# Finspång Municipality

Finspång Municipality (Finspångs kommun) is a municipality in Östergötland County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Finspång, with some 21 654 (30 september 2024), inhabitants.

## Nature

The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.

## History

Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer. By Louis de Geer (1622-1695), the Finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery developed into the city Finspång. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and aluminum processing.

## Localities

* Finspång (seat)
* Rejmyre
* Lotorp
* Sonstorp
* Falla
* Hällestad
* Ljusfallshammar
* Grytgöl
* Igelfors
* Borggård
* Butbro
* Hävla
* Bränntorp
* Byle
* Kolstad
* Lämmetorp
* Lövlund
* Prästköp

## Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Finspång 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 21,862 residents, including 16,657 Swedish citizens of voting age. 48.5% voted for the left coalition and 50.0% 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 |
| Location | | | % | % | | | | | |
| Bergska | 1,179 | 903 | 52.8 | 45.7 | 85 | 83 | 17 | 27,080 | 37 |
| Brenäs | 475 | 402 | 40.9 | 58.2 | 91 | 92 | 8 | 27,194 | 38 |
| Centrum | 1,227 | 1,041 | 54.4 | 43.9 | 76 | 78 | 22 | 20,411 | 30 |
| Grosvad | 1,784 | 1,294 | 53.5 | 45.7 | 78 | 71 | 29 | 23,826 | 30 |
| Grytgöl | 549 | 447 | 43.3 | 55.4 | 87 | 96 | 4 | 26,006 | 27 |
| Hagaryd | 554 | 463 | 42.9 | 54.7 | 85 | 92 | 8 | 24,055 | 31 |
| Hårstorp N | 1,609 | 1,160 | 52.4 | 46.1 | 81 | 72 | 28 | 25,759 | 39 |
| Hårstorp S | 1,631 | 1,110 | 50.6 | 47.2 | 70 | 64 | 36 | 22,861 | 32 |
| Hällestad | 1,006 | 773 | 50.2 | 48.5 | 84 | 91 | 9 | 24,064 | 28 |
| Ljusfallshammar | 439 | 367 | 41.8 | 56.3 | 80 | 92 | 8 | 22,564 | 28 |
| Lotorp | 1,152 | 865 | 42.0 | 56.9 | 88 | 91 | 9 | 29,181 | 34 |
| Nyhem | 1,524 | 1,022 | 52.4 | 45.9 | 71 | 65 | 35 | 22,546 | 30 |
| Regna | 582 | 482 | 37.1 | 61.1 | 77 | 90 | 10 | 21,704 | 21 |
| Rejmyre | 1,087 | 861 | 43.0 | 55.5 | 79 | 88 | 12 | 23,021 | 23 |
| Sonstorp | 889 | 694 | 39.0 | 60.2 | 88 | 93 | 7 | 26,287 | 28 |
| Storängen | 1,618 | 1,246 | 52.7 | 46.1 | 74 | 70 | 30 | 22,035 | 29 |
| Svälthagen | 1,420 | 1,055 | 48.8 | 49.6 | 81 | 79 | 21 | 24,626 | 31 |
| Viggestorp | 1,451 | 1,141 | 46.0 | 52.6 | 86 | 88 | 12 | 28,585 | 39 |
| Östermalm | 1,686 | 1,331 | 52.4 | 46.6 | 80 | 76 | 24 | 23,843 | 33 |
| Source: SVT ||||||||||

