Knivsta Municipality () is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Knivsta, with some 7,100 inhabitants. It is known for being one of the safest municipalities in Sweden, consistently ranking among the top 5 safest (out of 290) for more than a decade.

History Until 1971 Knivsta was a municipality in Stockholm County, when it was merged into Uppsala Municipality and subsequently belonged to Uppsala County. On January 1, 2003 Knivsta was separated from Uppsala to once again form a separate municipality, located in Uppsala County.

The coat of arms symbolises the Stones of Mora where the Swedish Kings were elected in ancient times.

Localities Alsike Knivsta (seat)

Lakes

Edasjön

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Knivsta 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 19,795 residents, including 13,626 Swedish citizens of voting age. 43.7% voted for the left coalition and 54.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Boängen 1,701 1,005 38.5 60.8 92 83 17 39,390 63Gredelby 1,496 1,172 54.0 44.9 85 82 18 29,550 59Husby-Långhundra 1,182 901 32.7 65.8 86 88 12 28,635 28Lagga-Östuna 1,868 1,368 37.8 61.5 89 87 13 32,058 44Norra Alsike 1,626 1,047 42.1 56.3 89 79 21 31,826 51Sågen 1,420 978 44.3 51.9 81 65 35 26,913 54Södra Knivsta 1,925 1,381 45.1 53.1 81 75 25 27,612 47Tallbacken 1,501 999 48.2 49.5 74 65 35 24,083 42Vassunda 1,505 1,091 40.5 57.9 88 86 14 32,199 52Vrå 2,019 1,186 37.0 62.0 91 81 19 38,231 65Västra Knivsta 1,726 1,215 54.8 43.3 87 86 14 32,370 61Östra Knivsta 1,826 1,283 48.2 50.4 90 88 12 35,963 63Source: SVT

Elections These are the election results since the refounding of the municipality from the 2002 election.

Riksdag Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD 2002 82.9 7,158 5.4 31.8 5.0 6.7 17.8 10.5 20.0 1.6 2006 85.9 7,915 3.6 24.3 5.5 10.1 9.9 8.0 34.0 2.6 2010 88.3 8,981 3.5 19.2 7.4 9.2 9.5 7.1 38.3 4.4 2014 89.0 9,716 3.9 21.7 8.0 8.0 6.5 6.7 30.6 10.8

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 2002 to 2006. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 2002 82.9 7,158 42.2 55.0 0.0 2.8 97.2 2006 85.9 7,915 33.4 62.0 0.0 4.6 95.4 2010 88.3 8,981 30.1 64.1 4.4 1.4 98.6 2014 89.0 9,716 33.6 51.8 10.8 3.8 96.2

References

External links

Knivsta Municipality - Official site Knivsta map Knivstabo.se - A webportal for citizens of Knivsta