The municipality refers to itself as Sweden's most lake-dense municipality, with at least 170 named lakes. The municipality boasts that one can swim in a different lake each day of the year as there are 366 different ones.
History
Finspång is a traditional industrial city. The first industries were established in 1580 when a Royal factory for cannon and cannon balls was supervised. The industry was to continue for 300 years under supervision of the Dutch-stemming family De Geer. By Louis de Geer, the Finspång Castle was constructed, and around it industries and an orangery developed into the city Finspång. Today the two main industrial areas are those of turbines and aluminum processing.
These are the results of the Riksdag elections of Finspång Municipality since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.
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
93.7
15,333
60.8
36.0
0.0
3.2
96.8
1976
94.2
15,981
59.1
37.9
0.0
3.0
97.0
1979
93.0
16,078
60.9
36.0
0.0
3.1
96.9
1982
93.4
16,121
63.5
32.3
0.0
4.2
95.8
1985
92.2
16,001
62.8
35.7
0.0
1.5
98.5
1988
88.5
15,190
66.5
29.2
0.0
4.3
95.7
1991
89.1
15,095
55.8
34.7
0.0
9.5
96.9
1994
89.3
15,081
66.8
31.1
0.0
2.1
97.9
1998
84.3
13,830
64.7
33.6
0.0
1.7
98.3
2002
83.0
13,253
65.0
33.1
0.0
1.9
98.1
2006
83.7
13,301
57.8
36.7
0.0
5.5
94.5
2010
85.2
13,760
55.8
38.2
5.3
0.7
99.3
2014
86.4
13,971
53.1
29.1
15.4
2.4
97.6
Twin towns
Finspång Municipality has formal twin town treaties with three cities. These treaties were signed in 1967.
Today there is no contact with Stromberg or Givet, and contact was broken with Yvoir before being reestablished in 1997. Finspång also has established cooperation with seven other cities:
