Arvika Municipality

Arvika Municipality (Arvika kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Arvika.

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Municipality
Arvika Town Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 59°39′N 12°35′E
Country	Sweden
County	Värmland County
Seat	Arvika
Area
• Total	1,956.13 km2 (755.27 sq mi)
• Land	1,649.06 km2 (636.71 sq mi)
• Water	307.07 km2 (118.56 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	25,682
• Density	13/km2 (34/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Värmland
Municipal code	1784
Website	www.arvika.se

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Arvika was amalgamated with five rural municipalities of Glava, Gunnarskog, Älgå, Brunskog and Stavnäs.

Arvika is most known for the annual Arvika Festival that attracts international artists.

Localities

• Arvika (seat)
• Edane
• Glava
• Gunnarskog
• Jössefors
• Klässbol
• Sulvik
• Åmotfors (partly)

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Arvika 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 25,838 residents, including 19,885 Swedish citizens of voting age. 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% 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 % % Agneteberg 2,520 1,866 50.5 48.8 74 79 21 23,474 29 Degerängen 1,424 1,010 57.3 41.7 77 77 23 25,911 31 Dottevik 1,552 1,120 54.5 43.8 65 72 28 20,548 39 Edane-Mangskog 2,670 2,028 50.3 49.0 85 92 8 25,446 36 Glava 972 724 46.9 51.9 72 83 17 20,590 24 Gunnarskog-Bogen 1,937 1,518 41.8 57.7 83 91 9 24,764 28 Haga 1,260 1,030 51.4 47.5 78 88 12 23,790 30 Jössefors 1,325 991 43.0 56.4 78 90 10 26,552 29 Minneberg 1,464 1,176 53.3 45.0 72 78 22 21,998 32 Rosendal 1,255 1,017 52.8 46.5 79 83 17 25,712 33 Solberga 1,986 1,686 57.8 41.0 69 79 21 19,079 35 Solvik 1,615 1,249 50.7 48.8 86 94 6 28,410 38 Stavnäs-Högerud 1,418 1,091 47.3 52.0 85 91 9 25,712 30 Styckåsen 1,382 1,134 61.1 38.5 67 76 24 18,497 28 Taserud 1,340 953 52.0 47.3 86 87 13 28,520 47 Älgå-Ny 1,718 1,292 42.5 57.3 85 90 10 26,020 28 Source: SVT

Notable natives

• Kenny Bräck, racing driver
• Per Eklund, rally and rallycross driver
• Tommy Kristoffersson, rallycross and racing driver
• Håkan Hagegård, opera singer
• Kjellaug Nordsjö, icon painter
• August Warberg, actor
• Jacob de la Rose, ice hockey player

Politics

Result of the 2018 municipality election (loss or gain from 2014 elections):

• Moderate Party 18.36% (+3.35%)
• Centre Party 12.46% (+2.02%)
• Liberals 3.37% (−1.04%)
• Christian Democrats 2.84% (+0.92%)
• Swedish Social Democratic Party 39.18% (−7.53%)
• Left Party 6.75% (−0.35%)
• Green Party 3.05% (−2.32%)
• Sweden Democrats 11.95% (+3.38%)
• Feminist Initiative 1.87 (+1.66%)
• Other parties 0.16% (−0.08%)

External links

• Arvika Municipality – Official site
• Arvika Festival – Official site