Pajala Municipality

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'''Pajala Municipality''' ({{Langx|sv|Pajala kommun}}; Meänkieli and Finnish: ''Pajalan kunta'') is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden, bordering Finland. Its seat is located in the locality of Pajala.

In 1884 Tärendö was detached from Pajala Municipality, forming a municipality of its own. In 1914 Pajala Municipality was once again split when Junosuando broke away. They were reunited in 1971, when Korpilombolo was added as well.

Finnish and Meänkieli have the official status of being minority languages in the municipality.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pajala.se/Minoritetssprak/Welcome-to-Pajala/ |title=Welcome to Pajala |access-date=2018-04-02 |archive-date=2018-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180403051405/http://www.pajala.se/Minoritetssprak/Welcome-to-Pajala/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History== [[Image:Pajala prästgård, juli 2004.jpg|thumb|left|Pajala vicar's mansion, (Læstadiuspörtet)]] Its geographical location infers that Pajala Municipality has always been a natural trading place, where people from Sweden, Finland and the native Sami people gathered. The annual Pajala market traces its history from the 18th century.

The home of Lars Levi Læstadius, famed botanist and Christian revivalist movement founder is located in Pajala. It is the red house to the right; it is now a museum. The yellow house in the middle was used as the local Lutheran vicar's mansion from 1850 up to present day. {{Clear left}} ==Geography== The municipality is one of Sweden's largest, geographically, at around 8,000 km<sup>2</sup>, or roughly the size of the historical province of Södermanland, which - compared to Pajala Municipality's population of approximately 6,500 - has more than one million inhabitants.

In Pajala is also ''Jupukkamasten'', a {{convert|335|m|ft|adj=mid|-tall}} guyed mast for FM and TV transmission, which together with three other guyed masts of the same height is the tallest structure in Sweden.

===Localities=== There are four localities (or urban areas) in Pajala Municipality:<ref>[http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01A/Tatorternami0810tab1en.xls Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005]</ref>

{|class="wikitable" ! # !! Locality !! Population |- | 1 || '''Pajala''' || align="right" | 1,985 |- | 2 || Korpilombolo || align="right" | 548 |- | 3 || Junosuando || align="right" | 345 |- | 4 || Kangos || align="right" | 278 |}

<small>The municipal seat in bold</small>

==Demographics== This is a demographic table based on Pajala Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=PajalaVal2022>{{cite web|url=https://valresultat.svt.se/2022/riksdagsval-2521-pajala.html|title=Valresultat 2022 för Pajala i riksdagsvalet|publisher=SVT|language=sv|date=11 September 2022|access-date=23 December 2023}}</ref>

In total there were 4,657 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.<ref name=PajalaVal2022/> 56.0% voted for the left coalition and 42.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

{| role="presentation" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" ! rowspan="3" |Location ! {{tooltip|2=Number of residents in district, regardless of age or citizenship status|Residents}} ! {{tooltip|2=Swedish citizens above the age of 18, automatically eligible to vote|Citizen {{br}} adults}} ! {{tooltip|2=Social Democrats, Left Party, Centre Party, Green Party, %|Left vote}} ! {{tooltip|2=Sweden Democrats, Moderates, Christian Democrats, Liberals, %|Right vote}} ! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers, %|Employed}} ! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born in Sweden with at least one Swedish-born parent, %|Swedish {{br}} parents}} ! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as residents born abroad or in Sweden with two foreign-born parents, %|Foreign {{br}} heritage}} ! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as the median income received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in Swedish kronor|Income {{br}} SEK}} ! {{tooltip|2=Defined by Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB) as any degree accumulated after high school, %|Degree}} |- ! ! ! style="background:{{party color|Swedish Social Democratic Party}};color:#FFFFFF;" | ! style="background:{{party color|Moderate Party}};color:#FFFFFF;" | ! ! ! ! ! |- ! data-sort-type="number" | ! data-sort-type="number" | ! data-sort-type="number" | % ! data-sort-type="number" | % ! data-sort-type="number" | ! data-sort-type="number" | ! data-sort-type="number" | ! data-sort-type="number" | ! data-sort-type="number" | |- | align="left" |Junosuando | 954 | 818 | 50.4 | 47.7 | 79 | 88 | 12 | 21,675 | 21 |- | align="left" |Korpilombolo | 1,187 | 854 | 48.2 | 50.6 | 83 | 87 | 13 | 22,130 | 21 |- | align="left" |Pajala N | 1,308 | 1,018 | 62.3 | 36.5 | 84 | 83 | 17 | 23,715 | 27 |- | align="left" |Pajala S | 1,502 | 1,122 | 60.3 | 38.4 | 82 | 77 | 23 | 22,906 | 29 |- | align="left" |Tärendö | 1,015 | 845 | 61.6 | 37.9 | 85 | 90 | 10 | 22,792 | 27 |- | colspan="10" align="left" |Source: SVT<ref name=PajalaVal2022/> |}

