Lund Municipality

Lunds kommun
Municipality
Lund City Hall
Lund City Hall
Coat of arms of Lunds kommun
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 55°42′N 13°12′E / 55.700°N 13.200°E / 55.700; 13.200
CountrySweden
CountyScania County
SeatLund
Area
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 • Total439.91 km2 (169.85 sq mi)
 • Land427.23 km2 (164.95 sq mi)
 • Water12.68 km2 (4.90 sq mi)
 Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
 (31 December 2023)[2]
 • Total130,288
 • Density300/km2 (770/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
ProvinceScania
Municipal code1281
Websitewww.lund.se Edit this at Wikidata
Density is calculated using land area only.

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

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. The municipal bird of Lund is the Eurasian penduline tit.[3]

Localities

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Districts in the municipality

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

# Locality Population
1 Lund 91,940
2 Dalby 6,486
3 Södra Sandby 6,285
4 Veberöd 4,971
5 Genarp 2,956
6 Stångby 2,032
7 Torna Hällestad 713
8 Revingeby 536
9 Vallkärra 425

Demographics

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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.

Municipal council

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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%.

Party Votes % Seats ±
Social Democrats 16,348 20.39 13 −2
Moderate Party 13,169 16.43 11 −2
Liberals 10,753 13.41 9 +2
Green Party 7,623 9.51 6 −3
Sweden Democrats 7,544 9.41 6 +1
Left Party 6,899 8.61 6 +1
FörNyaLund 6,870 8.57 6 +2
Centre Party 5,020 6.26 4 +1
Feminist Initiative 2,285 2.85 2 0
Christian Democrats 2,162 2.70 2 0
Others 1,492 1.86
Invalid/blank votes 828
Total 80,993 86.37 65 -

International relations

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Twin towns — sister cities

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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]
  • France Nevers
  • Nicaragua León
  • Germany Greifswald
  • Poland Zabrze

  • Portugal Coimbra
  • China Hangzhou

    • References

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    1. ^ "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.
    2. ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
    3. ^ "Lund - PUNGMES" (in Swedish). Scanian Ornithological Society. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
    4. ^ "Folkmängd per tätort efter region och vart 5:e år" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
    5. ^ a b c "Valresultat 2022 för Lund i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
    6. ^ "Bekräftat: Alliansen och FNL ska styra Lund" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. 2018-10-11.
    7. ^ "Val till kommunfullmäktige i Lund - Röster" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. 2018-09-18.
    8. ^ "Nordiska vänorter" (in Swedish). Lund municipality. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
    9. ^ "Vänorter i världen" (in Swedish). Lund municipality. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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