Halmstad Municipality

Halmstad Municipality

*Halmstads kommun*
Halmstad Municipality Halmstads kommun
Municipality
	Halmstad City Hall
	Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 56°40′N 12°51′E / 56.667°N 12.850°E
Country	Sweden
County	Halland County
Seat	Halmstad
Government
• Chairman	Stefan Pålsson (Social Democratic Party)
Area
• Total	1,699.89 km2 (656.33 sq mi)
• Land	1,014.13 km2 (391.56 sq mi)
• Water	685.76 km2 (264.77 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2024)
• Total	106,084
• Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Halland
Municipal code	1380
Website	www.halmstad.se

Halmstad Municipality (Halmstads kommun) is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast, in which the city Halmstad is the seat.

The 1971 local government reform was implemented gradually in the area. In 1967 the rural municipality Simlångsdalen (created in 1952) was amalgamated into the City of Halmstad. The city was converted into a municipality of unitary type in 1971, but the seven surrounding municipalities were not merged into it until 1974.

Politics

Since the 2022 elections, the municipal government is controlled by a majority consisting of the Social Democrats, Moderates and Christian Democrats, with Social Democrat Stefan Pålsson as chairman of the municipal board.^[3]

Municipal council

The municipal council has 71 seats, with the governing majority holding a majority with 40 seats.^[4]

4

22

2

4

2

5

3

13

5

11

Left Party (4)
Social Democrats (22)
Green Party (2)
Hjärta för Halmstad (4)
Halmstads Lokala Parti (2)
Centre Party (5)
Liberals (3)
Moderate Party (13)
Christian Democrats (5)
Sweden Democrats (11)

Localities

There are 21 urban areas (also called a tätort or locality) in Halmstad Municipality.

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

#	Locality	Population
1	Halmstad	55,688
2	Oskarström	4,011
3	Fyllinge	2,830
4	Getinge	1,885
5	Frösakull	1,635
6	Trönninge	1,555
7	Åled	1,536
8	Harplinge	1,454
9	Gullbrandstorp	1,435
10	Haverdal	1,401
11	Kvibille	793
12	Steninge	769
13	Gullbranna	727
14	Eldsberga	717
15	Villshärad	628
16	Simlångsdalen	577
17	Laxvik	469
18	Holm	462
19	Sennan	430
20	Tylösand	387
21	Skedala	355

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Halmstad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[5]

In total there were 104,409 residents, including 79,133 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[5] 46.2% voted for the left coalition and 52.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

