| Gothenburg Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Göteborgs kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 57.7°N 67°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Västra Götaland County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Gothenburg |
| Leader Party: | Social Democratic Party |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Jonas Attenius |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 600559 |
| Population As Of: | May 2023 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Västergötland and Bohuslän |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1480 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Iso Code: | SE |
Gothenburg Municipality (Swedish: Göteborgs kommun or Swedish: Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg.
When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected city council (Swedish: stadsfullmäktige). Its territory has since then been added through amalgamations in 1868, 1906, 1922, 1931, 1945, 1948, 1967 and 1974. The local government reform of 1971 made the city a unitary municipality, like all others in the country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Swedish: Göteborgs stad (City of Göteborg[2]), whenever legally possible.
In March 2018 it was reported that the municipality and municipality-owned companies had 236 employees working with public relations (Swedish: kommunikation), more than Stockholm, to a cost of 400 000 SEK daily or 151 million SEK annually.[3] [4]
The major part of the Gothenburg urban area (Swedish: Göteborgs tätort) is situated within the municipality, but there are also some other localities as well as rural areas.
In 1990 the municipality was subdivided into 21 Swedish: stadsdelsnämnder (district boards), sometimes translated to boroughs, which they really are not. In 2009 the two district boards of Frölunda and Högsbo were joined. It has been decided that from the start of 2011 many more will be joined leaving 10 new district boards.
The boards carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure, and cultural services within their respective areas. In the election of 1998 three boroughs (Askim, Torslanda and Älvsborg) held local referendums on forming their own municipalities, but their petitions were rejected by the government of Sweden.
Boroughs:
The municipality has a municipal assembly (Swedish: [[kommunfullmäktige]]), consisting of 81 members, elected for four years. The municipal assembly meets in the Bourse, a building located on Gustaf Adolfs torg. There are nine political parties represented in the council elected in 2022:
| Name | Ideologies | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political alliance | Vote share | Seats | +/- | |||||
| S | Social democracy | Red-Green Coalition | 26.4% | +5 | ||||
| M | Liberal conservatism | M–D–L–KD Coalition | 17.1% | +3 | ||||
| V | Left Party | Socialism, Eco-socialism | Red-Green Coalition | 15.8% | +2 | |||
| SD | Sweden Democrats | National conservatism, Right-wing populism | None | 10.8% | +2 | |||
| DEM | Democrats | Liberal conservatism, Populism[5] | M–D–L–KD Coalition | 6.1% | -9 | |||
| MP | Green Party | Green politics | Red-Green Coalition | 6.0% | -1 | |||
| L | Liberals | Liberalism, Conservative liberalism | M–D–L–KD Coalition | 5.5% | -1 | |||
| KD | Christian Democrats | Christian democracy, Conservatism | M–D–L–KD Coalition | 4.2% | +1 | |||
| C | Centre Party | Liberalism | None | 4.0% | +-0 | |||
| FI | Feminist Initiative | Feminism | None | 0.8% | -2 | |||
There were ten political parties represented in the council elected in 2018:
| Name | Ideologies | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Political alliance | Vote share | Seats | +/- | |||||
| S | Social democracy | None | 20.5% | -3 | ||||
| DEM | Democrats | Liberal conservatism, Populism | None | 17.0% | +14 | |||
| M | Liberal conservatism | Alliance | 14.5% | -8 | ||||
| V | Left Party | Socialism, Eco-socialism | Red-green-pink Coalition | 12.6% | +3 | |||
| SD | Sweden Democrats | National conservatism, Right-wing populism | None | 8.3% | +1 | |||
| L | Liberals | Liberalism, Conservative liberalism | Alliance | 7.2% | -1 | |||
| MP | Green Party | Green politics | Red-green-pink Coalition | 6.9% | -3 | |||
| C | Centre Party | Liberalism | Alliance | 4.0% | +3 | |||
| KD | Christian Democrats | Christian democracy, Conservatism | Alliance | 3.3% | +-0 | |||
| FI | Feminist Initiative | Feminism | Red-green-pink Coalition | 2.3% | -1 | |||
Following the 2018 municipal elections, neither traditional coalition of parties (the Alliance and the Red-Greens) was able to obtain a majority in the municipal assembly. The newly formed Democrats party, whose primary campaign promise is to stop the construction of the West Link, obtained 14 seats in the assembly, making it the second-largest party. The Green Party and the Left Party announced on 6 November that they would draft their own municipal budget together, along with Feminist Initiative - thus abandoning their traditional cooperation with the Social Democrats. This has been recognized as the three parties forming a local political alliance which has been referred to as the Red-green-pink coalition.[6] As a result of this the Alliance were able to take the power in Gothenburg for the first time in nearly 30 years.
The municipal executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) has 13 members, representing the six parties from the two major political coalitions who have seats in the assembly.
The chairwoman of the municipal assembly is Åse-Lill Törnquist (MP) and the chairman of the municipal executive committee (sometimes titled mayor) is Jonas Attenius from the Social Democrats.
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