==Government and politics==

===Riksdag=== These are the results since the 1972 municipal reform. Norrbotten Party participated in 1994 but the results were not published by SCB due to the party's small size at the time.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;" ! Year ! Turnout ! Votes ! V ! S ! MP ! C ! L ! KD ! M ! SD ! ND ! NP/SP |- | 1973<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1973-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1973 (page 168)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 88.4 | 6,065 | 24.2 | 44.6 | 0.0 | 17.6 | 3.2 | 2.3 | 7.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 1976<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1976-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1976 (page 163)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 88.7 | 5,978 | 22.4 | 46.7 | 0.0 | 17.1 | 2.8 | 2.1 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 1979<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1979-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1979 (page 187)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 89.0 | 5,877 | 19.6 | 45.9 | 0.0 | 14.0 | 3.2 | 2.5 | 9.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 1982<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1982-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1982 (page 188)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 88.3 | 5,841 | 19.5 | 50.3 | 0.5 | 11.9 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 10.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 1985<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1985-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1985 (page 190)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 87.4 | 5,791 | 19.6 | 53.0 | 0.4 | 11.6 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 1988<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1988-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1988 (page 169)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 81.9 | 5,341 | 18.4 | 51.1 | 2.1 | 9.7 | 5.2 | 2.9 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 1991<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1991-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1991 (page 32)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 81.8 | 5,192 | 18.6 | 50.1 | 1.3 | 8.4 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 2.8 | 0.0 |- | 1994<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/H/SOS%201911-/Valstatistiken/Allm%C3%A4nna%20valen%20(SOS)%201970-1998/Valstatistik-Allmanna-valen-1994-Del-1-Riksdagsvalet.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1994 (page 46)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 84.8 | 5,394 | 20.3 | 50.4 | 2.1 | 6.1 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 |- | 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scb.se/Grupp/Hitta_statistik/Historisk_statistik/_Dokument/Valstatistiken/Valstatistik%20Allmanna%20valen%201998%20Del%201%20Riksdagen.pdf|title=Riksdagsvalet 1998 (page 43)|publisher=SCB|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 80.6 | 4,861 | 30.1 | 42.4 | 2.1 | 4.4 | 1.6 | 7.6 | 9.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 2002<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val_02/slutresultat/25R/2521/2521.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Pajala kommun 2002|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 77.8 | 4,392 | 19.5 | 35.5 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 2.2 | 7.9 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21.6 |- | 2006<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2006/slutlig/R/kommun/25/21/roster.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Pajala kommun 2006|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 77.1 | 4,049 | 22.8 | 45.9 | 2.1 | 4.8 | 2.3 | 5.6 | 10.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 4.2 |- | 2010<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2010/slutresultat/R/kommun/25/21/index.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Pajala kommun 2010|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 81.5 | 4,100 | 18.8 | 51.3 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 2.1 | 5.5 | 12.6 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 |- | 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.val.se/val/val2014/slutresultat/R/kommun/25/21/index.html|title=Valresultat Riksdag Pajala kommun 2014|publisher=Valmyndigheten|language=sv|accessdate=29 July 2017}}</ref> | 80.9 | 4,024 | 17.9 | 46.2 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 5.3 | 9.5 | 11.4 | 0.0 | 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.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;" ! Year ! Turnout ! Votes ! Left ! Right ! SD ! Other ! Elected |- | 1973 | 88.4 | 6,065 | '''68.8''' | 28.5 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 97.3 |- | 1976 | 88.7 | 5,978 | 69.1 | '''28.1''' | 0.0 | 2.8 | 97.2 |- | 1979 | 89.0 | 5,877 | 65.5 | '''26.6''' | 0.0 | 7.9 | 92.1 |- | 1982 | 88.3 | 5,841 | '''69.8''' | 23.7 | 0.0 | 6.5 | 93.5 |- | 1985 | 87.4 | 5,791 | '''72.6''' | 26.9 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 99.5 |- | 1988 | 81.9 | 5,341 | '''71.6''' | 23.0 | 0.0 | 5.4 | 94.6 |- | 1991 | 81.8 | 5,192 | 68.7 | '''25.7''' | 0.0 | 5.6 | 97.2 |- | 1994 | 84.8 | 5,394 | '''72.8''' | 21.0 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 93.8 |- | 1998 | 80.6 | 4,861 | '''74.6''' | 23.0 | 0.0 | 2.4 | 97.6 |- | 2002 | 77.8 | 4,392 | '''57.5''' | 19.3 | 0.0 | 23.2 | 76.8 |- | 2006 | 77.1 | 4,049 | 70.8 | '''22.7''' | 0.0 | 6.5 | 93.5 |- | 2010 | 81.5 | 4,100 | 72.2 | '''23.5''' | 3.9 | 0.4 | 99.6 |- | 2014 | 80.9 | 4,024 | '''66.4''' | 19.7 | 11.4 | 2.5 | 97.5 |}

Distribution of the 33 seats in the municipal council after the 2010 election:

*Social Democratic Party 18 *Left Party 7 *Christian Democrats 3 *Moderate Party 2 *Norrbottens Sjukvårdsparti 2 *Centre Party 1

Results of the 2010 Swedish general election in Pajala:

*Social Democratic Party 51.3% *Left Party 18.8% *Moderate Party 12.6% *Christian Democrats 5.5% *Sweden Democrats 3.9% *Centre Party 3.2% *Liberal People's Party 2.1% *Green Party 2.1%

==Sister cities== Pajala Municipality has three sister cities:<ref>[http://www.pajala.se/mun/pajala/www.nsf/About/C720EEBA59BA8DC1C12571620020D460?open Official site]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{in lang|sv}}</ref> *20px Målselv, Norway *20px Kolari, Finland *20px Olenegorsk, Russia

==See also== *Keräntöjärvi

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Pajala Municipality}} *[http://www.pajala.se/ Pajala Municipality] - Official site *[http://soltorget.pajala.se/view/index.shtml World's largest sundial in Pajala]

{{Geographic location | Centre = Pajala | NE = {{Flagicon|FIN}} Muonio | E = {{Flagicon|FIN}} Kolari | SE = {{Flagicon|FIN}} Pello | S = Överkalix, Övertorneå | SW = Gällivare | W = Kiruna | NW = {{Flagicon|FIN}} Enontekiö }} {{Norrbotten County}} {{Localities in Pajala Municipality}}

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