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Linköping Municipality

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Linköping Municipality
Linköpings kommun
Municipality
Linköping Library
Linköping Library
Coat of arms of Linköping Municipality
Coat of arms
Motto: 
Linköping - where ideas come to life
Coordinates: 58°24′N 15°37′E / 58.400°N 15.617°E / 58.400; 15.617
CountrySweden
CountyÖstergötland County
SeatLinköping
Area
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 • Total
1,568.26 km2 (605.51 sq mi)
 • Land1,427.44 km2 (551.14 sq mi)
 • Water140.82 km2 (54.37 sq mi)
 Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
 (31 December 2023)[2]
 • Total
167,404
 • Density110/km2 (280/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
ProvinceÖstergötland
Municipal code0580
Websitewww.linkoping.se

Linköping Municipality (Linköpings kommun) is a municipality in Östergötland County in southern Sweden. With more than 165,000 inhabitants, it is the fifth largest municipality in Sweden.

The municipality is bordered in the west by Motala, and thence clockwise by Finspång, Norrköping, Söderköping, Åtvidaberg, Kinda, Boxholm and Mjölby municipalities.

The present municipality was formed in 1971 by the amalgamation of the City of Linköping with five surrounding rural municipalities. The number of original local government entities (as of 1863) making up Linköping Municipality is 32.

Linköping is one of the few municipalities in Sweden to style the speaker of the assembly as mayor.

Linköping wants to create a sustainable development of the city and therefore plan to become a carbon neutral community by 2025.

Demographics

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This is a demographic table based on Linköping Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3]

In total there were 165,293 residents, including 124,369 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.1% for the right coalition.

Politics

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Municipal election 2018

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On September 9, 2018, Linköping held Municipality Election:[4]

Party Votes % Seats ±
Social Democrats 29137 27.57 22 -5
Moderate Party 23050 21.81 18 -2
Sweden Democrats 11130 10.53 8 +2
Centre Party 9865 9.33 8 +2
Left Party 6459 6.11 5 +2
Christian Democrats 7908 7.48 6 +2
Liberals 9456 8.95 7 +1
Green Party 6904 6.53 5 -2
Others 1770 1.67 0 0
Invalid/blank votes 1254
Total 106933 100 79 0
Following the 2014 Linköping municipal election , the seats were divided in the following way:
The governing parties Parties in opposition
The Social Democrats 27 The Moderate Party 20
The Liberal People's Party 6 The Left Party 3
The Green Party 7 The Sweden Democrats 6
The Christian Democrats 4
The Centre Party 6
Following the 2018 Linköping municipal election, the seats were divided in the following way:
The governing parties Parties in opposition
The Moderate Party 18 The Social Democrats 22
The Liberals 7 The Left Party 5
The Christian Democrats 6 The Green Party 5
The Centre Party 8 The Sweden Democrats 8

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In the aftermath of the 2014 municipality election, The local Social Democrats (S; Social Demokraterna), Green Party (MP; Miljöpartiet) and the Liberal People's Party (L; Liberalerna, formerly FP; Folk Partiet) formed a coalition majority named "coalition for Linköping" with 40 out of 79 seats, while the minority opposition in Linköping consisted each separate by: the Moderate Party (M; Moderaterna), Centre Party (C; Center Partiet), Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna), Left Party (V; Vänsterpartiet) and the Sweden Democrats (SD; Sverige Demokraterna).

After the 2018 elections, all of the Alliance parties in the municipality joined together and took over from the Socialdemocrat's coalition rule and their mandat started 1 January 2019 and onwards.[6]

List of mayors

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Twin towns – sister cities

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Sign post showing the municipality's twin towns
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Linköping is twinned with:[7]

Roskilde Municipality in Denmark chose in the summer of 2007 to cancel its sistership agreements with four Scandinavian local government entities, including Linköping Municipality.[8] Twinning with Guangzhou in China terminated in February 2020.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Valresultat 2022 för Linköping i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Linköping - Röster - Val 2018".
  5. ^ "Linköping - Valda - Val 2018".
  6. ^ "Valresultat, mandatfördelning".
  7. ^ "Vänorter". linkoping.se (in Swedish). Linköpings kommun. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  8. ^ Corren 7/18 2007. Archived 2007-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Swedish)
  9. ^ "Gothenburg axes twin city agreement with Shanghai as Sweden closes all Confucius Institutes". 24 April 2020.
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