| Mariestad Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Mariestads kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 58.7°N 62°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Västra Götaland County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Mariestad |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Västergötland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1493 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.mariestad.se |
Mariestad Municipality (Mariestads kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Mariestad.
The present municipality was formed in 1971, when the City of Mariestad was amalgamated with four surrounding rural municipalities.
Mariestad Municipality is situated on Lake Vänern and is visited by many tourists in summer. The largest fresh water archipelago in Sweden lies within the municipality. Torsö and Brommö are the two largest islands. North of the city, in Sjötorp, Göta Canal meets Lake Vänern.
Population centers in the municipality include:
The largest employers are Electrolux home products and Katrinefors bruk, a part of Metsä Tissue AB. SCA Packaging AB, RM Perfo AB and Jede AB are other notable companies in Mariestad. Within the IT industry Telia Partner AB and WM-data Infra Solutions AB are the two biggest employers. Just south of Mariestad, in Lugnås, you find Nimbus Produktion AB who manufactures Nimbus boats.
This is a demographic table based on Mariestad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[1]
In total there were 24,698 residents, including 19,407 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 47.4% voted for the left coalition and 51.5% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | |||||||
| Bråten-V Skogen | 1,770 | 1,314 | 54.9 | 44.1 | 76 | 66 | 34 | 22,509 | 33 | ||||||||
| Grangärdet | 1,481 | 1,095 | 51.8 | 47.3 | 83 | 86 | 14 | 25,116 | 30 | ||||||||
| Hassle-Torsö | 1,868 | 1,498 | 41.7 | 57.2 | 86 | 91 | 9 | 25,826 | 33 | ||||||||
| Högelid | 1,935 | 1,494 | 49.6 | 49.6 | 90 | 91 | 9 | 28,812 | 43 | ||||||||
| Ladukärr | 1,600 | 1,319 | 52.2 | 47.0 | 81 | 89 | 11 | 24,117 | 39 | ||||||||
| Leksberg | 1,576 | 1,160 | 46.5 | 52.8 | 89 | 86 | 14 | 28,621 | 41 | ||||||||
| Leverstad | 1,218 | 949 | 51.8 | 46.4 | 77 | 72 | 28 | 22,856 | 28 | ||||||||
| Lockerud-Ekudden | 1,482 | 1,107 | 48.7 | 50.8 | 76 | 79 | 21 | 24,680 | 42 | ||||||||
| Lugnås | 1,539 | 1,199 | 38.3 | 59.3 | 86 | 90 | 10 | 26,123 | 29 | ||||||||
| Lyrestad-Sjötorp | 1,537 | 1,217 | 39.2 | 59.9 | 78 | 90 | 10 | 23,286 | 25 | ||||||||
| Madlyckan | 1,580 | 1,284 | 48.8 | 50.1 | 80 | 86 | 14 | 24,713 | 35 | ||||||||
| Marieholm | 1,601 | 1,265 | 56.2 | 42.6 | 74 | 73 | 27 | 21,259 | 31 | ||||||||
| Näset | 1,270 | 1,145 | 44.0 | 55.4 | 78 | 85 | 15 | 24,009 | 38 | ||||||||
| Tidavad | 1,207 | 926 | 40.7 | 57.8 | 86 | 95 | 5 | 27,200 | 35 | ||||||||
| Trädgården | 1,741 | 1,458 | 50.7 | 48.1 | 75 | 86 | 14 | 21,421 | 37 | ||||||||
| Ullervad | 1,293 | 977 | 44.0 | 55.3 | 89 | 94 | 6 | 27,473 | 36 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
See main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden.
Mariestad Municipality is twinned with:
