Today, the area is a part of the present-day municipality of Arendal in Agder county.

[3] During the 1960s, there were many municipal mergers across Norway due to the work of the Schei Committee.

The name is the definite form of the word stokk which means "log" or "tree trunk".

The mayor was indirectly elected by a vote of the municipal council.

The tables below show the historical composition of the council by political party.