Editing Boden Municipality (section)

==Politics==
Following [[2018 Swedish local elections|2018 elections]] the municipal council is dominated by the [[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democrats]] despite their losing two seats compared to the previous elections. Two regional parties, [[Aktiv samling – Bodenalternativet]] and [[Health Care Party|Health Care Party of Norrbotten]], performed well, gaining 10 seats between them in the 49-member council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.val.se/val/val2018/slutresultat/K/kommun/25/82/valda.html|title=Val till kommunfullmäktige i Boden|publisher=[[Election Authority (Sweden)|Valmyndigheten]]|language=sv|date=2018-09-17}}</ref> The head of executive is Social Democrat [[Claes Nordmark]].

{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!colspan=2|Party || Votes || % || Seats || ±
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Swedish Social Democratic Party}}| ||align=left|[[Swedish Social Democratic Party|Social Democrats]] || 6,555 || 34.17 || 17 ||−2
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Moderate Party}}| ||align=left|[[Moderate Party]]|| 3,075 || 16.03 || 8 || −5
|-
|bgcolor=white | || align=left| [[Aktiv samling – Bodenalternativet]] || 2,338 || 12.19 || 6 || +6
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Sweden Democrats}}| ||align=left|[[Sweden Democrats]]|| 1,806 || 9.41 || 5 || −1
|-
|bgcolor=yellow | ||align=left | [[Health Care Party]] || 1,557 || 8.12 || 4 || +2
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Left Party (Sweden)}}| ||align=left|[[Left Party (Sweden)|Left Party]]|| 1,227 || 6.40 || 3 || −1
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Centre Party (Sweden)}}| ||align=left|[[Centre Party (Sweden)|Centre Party]]|| 1,028 || 5.36 || 3 || +2
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Liberals (Sweden)}}| ||align=left|[[Liberals (Sweden)|Liberals]]|| 567 || 2.96 || 2 || +1
|-
|bgcolor={{party color|Green Party (Sweden)}}| ||align=left|[[Green Party (Sweden)|Green Party]]|| 407 || 2.12 || 1 ||−1
|-
| ||align=left|[[List of political parties in Sweden|Others]]|| 626 || 3.26 ||  ||
|-
|align=left colspan=2|Invalid/blank votes|| 255 ||colspan=3 | 
|-
!align=left colspan=2|Total || 19,441 || 86.13 ||49||- 
|}