Region Gotland, legally Gotlands kommun (), is a municipality with regional responsibilities 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.

The flag of the municipality is a white ram on a red background.

History 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 is the only one in Sweden with both local and regional functions, normally provided separately by the Municipalities and Regional councils respectively, Gotland has a special status as a municipality and has officially been named Region Gotland as of 2011.

Localities 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 1 Visby 22,236 23,576 2 Hemse 1,836 1,734 3 Slite 1,598 1,500 4 Klintehamn 1,407 1,350 5 Vibble 1,135 1,300 6 Romakloster 905 949 7 Fårösund 862 800 8 Lärbro 521 500 9 Burgsvik 347 350 10 Stånga 342 300 11 Havdhem 318 300 12 Västerhejde 302 n aSome numbers are not available for 2012, since the population was listed as inhabitants in each socken. Only a few localities were mentioned, and these only as approximations. 13 Tingstäde 278 n a 14 Väskinde 275 250 15 Roma kyrkby 253 n a 16 När 209 n a

Demographics 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.

In total there were 60,941 residents, including 48,274 Swedish citizens of voting age. 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 % % Burgsvik 902 818 64.5 34.8 77 93 7 20,907 20Dalhem 1,292 988 51.4 46.9 86 95 5 26,008 39Eksta 1,343 1,085 54.3 43.5 79 94 6 21,860 32Endre 1,378 1,045 54.6 44.5 86 93 7 26,718 34Eskelhem 1,770 1,429 53.2 45.9 85 93 7 24,823 42Fårö 507 452 58.5 39.4 79 95 5 20,165 34Fårösund 1,262 1,029 58.1 39.6 73 88 12 20,146 34Garde 1,331 1,115 58.1 41.1 82 95 5 21,928 32Havdhem 1,115 950 62.3 36.1 80 94 6 20,185 30Hemse/Alva 1,343 1,071 61.6 35.8 67 85 15 17,893 25Hemse/Rone 1,213 984 56.0 42.4 79 92 8 20,248 28Klinte 1,673 1,274 60.4 36.9 76 87 13 20,145 29Kräklingbo 950 818 69.4 29.1 80 93 7 20,817 40Lärbro 1,400 1,118 52.5 46.3 81 93 7 22,457 26Roma 1,536 1,162 55.9 42.0 84 92 8 23,351 27Sanda 1,528 1,180 57.0 41.2 88 95 5 24,339 38Slite Othem/Boge 1,193 978 57.1 40.5 70 87 13 20,149 21Slite Othem/Hellvi 982 810 51.0 47.4 83 91 9 23,849 25Stenkumla 1,340 1,039 54.6 44.3 88 94 6 26,018 37Stånga 1,494 1,238 59.3 38.7 86 95 5 22,320 31Tingstäde 1,749 1,398 58.0 40.2 85 94 6 25,284 39Vallstena 1,398 1,081 54.2 44.8 88 93 7 25,624 33Visby A7/Östra Vi 2,382 1,874 61.3 37.8 80 90 10 25,127 49Visby Bingeby 1,852 1,365 64.9 32.0 71 78 22 20,400 30Visby Djuplunda 1,891 1,422 62.6 36.3 85 91 9 27,264 47Visby Furulund 1,912 1,421 60.0 37.3 76 82 18 21,389 30Visby Galgberget 1,653 1,360 57.2 41.7 81 90 10 28,402 55Visby Innerstaden 1,748 1,337 66.2 32.9 77 87 13 28,464 67Visby Länna 2,048 1,660 65.0 33.9 81 90 10 25,885 51Visby Norr 1,363 1,108 65.7 32.5 69 85 15 19,685 36Visby Pilhagen 1,410 1,202 65.3 33.6 81 93 7 22,440 35Visby Skarphäll 1,813 1,541 62.8 35.9 84 93 7 25,668 42Visby Söder 1,442 1,134 58.5 40.4 66 83 17 21,564 57Visby Terra Nova 1,872 1,398 59.2 39.6 80 92 8 26,962 34Visby Visborg 1,665 1,398 62.1 36.8 78 90 10 23,131 46Visby Y Furulund 1,448 1,112 65.6 32.0 71 81 19 19,127 23Visby Öster 1,543 1,195 61.1 37.4 72 86 14 23,933 55Vänge 1,167 940 54.8 43.9 86 93 7 23,742 29Väskinde 2,320 1,779 57.4 41.5 85 94 6 26,390 39Västerhejde 2,713 1,966 56.2 42.9 85 92 8 28,459 45Source: SVT

Politics

Riksdag 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 90.2 34,168 1.8 37.2 0.0 39.6 7.3 1.0 12.7 39.0 59.6 1976 90.7 36,105 2.6 37.7 0.0 37.3 8.3 0.6 13.4 40.3 59.0 1979 90.0 36,585 4.2 38.7 0.0 31.3 8.7 0.6 16.1 42.9 56.1 1982 90.6 37,646 3.7 42.1 2.3 27.3 5.1 1.0 18.3 45.8 50.7 1985 88.9 37,766 3.7 41.8 2.5 24.4 10.4 17.0 45.5 51.8 1988 85.8 36,362 4.1 41.0 6.8 25.0 7.9 1.5 13.4 51.9 46.3 1991 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 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 79.8 34,201 10.8 34.8 5.7 15.0 3.4 8.7 19.2 51.3 46.3 2002 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 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 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 86.5 39,655 5.8 32.2 7.2 13.4 3.8 2.8 21.3 8.2 45.2 41.32018 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 87.1 41,459 6.4 34.6 6.5 11.7 2.8 4.0 16.8 15.7 59.2 39.3

Local Election results: Party Seats in the2002 election Seats in the2006 election Seats in the2010 election Seats in the2014 election Seats in the 2018 election Swedish Social Democratic Party 28 24 24 21 18 Centre Party 13 17 15 14 18 Moderate Party 11 14 15 13 11 Left Party 8 7 6 7 7 Liberal People's Party 4 4 4 4 3 Green Party 4 4 7 8 4 Christian Democrats 3 1 0 0 2 Sweden Democrats 0 0 0 3 6 Feminist Initiative 0 0 0 1 2 Total 71 71 71 7171

Region

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.

Events organised by the municipality 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.

See also Politics of Sweden Elections in Sweden List of Gotland Governors

References Statistics Sweden

External links

Gotland Municipality – Official site Coat of arms