Gnesta Municipality

Gnesta Municipality (Swedish: Gnesta kommun) is a municipality in Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Gnesta, with some 5,000 inhabitants.

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Municipality
Gnesta City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 59°03′N 17°18′E
Country	Sweden
County	Södermanland County
Seat	Gnesta
Area [1]
• Total	538.14 km2 (207.78 sq mi)
• Land	461.24 km2 (178.09 sq mi)
• Water	76.9 km2 (29.7 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2024)[2]
• Total	11,458
• Density	21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Södermanland
Municipal code	0461
Website	www.gnesta.se

The present municipality was created in 1992, when Nyköping Municipality (of which it had been a part since 1974) was split up.

It is in the middle of the cultural Södermanland province. Although it only has around 10,000 permanent inhabitants, the population increases substantially in the summer due to the many summer houses.

Industry-wise, Gnesta mostly has small companies with few employed. There are about 800 registered companies in the municipality, and a "large" company would have 25-50 employees.

Localities

From Statistics Sweden, 2004.

• Gnesta has about 5,000 inhabitants
• Björnlunda 760
• Stjärnhov 573

Geography

The highest peak within Gnesta Municipality is at 103 metres (338 ft) at the Gnesta-Flen-Strängnäs municipal tripoint.^[3] The highest point is The municipality is landlocked but near the coast, which renders that lowest point is at 9 metres (30 ft) above sea level on the shores of lake Sillen.^[4]

Notable events

Gnesta became Hedestad when Stieg Larsson's book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was made into a film. Filming took place in April 2008. The film premiered worldwide, and in Gnesta, on 27 February 2009.

Elections

Riksdag

The results of Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB at a municipal level between 1991 and 1998 due to the party's small size at a nationwide level.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND
1991[5]	86.4	5,564	3.7	33.8	4.4	15.1	7.8	6.0	19.4	0.0	9.3
1994[6]	86.7	5,892	5.5	42.2	7.7	13.3	6.0	3.6	19.6	0.0	0.9
1998[7]	81.3	5,634	10.0	34.1	6.8	10.7	3.4	13.0	20.8	0.0	0.0
2002[8]	80.2	5,769	6.6	40.3	6.4	10.3	11.4	8.5	14.4	0.6	0.0
2006[9]	82.6	5,990	4.9	34.5	7.3	11.3	5.5	5.6	26.1	2.5	0.0
2010[10]	85.3	6,684	5.7	28.7	9.8	8.9	5.8	4.0	29.5	6.0	0.0
2014[11]	87.2	6,880	5.9	30.3	7.7	8.7	3.3	2.9	23.4	13.2	0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1991, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006 but also the Greens in 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
1991	86.4	5,564	37.5	48.3	0.0	14.2	95.1
1994	86.7	5,892	55.4	42.5	0.0	2.1	97.9
1998	81.3	5,634	50.9	47.9	0.0	1.2	98.8
2002	80.2	5,769	53.3	44.6	0.0	2.1	97.9
2006	82.6	5,990	46.7	48.5	0.0	4.8	95.2
2010	85.3	6,684	44.2	48.2	6.0	1.6	98.4
2014	87.2	6,880	43.9	38.3	13.2	4.6	95.4

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Gnesta Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[12]

In total there were 11,501 residents, of which 8,615 were Swedish citizens of voting age.^[12] 49.7% voted for the left coalition and 48.8% 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
			%	%
Björnlunda	1,408	1,099	47.3	51.4	85	86	14	24,631	29
Dansut	1,896	1,464	47.2	52.1	85	87	13	28,199	40
Freja	1,815	1,277	54.6	43.8	83	82	18	26,578	43
Frönäs	2,182	1,556	46.5	52.1	86	85	15	29,346	40
Gnesta C	2,069	1,562	56.9	41.7	72	76	24	20,881	28
Gryt	959	706	50.2	48.2	77	79	21	23,530	33
Gåsinge-Dillnäs	1,172	951	43.9	54.6	78	86	14	25,435	38
Source: SVT[12]

Sister cities

Gnesta has two sister cities, both with around 6,000 inhabitants:

• Saulkrasti, Latvia
• Sundsøre Municipality, Denmark