With a total area of 11,935 square kilometres (4,608 sq mi), it is Sweden's fifth largest.

[4] In total there were 8,125 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.

This table lists the national results since the 1972 Swedish municipality reform.

The results of the Sweden Democrats from 1988 to 1998 were not published by the SCB at a municipal level due to the party's small size nationally at the time.

Blocs This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991.