Lindesberg Municipality
municipality in Örebro County, Sweden
Lindesberg Municipality (Swedish: Lindesbergs kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lindesberg.
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Lindesberg and the former market town of Frövi were joined.
Localities
By size, as of 2000:
Lindesberg (seat)
Frövi
Storå
Fellingsbro
Vedevåg
Stråssa
Gusselby
Ramsberg
Rockhammar
Fryggesboda
Riksdag elections
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Lindesberg Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
In total there were 23,563 residents with 18,038 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote. The political demographics were 44.5% for the left bloc and 53.7% for the right bloc. The northeastern part of Lindesberg has a majority of non-Swedish background. It also has the lowest median income and the lowest levels of employment, while the wealthiest district of Linde encircling the town has the highest share of Swedish background in the municipality. The town of Lindesberg leaned slightly to the left, whereas the countryside had very high shares for the right and in particular the Sweden Democrats. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
“Lindesberg Municipality” enters the record as municipality in Örebro County, Sweden. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lindesberg, Municipality and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q514858. VIAF identifies the subject as 150252750. The Library of Congress control number is n94101111. Authority coordinates are 59.583, 15.250. 4 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971, 2000 and 2022.
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