Södertälje Municipality () is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Södertälje.

It borders to Lake Mälaren in the north and the Baltic Sea in the south, and within the Stockholm County to Nykvarn Municipality and Salem Municipality and also border Södermanland County and its municipals Gnesta and Trosa.

The municipality was created 1967–1971 through the amalgamation of the former City of Södertälje with large rural and suburban areas surrounding it. In 1999, it was split when a new entity, Nykvarn Municipality, was detached from Södertälje Municipality.

Economy Two big industries dominate Södertälje. Scania AB is a world leading manufacturer of trucks and busses and employed over 9,000 people. AstraZeneca is an international manufacturer of drugs (medicine) employing over 3,000 people. The municipal Södertälje itself employs over 5,600 people including teachers and people working with elderly people.

Södertälje has a canal, Södertälje Canal, that is very important for the ships who want to reach the big lake Mälaren from the Baltic Sea.

Demography Södertälje has the fifth largest number of Finnish-speaking Sweden Finns in Sweden: 11,000, or around 13 per cent of the city population. Thus, taken together, Finns and an estimated 120,000 Assyrians in Sweden and account for 40 per cent of the inhabitants of the city.

2022 population by district This is a demographic table based on Södertälje 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 67,079 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 44.9% voted for the left coalition and 53.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % 1 Södra Värdsholmen 1,845 1,307 49.8 48.9 77 49 51 25,927 372 Saltskog Ö 1,785 1,083 44.4 53.7 79 39 61 25,822 403 Saltskog V 1,846 1,042 47.4 50.3 69 26 74 21,837 324 Västergård-Vibergen 2,256 1,412 40.7 57.9 79 45 55 26,731 335 Mariekälla S 1,594 1,391 44.1 54.8 81 49 51 28,539 446 Västergård-Högmo 2,273 1,406 41.4 56.8 76 28 72 26,636 477 Mariekälla N 1,794 1,344 48.7 50.0 83 59 41 27,993 468 Centrum S 1,550 1,160 48.5 50.1 75 51 49 25,415 389 Blombacka 2,882 1,594 48.1 48.5 69 22 78 21,384 3210 Tälje 2,174 1,580 47.7 50.7 76 55 45 25,995 3611 Centrum N 1,470 1,058 48.8 50.0 73 46 54 24,167 3812 Bårstabergen V 992 674 45.3 52.6 75 48 52 23,982 2413 Bårstabergen Ö 2,099 1,583 48.6 50.5 73 45 55 22,489 4014 Snäckviken 1,848 940 49.3 47.3 72 20 80 22,334 3815 Glasberga 3,050 1,847 23.5 75.6 83 24 76 28,594 4416 Östertälje 2,293 1,772 47.3 51.5 83 62 38 31,041 5317 Fornbacka 2,205 1,102 50.3 46.0 62 19 81 18,286 3218 Hagaberg-Majtorp 1,754 1,390 44.8 53.5 83 66 34 30,305 4719 Rosenlund V 1,679 1,222 47.2 51.3 78 55 45 25,957 3920 Rosenlund Ö 1,581 1,206 50.1 48.3 80 54 46 26,502 3321 Grusåsen V 2,245 1,663 44.2 54.0 74 49 51 25,307 4122 Grusåsen Ö 1,979 1,332 45.2 52.5 69 42 58 22,858 3323 Brunnsäng Ö 1,854 1,291 44.4 53.9 75 45 55 24,283 3224 Brunnsäng V 1,647 987 48.3 50.6 69 27 73 20,525 3425 Bergvik 1,380 1,085 48.3 50.1 75 51 49 23,170 3826 Fornhöjden 1,985 1,229 55.3 42.3 65 15 85 19,385 3227 Viksberg 1,375 1,029 35.9 63.0 87 76 24 34,619 3928 Vitorp 2,093 1,361 28.7 70.3 82 36 64 27,643 4329 Ragnhildsborg 1,500 1,014 38.1 60.6 85 40 60 28,443 4630 Pershagen 2,263 1,697 39.1 59.9 87 75 25 33,898 4931 Hovsjö N 1,601 926 58.3 38.1 52 7 93 10,065 2732 Hovsjö S 1,911 969 52.7 44.4 60 7 93 15,504 2733 Hovsjö-Tveta 2,432 1,505 39.7 58.4 66 23 77 19,871 3135 Enhörna-Ekeby 1,565 1,156 40.0 59.6 86 69 31 29,901 3536 Enhörna V 1,652 1,241 42.1 57.1 87 84 16 32,554 3740 Vårdinge 2,207 1,571 52.8 45.7 79 78 22 27,448 3841 Järna C 2,353 1,740 52.7 45.5 82 77 23 27,241 4142 Järna N 1,851 1,104 58.4 37.0 70 61 39 22,304 3243 Järna V 1,819 1,367 52.1 46.0 80 78 22 26,116 3644 Järna-Kallfors 1,815 1,191 34.4 64.5 90 74 26 37,120 4845 Järna landsbygd 2,237 1,632 52.0 44.6 78 72 28 26,583 4347 Hölö V 2,601 1,760 42.5 56.5 86 75 25 29,859 3348 Hölö-Mörkö 1,350 1,012 56.3 41.1 82 80 20 27,850 4450 Geneta S 1,567 1,197 33.6 65.0 74 26 74 22,111 2851 Geneta N 2,353 1,273 47.3 50.9 56 9 91 13,812 2552 Bårstafältet 1,858 1,152 40.5 57.6 59 17 83 16,045 3053 Ronna S 2,180 1,391 38.8 59.8 58 10 90 14,792 2654 Ronna V 2,355 1,249 47.7 50.4 61 9 91 16,000 2855 Ronna N 2,092 942 53.6 42.9 54 4 96 11,974 2756 Ronna-Karlhov 2,238 1,419 41.8 56.1 67 23 77 19,824 3057 Lina V 1,854 1,224 42.8 55.2 71 19 81 20,801 3158 Lina Ö 1,741 1,257 34.2 64.6 74 29 71 22,435 35Source: SVT