## Elections
### Riksdag

These are the results of the Riksdag elections of Finspång Municipality since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.
| Year | Turnout | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | ND |
| 1973 | 93.7 | 15,333 | 3.9 | 56.9 | 0.0 | 20.6 | 6.1 | 2.9 | 9.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 94.2 | 15,981 | 3.3 | 55.8 | 0.0 | 19.5 | 8.1 | 2.5 | 10.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 93.0 | 16,078 | 4.5 | 56.4 | 0.0 | 14.7 | 8.2 | 2.6 | 13.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 93.4 | 16,121 | 4.3 | 59.2 | 1.4 | 13.2 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 14.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 92.2 | 16,001 | 4.6 | 58.2 | 1.4 | 12.5 | 9.6 | 0.0 | 13.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 88.5 | 15,190 | 5.5 | 56.1 | 4.9 | 10.3 | 8.4 | 4.1 | 10.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 89.1 | 15,095 | 5.1 | 50.7 | 2.8 | 7.5 | 6.6 | 8.3 | 12.3 | 0.0 | 6.4 |
| 1994 | 89.3 | 15,081 | 7.4 | 55.1 | 4.3 | 6.9 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 14.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 84.3 | 13,830 | 14.5 | 46.2 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 11.4 | 14.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 83.0 | 13,253 | 9.4 | 51.6 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 8.2 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 83.7 | 13,301 | 6.6 | 47.1 | 4.1 | 7.0 | 4.7 | 7.0 | 18.0 | 2.7 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 85.2 | 13,760 | 6.1 | 43.9 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 22.2 | 5.3 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 86.4 | 13,971 | 5.3 | 43.2 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 16.1 | 15.4 | 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. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.
| Year | Turnout | Votes | Left | Right | SD | Other | Elected |
| 1973 | 93.7 | 15,333 | 60.8 | 36.0 | 0.0 | 3.2 | 96.8 |
| 1976 | 94.2 | 15,981 | 59.1 | 37.9 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 97.0 |
| 1979 | 93.0 | 16,078 | 60.9 | 36.0 | 0.0 | 3.1 | 96.9 |
| 1982 | 93.4 | 16,121 | 63.5 | 32.3 | 0.0 | 4.2 | 95.8 |
| 1985 | 92.2 | 16,001 | 62.8 | 35.7 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 98.5 |
| 1988 | 88.5 | 15,190 | 66.5 | 29.2 | 0.0 | 4.3 | 95.7 |
| 1991 | 89.1 | 15,095 | 55.8 | 34.7 | 0.0 | 9.5 | 96.9 |
| 1994 | 89.3 | 15,081 | 66.8 | 31.1 | 0.0 | 2.1 | 97.9 |
| 1998 | 84.3 | 13,830 | 64.7 | 33.6 | 0.0 | 1.7 | 98.3 |
| 2002 | 83.0 | 13,253 | 65.0 | 33.1 | 0.0 | 1.9 | 98.1 |
| 2006 | 83.7 | 13,301 | 57.8 | 36.7 | 0.0 | 5.5 | 94.5 |
| 2010 | 85.2 | 13,760 | 55.8 | 38.2 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 99.3 |
| 2014 | 86.4 | 13,971 | 53.1 | 29.1 | 15.4 | 2.4 | 97.6 |

## Twin towns

Finspång Municipality has formal twin town treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.
* Stromberg, Germany
* Yvoir, Belgium
* Givet, France
Today there is no contact with Stromberg or Givet, and contact was broken with Yvoir before being reestablished in 1997.
Finspång also has (informally) established cooperation with seven other cities:
* Dzierzgoń, Poland
* Finsterwalde, Germany
* Joutsa, Finland
* Nordborg, Denmark
* Salaspils, Latvia
* Sibiu, Romania
* Stade, Germany
(Source and more information: Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish))

## Notable people born in Finspång

* Louis Gerhard De Geer (1818–1896) - First Prime Minister of Sweden
* Kerstin Ekman (born 1933) - author
* Pär Arvidsson (born 1960) - butterfly swimmer
* Bengt Baron (born 1962) - backstroke swimmer
* Liselotte Neumann (born 1966) - professional golfer
* Dan Swanö (born 1973) - musician and music producer
* Robert Steiner (born 1973) - professional soccer player

## Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Finspång Municipality:
* Sonstorps IK
* Torstorps IF