Borgholm Municipality () is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden, constituting the northern half of the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea. The municipal seat is located in the city of Borgholm.

Notable historic sites in this municipality are Borgholm Castle and Halltorps Estate.

The local government reform in the 1970s saw the creation of two municipalities on the island of Öland. Borgholm Municipality is the northern of the two and consists of sixteen original (pre-1952) entities. The southern half of the island is made up of Mörbylånga Municipality.

It is the birthplace of John Eke, A long distance runner who competed in the 1912 Olympics, He later competed for the Irish American Athletic Club in NYC

Localities There are 5 urban areas (also called Tätort or localities) in Borgholm Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population 1 Borgholm 3,093 2 Köpingsvik 609 3 Löttorp 455 4 Rälla 440 5 Björkviken 243

Sister cities Borgholm has four sister cities (a.k.a. twin towns):

Rockford, Illinois, U.S. Łeba, Poland Zelenogradsk, Kaliningrad, Russia Korsnäs, Finland

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Borgholm 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 10,889 inhabitants, including 8,990 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.0 % voted for the left coalition and 53.8 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Alböke-Föra-Bredsättra 1,133 955 44.5 54.7 84 92 8 22,286 29Borgholms 1 1,710 1,378 47.1 51.8 74 82 18 21,639 32Borgholms 2 1,576 1,330 46.5 52.1 77 83 17 21,325 31Böda 701 630 47.1 51.6 82 91 9 21,335 33Gärdslösa-Långlöt 1,373 1,057 44.5 54.2 85 92 8 24,480 40Högby 1,009 864 46.2 51.7 83 91 9 20,728 28Källa-Persnäs 660 562 48.7 50.2 81 88 12 21,628 31Köping 1,378 1,119 40.1 59.1 78 85 15 23,459 30Räpplinge-Högsrum 1,349 1,095 42.5 55.7 80 92 8 24,884 40Source: SVT

Politics

Riksdag These are the results of the elections to the Riksdag held in Borgholm since the first election after the municipal reform that was held in 1973. The results only include parties that have won representation in the Riksdag assembly at least once during this timeframe. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by the SCB between 1988 and 1998 due to the party's small size at the time.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 90.7 7,085 2.2 25.7 0.0 50.1 4.9 3.4 13.7 0.0 0.0 1976 91.8 7,581 2.5 25.8 0.0 50.1 5.2 2.2 14.2 0.0 0.0 1979 90.0 7,614 3.3 25.9 0.0 45.2 5.2 2.5 17.8 0.0 0.0 1982 90.7 7,798 2.6 27.9 1.2 39.2 3.3 3.2 22.5 0.0 0.0 1985 89.0 7,714 2.1 28.3 1.8 35.6 9.9 0.0 22.1 0.0 0.0 1988 86.1 7,408 2.5 29.0 6.1 33.7 7.3 4.9 16.4 0.0 0.0 1991 86.0 7,536 2.3 24.6 3.6 28.4 4.1 9.0 19.9 0.0 7.5 1994 85.7 7,653 3.6 33.3 5.4 24.0 3.7 5.3 22.6 0.0 1.3 1998 79.8 7,025 8.5 25.7 4.0 17.7 2.7 18.2 21.7 0.0 0.0 2002 79.9 7,058 5.7 28.6 3.9 21.2 8.6 14.4 15.9 0.5 0.0 2006 81.4 7,230 3.8 26.8 3.9 21.5 4.5 8.0 26.2 3.5 0.0 2010 84.2 7,340 3.6 23.3 6.2 16.8 5.0 7.3 31.7 5.2 0.0 2014 87.0 7,587 3.7 25.6 4.5 14.7 3.5 5.1 24.6 15.3 0.0 2018 88.6 7,682 5.7 23.7 3.1 14.2 3.4 8.3 18.9 21.4 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 90.7 7,085 27.9 68.7 0.0 3.4 96.6 1976 91.8 7,581 28.3 69.5 0.0 2.2 97.8 1979 90.0 7,614 29.2 68.2 0.0 2.6 97.4 1982 90.7 7,798 30.5 65.0 0.0 4.5 95.5 1985 89.0 7,714 30.4 67.6 0.0 2.0 98.0 1988 86.1 7,408 37.6 57.4 0.0 5.0 95.0 1991 86.0 7,536 26.9 61.4 0.0 11.7 95.8 1994 85.7 7,653 42.3 55.6 0.0 2.1 97.9 1998 79.8 7,025 38.2 57.6 0.0 4.2 95.8 2002 79.9 7,058 38.2 60.1 0.0 1.7 98.3 2006 81.4 7,230 34.5 60.2 0.0 5.3 94.7 2010 84.2 7,340 33.1 60.8 5.2 0.9 99.1 2014 87.0 7,587 33.8 47.9 15.3 3.0 97.0 2018 88.5 7,682 32.5 44.9 21.4 1.2 98.8

References Statistics Sweden

External links

Borgholm Municipality - Official site