Lund_Municipality

Lund Municipality

Lund Municipality

Municipality in Scania County, Sweden

Lund Municipality (Swedish: Lunds kommun) is a municipality in Scania County, southern Sweden. Its seat is the city of Lund.

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As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of municipality consists of many former local government units, united in a series of amalgamations. The number of original entities (as of 1863) is 22. At the time of the nationwide municipal reform of 1952 the number had been reduced to six. In 1967 the rural municipality Torn (itself created in 1952) was added to Lund. The City of Lund was made a unitary municipality in 1971 and amalgamated with Dalby, Genarp, Södra Sandby and Veberöd in 1974 completing the process. Since 2016, the municipality is subdivided into 16 districts for the purposes of population and land registration.

Dalby Söderskog, one of Sweden's national parks, is located within the municipality near Dalby. Municipal bird of Lund is Eurasian penduline tit.[3]

Localities

Districts in the municipality

There are nine urban areas in Lund Municipality:[4]

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Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lund Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[5]

In total there were 127,202 residents, including 93,503 Swedish citizens of voting age.[5] 57.1% voted for the left coalition and 41.4% for the right coalition. This was in stark contrast to the rest of the Skåne Southern constituency, that was won by the right with a sizeable margin. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

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Municipal council

In the 2018 municipal election, no bloc was able to gain control of the executive, a five-party minority coalition consisting of the four Alliance parties and local party FörNyaLund was formed as a result.[6] Philip Sandberg of the Liberals heads the executive. The election results are presented in the table below.[7] The turnout was 86.37%.

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International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

The municipality is twinned with the following local government areas:

In Nordic countries:[8]
Rest of the world:[9]

References

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    "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.
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    "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
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    "Lund - PUNGMES" (in Swedish). Scanian Ornithological Society. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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    "Folkmängd per tätort efter region och vart 5:e år" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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    "Valresultat 2022 för Lund i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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    "Bekräftat: Alliansen och FNL ska styra Lund" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. 2018-10-11.
  7. [7]
    "Val till kommunfullmäktige i Lund - Röster" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. 2018-09-18.
  8. [8]
    "Nordiska vänorter" (in Swedish). Lund municipality. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  9. [9]
    "Vänorter i världen" (in Swedish). Lund municipality. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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