Falun Municipality
# Falun Municipality

Falun Municipality (Falu kommun) 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

## Riksdag elections

| Year | % | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | NyD | Left | Right |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1973 | 89.2 | 30,135 | 3.8 | 40.1 | | 32.1 | 9.3 | 1.6 | 12.7 | | | 43.9 | 54.1 |
| 1976 | 90.8 | 32,507 | 3.8 | 38.0 | | 30.8 | 11.7 | 1.1 | 14.2 | | | 41.8 | 56.7 |
| 1979 | 89.1 | 33,105 | 4.9 | 38.7 | | 24.4 | 10.3 | 1.2 | 20.0 | | | 43.6 | 54.7 |
| 1982 | 90.2 | 34,386 | 4.5 | 41.9 | 2.3 | 19.3 | 6.1 | 1.7 | 24.1 | | | 46.4 | 49.5 |
| 1985 | 88.4 | 34,444 | 4.4 | 40.8 | 1.7 | 14.9 | 15.9 | | 22.1 | | | 45.2 | 52.8 |
| 1988 | 83.7 | 32,920 | 5.2 | 39.4 | 6.1 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 3.3 | 18.1 | | | 50.8 | 45.7 |
| 1991 | 84.6 | 33,704 | 3.8 | 34.2 | 3.9 | 10.3 | 9.9 | 7.4 | 21.9 | | 6.7 | 37.9 | 49.6 |
| 1994 | 85.5 | 34,446 | 6.0 | 41.5 | 7.0 | 9.6 | 8.5 | 4.2 | 21.5 | | 0.9 | 54.4 | 43.8 |
| 1998 | 81.1 | 32,490 | 12.4 | 33.2 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 12.6 | 22.2 | | | 51.4 | 44.8 |
| 2002 | 79.2 | 32,593 | 8.6 | 38.4 | 5.6 | 8.4 | 12.5 | 7.5 | 15.3 | 1.1 | | 52.6 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 82.2 | 34,442 | 5.9 | 33.8 | 6.1 | 10.5 | 6.3 | 5.9 | 25.5 | 2.5 | | 45.8 | 48.2 |
| 2010 | 85.4 | 36,559 | 5.5 | 31.5 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 28.9 | 5.5 | | 45.1 | 47.6 |
| 2014 | 87.4 | 38,251 | 5.9 | 30.2 | 7.2 | 8.0 | 4.5 | 3.8 | 23.2 | 12.8 | | 43.3 | 39.5 |
| 2018 | 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
