| Region Gotland | |
| Native Name: | Gåttlands Kummun Gotlands Kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Flag Size: | 200px |
| Coordinates: | 57.6333°N 35°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | National Area |
| Subdivision Name1: | Småland and the islands |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gotland County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Visby |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Density Km2: | 18.9 |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Gotland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 0980 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| 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.[1]
The flag of the municipality is a red ram on a white background.[2]
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.
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[3] | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Visby | 22,236 | 23,576 | |
| 2 | 1,836 | 1,734 | ||
| 3 | 1,598 | 1,500 | ||
| 4 | 1,407 | 1,350 | ||
| 5 | 1,135 | 1,300 | ||
| 6 | 905 | 949 | ||
| 7 | 862 | 800 | ||
| 8 | 521 | 500 | ||
| 9 | 347 | 350 | ||
| 10 | 342 | 300 | ||
| 11 | 318 | 300 | ||
| 12 | 302 | n a[4] | ||
| 13 | 278 | n a | ||
| 14 | 275 | 250 | ||
| 15 | 253 | n a | ||
| 16 | 209 | n a |
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.[5]
In total there were 60,941 residents, including 48,274 Swedish citizens of voting age.[5] 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 | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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" | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
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[6] | 90.2 | 34,168 | 1.8 | 37.2 | 0.0 | 39.6 | 7.3 | 1.0 | 12.7 | 39.0 | 59.6 | |||
| 1976[7] | 90.7 | 36,105 | 2.6 | 37.7 | 0.0 | 37.3 | 8.3 | 0.6 | 13.4 | 40.3 | 59.0 | |||
| 1979[8] | 90.0 | 36,585 | 4.2 | 38.7 | 0.0 | 31.3 | 8.7 | 0.6 | 16.1 | 42.9 | 56.1 | |||
| 1982[9] | 90.6 | 37,646 | 3.7 | 42.1 | 2.3 | 27.3 | 5.1 | 1.0 | 18.3 | 45.8 | 50.7 | |||
| 1985[10] | 88.9 | 37,766 | 3.7 | 41.8 | 2.5 | 24.4 | 10.4 | 17.0 | 45.5 | 51.8 | ||||
| 1988[11] | 85.8 | 36,362 | 4.1 | 41.0 | 6.8 | 25.0 | 7.9 | 1.5 | 13.4 | 51.9 | 46.3 | |||
| 1991[12] | 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[13] | 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[14] | 79.8 | 34,201 | 10.8 | 34.8 | 5.7 | 15.0 | 3.4 | 8.7 | 19.2 | 51.3 | 46.3 | |||
| 2002[15] | 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[16] | 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[17] | 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[18] | 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[19] | 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[20] | 87.1 | 41,459 | 6.4 | 34.6 | 6.5 | 11.7 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 16.8 | 15.7 | 59.2 | 39.3 |
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 the2018 election[21] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Social Democratic Party | align=right | 28 | align=right | 24 | align=right | 24 | align=right | 21 | align=right | 18 | |
| Centre Party | align=right | 13 | align=right | 17 | align=right | 15 | align=right | 14 | align=right | 18 | |
| Moderate Party | align=right | 11 | align=right | 14 | align=right | 15 | align=right | 13 | align=right | 11 | |
| Left Party | align=right | 8 | align=right | 7 | align=right | 6 | align=right | 7 | align=right | 7 | |
| Liberal People's Party | align=right | 4 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 3 | |
| Green Party | align=right | 4 | align=right | 4 | align=right | 7 | align=right | 8 | align=right | 4 | |
| Christian Democrats | align=right | 3 | align=right | 1 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 2 | |
| Sweden Democrats | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 3 | align=right | 6 | |
| Feminist Initiative | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 0 | align=right | 1 | align=right | 2 | |
| Total | align=right | 71 | 71 | 71 | 71 | 71 | |||||
See main article: County Councils of Sweden.
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.
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.