Båstad Municipality () is a municipality in Skåne County in South Sweden, located in Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Båstad.

The present municipality was established in 1971 when the market town (köping) Båstad was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities. One parish was transferred from Halland County.

Localities There are 6 localities in Båstad Municipality.

In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population 1 Båstad 4,793 2 Förslöv 1,998 3 Torekov 883 4 Grevie 769 5 Östra Karup 563 6 Västra Karup 556

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Båstad 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 15,624 residents, including 12,600 Swedish citizens of voting age. 35.3% voted for the left coalition and 63.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Båstad V 1,748 1,471 27.3 71.9 73 81 19 25,975 45Båstad Ö 2,249 1,842 32.4 67.0 74 81 19 23,140 41Förslöv V 1,632 1,245 42.9 55.7 80 81 19 25,483 37Förslöv Ö 1,656 1,231 45.7 53.0 83 81 19 26,157 35Grevie 1,983 1,506 40.5 58.3 84 83 17 26,289 41Hemmerslöv-Riviera 1,780 1,531 30.3 69.0 84 90 10 29,650 53Hov 747 616 34.1 64.4 82 87 13 25,714 43Torekov 938 837 30.0 69.2 70 89 11 24,716 38Västra Karup 1,712 1,389 36.1 62.7 81 85 15 25,831 42Östra Karup 1,179 932 34.0 64.7 83 79 21 25,972 34Source: SVT

Elections Below are the results since the 1973 municipal reform listed. Between 1988 and 1998 the Sweden Democrats' results were not published by the SCB due to the party's small size nationwide. "Turnout" denotes the percentage of the electorate casting a ballot, but "Votes" only applies to valid ballots cast.

Riksdag Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 90.6 7,146 0.9 21.1 0.0 47.7 8.9 1.0 20.4 0.0 0.0 1976 92.5 7,849 0.7 18.8 0.0 45.9 9.7 0.8 23.2 0.0 0.0 1979 91.5 8,134 0.9 18.2 0.0 34.5 9.8 0.6 34.2 0.0 0.0 1982 92.0 8,458 0.8 19.1 1.9 29.6 6.9 0.9 40.1 0.0 0.0 1985 90.1 8,579 1.1 19.3 1.8 24.4 16.6 0.0 36.3 0.0 0.0 1988 86.7 8,462 1.0 21.3 5.9 23.8 13.6 1.8 32.3 0.0 0.0 1991 87.3 9,077 0.8 16.4 2.9 17.0 8.5 7.5 36.2 0.0 9.7 1994 86.1 9,167 1.6 22.8 4.5 17.0 6.7 4.5 40.1 0.0 2.2 1998 81.5 8,890 4.3 18.4 3.6 10.8 5.3 17.5 37.4 0.0 0.0 2002 79.7 8,799 3.0 21.3 3.6 11.3 15.3 14.9 27.1 2.5 0.0 2006 82.7 9,349 1.8 18.2 3.7 12.7 7.7 8.4 41.8 3.6 0.0 2010 85.3 9,769 1.9 15.3 5.5 12.1 7.4 7.2 44.1 5.6 0.0 2014 86.9 10,086 2.2 18.2 6.3 10.1 6.1 5.4 34.7 14.8 0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 90.6 7,146 22.0 77.0 0.0 1.0 99.0 1976 92.5 7,849 19.5 78.8 0.0 1.7 98.3 1979 91.5 8,134 19.1 78.5 0.0 2.4 97.6 1982 92.0 8,458 19.9 76.6 0.0 3.5 96.5 1985 90.1 8,579 20.4 77.3 0.0 2.3 97.7 1988 86.7 8,462 28.2 69.7 0.0 2.1 97.9 1991 87.3 9,077 17.2 69.2 0.0 13.6 96.1 1994 86.1 9,167 28.9 68.3 0.0 2.8 97.2 1998 81.5 8,890 26.3 71.0 0.0 2.7 97.3 2002 79.7 8,799 28.0 68.6 0.0 3.4 96.6 2006 82.7 9,349 23.7 70.6 0.0 5.7 94.3 2010 85.3 9,769 22.7 70.8 5.6 0.9 99.1 2014 86.9 10,086 26.7 56.3 14.8 2.2 97.8

Hallandian ridge

Extending through the municipality, marking the border to the province Halland, is the ridge of Hallandia, or Hallandsåsen. It is one of the highest points in the otherwise flat-terrained Scania, with a height of 226 meters.

The ridge reached the public eye in 1997, when the construction of the Hallandsås Tunnel through the ridge caused fishes in the streams to die and cows grazing on the ridge to become paralyzed due to the poisonous substance acrylamide used by the digging company to counteract the high level of groundwater in the ridge.

References Sources Article Båstad from Nordisk Familjebok (in Swedish only) Statistics Sweden Citations

External links

Båstad Municipality - Official site Båstad Tourism Coat of arms