Lidköping Municipality

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

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Municipality
Lidköping Railway Station
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 58°30′N 13°11′E
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Lidköping
Area
• 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)
• 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 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

Läckö Castle

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.

In total there were 40,403 residents, including 31,517 Swedish citizens of voting age. 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 80 79 21 26,421 43 Framnäs 1,743 1,356 57.4 40.5 72 71 29 21,445 32 Fredriksdal 1,771 1,388 51.1 47.4 76 70 30 22,875 28 Gamla stadens C 1,793 1,496 47.4 50.7 77 74 26 24,133 34 Hovby-Majåker 2,062 1,571 53.9 45.6 91 93 7 29,771 50 Järpås 1,326 1,027 42.1 57.3 80 90 10 25,426 23 Lidåker-Ljunghed 1,819 1,467 54.0 44.5 86 87 13 25,252 36 Margretelund N 1,813 1,346 49.9 47.5 67 61 39 20,152 24 Margretelund S 1,853 1,387 56.2 42.5 73 73 27 24,352 29 Nya staden N 1,779 1,482 53.9 45.1 79 83 17 24,443 41 Nya staden S 1,932 1,601 52.1 46.4 75 82 18 24,811 44 Otterstad 1,717 1,418 39.5 59.1 86 95 5 26,322 37 Råda 2,199 1,604 48.2 51.4 90 93 7 29,656 54 Saleby-N Härene 1,975 1,542 46.8 52.6 91 93 7 29,138 45 Stenhammar 2,196 1,650 45.8 53.6 90 95 5 31,474 57 Sunnersberg 1,975 1,468 46.8 52.6 91 93 7 29,138 45 Tofta-Ulriksdal 1,534 1,209 50.1 49.2 90 96 4 29,816 49 Tun-Gillstad 1,591 1,279 45.2 54.0 84 95 5 26,318 38 Vinninga-Filsbäck 2,121 1,641 46.0 52.8 87 93 7 27,933 37 Wennerberg 1,500 1,192 55.1 43.2 82 76 24 25,156 38 Ågårdsområdet 2,059 1,663 49.7 49.3 84 89 11 27,818 46 Örslösa 1,598 1,253 47.4 51.8 88 95 5 26,472 35 Source: SVT

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.

See also

• Köping (concept)

External links

• Lidköping Municipality - Official site
• Läckö Kinnekulle - The "Götene-Lidköping Vänern" tourism company
• (in Swedish) Article Lidköping - From Nordisk Familjebok (vol. 16, 1912)