Ronneby Municipality

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Ronneby Municipality is a municipality in Blekinge County in southern Sweden. It borders to Tingsryd Municipality, Emmaboda Municipality, Karlskrona Municipality and Karlshamn Municipality. The town Ronneby is the seat of the municipality.The present municipality was created in 1967 through the amalgamation of the City of Ronneby with three surrounding units.LocalitiesThere are 9 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Ronneby Municipality.In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.PoliticsRonneby was run by the Social Democratic Party for over 80 consecutive years, until a right wing coalition won the election in 2010. This coalition consists of the Moderate Party (23,5 %), the Center Party (11,8 %), the Peoples Party (5,7%), the Christian Democrats (1,8%) and the Ronneby Party (7,2%). The chairman of the municipal board of directors is moderate Roger Fredriksson. The Ronneby Party is a party with local interests formed before the national election of 1994. In 1998 the party had got 6.3% of the votes and three seats in the municipal council. In 2002 the vote share was reduced to 3.0%.ParishesParishes ordered by hundreds: