mårtensson | 1977–1987 |
C | Kjell Magnusson | 1987–1991 |
M | Bengt-Anders Johansson | 1991–1994 |
S | Agne Sahlin | 1994–2006 |
M | Niclas Palmgren | 2006–2014 |
S | Marie Johansson
|
2014–2018 |
C | Carina Johansson | 2018–2022 |
S | Marie Johansson
|
2022– |
Timeline
Gislaved Municipality has for most of its history been governed by the centre-right parties, with the Centre Party heading the municipality from 1974 to 1991 and again since 2018. The Moderate Party headed the municipality from 1991 to 1994 and from 2006 to 2014 while the Social Democrats did so from 1994 to 2006 and again from 2014 to 2018. The Social Democrats have been the largest party in the council since its founding in 1974.
Gislaved Municipality is currently governed by a majority coalition between the
Notable people
Locality within Gislaved Municipality in parentheses.
A
- Olle Anderson (Gislaved)
- Ann-Charlotte Alverfors, author (Reftele)
B
- Darijan Bojanic, professional footballer (Gislaved)
- Johan Büser, politician (Anderstorp)
D
- Lars Danielsson, bassist, composer, and record producer (Smålandsstenar)
F
- Samuel Fröler, actor (Reftele)
H
- Oscar Hiljemark, professional footballer (Gislaved)
- Simon Hjalmarsson, professional ice hockey player (Gislaved)
J
- Bengt-Anders Johansson, politician (Smålandsstenar)
O
- Annie Oliv, model (Gislaved)
R
- Maria Rydqvist, cross-country skier (Smålandsstenar)
- Johan Runesson, orienteering competitor (Smålandsstenar)
S
- Henrik Skoog, distance runner (Smålandsstenar)
- Johan August Skogsfors, industrialist and founder of Skogsfors Bruk (today ESBE AB) (Reftele)
- Carl-Johan Seth, actor, director and author (Reftele)
T
- Iréne Theorin, dramatic soprano opera singer (Broaryd)
W
- Åsa Westlund, politician (Anderstorp)
Ö
- Emma Örtlund, actress (Reftele)
Sights
The
References
- ^ "Kommunens organisation". Gislaveds kommun (in Swedish). Gislaveds kommun. 2021-03-16. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 2: The Swedish translation at the webpage reads: "Året efter herrens födelse 1238 blev denna klocka gjord. Bero skrev skriften".
- ^ SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
External links
- Gislaved Municipality - Official site