Borlänge Municipality is a municipality

Municipalities of Sweden

The municipalities of Sweden are the local government entities of Sweden. The current 290 municipalities are organized into 21 counties...

 in Dalarna County

Dalarna County

Dalarna County is a county or län in middle Sweden. It borders the counties of Jämtland, Gävleborg, Västmanland, Örebro and Värmland. It is also bordered by the Norwegian counties of Hedmark and Sør-Trøndelag in the west...

 in central Sweden

Sweden

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, with an area of 586.4 km². The municipality has a population of 47,640 (2007). The municipal seat is Borlänge

Borlänge

Borlänge is a locality and the seat of Borlänge Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 49200 inhabitants in 2011.- History :Originally Borlänge was the name of a tiny village, and the first historical information about it is from 1390. The village was insignificant up until about 1870...

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The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Borlänge (itself instituted as a city in 1944) was reunited with the rural municipality of Stora Tuna, from which it had been detached in 1898.

Politics

Chairman of the Municipal Executive Committee (kommunstyrelse

Kommunstyrelse

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n) is Nils Persson

Nils Persson

Nils Persson was a Swedish sailor who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Swedish boat Erna Signe, which won the silver medal in the 12 metre class.-External links:*...

, from the Swedish Social Democratic Party

Swedish Social Democratic Party

The Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party, , contesting elections as 'the Workers' Party – the Social Democrats' , or sometimes referred to just as 'the Social Democrats' and most commonly as Sossarna ; is the oldest and largest political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1889...

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Opposition leader is Ulla Olsson

Ulla Olsson

Ulla Olsson is a Swedish politician.She is both the opposition leader and chairman of the Moderate Party in Borlänge Municipality.- References :...

, from the Moderate Party

Moderate Party

The Moderate Party is a centre-right, liberal conservative political party in Sweden. The party was founded in 1904 as the General Electoral League by a group of conservatives in the Swedish parliament...

. As in most of Dalarna

Dalarna

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, the Social Democrats hold a strong position. As a result of the Swedish municipal elections, 2006 the Social Democrats currently hold 28 of 61 mandates

Mandate (politics)

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, a decrease of three mandates which lost them the absolute majority, though they remain the largest party in Borlänge. The Moderate Party, the second largest party, holds 11 mandates.

Notable natives

• Jussi Björling
  Jussi Björling
  Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th Century, Björling appeared frequently at the Royal Opera House in London, La Scala in Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as well as at other major European opera...
  
  , tenor
• Lars Frölander
  Lars Frölander
  Lars Arne Frölander is a Swedish swimmer. He grew up in Ornäs in Borlänge Municipality. He competed in 5 consecutive Olympic Games . The highlight of his career was when he won the gold in the 100 metre butterfly event at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000...
  
  , swimmer
• Mando Diao
  Mando Diao
  Mando Diao is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album Hurricane Bar. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, and Japan although their influence has recently spread to Western Europe, most notably the UK.-Origin:The roots of...
  
  , rock band
• Sugarplum Fairy
  Sugarplum Fairy
  Sugarplum Fairy is a pop-rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The members took the name from a version of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" where John Lennon counts the song in by saying "sugar-plum-fairy, sugar-plum-fairy"...
  
  , pop band
• Per Fosshaug
  Per Fosshaug
  Per "Pelle" Fosshaug is a Swedish bandy player, born on February 24, 1965. Fosshaug played in midfield for many clubs in Sweden, as well as for the Swedish national bandy team, for which he made a record 129 appearances between 1994 and 2005. His career began in the 1982/1983 season where he played...
  
  , bandy player
• Dozer, stoner rock band
• Erik Eriksson
  Erik Eriksson
  Erik Eriksson of Spraxkya, in Borlänge, Dalarna, , was a Swedish politician. He was the first chairman of the Centre Party, but not its founder....
  
  , Centre Party
  Centre Party (Sweden)
  The Centre Party is a centrist political party in Sweden. The party maintains close ties to rural Sweden and describes itself as "a green social liberal party". The ideology is sometimes called agrarian, but in a European context, the Centre Party can perhaps best be characterized as social...
  
  's first chairman
• Lars Jonsson, hockey player
• Sator
  Sator
  The genus Sator contains two species of spiny lizards endemic to Baja California, Mexico.-Species:*Sator angustus Dickerson, 1919*Sator grandaevus Dickerson, 1919-Taxonomy:...
  
  , rock band
• Nadja Brandt, writer and also appeared as an extra in Twilight
• Linda Carlsson
  Miss Li
  Linda Carlsson , better known by her stage name Miss Li, is a Swedish singer. She was born in Borlänge, but now lives in Stockholm. Her single "Don't Try To Fool Me" has been featured on the Showtime original series Weeds, as well as Grey's Anatomy...
  
  , musician (also known as Miss Li)

External links

• Borlänge - Official site
• Mitt Borlänge - Local news, weather, events, cinema and more.