| Osby Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Osby kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 56.3667°N 72°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Scania County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Osby |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Scania |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1273 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.osby.se |
Osby Municipality (Osby kommun) is a municipality in Scania County in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Osby.
The amalgamation during the 1970s' local government reform took place in the area on 1 January 1974, when the former market town Osby (itself instituted as such in 1937) was merged with three adjacent rural municipalities.
There are 3 localities (or built-up areas) in Osby 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 | Osby | 6,947 | |
| 2 | 1,899 | ||
| 3 | 575 |
This is a demographic table based on Osby Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[1]
In total there were 13,238 residents, including 9,888 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 37.9% voted for the left coalition and 61.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | |||||||
| Loshult/Killeberg | 1,305 | 889 | 37.5 | 61.8 | 83 | 77 | 23 | 25,801 | 34 | ||||||||
| Osby NV | 2,198 | 1,517 | 40.6 | 58.0 | 75 | 68 | 32 | 22,597 | 31 | ||||||||
| Osby NÖ | 1,814 | 1,294 | 34.9 | 63.6 | 78 | 76 | 24 | 22,325 | 29 | ||||||||
| Osby N | 1,698 | 1,383 | 37.1 | 61.9 | 74 | 77 | 23 | 21,577 | 27 | ||||||||
| Osby SV | 1,570 | 1,238 | 39.4 | 59.9 | 86 | 82 | 18 | 25,310 | 32 | ||||||||
| Osby S | 1,767 | 1,372 | 35.7 | 63.5 | 86 | 84 | 16 | 27,089 | 35 | ||||||||
| Örkened | 1,434 | 1,107 | 37.9 | 61.5 | 88 | 91 | 9 | 25,385 | 29 | ||||||||
| Örkened C | 1,452 | 1,088 | 37.7 | 61.5 | 70 | 75 | 25 | 19,499 | 21 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
| Year | Turnout | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014[2] | 85.5 | 8,244 | 3.4 | 35.2 | 4.3 | 5.9 | 2.7 | 4.9 | 16.1 | 25.4 | |
| 2018[3] | 87.0 | 8,385 | 3.9 | 28.2 | 2.2 | 7.3 | 2.4 | 7.3 | 16.1 | 31.2 |
The municipality is twinned with:[4]
Gribskov Municipality (formerly Græsted-Gilleleje), Denmark