Falun Municipality () is a municipality in Dalarna County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Falun. Falun is the second biggest city and provincial capital of Dalarna County. Falun was originally famous for its copper mine.

The present municipality was formed at the time of the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Falun and six surrounding rural municipalities were amalgamated.

Localities Aspeboda Bengtsheden Bjursås Danholn Grycksbo Falun (seat) Linghed Sundborn Svärdsjö Sågmyra Toftbyn Vika

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Falun 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 59,762 residents, including 46,002 Swedish citizens of voting age. 51.8% voted for the left coalition and 46.7% for the right coalition.

Location % % Aspeboda 1,504 1,138 45.4 53.3 90 93 7 29,773 45Bjursås V 1,639 1,251 41.6 56.8 87 94 6 25,712 25Bjursås Ö 2,032 1,604 47.8 51.0 83 91 9 24,691 35Boda-Toftbyn 1,453 1,144 41.4 57.4 86 96 4 26,905 32Bojsenburg 2,071 1,354 58.6 37.5 62 65 35 18,041 31Borgärdet-Lumsheden 1,949 1,528 43.6 55.6 81 91 9 23,031 31Britsarvet 1,270 1,104 60.4 38.5 83 90 10 25,453 68Danholn-Karlsbyheden 1,400 1,079 50.1 49.3 85 93 7 25,936 38Elsborg 1,654 1,172 62.6 35.8 78 68 32 22,560 44Enviken 1,634 1,312 38.9 60.0 88 93 7 25,108 26Gruvan 2,129 1,661 54.9 44.1 89 92 8 30,067 58Gruvriset 2,232 1,468 49.6 49.0 88 90 10 29,376 56Grycksbo 1,922 1,488 53.0 45.8 84 88 12 25,077 32Haraldsbo 1,178 879 52.5 44.3 81 81 19 26,236 43Herrhagen 1,738 1,329 57.1 38.8 67 66 34 19,082 29Hosjö Näs 1,829 1,377 51.1 47.9 85 88 12 28,084 50Hosjö Sandviken 1,415 1,114 47.2 51.3 86 87 13 27,558 44Hyttgården 1,615 1,394 49.7 48.7 87 89 11 27,108 49Hälsingberg 1,948 1,372 56.4 42.0 78 79 21 25,418 49Hälsinggården 1,215 949 53.9 45.1 89 86 14 28,730 55Karlberg 1,416 1,043 57.6 40.3 68 85 15 22,444 57Kristine 1,076 1,063 51.6 46.8 83 88 12 27,776 52Kvarnberget-Ö Främby 2,065 1,585 58.1 40.5 79 80 20 24,833 44Kyrkbacken 1,450 1,172 58.1 40.1 88 91 9 30,861 73Källviken-V Främby 1,608 1,189 49.3 49.9 84 88 12 29,334 49Kämparvet 1,399 1,242 55.0 43.0 72 83 17 23,106 52Linghed 906 681 33.4 64.8 82 94 6 24,906 30Lugnet 1,444 1,136 57.1 41.6 87 90 10 31,068 73Nedre Norslund 1,597 1,120 58.6 38.3 71 61 39 19,807 34Pilbo-Samuelsdal 1,525 1,114 51.7 47.1 89 92 8 31,448 53Slätta 1,194 827 61.9 37.5 89 88 12 30,111 57Stenslund 1,632 1,182 56.3 42.9 93 91 9 33,764 70Sundbornsbyn 1,481 1,146 47.1 52.1 87 93 7 27,608 47Varpan 1,468 1,165 48.6 50.2 88 94 6 31,972 55Vika 1,821 1,413 42.8 56.3 86 93 7 28,185 42Ångbryggeriet 1,179 1,013 52.2 46.5 83 90 10 26,453 49Östanfors 1,142 946 58.2 40.8 86 90 10 29,254 60Övre Norslund 1,532 1,248 60.5 38.0 84 85 15 26,319 56Source: SVT

Riksdag elections Year%VotesVSMPCLKDMSDNyDLeftRight1973 89.2 30,135 3.8 40.1 32.1 9.3 1.6 12.7 43.9 54.11976 90.8 32,507 3.8 38.0 30.8 11.7 1.1 14.2 41.8 56.71979 89.1 33,105 4.9 38.7 24.4 10.3 1.2 20.0 43.6 54.71982 90.2 34,386 4.5 41.9 2.3 19.3 6.1 1.7 24.1 46.4 49.51985 88.4 34,444 4.4 40.8 1.7 14.9 15.9 22.1 45.2 52.81988 83.7 32,920 5.2 39.4 6.1 13.3 14.3 3.3 18.1 50.8 45.71991 84.6 33,704 3.8 34.2 3.9 10.3 9.9 7.4 21.9 6.7 37.9 49.61994 85.5 34,446 6.0 41.5 7.0 9.6 8.5 4.2 21.5 0.9 54.4 43.81998 81.1 32,490 12.4 33.2 5.8 5.3 4.6 12.6 22.2 51.4 44.82002 79.2 32,593 8.6 38.4 5.6 8.4 12.5 7.5 15.3 1.1 52.6 43.72006 82.2 34,442 5.9 33.8 6.1 10.5 6.3 5.9 25.5 2.5 45.8 48.22010 85.4 36,559 5.5 31.5 8.1 8.1 5.7 5.0 28.9 5.5 45.1 47.62014 87.4 38,251 5.9 30.2 7.2 8.0 4.5 3.8 23.2 12.8 43.3 39.52018 88.8 39,461 8.2 28.0 4.9 11.8 4.6 6.0 19.7 15.3 52.9 45.6

Local politics The Falu Party is a party with local interests.

Sister cities The following places have sister cities agreements with Falun: Hamina, Finland Grudziądz, Poland Gütersloh, Germany Vordingborg, Denmark

Falun also has two cooperation towns without formal sistering treaty: Kimberley, South Africa Pskov, Russia

References

External links

Dalarna College - Situated in Falun