Knivsta Municipality

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Knivsta Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Knivsta, with some 7,100 inhabitants. It is known for being one of the safest municipalities in Sweden, consistently ranking among the top 5 safest (out of 290) for more than a decade.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

Until 1971 Knivsta was a municipality in Stockholm County, when it was merged into Uppsala Municipality and subsequently belonged to Uppsala County. On January 1, 2003 Knivsta was separated from Uppsala to once again form a separate municipality, located in Uppsala County.

The coat of arms symbolises the Stones of Mora where the Swedish Kings were elected in ancient times.

Localities

Lakes

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Knivsta Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name=KnivstaVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 19,795 residents, including 13,626 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=KnivstaVal2022/> 43.7% voted for the left coalition and 54.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Elections

These are the election results since the refounding of the municipality from the 2002 election.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD
2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 82.9 7,158 5.4 31.8 5.0 6.7 17.8 10.5 20.0 1.6
2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 85.9 7,915 3.6 24.3 5.5 10.1 9.9 8.0 34.0 2.6
2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 88.3 8,981 3.5 19.2 7.4 9.2 9.5 7.1 38.3 4.4
2014<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 89.0 9,716 3.9 21.7 8.0 8.0 6.5 6.7 30.6 10.8

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 2002 to 2006. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected
2002 82.9 7,158 42.2 55.0 0.0 2.8 97.2
2006 85.9 7,915 33.4 62.0 0.0 4.6 95.4
2010 88.3 8,981 30.1 64.1 4.4 1.4 98.6
2014 89.0 9,716 33.6 51.8 10.8 3.8 96.2

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