Norrtälje Municipality is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Norrtälje. It is the largest and northernmost municipality of Stockholm County and was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of several former municipalities. There are 25 original local government units combined in the present municipality. Many of the houses in Norrtälje municipality are summer cottages, only inhabited during summertime. This is due to its geographical location by the Stockholm archipelago, which makes it popular among Stockholmers and tourists.
This table lists the national results since the 1972 Swedish municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats from 1988 to 1998 were not published by the SCB at a municipal level due to the party's small size nationally at the time.
Blocs This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 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
Others
Elected
1973
89.8
24,160
45.4
52.3
0.0
2.3
97.7
1976
90.9
25,568
44.0
54.7
0.0
1.3
98.7
1979
89.6
26,072
45.0
53.4
0.0
1.6
98.4
1982
90.5
27,177
46.9
50.0
0.0
3.1
96.9
1985
89.0
27,982
47.0
51.7
0.0
1.3
98.7
1988
85.0
27,530
51.9
46.0
0.0
2.1
97.9
1991
86.0
29,455
38.0
50.2
0.0
11.8
96.0
1994
85.8
30,841
54.3
43.7
0.0
2.0
98.0
1998
79.9
29,828
48.9
48.4
0.0
2.7
97.3
2002
78.6
31,287
50.0
47.2
0.0
2.8
97.2
2006
80.8
33,114
41.2
54.6
0.0
4.0
96.0
2010
83.2
36,152
38.2
55.6
5.1
1.1
98.9
2014
85.4
38,444
40.7
43.5
12.4
3.4
96.6
Transport
Norrtälje is located approximately 75 km northeast of central Stockholm. The European route E18 connects Norrtälje to other parts of Stockholm. Some of the major bus lines to Norrtälje include 620 and 621 from Åkersberga, 639 from Stockholm and Östhammar, 647 from the Stockholm-Arlanda Airport, and 676 from Stockholm.
Demography
Population development
Residents with a foreign background
On the 31st of December 2017 the number of people with a :sv:utländsk bakgrund|foreign background was 9 341, or 15.36% of the population. On the 31st of December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was 5 606, or 10.44% of the population. On 31 December 2017 there were 60 808 residents in Norrtälje, of which 7 559 people 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.