Population development

Localities Gnesta (minor part of) Hölö Järna Mölnbo Södertälje (seat)

Elections

Riksdag These are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year Turnout Votes V S MP C L KD M SD ND 1973 90.2 42,332 6.5 46.0 0.0 23.2 8.1 1.5 13.9 0.0 0.0 1976 90.9 43,826 5.5 44.4 0.0 22.2 10.4 1.0 15.9 0.0 0.0 1979 89.5 43,789 6.6 46.5 0.0 14.8 10.1 1.2 19.9 0.0 0.0 1982 90.4 45,372 6.5 49.2 2.3 11.5 4.8 1.3 24.0 0.0 0.0 1985 88.8 46,230 6.3 47.1 1.9 7.1 15.6 0.0 21.0 0.0 0.0 1988 83.0 44,563 6.8 43.7 6.5 7.7 14.0 1.8 18.3 0.0 0.0 1991 83.9 45,204 4.3 40.3 4.1 5.3 9.6 5.0 22.9 0.0 7.9 1994 84.6 46,151 5.5 49.2 5.9 4.5 7.1 3.1 22.8 0.0 1.1 1998 77.2 39,428 10.3 41.4 5.4 3.4 3.9 10.3 22.5 0.0 0.0 2002 76.1 40,914 7.5 42.2 5.9 3.3 12.9 9.6 14.4 0.7 0.0 2006 77.5 42,920 5.6 36.0 6.4 5.4 7.2 7.2 26.8 1.9 0.0 2010 79.5 45,458 5.2 34.0 8.3 3.9 6.2 5.4 29.5 5.6 0.0 2014 77.9 47,151 5.8 32.0 7.3 3.8 4.7 6.9 23.1 12.4 0.0

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 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year Turnout Votes Left Right SD Other Elected 1973 90.2 42,332 52.5 45.2 0.0 2.3 97.7 1976 90.9 43,826 49.9 48.5 0.0 1.6 98.4 1979 89.5 43,789 53.1 44.8 0.0 2.1 97.9 1982 90.4 45,372 55.7 40.3 0.0 4.0 96.0 1985 88.8 46,230 53.4 43.7 0.0 2.9 97.1 1988 83.0 44,563 57.0 40.0 0.0 3.0 97.0 1991 83.9 45,204 44.6 42.8 0.0 12.6 95.3 1994 84.6 46,151 60.6 37.5 0.0 1.9 98.1 1998 77.2 39,428 57.1 40.1 0.0 2.8 97.2 2002 76.1 40,914 55.6 40.2 0.0 4.2 95.8 2006 77.5 42,920 48.0 46.6 0.0 5.4 94.6 2010 79.5 45,458 47.5 45.0 5.6 1.9 98.1 2014 77.9 47,151 45.1 38.5 12.4 4.0 96.0

Notable people Björn Borg, former tennis player Johan Edlund, singer and leader of the bands Tiamat and Lucyfire Tom Wandell, NHL Player

International relations

The municipality is twinned with:

Struer Municipality, Denmark Pärnu, Estonia Forssa, Finland Angers, France Sarpsborg, Norway

References

External links

Södertälje Municipality - Official site