Nyköping Municipality () is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Nyköping, which is containing a majority of the residents. Its southern tip in the district of Tunaberg is the southernmost point of mainland Svealand, one of the three original crowns forming Sweden. Nyköping is the administrative capital of Södermanland and hosts both the governors' residence and the regional council.
The municipality was created in 1971 with the amalgamation of the City of Nyköping and a great number of other municipalities. It was split up in three parts in 1992, when Gnesta Municipality and Trosa Municipality were created. The rural areas of the modern municipality is a merger between the historical rural districts of Jönåker in the west and Rönö in the east. The northwestern part of the Jönåker hundred was replaced by the southeastern part of Oppunda. The village of Jönåker itself became part of the municipality as a result of the mergers. Politically, Nyköping is historically dominated by the Social Democrats, although margins between the coalitions have been closer in some recent elections. Employment has transformed from industry to more of a commuter and service town in recent decades.
Nyköping itself is on a wide inlet and has a seasonal tourist port that often freezes in winter. The rural and rugged coastline is a distinct feature of the municipality. The local climate has four distinct seasons. Snow cover in winter is variable and by contrast, especially seaside summer nights are warm by Nordic standards. Nyköpingsån is the largest river running through the municipality, with its basin forming a lake district around the village of Vrena in the north with the lakes of Yngaren and Långhalsen dominating the landscape. The largest lake of the drainage basin is Båven somewhat further east. Kilaån and Svärtaån are the other sizeable river systems draining into the Baltic Sea within the municipality.
In the rural part of the municipality, the majority live in the many inland villages where Stigtomta is the largest. There are also several villages of the Kila valley to the west of town, with a total of about 4,400 people in the three districts following the lowest course of the river.
In total 57,507 people were residents, including 43,569 Swedish citizens of voting age. Gripen was instead noted for the science and technical programs. The merger between the two organizations eventually led to an expanded Gripen being the sole public high school in the municipality.
Tourist attraction
Nyköpingshus, a medieval castle, draws many thousands of tourists yearly, especially for its summer outdoor play, Nyköpings gästabud, dramatizing 14th-century events in which king Birger Magnusson and Queen Märta invited his two brothers Valdemar and Erik to the castle, ostensibly for a banquet of reconciliation after a civil war in which Valdemar and Erik had once imprisoned Birger. During the banquet at Nyköpingshus, Birger arrested Valdemar and Erik and committed them to the dungeon, where, according to legend, they starved to death. Shortly thereafter supporters of Valdemar and Erik forced Birger and Märta to flee to Denmark.
Elections
Municipal elections
- 1973
- 1976
- 1979
- 1982
- 1985
- 1988
- 1991
- 1994
- 1998
- 2002
- 2006
- 2010
- 2014
- 2018
Riksdag elections
Only parties that have won representation during this timeframe are listed in results.
