# Gnesta Municipality

Gnesta Municipality (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.
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. 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.

## 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 | 86.4 | 5,564 | 3.7 | 33.8 | 4.4 | 15.1 | 7.8 | 6.0 | 19.4 | 0.0 | 9.3 |
| 1994 | 86.7 | 5,892 | 5.5 | 42.2 | 7.7 | 13.3 | 6.0 | 3.6 | 19.6 | 0.0 | 0.9 |
| 1998 | 81.3 | 5,634 | 10.0 | 34.1 | 6.8 | 10.7 | 3.4 | 13.0 | 20.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 80.2 | 5,769 | 6.6 | 40.3 | 6.4 | 10.3 | 11.4 | 8.5 | 14.4 | 0.6 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 82.6 | 5,990 | 4.9 | 34.5 | 7.3 | 11.3 | 5.5 | 5.6 | 26.1 | 2.5 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 85.3 | 6,684 | 5.7 | 28.7 | 9.8 | 8.9 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 29.5 | 6.0 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 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.
In total there were 11,501 residents, of which 8,615 were Swedish citizens of voting age. 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 |
| Location | | | % | % | | | | | |
| 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 ||||||||||

## Sister cities

Gnesta has two sister cities, both with around 6,000 inhabitants:
* Saulkrasti, Latvia
* Sundsøre Municipality, Denmark