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Region Gotland

Gåttlands Kummun (Gutnish)
Gotlands Kommun (Swedish)
Region Gotland Gåttlands Kummun (Gutnish) ; Gotlands Kommun (Swedish)
Municipality
	Flag
	Region Gotland
	Coordinates: 57°38′N 18°17′E / 57.633°N 18.283°E
Country	Sweden
National Area	Småland and the islands
County	Gotland County
Seat	Visby
Area
• Total	15,241.07 km2 (5,884.61 sq mi)
• Land	3,134.05 km2 (1,210.06 sq mi)
• Water	12,107.02 km2 (4,674.55 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)
• Total	61,029
• Density	18.9/km2 (49/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Gotland
Municipal code	0980
Website	www.gotland.se

Region Gotland, officially Gotlands kommun (English: Gotland Municipality), is a municipality that covers the entire island of Gotland in Sweden. The city of Visby is the municipality's seat. Gotland Municipality is the 39th most populous municipality in Sweden.^[3]

The flag of the municipality is a red ram on a white background.^[4]

History

On 31 December 1951 there were 93 local government units on the island of Gotland, among them one city (Visby), one market town (Slite), one county council and a lot of rural municipalities, many of them with fewer than 100 inhabitants.

Twenty years later the situation was totally different.

The first of the two nationwide local government reforms in Sweden during the 20th century was implemented on 1 January 1952. From that date on, the rural municipalities on the island were regrouped into twelve new enlarged municipalities, which together with Visby, Slite and the Gotland County Council formed the new administrative pattern.

After ten years it was clear that this reform had not been radical enough and the work began preparing for the next one.

On 1 January 1971 the second and last local government reform was implemented in Sweden. All administrative and judicial differences between rural and urban areas were abolished. Only one type of municipality (kommun) existed from that date on. In the case of Gotland all the former entities were united into one single unit. As there was only one municipality in the county, also the County Council was abolished and merged into the new unitary municipality.

As the municipality has both local and regional functions, normally provided by the Municipalities of Sweden and the County councils of Sweden respectively, Gotland has a special status as a municipality and is officially called Region Gotland as of 2011.

Localities

There are 16 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Gotland Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population in 2005	Population in 2012^[5]
1	Visby	22,236	23,576
2	Hemse	1,836	1,734
3	Slite	1,598	1,500
4	Klintehamn	1,407	1,350
5	Vibble	1,135	1,300
6	Romakloster	905	949
7	Fårösund	862	800
8	Lärbro	521	500
9	Burgsvik	347	350
10	Stånga	342	300
11	Havdhem	318	300
12	Västerhejde	302	n a^[6]
13	Tingstäde	278	n a^[6]
14	Väskinde	275	250
15	Roma kyrkby	253	n a^[6]
16	När	209	n a^[6]

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Gotland Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[7]

In total there were 60,941 residents, including 48,274 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[7] 59.2 % voted for the left coalition and 39.3 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

