# Hedemora Municipality

Hedemora Municipality (Hedemora kommun) is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is in the city of Hedemora.
In 1966 the City of Hedemora was amalgamated with the rural municipality by the same name and with Husby.

## Military history

Hedemora town was gathering place for the peasant militia during the Swedish War of Liberation against Denmark. In the victorious Battle of Brunnbäck Ferry in 1521, Peder Svensson from the village ofVibberboda in present day Hedemora Municipality was one of the two leaders (the other was Olof Bonde from Norrbärke in today's Smedjebacken Municipality).
During the allotment system, the Colonel's Company of Dalarna Regiment had its recruitment area in Hedemora and Husby parishes. The colonels of the regiment had their seat at Husby during this period at Näs kungsgård and Husby kungsgård.

## Localities

* Hedemora (seat)
* Långshyttan
* Vikmanshyttan
* Garpenberg
* Västerby
* Husby

## Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Hedemora 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 15,435 inhabitants, including 11,840 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.0 % voted for the left coalition and 53.3 % 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 | | | % | % | | | | | |
| Garpenberg | 960 | 687 | 43.9 | 51.1 | 71 | 80 | 20 | 21,961 | 28 |
| Hedemora NV | 2,781 | 2,087 | 43.4 | 55.1 | 83 | 84 | 16 | 25,770 | 33 |
| Hedemora NÖ | 2,201 | 1,719 | 44.3 | 54.9 | 81 | 80 | 20 | 22,988 | 26 |
| Hedemora SV | 2,716 | 1,923 | 46.0 | 52.5 | 77 | 78 | 22 | 24,753 | 30 |
| Hedemora SÖ | 2,459 | 2,028 | 46.1 | 51.8 | 78 | 80 | 20 | 22,805 | 27 |
| Husby | 1,453 | 1,137 | 45.3 | 52.7 | 86 | 91 | 9 | 24,051 | 38 |
| Långshyttan | 1,731 | 1,375 | 49.7 | 48.8 | 73 | 77 | 23 | 21,728 | 18 |
| Vikmanshyttan | 1,134 | 884 | 39.3 | 60.0 | 77 | 87 | 13 | 23,791 | 20 |
| Source: SVT ||||||||||

## Riksdag elections

| Year | % | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | NyD | Left | Right |
| 1973 | 91.0 | 10,649 | 4.1 | 49.3 | | 31.0 | 5.5 | 2.0 | 7.7 | | | 53.4 | 44.2 |
| 1976 | 91.3 | 11,203 | 3.5 | 48.3 | | 30.5 | 6.8 | 1.5 | 8.7 | | | 51.8 | 46.1 |
| 1979 | 90.5 | 11,260 | 4.4 | 49.8 | | 24.1 | 6.9 | 1.6 | 12.6 | | | 54.1 | 43.5 |
| 1982 | 91.3 | 11,378 | 4.7 | 50.8 | 2.6 | 20.0 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 16.3 | | | 55.5 | 40.0 |
| 1985 | 89.5 | 11,337 | 5.7 | 49.5 | 2.4 | 17.0 | 10.8 | | 14.5 | | | 55.2 | 42.2 |
| 1988 | 85.1 | 10,615 | 6.6 | 47.5 | 5.6 | 16.3 | 9.1 | | 11.4 | | | 59.8 | 36.8 |
| 1991 | 86.2 | 10,677 | 5.5 | 43.1 | 3.8 | 13.2 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 14.3 | | 5.9 | 48.6 | 40.3 |
| 1994 | 86.0 | 10,706 | 5.4 | 49.3 | 5.6 | 12.3 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 14.6 | | 0.9 | 62.7 | 35.4 |
| 1998 | 80.1 | 9,637 | 16.0 | 40.0 | 5.3 | 8.8 | 2.5 | 10.4 | 15.4 | | | 61.3 | 37.1 |
| 2002 | 75.8 | 8,916 | 10.4 | 42.9 | 5.1 | 12.9 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 10.6 | 0.6 | | 58.4 | 39.0 |
| 2006 | 78.3 | 9,177 | 7.4 | 40.8 | 4.7 | 12.1 | 4.1 | 5.3 | 19.5 | 3.1 | | 52.9 | 44.0 |
| 2010 | 81.8 | 9,686 | 6.4 | 36.4 | 6.1 | 9.6 | 3.5 | 4.6 | 23.9 | 8.3 | | 48.9 | 41.5 |
| 2014 | 84.6 | 9,923 | 6.1 | 35.0 | 4.5 | 9.3 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 17.7 | 17.5 | | 45.6 | 32.9 |
| 2018 | 85.8 | 9,824 | 7.5 | 30.6 | 2.9 | 10.0 | 2.7 | 6.9 | 15.3 | 22.5 | | 50.9 | 47.4 |
| 2022 | 83.3 | 9,867 | 5.6 | 29.3 | 3.5 | 6.2 | 2.1 | 6.2 | 16.1 | 28.8 | | 44.6 | 53.3 |

## Sister cities

Hedemora has five sister cities:
* Bauska, Latvia
* Ishozi-Ishunju-Gera, Tanzania
* Nord Fron, Norway
* Nysted, Denmark
* Vehkalahti, Finland