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Gothenburg Municipality Göteborgs kommun
Municipality
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°42′N 11°56′E / 57.700°N 11.933°E / 57.700; 11.933Coordinates: 57°42′N 11°56′E / 57.700°N 11.933°E / 57.700; 11.933
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Gothenburg
Government
• Mayor	Ann-Sofie Hermansson (S)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (June 30th, 2018)[1]
• Total	567,337
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland and Bohuslän
Municipal code	1480
Website	goteborg.se goteborg.se - ENG short description international.goteborg.se

Börsen, Gothenburg's City Hall

Gothenburg Municipality (Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg.

The major part of the Gothenburg urban area (Göteborgs tätort) is situated within the municipality, but there are also some other localities as well as rural areas.

When the first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected city council (stadsfullmäktige). Its territory has since then been added through amalgamations in 1868, 1906, 1922, 1931, 1945, 1948, 1967 and 1974. The local government reform of 1971 made the city a unitary municipality, like all others in the country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Göteborgs stad (City of Göteborg^[3]), whenever legally possible.

In March 2018 it was reported that the municipality and municipality-owned companies had 236 employees working with public relations (Swedish: kommunikation), more than Stockholm, to a cost of 400 000 SEK daily or 151 million SEK annually.^[4][5]

Localities

• 
  Billdal (part of)


• Brännö


• Donsö


• 
  Gothenburg (seat)


• Hjuvik


• Nolvik


• Olofstorp


• Styrsö


• Säve


• Torslanda


• Vrångö

Politics and government

The municipality has a municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige), consisting of 81 members, elected for four years. There are ten political parties represented in the council elected in 2018:^[6]

Following the 2018 municipal elections, neither traditional coalition of parties (the Alliance and the Red-Greens) was able to obtain a majority in the municipal assembly. The newly-formed Democrats party, whose primary campaign promise is to stop the construction of the West Link, obtained 14 seats in the assembly, making it the second-largest party. The Green Party and the Left Party announced on 6 November that they would draft their own municipal budget together, along with Feminist Initiative - thus abandoning their traditional cooperation with the Social Democrats. This has been recognized as the three parties forming a local political alliance which has been referred to as the Red-green-pink coalition.^[8]

The municipal executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) has 13 members, representing the six parties from the two major political coalitions who have seats in the assembly.

The chairwoman of the municipal assembly is Lena Malm (S) and the chairwoman of the municipal executive committee (sometimes titled mayor) is Ann-Sofie Hermansson from the Social Democratic Party.

List of Mayors

• 
  Sören Mannheimer, (Social Democrat) 1985-1988


• 
  Göran Johansson, (Social Democrat) 1988–1991


• 
  Johnny Magnusson (Moderate), 1991–1994


• 
  Göran Johansson (Social Democrat), 1994–2009


• 
  Anneli Hulthén (Social Democrat), 2009–2016


• 
  Ann-Sofie Hermansson (Social Democrat), 2016–2018


• 
  Axel Josefson (Moderate), 2018–

Boroughs

In 1990 the municipality was subdivided into 21 stadsdelsnämnder (district boards), sometimes translated to boroughs, which they really are not. In 2009 the two district boards of Frölunda and Högsbo were joined together. It has been decided that from the start of 2011 many more will be joined together leaving 10 new district boards.
The boards carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure, and cultural services within their respective areas. In the election of 1998 three boroughs (Askim, Torslanda and Älvsborg) held local referendums on forming their own municipalities, but their petitions were rejected by the government of Sweden.

Boroughs:

International cooperation

• 
  Twin towns:
  
  
  
  • 
    Bergen, Norway
    
  
  
  • 
    Turku, Finland
    
  
  
  • 
    Aarhus Municipality, Denmark
    
  
  
  
  


• Partner cities:
  
  
  
  • 
    Shanghai, China
    
  
  
  • 
    Port Elizabeth, South Africa
    
  
  
  • 
    Lyon, France
    
  
  
  
  

The cooperation with the South African city of Port Elizabeth (established in 1998) is a partnership fostering development of common fields of interest such as solid waste management, public libraries, sport and tourism.

• Sister cities:
  
  
  
  • 
    Chicago, United States (since 1987)
  
  
  • 
    Kraków, Poland
    
  
  
  • 
    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    
  
  
  • 
    Tallinn, Estonia
    
  
  
  • 
    Rostock, Germany
    
  
  
  
  


• Regional:
  
  • 
    Oslo, Norway
    
  
  

See also

• Gothenburg


• Gothenburg Law Court

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Göteborg Municipality.

• 
  goteborg.se - Official site for city of Gothenburg (in Swedish)


• 
  goteborg.se/english - Official web page for short English description of the content in city of Gothenburg site (in English)
  


• 
  international.goteborg.se - Official international site for city of Gothenburg