Lycksele Municipality

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Municipality
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Coordinates: 64°36′N 18°40′E
Country	Sweden
County	Västerbotten County
Seat	Lycksele
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Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Lapland
Municipal code	2481
Website	www.lycksele.se

Lycksele Municipality (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Lycksele and the municipality is located in the southern parts of Swedish Lapland.

The municipality traces its history to Lycksele parish, which was in effect during the 19th century with very similar borders and size (5,000-5,500 km²). The whole rural municipality Lycksele became a market town (köping) in 1929 and city in 1946. In 1971 it was amalgamated with Örträsk Municipality.

Generally the northern municipalities, already sparsely populated, have population decreases, but various supporting projects also exist. For instance, a campus of Umeå University is situated here.

Localities

There are two localities (or urban areas) in Lycksele Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Lycksele	8,597
2	Kristineberg	331

The municipal seat in bold

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lycksele 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 12,255 residents, including 9,233 Swedish citizens of voting age. 53.2% voted for the left coalition and 46.0% 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 % % Björksele 795 571 52.0 47.3 82 85 15 23,272 29 Forsdala 1,757 1,300 48.1 51.6 89 91 9 27,840 37 Kattisavan 548 431 45.8 51.0 81 94 6 22,334 33 Knaften 874 696 47.4 52.1 87 96 4 24,064 31 Lycksele 2,186 1,627 54.2 44.9 77 76 24 20,700 27 Norrmalm 2,059 1,532 54.8 44.2 89 94 6 27,352 36 Södermalm 1,702 1,296 58.6 40.9 79 81 19 22,691 30 Villaryd 2,334 1,780 56.3 42.9 81 86 14 23,861 32 Source: SVT

Transport

There is an airport just south of Lycksele, from which one can reach Stockholm in about 80 minutes.

Previously, the railroad between Umeå and Storuman was the main means of transportation, but its significance has diminished and passenger traffic was discontinued. There are now daily buses to towns like Umeå, Storuman and Tärnaby. In August 2011, passenger train services between Lycksele and Umeå were re-established.

The European route E12, also known as Blå vägen ("The Blue Road") winds along the Ume River and passes through Lycksele.

Sister cities

Lycksele Municipality has three sister cities:

• File:Flag of Norway.svg Mosjøen, Norway
• Error creating thumbnail: Ähtäri, Finland
• Error creating thumbnail: Lovozero, Russia

External links

• Lycksele Municipality - Official site