Simrishamn Municipality () is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Simrishamn.

The creation of the present municipality took place during the last of the two nationwide municipal reforms carried out in Sweden during the second half of the 20th century. In 1969 a number of surrounding rural municipalities were merged with the City of Simrishamn. The enlarged city became a municipality of unitary type in 1971 and in 1974 more territory was added. The number of original entities (pre-1952) is twenty.

Geography The landscape south and west of Simrishamn is mainly open and flat farmland. To the north of Simrishamn the landscape is broken up by small forests and gently sloping hills. The coastline directly south and north of Simrishamn is stony. Stenshuvud National Park is located by the shore, within the municipal borders. Simrishamn is located in the Österlen area.

Localities There are 13 urban areas (also called tätorter or localities) in Simrishamn Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population 1 Simrishamn 6546 2 Kivik 1013 3 Skillinge 1005 4 Gärsnäs 955 5 Borrby 947 6 Hammenhög 908 7 Sankt Olof 640 8 Brantevik 451 9 Östra Tommarp 279 10 Vik 264 11 Vitaby 255 12 Baskemölla 238 13 Simris 235

Minor localities There are 14 minor localities (also called småorter) in Simrishamn Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005.

# Minor locality Population 14 Östra Vemmerlöv 194 15 Gröstorp 190 16 Järrestad 170 17 Gladsax 128 18 Ravlunda 111 19 Sandby 105 20 Vitemölla 100 21 Södra Mellby 92 22 Örnahusen 87 23 Gyllebo 69 24 Vallby 67 25 Skräddaröd 58 26 Östra Hoby 55 27 Raskarum + Ljunglyckorna* 54

* Counted together

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Simrishamn 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 19,250 residents, including 15,679 Swedish citizens of voting age. 42.5% voted for the left coalition and 55.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Borrby 1,356 1,102 37.8 60.7 74 84 16 21,800 32Gladsax 1,152 964 42.4 55.8 82 91 9 25,764 40Gärsnäs 2,595 2,075 37.9 61.0 80 88 12 23,170 31Hammenhög 1,599 1,212 37.3 60.4 80 85 15 24,855 29Kivik 992 867 45.2 53.5 79 89 11 23,935 49Rörum 683 551 51.0 48.2 83 91 9 25,642 57S:t Olof 1,151 881 41.7 56.5 84 87 13 22,367 34Simris 1,709 1,398 42.6 56.5 82 87 13 25,250 36Simrishamn C 1,672 1,412 48.5 50.0 74 73 27 19,960 31Simrishamn N 2,110 1,742 44.5 54.3 79 84 16 22,799 38Simrishamn S 2,012 1,531 42.9 53.9 68 74 26 19,605 30Skillinge 1,100 978 37.8 61.3 78 92 8 23,596 43Vitaby 1,119 966 47.9 50.8 78 89 11 23,103 46Source: SVT

Politics The 2018 municipal election resulted in the following composition of the municipal council: Party Seats Moderate Party 12 Social Democratic Party 11 Sweden Democrats 8 Centre Party 4 Liberals 3 Feminist Initiative 3 Green Party 2 Left Party 2 Christian Democrats 2 Österlen Party 2 Total 49

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities The municipality is twinned with: Barth Bornholm Kołobrzeg Palanga

References Statistics Sweden

External links

Simrishamn - Official site Österlen - Official site Österlen & Ystad - Official site