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Stockholm Municipality (Stockholms kommun or Stockholms stad) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. It is the largest of the 290 municipalities of the country in terms of population, but one of the smaller in terms of area, making it the most densely populated. It is also the most populous municipality in the Nordic countries.
Although legally a municipality with the official proper name Stockholms kommun, the municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) has decided to use the name Stockholms stad (City of Stockholm in English) whenever possible. This is purely nominal and has no effect on the legal status of the municipality.

Geography

Geographically, Stockholm Municipality comprises all the central parts of the capital (Innerstaden or Stockholm City Centre) as well as the southern and western suburbs (Söderort or South Stockholm and Västerort or West Stockholm respectively). Of the municipal population, all but 200 people are considered living in the Stockholm urban area, a tätort further extending into ten other municipalities.

History

When the first local government acts came into force in Sweden in 1863, Stockholm was one of the then 89 cities of Sweden. A first City Council was elected. The area roughly corresponded with today's Innerstaden. Large areas were annexed in 1913, 1916 and 1949. The city was outside Stockholm County until 1968, having its own governor. The local government reform of 1971 made Stockholm a unitary municipality like all others in the country.

Politics

The municipality is governed by a Municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) 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 committee (kommunstyrelse), with 13 members representing both the political majority and the opposition, with the responsibility of implementing policies approved by the assembly. The political organisation also includes eight governing full-time Commissioners (borgarråd) and four Commissioners representing the opposition. The work is headed by the Commissioner of Finance (finansborgarråd, sometimes called Mayor), who also chairs the executive committee. The current Commissioner of Finance is Kristina Axén Olin, representing the Moderate Party. Moderate Party

The governing parties		Parties in opposition
Following the 2006 municipal elections, the seats are divided in the following way:
41	The Social Democrats	27
The Liberal People's Party	10	The Left Party	9
The Christian Democrats	3	The Green Party	10
		The Centre Party	1

Social Democrats

The governing parties		Parties in opposition
Following the 2002 municipal elections, the seats were divided in the following way:
35	The Moderate Party	27
The Left Party	11	The Liberal People's Party	17
The Green Party	6	The Christian Democrats	5

Municipal elections 1994-2006

Year1994 1998 2002 2006

Moderate Party			Christian Democrats			Centre Party			Liberals			Stockholm Party			Green Party			Social Democrats			Left Party			others
Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
128 975	28,7	29	9 399	2,1	0	24 329	5,4	5	35 437	7,9	9	15 309	3,4	2	35 120	7,8	8	148 684	33,0	37	41 274	9,2	11	11 533	2,5	0
146 797	32,9	35	28 320	6,4	6	9 187	2,1	0	34 789	7,8	9	19 561	4,4	3	26 347	5,9	6	114 118	25,6	28	54 663	12,3	13	20 411	4,5	0
121 405	26,0	27	20 746	4,4	5	5 939	1,2	0	73 736	15,7	17	9 137	1,9	0	24 965	5,3	6	149 871	32,0	35	52 325	11,2	11	8 772	1,8	0
180 207	37,3	41	18 907	3,9	3	15 205	3,1	1	46 657	9,6	10	5 831	1,2	0	44 530	9,2	10	118 129	24,4	27	38 284	7,9	9	16 084	2,6	0

Stockholm Party is a local party, which was represented in the City Council 1979-2002.

Board of Commissioners 2002-2006

Annika Billström (s), Mayor, Commissioner of Finance
Kristina Axén Olin (m), Deputy Mayor, Commissioner in Opposition
Teres Lindberg (s), Deputy Mayor, Commissioner of Integration and Democracy
Kersti Py Börjeson (s), Commissioner of Building and Sports
Leif Rönngren (s), Real Estate and Road Commissioner
Erik Nilsson (s), Commissioner of Education
Roger Mogert (s), Commissioner of Culture, Employment, Housing, and Human Resources
Margareta Olofsson (v), Commissioner of Social Service
Viviann Gunnarsson (mp), 8. Commissioner of Emergency Services, Environment and Consumer Affairs
Jan Björklund (fp), Commissioner in Opposition
Christina Nordin (m), Commissioner in Opposition
Mikael Söderlund (m), Commissioner in Opposition

Board of Commissioners since 2006

Sten Nordin (m), Commissioner of Finance(2008-)

Mikael Söderlund (m), Commissioner of Building and Trafic

Ulla Hamilton (m), Commissioner of Environment and Real Estate

Lotta Edholm (fp), Commissioner of Education

Madeleine Sjöstedt (fp), Commissioner of Culture and Sports

Kristina Alvendal (m), Commissioner of CHousing and Integration

Ulf Kristersson (m), Commissioner of Social Services

Ewa Samuelsson (kd), Commissioner of Senior Citizen's Service

Carin Jämtin (s), Commissioner in Opposition

Roger Mogert (s), Commissioner in Opposition

Ann-Margarethe Livh (v), Commissioner in Opposition

Yvonne Ruwaida (mp), Commissioner in Opposition

District Councils

The municipality is subdivided into 14 districts. These districts are sometimes incorrectly referred to as "boroughs". They are, however, no legal entities or juristic persons of their own, but committees of the municipality itself. These districts are administered by District Councils, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas. The members of these councils are not directly elected by the inhabitants of the respective districts, but rather appointed by the kommunfullmäktige (municipal assembly).
Effective January 1, 2007 the number of district councils was reduced from 18 to 14 through a number of merges. Maria-Gamla stan and Katarina-Sofia now form Södermalm borough, Enskede-Årsta and Vantör now form Enskede-Årsta-Vantör, Hägersten and Liljeholmen now form Hägersten-Liljeholmen, and Kista and Rinkeby now form Rinkeby-Kista. Kungsholmen

Norrmalm

Södermalm

Östermalm

Stockholm City Centre	South Stockholm	West Stockholm
Enskede-Årsta-Vantör Farsta Hägersten-Liljeholmen Skarpnäck Skärholmen Älvsjö	Bromma Hässelby-Vällingby Rinkeby-Kista Spånga-Tensta

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