In 1971 Motala Municipality was formed by the amalgamation of the City of Motala with some of the adjacent rural municipalities. Three years later more entities were added, among them the former City of Vadstena. In 1980 a new Vadstena Municipality was split off.
Geographically, Motala is situated where Lake Vättern drains into the river system of Motala ström, which was of central importance to the massive industrialization of Sweden in the 19th century.
The population decreased by approximately 2% in most of the localities between the earlier census 1995 and the one in 2000.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Motala Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3]
In total there were 43,620 residents, including 33,347 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
