Umeå Municipality ( Swedish : Umeå kommun , Northern Sami : Ubmi gielda ) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden . Its seat is Umeå , which is also the county seat of Västerbotten County.
7-423: The municipality is an administrative entity defined by geographical borders, consisting of Umeå and a large area around it. The present municipality consists of many former local government units joined together in a series of municipal reforms carried out between 1952 and 1974. A 65-member municipal assembly ( kommunfullmäktige ) is elected by proportional representation for a four-year term. The assembly appoints
14-434: Is a demographic table based on Umeå Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT 's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. In total there were 130,881 residents, including 99,226 Swedish citizens of voting age. 65.9% voted for the left coalition and 32.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income. Umeå
21-655: Is the decision-making body governing each of the 290 municipalities of Sweden . Though the Swedish Local Government Act ( Swedish : Kommunallagen ) uses the term "municipal assembly" in an English translation of the Act, "municipal council" and even "city council" are used as well, even in official contexts in English by several of Sweden's largest municipalities, including Stockholm , Malmö , and Gothenburg . This system of administrative division
28-402: The 9-member executive committee ( kommunstyrelsen ) and the 7 governing commissioners . The executive committee and the commissioners are headed by the chairman ( kommunstyrelsens ordförande ), since 1996 Social Democrat Lennart Holmlund (b. 1946). Since the 2010 municipal election the municipality is headed by a Social Democratic-Left Party coalition a single seat short of absolute majority. Of
35-652: The eight parties represented in the Riksdag since 2010, all but the Sweden Democrats are found in the assembly, as well as the breakaway Socialist Justice Party headed by former Social Democrat Jan Hägglund (holding its only seat), renamed the Workers' Party in 2011. There are 20 localities (or urban areas) in Umeå Municipality: The municipal seat in bold Other villages: This
42-521: Was established with the municipal reform of 1971. Prior to this reform, municipal governance in Sweden was conducted by either a kommunalfullmäktige (municipal council in rural areas) or a stadsfullmäktige (city council in urban areas). The number of members in each assembly can range from 21 to 101, depending on the population of the municipality in question. Members of the assemblies are chosen to serve for four-year terms through elections using
49-482: Was the strongest municipality in Sweden for the left coalition, with a 33-point margin of advantage. Umeå Municipality is twinned with: In Twin Towns' Park ( Vänortsparken ) is the artwork Tellus : it is a map of the world, with each sister city's location. Each sister city also has a designated themed area in the park. Municipal assembly (Sweden) A municipal council ( Swedish : Kommunfullmäktige )
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