Blekinge County Council

Blekinge County Council
Landstinget Blekinge
Type
Type
Leadership
President of the County Council
Elections
Proportional representation
Last election
 2014
Meeting place
Karlskrona
Website
www.ltblekinge.se

Blekinge County Council is the county council of Blekinge County in Sweden. Blekinge County Council was created in 1863.

The county council has 159,362 inhabitants and consists of 5 municipalities. The county council Blekinge is responsible primarily for health care. In addition to health and dental care, the county council also has responsibility for public transport.[1]

A regional institution has been formed in a cooperation project between the primary municipalities and county councils in order to take coordinated responsibility for development in the county. In the framework of this project, Blekinge Region, for example, municipal and county councils have coordinated cultural activities and are responsible for, among others, music and the allocation of funding for the county's cultural associations.

Councillors

  • Kalle Sandström (S): County Councillor of Finance, and Chairman of the County Council.
  • Christel Friskopp (S): County Councillor and Deputy Chairman of the County Council, with responsibility for health care and chairman of the Blekinge Hospital.
  • Alexander Wendt (M): Opposition Councillor and Deputy Chairman of the County Council.[2]

Politics

After the Swedish general election in 2014, the Blekinge County council are represented by the following political parties:

Moderate Party Christian Democrats Centre Party Liberal People's Party Green Party Social Democratic Party Left Party Sweden Democrats others
Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats Votes%Seats
19 247 19,0 9 3 583 3,5 2 5 871 5,8 3 5 318 5,3 2 5 089 5,0 2 39 790 39,3 19 5 450 5,4 3 14 308 14,1 7 2 497 2,5 0


See also

References

  1. ↑ "Om landstinget". Landstinget Blekinge. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "Folkvalda politiker (förtroendevalda)". Landstinget Blekinge. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
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