Munkfors Municipality

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Munkfors Municipality is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Munkfors.In 1952 the rural municipality Ransäter got the title of a market town and the name Munkfors after its only built-up locality. With the local government reform of 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type without addition of territory. The municipality is today the 9th smallest by population in Sweden.In Ransäter lies the Geijer School, in honour of author Erik Gustaf Geijer, who was born at the Ransäter farm. A second notable Ransäter native was Tage Erlander, who was Prime Minister of Sweden 1946-1969.The municipality has one sister city: Lindsborg, Kansas, U.S.A.ElectionsRiksdagThese are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.Blocs