Lund Municipality
Lund Municipality is a municipality in Scania County, southern Sweden. Its seat is the city of Lund.
As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of municipality consists of many former local government units, united in a series of amalgamations. The number of original entities is 22. At the time of the nationwide municipal reform of 1952 the number had been reduced to six. In 1967 the rural municipality Torn was added to Lund. The City of Lund was made a unitary municipality in 1971 and amalgamated with Dalby, Genarp, Södra Sandby and Veberöd in 1974 completing the process. Since 2016, the municipality is subdivided into 16 districts for the purposes of population and land registration.
Dalby Söderskog, one of Sweden's national parks, is located within the municipality near Dalby. The municipal bird of Lund is the Eurasian penduline tit.
Localities
There are nine urban areas in Lund Municipality:Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Lund 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 127,202 residents, including 93,503 Swedish citizens of voting age. 57.1% voted for the left coalition and 41.4% for the right coalition. This was in stark contrast to the rest of the Skåne Southern constituency, that was won by the right with a sizeable margin. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.