Arvika Municipality

Arvika Municipality (Arvika kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Arvika.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Arvika was amalgamated with five rural municipalities of Glava, Gunnarskog, Älgå, Brunskog and Stavnäs.

Arvika is most known for the annual Arvika Festival that attracts international artists.

Localities

 * Arvika (seat)
 * Edane
 * Glava
 * Gunnarskog
 * Jössefors
 * Klässbol
 * Sulvik
 * Åmotfors (partly)

Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Arvika 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 25,838 residents, including 19,885 Swedish citizens of voting age. 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Notable natives

 * Kenny Bräck, racing driver
 * Per Eklund, rally and rallycross driver
 * Tommy Kristoffersson, rallycross and racing driver
 * Håkan Hagegård, opera singer
 * Kjellaug Nordsjö, icon painter
 * August Warberg, actor
 * Jacob de la Rose, ice hockey player

Politics
Result of the 2018 municipality election (loss or gain from 2014 elections):
 * Moderate Party 18.36% (+3.35%)
 * Centre Party 12.46% (+2.02%)
 * Liberals 3.37% (−1.04%)
 * Christian Democrats 2.84% (+0.92%)
 * Swedish Social Democratic Party 39.18% (−7.53%)
 * Left Party 6.75% (−0.35%)
 * Green Party 3.05% (−2.32%)
 * Sweden Democrats 11.95% (+3.38%)
 * Feminist Initiative 1.87 (+1.66%)
 * Other parties 0.16% (−0.08%)