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in southern

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. With more than 165,000 inhabitants, it is the fifth largest municipality in Sweden. The municipality is bordered in the west by

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, and thence

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and

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municipalities. The present municipality was formed in 1971 by the

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of the ''City of Linköping'' with five surrounding rural municipalities. The number of original local government entities (as of 1863) making up Linköping Municipality is 32. Linköping is one of the few municipalities in Sweden to style the speaker of the assembly as

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. Linköping wants to create a sustainable development of the city and therefore plan to become a

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community by 2025.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Linköping Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 165,293 residents, including 124,369 Swedish citizens of voting age. 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.1% for the right coalition.

Politics

Municipal election 2018

On September 9, 2018, Linköping held Municipality Election: In the aftermath of the 2014 municipality election, The local

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(S; Social Demokraterna),

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(MP; Miljöpartiet) and the Liberal People's Party (L; Liberalerna, formerly FP; Folk Partiet) formed a coalition majority named "coalition for Linköping" with 40 out of 79 seats, while the minority opposition in Linköping consisted each separate by: the Moderate Party (M; Moderaterna), Centre Party (C; Center Partiet), Christian Democrats (Kristdemokraterna), Left Party (V; Vänsterpartiet) and the Sweden Democrats (SD; Sverige Demokraterna). After the 2018 elections, all of the Alliance parties in the municipality joined and took over from the Socialdemocrat's coalition rule and their mandat started 1 January 2019 and onwards.

List of mayors

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Social Democrats (S), 1994–2006 * Ann-Cathrine Hjerdt Moderate Party (M), 2006–2014 * Helena Balthammar Social Democrats (S), 2014–2018 * Lars Vikinge Centre Party (C), 2018–present

Twin towns – sister cities

Linköping is twinned with: *

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, Iceland *

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, Finland *

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, Lithuania *

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, Austria *

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, Norway Roskilde Municipality in Denmark chose in the summer of 2007 to cancel its sistership agreements with four Scandinavian local government entities, including Linköping Municipality. Twinning with

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in China terminated in February 2020.

References

External links

* {{Authority control Municipalities of Östergötland County