Sweden Democrats have their results from 1988 to 1998 listed as "0.0" even though those were decimals higher, since the SCB did not publish those results in detail at a municipal level since the party was not in realistic contention to enter the Riksdag. From 1991 Trosa Municipality and Gnesta Municipality had separate elections rending significant boundary changes.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|+ Overall results
|-
! Year
! Turnout
! Votes
! V
! S
! MP
! C
! L
! KD
! M
! SD
! NyD
! Left
! Right
|-
| 1973
| 92.5
| 38,826
| 3.2
| 49.0
|
| 26.5
| 6.6
| 2.0
| 12.4
|
|
| 52.2
| 45.4
|-
| 1976
| 93.3
| 42,083
| 2.9
| 47.5
|
| 24.5
| 9.3
| 1.5
| 13.9
|
|
| 50.4
| 47.7
|-
| 1979
| 92.4
| 42,594
| 3.7
| 48.5
|
| 18.6
| 9.1
| 1.5
| 18.1
|
|
| 52.2
| 45.9
|-
| 1982
| 92.8
| 43,665
| 3.9
| 49.1
| 1.8
| 16.7
| 4.8
| 1.6
| 22.0
|
|
| 53.0
| 43.4
|-
| 1985
| 91.2
| 43,865
| 3.7
| 47.7
| 1.8
| 12.9
| 13.0
|
| 20.7
|
|
| 51.3
| 46.7
|-
| 1988
| 87.8
| 42,503
| 4.4
| 46.1
| 5.7
| 11.9
| 11.3
| 2.3
| 17.9
|
|
| 56.2
| 41.1
|-
| 1991
| 89.5
| 32,093
| 3.4
| 42.5
| 2.8
| 9.0
| 8.2
| 6.6
| 19.5
|
| 7.3
| 45.9
| 43.4
|-
| 1994
| 88.8
| 32,570
| 5.1
| 51.2
| 4.5
| 7.5
| 6.4
| 3.9
| 19.7
|
| 0.7
| 60.7
| 37.6
|-
| 1998
| 83.7
| 30,627
| 10.6
| 43.2
| 4.1
| 5.5
| 4.0
| 12.3
| 18.8
|
|
| 57.9
| 40.6
|-
| 2002
| 82.7
| 30,854
| 7.3
| 47.4
| 4.3
| 5.9
| 11.2
| 9.3
| 12.9
| 0.8
|
| 59.1
| 39.6
|-
| 2006
| 84.1
| 31,922
| 4.8
| 40.4
| 5.2
| 7.3
| 6.7
| 7.6
| 23.6
| 2.4
|
| 50.4
| 45.2
|-
| 2010
| 85.7
| 33,999
| 4.8
| 34.4
| 8.2
| 6.0
| 7.0
| 5.4
| 27.9
| 5.3
|
| 47.3
| 46.3
|-
| 2014
| 87.4
| 35,684
| 4.8
| 34.0
| 7.5
| 6.0
| 4.5
| 4.4
| 23.0
| 12.6
|
| 46.3
| 37.9
|-
| 2018
| 88.7
| 36,687
| 6.4
| 32.0
| 4.5
| 8.5
| 4.5
| 6.4
| 20.1
| 16.1
|
| 51.4
| 47.1
|}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style=text-align:right
|+ Rural results by current borders
|-
!Year
!%
!Votes
!V
!S
!MP
!C
!L
!KD
!M
!SD
!NyD
!Other
|-
|align=left|1973
| 92.7
| 9,668
| 2.4
| 44.0
|
| 35.6
| 4.7
| 2.2
| 10.9
|
|
| 0.2
|-
|align=left|1976
| 93.8
| 10,047
| 1.6
| 43.2
|
| 33.8
| 7.2
| 1.5
| 12.6
|
|
| 0.2
|-
|align=left|1979
| 92.8
| 10,318
| 2.5
| 44.3
|
| 27.4
| 7.5
| 1.4
| 16.5
|
|
| 0.5
|-
|align=left|1982
| 93.3
| 10,475
| 2.5
| 45.5
| 1.7
| 25.1
| 4.1
| 1.9
| 19.3
|
|
| 0.1
|-
|align=left|1985
| 91.9
| 10,472
| 2.8
| 43.9
| 2.0
| 21.0
| 11.5
|
| 18.6
|
|
| 0.1
|-
|align=left|1988
| 89.1
| 10,183
| 3.7
| 43.6
| 5.9
| 19.1
| 8.7
| 2.6
| 16.3
|
|
| 0.2
|-
|align=left|1991
| 89.5
| 10,535
| 3.0
| 38.6
| 3.2
| 15.4
| 6.5
| 6.9
| 17.5
|
| 8.5
| 0.4
|-
|align=left|1994
| 89.3
| 10,663
| 5.1
| 47.6
| 5.0
| 13.4
| 5.0
| 4.3
| 17.7
|
| 0.8
| 1.2
|-
|align=left|1998
| 84.4
| 10,166
| 10.5
| 40.7
| 4.6
| 9.6
| 2.7
| 13.4
| 17.5
|
|
| 1.1
|-
|align=left|2002
| 83.7
| 10,143
| 6.8
| 44.7
| 4.8
| 10.8
| 9.0
| 10.1
| 12.5
| 0.8
|
| 0.5
|-
|align=left|2006
| 85.5
| 10,563
| 4.8
| 37.1
| 5.0
| 11.7
| 5.4
| 7.7
| 23.1
| 3.3
|
| 1.9
|-
|align=left|2010
| 86.9
| 11,074
| 5.1
| 31.4
| 7.1
| 9.5
| 6.0
| 5.2
| 28.3
| 6.1
|
| 1.2
|-
|align=left|2014
| 88.0
| 11,268
| 4.9
| 31.2
| 6.3
| 9.3
| 3.5
| 4.2
| 21.9
| 15.5
|
| 3.2
|-
|align=left|2018
| 88.7
| 11,477
| 6.0
| 28.5
| 4.0
| 10.8
| 3.2
| 6.8
| 18.4
| 20.8
|
| 1.6
|}
See also
- Nävsjön
Notes
External links
- Nyköping Municipality - Official site