%

Burgsvik

902

818

64.5

34.8

77

93

7

20,907

20

Dalhem

1,292

988

51.4

46.9

86

95

5

26,008

39

Eksta

1,343

1,085

54.3

43.5

79

94

6

21,860

32

Endre

1,378

1,045

54.6

44.5

86

93

7

26,718

34

Eskelhem

1,770

1,429

53.2

45.9

85

93

7

24,823

42

Fårö

507

452

58.5

39.4

79

95

5

20,165

34

Fårösund

1,262

1,029

58.1

39.6

73

88

12

20,146

34

Garde

1,331

1,115

58.1

41.1

82

95

5

21,928

32

Havdhem

1,115

950

62.3

36.1

80

94

6

20,185

30

Hemse/Alva

1,343

1,071

61.6

35.8

67

85

15

17,893

25

Hemse/Rone

1,213

984

56.0

42.4

79

92

8

20,248

28

Klinte

1,673

1,274

60.4

36.9

76

87

13

20,145

29

Kräklingbo

950

818

69.4

29.1

80

93

7

20,817

40

Lärbro

1,400

1,118

52.5

46.3

81

93

7

22,457

26

Roma

1,536

1,162

55.9

42.0

84

92

8

23,351

27

Sanda

1,528

1,180

57.0

41.2

88

95

5

24,339

38

Slite Othem/Boge

1,193

978

57.1

40.5

70

87

13

20,149

21

Slite Othem/Hellvi

982

810

51.0

47.4

83

91

9

23,849

25

Stenkumla

1,340

1,039

54.6

44.3

88

94

6

26,018

37

Stånga

1,494

1,238

59.3

38.7

86

95

5

22,320

31

Tingstäde

1,749

1,398

58.0

40.2

85

94

6

25,284

39

Vallstena

1,398

1,081

54.2

44.8

88

93

7

25,624

33

Visby A7/Östra Vi

2,382

1,874

61.3

37.8

80

90

10

25,127

49

Visby Bingeby

1,852

1,365

64.9

32.0

71

78

22

20,400

30

Visby Djuplunda

1,891

1,422

62.6

36.3

85

91

9

27,264

47

Visby Furulund

1,912

1,421

60.0

37.3

76

82

18

21,389

30

Visby Galgberget

1,653

1,360

57.2

41.7

81

90

10

28,402

55

Visby Innerstaden

1,748

1,337

66.2

32.9

77

87

13

28,464

67

Visby Länna

2,048

1,660

65.0

33.9

81

90

10

25,885

51

Visby Norr

1,363

1,108

65.7

32.5

69

85

15

19,685

36

Visby Pilhagen

1,410

1,202

65.3

33.6

81

93

7

22,440

35

Visby Skarphäll

1,813

1,541

62.8

35.9

84

93

7

25,668

42

Visby Söder

1,442

1,134

58.5

40.4

66

83

17

21,564

57

Visby Terra Nova

1,872

1,398

59.2

39.6

80

92

8

26,962

34

Visby Visborg

1,665

1,398

62.1

36.8

78

90

10

23,131

46

Visby Y Furulund

1,448

1,112

65.6

32.0

71

81

19

19,127

23

Visby Öster

1,543

1,195

61.1

37.4

72

86

14

23,933

55

Vänge

1,167

940

54.8

43.9

86

93

7

23,742

29

Väskinde

2,320

1,779

57.4

41.5

85

94

6

26,390

39

Västerhejde

2,713

1,966

56.2

42.9

85

92

8

28,459

45

Source: SVT^[7]

Politics

Riksdag

These are the results of the elections to the Riksdag held in Gotland since 1973. The results only include parties that have won representation in the Riksdag assembly at least once during this timeframe. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not listed at a municipal level by the SCB between 1988 and 1998 due to the party's small size at the time. The respective coalitions are based on which prime minister the party backed at the back end of each governance period.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973^[8]	90.2	34,168	1.8	37.2	0.0	39.6	7.3	1.0	12.7			39.0	59.6
1976^[9]	90.7	36,105	2.6	37.7	0.0	37.3	8.3	0.6	13.4			40.3	59.0
1979^[10]	90.0	36,585	4.2	38.7	0.0	31.3	8.7	0.6	16.1			42.9	56.1
1982^[11]	90.6	37,646	3.7	42.1	2.3	27.3	5.1	1.0	18.3			45.8	50.7
1985^[12]	88.9	37,766	3.7	41.8	2.5	24.4	10.4		17.0			45.5	51.8
1988^[13]	85.8	36,362	4.1	41.0	6.8	25.0	7.9	1.5	13.4			51.9	46.3
1991^[14]	85.9	36,458	3.8	36.2	4.3	20.7	6.6	5.0	16.7		6.4	40.0	49.0
1994^[15]	86.1	37,009	5.2	43.5	6.7	17.9	4.5	2.5	18.0		1.3	55.4	40.4
1998^[16]	79.8	34,201	10.8	34.8	5.7	15.0	3.4	8.7	19.2			51.3	46.3
2002^[17]	79.0	34,376	8.4	40.8	5.5	15.6	7.8	6.5	14.0	0.6		54.7	43.9
2006^[18]	81.4	35,750	6.0	34.9	6.3	19.3	4.4	3.8	21.6	1.6		47.2	49.1
2010^[19]	84,9	38,640	6.1	33.3	8.4	14.6	4.6	2.9	25.2	3.2		47.8	47.3
2014^[20]	86.5	39,655	5.8	32.2	7.2	13.4	3.8	2.8	21.3	8.2		45.2	41.3
2018^[21]	88.8	41,129	9.0	29.8	5.0	17.2	3.7	4.1	16.6	12.7		61.0	37.2
2022^[22]	87.1	41,459	6.4	34.6	6.5	11.7	2.8	4.0	16.8	15.7		59.2	39.3

Local

Election results:

Party		Seats in the 2002 election	Seats in the 2006 election	Seats in the 2010 election	Seats in the 2014 election	Seats in the 2018 election^[23]
	Swedish Social Democratic Party	28	24	24	21	18
	Centre Party	13	17	15	14	18
	Moderate Party	11	14	15	13	11
	Left Party	8	7	6	7	7
	Liberal People's Party	4	4	4	4	3
	Green Party	4	4	7	8	4
	Christian Democrats	3	1	0	0	2
	Sweden Democrats	0	0	0	3	6
	Feminist Initiative	0	0	0	1	2
Total		71	71	71	71	71

Region

When Gotland was made into a single municipality in the 1970s, the county council was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the municipality, making it a unitary authority. During a trial period some of the authority normally held by the Gotland County Administrative Board, an agency of the national government, has also been devolved to the Gotland Municipality, as well as to two mainland councils. The municipality of Gotland is therefore in this respect also a region. It has responsibility for the public healthcare system and public transport.

Events organised by the municipality

The municipality coordinates the annual Almedalen Week (Almedalsveckan), an important meetingplace for everyone involved in Swedish politics. During the week, representatives from the political parties in the Riksdag take turns to hold speeches in the Almedalen park in Visby.

References

Statistics Sweden

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 1 January 2014. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 22 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ "Folkmängd, topp 50". Statistiska Centralbyrån (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 June 2022.
^ "Om Region Gotlands flagga" [About Region Gotland's flag]. Region Gotland (in Swedish). 1 December 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
^ "Gotland i siffror, pdf". www.gotland.se (in Swedish). Region Gotland. pp. 65–67. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Some numbers are not available for 2012, since the population was listed as inhabitants in each socken. Only a few localities were mentioned, and these only as approximations.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Gotland i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1973 (page 163)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1976 (page 158)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1979 (page 182)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1982 (page 183)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1985 (page 184)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1988 (page 165)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1991 (page 25)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1994 (page 39)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1998 (page 35)" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Gotlands kommun 2002" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Gotlands län 2006" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Gotlands län 2010" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Gotlands län 2014" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
^ "Gotlands län - Röster - Val 2018". data.val.se. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
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