Lidköping Municipality

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

Lidköping sometimes refers to itself as "Lidköping by Vänern", possibly to distinguish itself from the namewise (and historically) similar city of Linköping in eastern Sweden.

Geography

Lidköping Municipality is, together with its western neighbor Götene, located on the Läckö-Kinnekulla peninsula. There are several Vänern islands that belong to the municipality. One of them is Läckö, where the Läckö Castle is a notable sight.

Localities Population numbers of the towns and villages, from SCB, December 31 of noted year.

Year20022003200420052010Lidköping24,67924,88524,96024,94125,644Vinninga1,0791,0601,0541,0641,078Järpås865868876808795Filsbäck656656652647615Örslösa308305310298307Saleby219218217213232Tun219210208207206

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Lidköping 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 40,403 residents, including 31,517 Swedish citizens of voting age. 49.3 % voted for the left coalition and 49.5 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Dalängen 2,047 1,477 57.5 40.9 80 79 21 26,421 43Framnäs 1,743 1,356 57.4 40.5 72 71 29 21,445 32Fredriksdal 1,771 1,388 51.1 47.4 76 70 30 22,875 28Gamla stadens C 1,793 1,496 47.4 50.7 77 74 26 24,133 34Hovby-Majåker 2,062 1,571 53.9 45.6 91 93 7 29,771 50Järpås 1,326 1,027 42.1 57.3 80 90 10 25,426 23Lidåker-Ljunghed 1,819 1,467 54.0 44.5 86 87 13 25,252 36Margretelund N 1,813 1,346 49.9 47.5 67 61 39 20,152 24Margretelund S 1,853 1,387 56.2 42.5 73 73 27 24,352 29Nya staden N 1,779 1,482 53.9 45.1 79 83 17 24,443 41Nya staden S 1,932 1,601 52.1 46.4 75 82 18 24,811 44Otterstad 1,717 1,418 39.5 59.1 86 95 5 26,322 37Råda 2,199 1,604 48.2 51.4 90 93 7 29,656 54Saleby-N Härene 1,975 1,542 46.8 52.6 91 93 7 29,138 45Stenhammar 2,196 1,650 45.8 53.6 90 95 5 31,474 57Sunnersberg 1,975 1,468 46.8 52.6 91 93 7 29,138 45Tofta-Ulriksdal 1,534 1,209 50.1 49.2 90 96 4 29,816 49Tun-Gillstad 1,591 1,279 45.2 54.0 84 95 5 26,318 38Vinninga-Filsbäck 2,121 1,641 46.0 52.8 87 93 7 27,933 37Wennerberg 1,500 1,192 55.1 43.2 82 76 24 25,156 38Ågårdsområdet 2,059 1,663 49.7 49.3 84 89 11 27,818 46Örslösa 1,598 1,253 47.4 51.8 88 95 5 26,472 35Source: SVT

Symbol Lidköping is developing a profile plan to market itself as "Lidköping by Vänern" and to this end have established the use of a logo depicting its location by Vänern. This logo is used in all official contexts, and also on the road signs when entering Lidköping.

Lidköping Municipality

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