Skövde Municipality () is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Skövde.

The present municipality was formed in 1971 when the City of Skövde was amalgamated with five surrounding municipalities. The number of original entities (as of 1863) is nearly 30. They had in 1952 been reduced to six.

Economy

The single largest employer in the municipality is Volvo, with Volvo Powertrain and Volvo Cars together employing approximately 5,000 people.

Other major employers are the hospital (Skaraborg Hospital, serving the Västra Götaland region), the local regiments (among Sweden's largest) and the municipality itself.

Education University of Skövde is the largest university in the town. It is ranked 21 in the nation's ranking. Informatics and computer science along with Bio-informatics and molecular biology are some of the chief international students picks.

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Skövde 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 56,973 residents, including 43,681 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.0% voted for the left coalition and 52.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Aspö/Ulveket 2,299 1,639 49.8 49.0 86 82 18 31,027 58Berg 1,568 1,243 48.2 50.5 90 93 7 29,517 45Billingssluttningen 1,976 1,589 47.4 51.9 84 87 13 27,318 51Centrum V 1,329 1,211 45.5 53.4 80 81 19 23,331 48Centrum Ö 1,234 1,012 46.9 51.0 57 76 24 17,622 56Dälderna 1,955 1,477 48.2 50.7 78 77 23 26,557 46Ekängen 1,734 1,299 41.8 56.9 89 85 15 33,551 60Frösve/Säter 2,141 1,583 42.3 56.2 88 94 6 29,104 42Havstena 1,915 1,464 56.1 41.7 71 66 34 21,739 44Hentorp 1,977 1,529 44.3 55.0 88 90 10 31,096 57Högskolan/Trängen 1,981 1,533 49.8 47.2 57 71 29 18,163 58Igelstorp 1,597 1,210 40.8 57.5 90 89 11 28,125 33Kullen 1,695 1,420 42.7 56.4 80 84 16 26,967 51Källegården 1,950 1,672 40.9 57.8 83 85 15 28,907 47Lunden 1,714 1,193 44.6 53.9 84 72 28 28,207 45Mariesjö 1,665 1,306 48.2 50.4 76 73 27 24,062 44Norra Ryd 1,817 1,277 53.6 43.8 67 41 59 21,059 30Norrmalm 1,928 1,651 46.5 52.1 80 82 18 25,002 46Rosenhaga 1,718 1,277 49.2 49.1 82 72 28 27,341 41Ryd C 1,903 1,239 63.7 32.9 55 26 74 15,145 24Skultorp C 1,513 1,114 48.1 50.5 77 82 18 24,755 38Skultorp NV 1,880 1,360 43.9 55.3 89 90 10 31,786 48Skultorpsbygden 1,626 1,285 41.7 57.3 89 94 6 30,341 40Södra Ryd 2,330 1,688 53.3 45.7 78 51 49 25,021 34Tidan 1,761 1,344 39.0 59.9 78 86 14 23,223 25Timmersdala 1,273 964 39.2 60.2 88 94 6 26,576 33Trädgårdsstaden 1,689 1,241 44.7 54.3 88 77 23 33,344 59Våmb 1,939 1,494 47.1 51.3 88 88 12 30,274 49Väring 1,906 1,467 38.6 60.5 87 94 6 27,924 31Värsås 1,645 1,250 38.9 60.2 86 91 9 26,303 30Västra Fältet 1,589 1,321 44.5 54.4 84 84 16 26,945 48Östermalm 1,726 1,329 50.4 47.9 78 71 29 26,187 43Source: SVT

Elections

Riksdag These are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 90.6 26,522 3.5 38.0 0.0 30.4 11.1 2.5 14.1 0.0 0.0 1976 91.1 28,509 3.2 37.3 0.0 30.2 12.5 2.0 14.4 0.0 0.0 1979 89.5 26,825 4.4 39.0 0.0 21.7 11.7 2.0 20.1 0.0 0.0 1982 91.0 29,704 4.4 42.3 1.3 19.1 6.4 2.5 23.8 0.0 0.0 1985 89.7 30,232 4.1 43.2 1.4 15.0 15.8 0.0 20.4 0.0 0.0 1988 86.2 29,447 4.7 43.2 5.0 13.2 13.0 3.7 17.1 0.0 0.0 1991 86.8 30,035 3.2 36.5 2.8 9.9 9.2 9.2 20.5 0.0 7.7 1994 87.3 31,015 5.3 44.3 4.9 9.6 7.1 4.7 22.0 0.0 1.3 1998 81.7 29,456 10.5 36.5 3.9 6.3 4.3 15.0 21.9 0.0 0.0 2002 80.6 29,477 7.0 40.9 3.9 7.5 12.2 11.6 14.5 1.0 0.0 2006 82.3 31,006 5.0 37.5 4.0 8.8 6.7 7.4 25.4 3.0 0.0 2010 85.3 33,360 4.7 31.0 6.3 7.5 7.3 6.3 30.3 5.3 0.0 2014 87.1 35,405 4.0 32.8 5.7 7.4 5.5 5.0 23.7 12.7 0.0

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 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 90.6 26,522 41.5 55.6 0.0 2.9 97.1 1976 91.1 28,509 40.5 57.1 0.0 2.4 97.6 1979 89.5 26,825 43.4 53.5 0.0 3.1 96.9 1982 91.0 29,704 46.7 49.3 0.0 4.0 96.0 1985 89.7 30,232 47.3 51.2 0.0 1.1 98.9 1988 86.2 29,447 52.9 43.3 0.0 3.8 96.2 1991 86.8 30,035 39.7 48.8 0.0 11.5 96.2 1994 87.3 31,015 54.5 43.4 0.0 2.1 97.9 1998 81.7 29,456 50.9 47.5 0.0 1.6 98.4 2002 80.6 29,477 51.8 45.8 0.0 2.4 97.6 2006 82.3 31,006 46.5 48.3 0.0 5.2 94.8 2010 85.3 33,360 41.7 51.4 5.3 1.6 98.4 2014 87.1 35,405 42.5 41.6 12.7 3.2 96.8

Twin cities Halden, Norway, since the 1940s Ringsted Municipality, Denmark, since the 1940s Sastamala, Finland, since the 1940s Kuressaare, Estonia, since 1994 Zhangjiakou，China，since 2015

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