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Flen Municipality is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen, the market town Malmköping and the surrounding countryside.LocalitiesFigures from Statistics Sweden, 2004.Flen 6,107Malmköping 2,006Hälleforsnäs 1,737Sparreholm 799Skebokvarn 225Mellösa 549Bettna 410Vadsbro 118 Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a köping) already in 1785.ElectionsThe following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by the SCB between 1988 and 1998 due to the party's small national size, and therefore has been marked out as "0.0".