Stockholm Municipality
Stockholm Municipality is the largest
Swedish municipality in terms of population. Its proper name is (
Swedish)
Stockholms stad, or
City of Stockholm in English.
Geographically, it comprises all the central parts of the capital as well as many of the surrounding suburbs. Of the municipal population, all but 200 people are considered living in the town of
Stockholm, an
urban area further extending into ten other municipalities.
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An old map of Stockholm City showing the intricate set of islands |
The municipality is governed by a municipal council with 101 members. These are elected through municipal elections, held in conjunction with the
Parliamentary elections every four years. The council meets twice a month and the meetings are open to the public. The council elects a municipal executive board (
kommunstyrelse), with 13 members representing both the political majority and the opposition, with the responsibility of implementing policies approved by the council. The political organisation also includes eight governing full-time Commissioners (
borgarråd, sometimes called Vice Mayors) and four Commissioners representing the opposition. The work is headed by the Commissioner of Finance (
finansborgarråd, sometimes called Mayor), who also chairs the municipal executive board. The
current incumbent is
Annika Billström, a
Social Democrat.
Following the
2002 municipal elections, the seats are divided in the following way:
District councils
The municipality is subdivided into 18 district councils, or boroughs, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas.
Unofficially Stockholm is divided into three major parts:
Stockholm City Centre (
Innerstaden),
South Stockholm (
Söderort) and
West Stockholm (
Västerort). They are in turn divided into smaller parts.
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The boroughs of Stockholm |
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