Knivsta Municipality

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

• Alsike
• Knivsta (seat)

Lakes

• Edasjön

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.

Location Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % Boängen 1,701 1,005 38.5 60.8 92 83 17 39,390 63 Gredelby 1,496 1,172 54.0 44.9 85 82 18 29,550 59 Husby-Långhundra 1,182 901 32.7 65.8 86 88 12 28,635 28 Lagga-Östuna 1,868 1,368 37.8 61.5 89 87 13 32,058 44 Norra Alsike 1,626 1,047 42.1 56.3 89 79 21 31,826 51 Sågen 1,420 978 44.3 51.9 81 65 35 26,913 54 Södra Knivsta 1,925 1,381 45.1 53.1 81 75 25 27,612 47 Tallbacken 1,501 999 48.2 49.5 74 65 35 24,083 42 Vassunda 1,505 1,091 40.5 57.9 88 86 14 32,199 52 Vrå 2,019 1,186 37.0 62.0 91 81 19 38,231 65 Västra Knivsta 1,726 1,215 54.8 43.3 87 86 14 32,370 61 Östra Knivsta 1,826 1,283 48.2 50.4 90 88 12 35,963 63 Source: SVT<ref name=KnivstaVal2022/>

Elections

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

Riksdag

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

External links

• Knivsta Municipality - Official site
• Knivsta map
• Knivstabo.se - A webportal for citizens of Knivsta