Östersund Municipality

Coordinates: 63°11′N 14°40′E / 63.183°N 14.667°E / 63.183; 14.667
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Östersund Municipality
Östersunds kommun
Municipality
Östersund city hall
Östersund city hall
Municipal code
2380
Websitewww.ostersund.se

Östersund Municipality (

Southern Sami: Staaren tjïelte) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Östersund
, which is also the county seat of Jämtland County.

The present municipality was formed in 1971 by the amalgamation of the City of Östersund with five surrounding rural municipalities.

Localities

There are ten localities (or urban areas) in Östersund Municipality:[3]

# Locality Population
1 Östersund (part of) 43,359
2 Brunflo 3,916
3 Lit 1,051
4 Ope 441
5 Tandsbyn 396
6 Häggenås 351
7 Orrviken 239
8 Optand 238
9 Marieby 218
10 Fåker 209

The municipal seat in bold

Politics and governance

Swedish municipalities are responsible for government-mandated duties, and elections for the

kommunfullmäktige) are held every four years, parallel to the general elections
.

Political history

Östersund gained a city council (stadsfullmäktige) in 1863, known as Östersunds stad, and each member was elected through a

the Liberal People's party) had 11 and the social democrats 19. This was in contrast to the turnout on a national level, where the social democrats had been the dominant party for over a decade gaining e.g. 46 percent of the votes in the general elections of 1948
. In 1952 a social democrat was appointed chairman of Östersund's governing body, due to the lack of political blocs and the strive for mutual agreements.

A majority for the social democrats was achieved first in 1962. The political scene was shortly afterwards altered, in 1966, when the

Swedish welfare
the small municipalities could not cope with their assigned duties. As a result, large municipality blocks were introduced and Östersunds stad was heavily enlarged and several districts kilometres away from the city were included in the new Östersund Municipality.

The first election for the new municipality was held in 1970 and it was a large success for the Centre Party, both locally in Östersund and nationally due to its opposition towards centralisation. Having entered in 1966 with 4 seats it now possessed one fourth of the total number of seats (which was mainly due to support from the city, not the newly included rural areas). Block politics formation became prominent and the Centre Party became the leading party for the centre-right block, whilst the Social Democrats came to dominate the left block. The Social Democrats regained power in 1980 and has since governed Östersund Municipality until present day (excluding a brief period in the 1990s) supported by the communists (after 1991 known as the Left Party) and occasionally the Green Party. The Green Party has been in the municipal council since 1982.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Östersund Municipality's electoral districts in the

SCB official statistics.[4]

Residents include everyone registered as living in the district, regardless of age or citizenship status. Valid voters indicate Swedish citizens above the age of 18 who therefore can vote in general elections. Left vote and right vote indicate the result between the two major blocs in said district in the 2022 general election. Employment indicates the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers. Foreign background is defined as residents either born abroad or with two parents born outside of Sweden. Median income is the received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in

Swedish kronor
. The section about college graduates indicates any degree accumulated after high school.

In total there were 49,635 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.[4] 58.5% voted for the left coalition and 40.2% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

See also

References

  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. ^ Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005
  4. ^
    SVT
    . 11 September 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2023.

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