In the early 1970s a nationwide local government reform was carried out in Sweden.

Urban and rural areas were merged into larger unitary municipalities.

The former City of Tidaholm (instituted in 1910) was in 1974 amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipality Hökensås and parts of Dimbo and Fröjered.

This is a demographic table based on Tidaholm Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

[3] In total there were 12,810 inhabitants, including 9,966 Swedish citizens of voting age.