Stockholm Municipality

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**Stockholm Municipality (*Kommun*)**
Stockholm County in Sweden Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm County. Also outlining the bay Riddarfjärden and lake Mälaren. Map outlining municipalities of Sweden	Coat of arms
	Municipal facts
	Seat	Stockholm
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	County	Stockholm County
	Province	Uppland Södermanland
	Area Rank	187.74 km² 252nd of 290
	Population Rank (2006)	774,411 1st of 290
	Density	4,124.91/km²

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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.

1 Geography
2 Politics
- 2.1 District councils
3 External links

[edit] Geography

An old map of Stockholm City showing the intricate set of islands

[edit] Politics

Main article: Politics of Stockholm

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 Commissioner of Finance is Kristina Axén Olin, representing the Moderate Party.

The governing parties		Parties in opposition
Following the 2006 municipal elections, the seats are divided in the following way:
The Moderate Party	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

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

[edit] District councils

The boroughs of Stockholm

The municipality is subdivided into 14 district councils, or boroughs, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas.

Effective January 1, 2007 the number of boroughs was reduced from 18 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.

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 14 boroughs. Each borough can be divided in two or more parts (stadsdelar), there is a total of 117 different parts in the municipality.

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