%

Andersberg N/V

2,394

1,136

67.9

24.5

56

13

87

14,909

28

Andersberg S

2,606

1,573

69.1

23.4

55

18

82

14,043

26

Bäckagård C

1,451

1,066

50.2

48.2

75

73

27

23,578

47

Bäckagård N

1,733

1,280

42.4

57.1

91

89

11

30,587

60

Bäckagård S

1,508

1,153

38.5

60.8

89

94

6

31,609

65

Centrum N

1,232

1,104

42.3

56.3

83

81

19

23,967

46

Centrum S

1,280

1,129

44.8

54.0

82

80

20

26,726

45

Centrum V

1,424

1,227

47.7

50.5

81

72

28

25,647

44

Centrum Ö-Gamletull

1,409

1,153

49.1

48.7

68

73

27

18,682

51

Eldsberga-Tönnersjö

1,483

1,049

39.7

59.6

86

87

13

27,617

35

Engelbrekt V

1,221

987

50.5

47.7

65

74

26

18,084

47

Engelbrekt Ö

1,186

927

42.4

56.3

65

71

29

20,222

39

Frennarp

1,517

1,138

53.5

45.9

89

87

13

29,137

53

Frösakull V-Tylösand

1,274

1,134

20.7

79.0

75

91

9

31,661

55

Frösakull Ö

1,485

1,211

31.2

68.2

83

91

9

30,103

58

Furet

1,623

1,204

48.1

50.9

86

83

17

30,348

49

Fyllinge N/Ö

1,623

1,309

50.8

47.4

82

60

40

27,333

43

Fyllinge S/V

1,725

1,258

55.2

42.7

75

60

40

24,790

34

Galgberget V

1,319

1,113

37.3

62.1

83

79

21

28,705

55

Galgberget Ö

1,527

1,230

46.3

51.3

80

76

24

26,260

47

Gamletull N/Ö

1,620

1,329

48.1

49.2

80

72

28

23,089

45

Gamletull V

1,629

1,454

43.8

55.1

84

16

29,237

56

Getinge N

1,382

975

46.5

52.7

81

19

25,550

32

Getinge S-Rävinge

1,365

993

47.4

51.5

87

13

25,685

35

Gullbrandstorp N

1,458

1,055

41.5

57.7

90

93

7

31,244

54

Gullbrandstorp S

1,480

1,181

40.2

58.8

87

92

8

27,667

54

Gullbranna-Laxvik

1,321

1,051

37.9

61.2

87

88

12

28,394

42

Gustavsfält N

1,341

989

57.3

39.8

74

41

59

23,054

30

Gustavsfält S

1,450

950

59.1

37.4

66

34

66

18,750

32

Harplinge

2,080

1,518

47.4

51.5

88

91

9

28,341

48

Haverdal

1,870

1,571

43.0

56.2

83

92

8

29,203

57

Holm-Vapnö

1,423

916

38.9

60.8

88

86

14

29,207

45

Kattegatt Ö

1,341

1,128

47.0

52.3

80

81

19

28,026

50

Kvibille-Slättåkra

1,753

1,314

39.4

59.3

87

91

9

26,918

40

Kärleken-Sofieberg V

1,696

1,236

46.3

52.7

88

87

13

30,281

54

Kärleken-Sofieberg Ö

1,446

1,099

48.4

50.6

87

86

14

29,206

53

Linehed N

1,508

1,324

52.7

45.6

77

47

53

22,272

37

Linehed S

1,603

1,089

63.6

32.7

56

29

71

15,919

29

Mickedala

1,666

1,272

49.6

82

87

13

30,951

62

Nyatorp N

1,713

1,348

45.5

52.8

79

72

28

24,985

46

Nyatorp S

1,443

1,124

43.7

54.1

72

64

36

21,400

40

Nyhem S

1,754

1,264

49.2

47.9

57

55

45

13,621

52

Nyhem V

1,752

1,289

53.4

44.8

74

57

43

22,129

40

Nyhem Ö

1,722

1,251

58.8

37.3

58

46

54

16,424

36

Oskarström N

1,603

1,116

46.1

52.3

80

75

25

24,570

28

Oskarström S/V

1,592

1,050

46.2

51.7

73

67

33

21,315

24

Oskarström Ö

1,792

1,322

45.1

54.3

85

83

17

25,927

35

Rotorp N

1,576

1,329

54.3

44.3

75

77

23

26,030

49

Rotorp S-Alet

1,383

1,097

48.7

49.7

83

87

13

29,857

56

Simlångsdalen

1,610

1,234

41.3

58.1

88

90

10

26,287

34

Skedala-Marbäck

1,442

1,154

36.7

62.6

89

90

10

29,346

35

Slottsjord-Kattegatt V

1,253

1,079

46.5

52.2

76

78

22

23,965

48

Snöstorp S/V

1,891

1,385

47.3

52.1

87

74

26

29,402

46

Snöstorp Ö-Brogård

1,630

1,202

49.1

49.7

87

81

19

28,642

46

Stenhuggeriet

1,391

1,108

36.3

63.4

85

91

9

33,849

58

Steninge-Särdal

1,400

1,099

45.6

53.5

87

91

9

30,903

62

Söndrum C

1,343

1,091

39.3

60.2

89

91

9

30,697

58

Söndrum N

1,699

1,245

36.5

63.1

89

90

10

31,322

58

Söndrum S-Eketånga

1,464

1,124

39.4

59.7

87

89

11

32,915

65

Trönninge

1,871

1,356

40.2

58.5

85

83

17

28,171

38

Vallås N

1,672

1,309

57.7

39.7

72

61

39

19,496

36

Vallås S

1,571

1,157

58.5

40.5

71

54

46

20,129

34

Vallås V

1,724

1,186

61.3

34.8

56

48

52

16,381

25

Vallås Ö

1,678

1,289

54.0

44.6

79

67

33

24,257

39

Åled V

1,396

1,007

43.8

55.6

88

90

10

28,927

40

Åled Ö-Sennan

1,292

970

40.4

59.0

84

86

14

25,776

36

Östra Förstaden

1,300

1,123

46.1

52.4

79

78

22

25,674

50

Source: SVT^[5]

Twin towns – sister cities

Halmstad is twinned with:^[6]

Gentofte, Denmark
Hanko, Finland
Nikopol, Ukraine
Stord, Norway

In addition to its twin towns, Halmstad Municipality also cooperates with Asti in Italy and Moshi in Tanzania.^[6]

References

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2024" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 21, 2025. Retrieved February 22, 2025.
^ Thorsell, Tony (2022-10-15). "Stefan Pålsson blir kommunstyrelsens ordförande: "Otroligt stort"". Hallandsposten (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-02-27.
^ "Slutlig rösträkning och mandatfördelning – val till kommunfullmäktige" (PDF) (in Swedish). Halland County administrative board. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Halmstad i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Vänorter" (in Swedish). Halmstad kommun. Retrieved 2025-01-21.

Statistics Sweden

External links

Halmstad Municipality - Official site

[SCB_2014-01-01-1] "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.

[SCB_2024-12-31-2] "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2024" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 21, 2025. Retrieved February 22, 2025.

[3] Thorsell, Tony (2022-10-15). "Stefan Pålsson blir kommunstyrelsens ordförande: "Otroligt stort"". Hallandsposten (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-02-27.

[4] "Slutlig rösträkning och mandatfördelning – val till kommunfullmäktige" (PDF) (in Swedish). Halland County administrative board. 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2023-02-27.

[HalmstadVal2022-5] "Valresultat 2022 för Halmstad i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2024.

[twins-6] "Vänorter" (in Swedish). Halmstad kommun. Retrieved 2025-01-21.

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Halmstad Municipality

Politics

Municipal council

Localities

Demographics

Twin towns – sister cities

See also

References

External links

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