The old City of Vadstena was during the nationwide local government reform of the 1970s merged into Motala Municipality in 1974.

This "marriage" was unsuccessful and a "divorce" was soon agreed upon and in 1980 the present municipality was created.

This is a demographic table based on Vadstena 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 7,517 residents, including 6,185 Swedish citizens of voting age.

Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.