Lidköping Municipality

Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Lidköping Municipality Lidköpings kommun
Municipality
Lidköping Railway Station
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 58°30′N 13°11′E / 58.500°N 13.183°E / 58.500; 13.183
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Lidköping
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,372.605625 km² (529.965995 sq mi)
• Land	695.605625 km² (268.574833 sq mi)
• Water	677 km² (261 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	40,539
• Density	30/km² (76/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland
Municipal code	1494
Website	www.lidkoping.se

Lidköping Municipality (Lidköpings kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Lidköping.

Lidköping sometimes refers to itself as "Lidköping by Vänern", possibly to distinguish itself from the namewise (and historically) similar city of Linköping in eastern Sweden.

Geography

Lidköping Municipality is, together with its western neighbor Götene, located on the Läckö-Kinnekulla peninsula. There are several Vänern islands that belong to the municipality. One of them is Läckö, where the Läckö Castle is a notable sight.

Localities

Population numbers of the towns and villages, from SCB, December 31 of noted year.

Year	2002	2003	2004	2005	2010
Lidköping	24,679	24,885	24,960	24,941	25,644
Vinninga	1,079	1,060	1,054	1,064	1,078
Järpås	865	868	876	808	795
Filsbäck	656	656	652	647	615
Örslösa	308	305	310	298	307
Saleby	219	218	217	213	232
Tun	219	210	208	207	206

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Lidköping Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 40,403 residents, including 31,517 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 49.3 % voted for the left coalition and 49.5 % for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

Residents

Citizen
adults

Left vote

Right vote

Employed

Swedish
parents

Foreign
heritage

Income
SEK

Degree

Dalängen

2,047

1,477

57.5

40.9

26,421

Framnäs

1,743

1,356

57.4

40.5

21,445

Fredriksdal

1,771

1,388

51.1

47.4

22,875

Gamla stadens C

1,793

1,496

47.4

50.7

24,133

Hovby-Majåker

2,062

1,571

53.9

45.6

29,771

Järpås

1,326

1,027

42.1

57.3

25,426

Lidåker-Ljunghed

1,819

1,467

54.0

44.5

25,252

Margretelund N

1,813

1,346

49.9

47.5

20,152

Margretelund S

1,853

1,387

56.2

42.5

24,352

Nya staden N

1,779

1,482

53.9

45.1

24,443

Nya staden S

1,932

1,601

52.1

46.4

24,811

Otterstad

1,717

1,418

39.5

59.1

26,322

Råda

2,199

1,604

48.2

51.4

29,656

Saleby-N Härene

1,975

1,542

46.8

52.6

29,138

Stenhammar

2,196

1,650

45.8

53.6

31,474

Sunnersberg

1,975

1,468

46.8

52.6

29,138

Tofta-Ulriksdal

1,534

1,209

50.1

49.2

29,816

Tun-Gillstad

1,591

1,279

45.2

54.0

26,318

Vinninga-Filsbäck

2,121

1,641

46.0

52.8

27,933

Wennerberg

1,500

1,192

55.1

43.2

25,156

Ågårdsområdet

2,059

1,663

49.7

49.3

27,818

Örslösa

1,598

1,253

47.4

51.8

26,472

Source: SVT^[3]

Symbol

Lidköping is developing a profile plan to market itself as "Lidköping by Vänern" and to this end have established the use of a logo depicting its location by Vänern. This logo is used in all official contexts, and also on the road signs when entering Lidköping.

References

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Lidköping i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2024.