Malmköping
Place in Södermanland, Sweden
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Malmköping is a locality situated in Flen Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden with 2 180 inhabitants in 2020.[1]
Malmköping | |
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A heritage tram in Malmköping | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Malmköping  Malmköping | |
| Coordinates: 59°08′N 16°44′E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Province | Södermanland |
| County | Södermanland County |
| Municipality | Flen Municipality |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.31 km2 (0.51 sq mi) |
| Population (31 December 2020)[2] | |
• Total | 2,180 |
| • Density | 1,660/km2 (4,310/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Malmköping is located about 15 kilometers north-east of the municipal seat Flen. It is a tourist attraction due to its many annual markets.[3] The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back more than two centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (köping) in 1785.
In the center of Malmköping there is a ski slope located, also known as Malmabacken which was established in 1965.[4]
There is also a museum tramway in Malmköping, the Museispårvägen Malmköping, which runs heritage trams from most of the Swedish tramway systems.[5]
Olympian Helge Meuller was born here.[6]
Riksdag elections
| Year | % | Votes | V | S | MP | C | L | KD | M | SD | NyD | Left | Right |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973[7] | 92.5 | 2,106 | 2.6 | 41.5 | 31.1 | 10.1 | 1.8 | 12.9 | 44.1 | 54.1 | |||
| 1976[8] | 92.1 | 2,144 | 2.1 | 41.0 | 31.4 | 9.5 | 1.9 | 14.0 | 43.1 | 54.9 | |||
| 1979[9] | 92.3 | 1,709 | 2.4 | 44.2 | 22.7 | 9.8 | 1.8 | 18.6 | 46.6 | 51.1 | |||
| 1982[10] | 91.0 | 1,723 | 2.6 | 47.6 | 2.1 | 18.6 | 5.6 | 1.8 | 21.4 | 50.3 | 45.6 | ||
| 1985[11] | 90.0 | 1,707 | 2.9 | 46.7 | 2.9 | 14.6 | 13.4 | 19.3 | 49.6 | 48.4 | |||
| 1988[12] | 84.8 | 1,635 | 2.9 | 43.7 | 7.4 | 14.0 | 11.1 | 2.8 | 15.1 | 56.8 | 40.2 | ||
| 1991[13] | 84.8 | 1,704 | 2.2 | 41.0 | 3.4 | 11.2 | 7.2 | 9.0 | 18.2 | 7.9 | 43.2 | 45.5 | |
| 1994[14] | 86.3 | 1,742 | 4.6 | 47.2 | 6.5 | 9.3 | 6.4 | 4.8 | 19.7 | 0.6 | 58.4 | 40.3 | |
| 1998[15] | 78.9 | 1,552 | 11.4 | 39.9 | 5.9 | 7.0 | 3.2 | 11.8 | 19.6 | 57.3 | 41.6 | ||
| 2002[16] | 77.3 | 1,974 | 6.6 | 41.4 | 6.4 | 8.7 | 10.9 | 10.3 | 13.6 | 0.9 | 54.5 | 43.6 | |
| 2006[17] | 80.8 | 2,035 | 4.7 | 38.2 | 5.2 | 11.8 | 5.2 | 6.0 | 24.2 | 3.1 | 48.1 | 47.3 | |
| 2010[18] | 81.0 | 2,020 | 5.2 | 31.1 | 6.9 | 12.6 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 24.8 | 8.1 | 43.2 | 48.0 | |
| 2014[19] | 84.0 | 2,005 | 4.6 | 31.1 | 5.8 | 10.7 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 20.6 | 16.6 | 41.5 | 39.0 | |
| 2018[20] | 84.7 | 2,017 | 5.2 | 26.8 | 4.2 | 10.8 | 4.1 | 5.5 | 20.3 | 21.7 | 47.0 | 51.6 |
In literature
Jonas Jonasson's 2009 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared opens in Malmköping. The movie, however, is recorded in Munkedal, Bohuslän.[21]
