Population development

Education

The share of highly educated persons, according to Statistics Sweden's definition: persons with post-secondary education that is three years or longer, is 42.4% (national average: 27.0%).^[3]

Residents with a foreign background

On the 31 of December 2017 the number of people with a foreign background (persons born outside of Sweden or with two parents born outside of Sweden) was 311,401, or 32.79% of the population (949,761 on the 31 of December 2017). On the 31 of December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was (per the same definition) 189 938, or 25.05% of the population (758,148 on the 31 of December 2002).^[4] On 31 December 2017 there were 949,761 residents in Stockholm, of which 234,703 people (24.71%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden.^[5]

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Country of birth[6]
31 December 2019
1	Sweden	725,365
2	European Union: Other countries	35,177
3	Asia: Other countries	38,998
4	Africa: Other countries	20,832
5	Iraq	16,448
6	Finland	16,238
7	South America	15,788
8	Iran	12,390
9	Poland	11,830
10	North America	8,820
11	Somalia	8,178
12	Syria	8,180
13	Europe outside of the EU: other countries	7,016
14	Turkey	7,479
15	Eritrea	6,528
16	Germany	5,363
17	Afghanistan	4,588
18	Thailand	4,059
19	Yugoslavia/ Yugoslavia SFR Yugoslavia/ Serbia and Montenegro	3,680
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,360
21	Norway	3,001
22	Denmark	1,746
23	Soviet Union	1,382
24	Oceania	1,350
25	Iceland	580
26	Unknown country of birth	163

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National

These are the election results from the 1973 onwards in the City of Stockholm. The municipality forms one of three municipal constituencies for the Riksdag along with Gothenburg and Malmö. In the Statistics Sweden reports from 1988 to 1998 the exact decimals of the Sweden Democrats were not reported since only parties near the 4% nationwide threshold were reported on.

Local

The municipality is governed by a Municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) with 101 members. These are elected through municipal elections, held in conjunction with the Parliamentary elections every four years. The council meets twice a month and the meetings are open to the public. The council elects a Municipal executive committee (kommunstyrelse), with 13 members representing both the political majority and the opposition, with the responsibility of implementing policies approved by the assembly. The political organisation also includes eight governing full-time Commissioners (borgarråd) and four Commissioners representing the opposition. The work is headed by the Commissioner of Finance (finansborgarråd, sometimes called Mayor), who also chairs the executive committee. The current Commissioner of Finance is Karin Wanngård, representing the Social democrats.

Municipal elections 1994–2014

Stockholm Party is a local party, which was represented in the City Council 1979–2002.

Municipal Election 2018

On September 9, 2018 Stockholm held Municipality Elections

Board of Commissioners since 2006

This article needs to be updated. (February 2015)

• Sten Nordin (m), Commissioner of Finance (after 2008) (finansborgarråd)
• Mikael Söderlund (m), Commissioner of Building and Traffic (byggnads- och trafikborgarråd)
• Ulla Hamilton (m), Commissioner of Environment and Real Estate (miljö och bostadsbolagsborgarråd)
• Lotta Edholm (fp), Commissioner of Education (skolborgarråd)
• Madeleine Sjöstedt (fp), Commissioner of Culture and Sports (kulturborgarråd)
• Kristina Alvendal (m), Commissioner of Housing and Integration (bostads- och integrationsborgarråd)
• Ulf Kristersson (m), Commissioner of Social Services (socialborgarråd)
• Ewa Samuelsson (kd), Commissioner of Senior Citizen's Service (äldrevårdsborgarråd)
• Carin Jämtin (s), Commissioner in Opposition (oppositionsborgarråd)
• Roger Mogert (s), Commissioner in Opposition (oppositionsborgarråd)
• Ann-Margarethe Livh (v), Commissioner in Opposition (oppositionsborgarråd)
• Yvonne Ruwaida (mp), Commissioner in Opposition (oppositionsborgarråd)

District Councils

The municipality is subdivided into 13 districts. These districts are sometimes incorrectly referred to as "boroughs" in English. They are, however, no legal entities or juristic persons of their own, but committees of the municipality itself. These districts are administered by District Councils, stadsdelsnämnder, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas. The members of these councils are not directly elected by the inhabitants of the respective districts, but rather appointed by the kommunfullmäktige (municipal assembly).

Effective January 1, 2007 the number of district councils was reduced from 18 to 14 through a number of merges. Maria-Gamla stan and Katarina-Sofia now form Södermalm borough, Enskede-Årsta and Vantör now form Enskede-Årsta-Vantör, Hägersten and Liljeholmen now form Hägersten-Liljeholmen, and Kista and Rinkeby now form Rinkeby-Kista.