Gothenburg Municipality#List of Mayors

The major part of the Gothenburg urban area ({{lang|sv|Göteborgs tätort}}) is situated within the municipality, but there are also some other localities as well as rural areas.

• Billdal (part of)
• Donsö
• Hjuvik
• Nolvik
• Olofstorp
• Styrsö
• Torslanda
• Vrångö

{{further|Boroughs and Districts of Gothenburg}}

In 1990 the municipality was subdivided into 21 {{lang|sv|stadsdelsnämnder}} (district boards), sometimes translated to boroughs, which they really are not. In 2009 the two district boards of Frölunda and Högsbo were joined. It has been decided that from the start of 2011 many more will be joined leaving 10 new district boards.

The boards carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure, and cultural services within their respective areas. In the election of 1998 three boroughs (Askim, Torslanda and Älvsborg) held local referendums on forming their own municipalities, but their petitions were rejected by the government of Sweden.

Boroughs:

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• Askim
• Angered
• Backa
• Bergsjön
• Biskopsgården
• Centrum
• Frölunda-Högsbo
• Härlanda
• Kortedala
• Kärra-Rödbo
• Linnéstaden
• Lundby
• Majorna
• Styrsö
• Torslanda
• Tuve-Säve
• Tynnered
• Älvsborg
• Örgryte

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The municipality has a municipal assembly ({{lang|sv|kommunfullmäktige}}), consisting of 81 members, elected for four years. The municipal assembly meets in the Bourse, a building located on Gustaf Adolfs torg. There are nine political parties represented in the council elected in 2022:

After the 2022 election it was clear that the governing Alliance could not rule any longer with them winning only 27 seats in the chamber. Soon after the election the Centre Party announced they were starting negotiations with the Social Democrats (S), Left Party (V) and the Green Party (MP) about forming a majority coalition that could rule the city for the next four years. These negotiations broke down but S, V and MP could still take the power despite being a minority with only 40 out of 81 seats since C continues to refuse cooperation with the Sweden Democrats (SD).

There were ten political parties represented in the council elected in 2018:

Following the 2018 municipal elections, neither traditional coalition of parties (the Alliance and the Red-Greens) was able to obtain a majority in the municipal assembly. The newly formed Democrats party, whose primary campaign promise is to stop the construction of the West Link, obtained 14 seats in the assembly, making it the second-largest party. The Green Party and the Left Party announced on 6 November that they would draft their own municipal budget together, along with Feminist Initiative - thus abandoning their traditional cooperation with the Social Democrats. This has been recognized as the three parties forming a local political alliance which has been referred to as the Red-green-pink coalition.{{Cite news|url=https://www.svd.se/s-stalls-utanfor-rodgronrosa-block-i-goteborg|title=S ställs utanför nya blocket i Göteborg |agency=TT|work=Svenska Dagbladet|access-date=2018-11-06|language=sv |trans-title=S is excluded from the new coalition in Gothenburg}} As a result of this the Alliance were able to take the power in Gothenburg for the first time in nearly 30 years.

The municipal executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) has 13 members, representing the six parties from the two major political coalitions who have seats in the assembly.

The chairwoman of the municipal assembly is Åse-Lill Törnquist (MP) and the chairman of the municipal executive committee (sometimes titled mayor) is Jonas Attenius from the Social Democrats.

• Sören Mannheimer, (Social Democrats) 1985-1988
• Göran Johansson, (Social Democrats) 1988–1991
• Johnny Magnusson (Moderate Party), 1991–1994
• Göran Johansson (Social Democrats), 1994–2009
• Anneli Hulthén (Social Democrats), 2009–2016
• Ann-Sofie Hermansson (Social Democrats), 2016–2018
• Axel Josefson (Moderate Party), 2018–2022
• Jonas Attenius (Social Democrats), 2022–

• Twin towns:
• {{flagicon|NOR}} Bergen, Norway
• {{flagicon|FIN}} Turku, Finland
• {{flagicon|DEN}} Aarhus, Denmark
• Partner cities:
• {{flagicon|RSA}} Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
• {{flagicon|SRB}} Novi Sad, Serbia
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Lyon, France

The cooperation with the South African Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (established in 1998) is a partnership fostering development of common fields of interest such as solid waste management, public libraries, sport and tourism.

Gothenburg had signed an agreement with Shanghai in 1986 which was upgraded in 2003 to include exchanges in culture, economics, trade and sport. However, the agreement was allowed to lapse in 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://hongkongfp.com/2020/04/24/gothenburg-axes-twin-city-agreement-with-shanghai-as-sweden-closes-all-confucius-institutes/|title=Gothenburg axes twin city agreement with Shanghai as Sweden closes all Confucius Institutes|date=24 April 2020 |publisher=Hong Kong Free Press |first=Rachel |last=Wong}}

• Sister cities:
• {{flagicon|USA}} Chicago, United States (since 1987)
• {{flagicon|POL}} Kraków, Poland
• {{flagicon|EST}} Tallinn, Estonia
• {{flagicon|GER}} Rostock, Germany
• Regional:
• {{flagicon|NOR}} Oslo, Norway

• Gothenburg
• Gothenburg Law Court

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• [https://goteborg.se goteborg.se] - Official site for city of Gothenburg (in Swedish)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20121212024802/http://www17.goteborg.se/english/ goteborg.se/english] - Official web page for short English description of the content in city of Gothenburg site {{in lang|en}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20170708003418/https://international.goteborg.se/ international.goteborg.se] - Official international site for city of Gothenburg

{{Geographic location

| Centre = Gothenburg

| N = Kungälv

| NE = Ale

| E = Lerum
Partille

| SE = Härryda

| S = Kungsbacka (Halland), Mölndal

| W = Öckerö
Kattegat

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