Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden

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The Swedish constitution requires that the Prime Minister appoints one of the Ministers in the cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister (sometimes inofficially known as Vice Prime Minister), in case the Prime Minister for some reason is prevented from performing his or her duties. However, if a Deputy Prime Minister has not been appointed, the Minister in the cabinet who has served the longest time (and if there are several with equal experience the one who is oldest) takes over as head of government (these are marked in italic in the table below).

Unlike other Vice Head of Governments, the Swedish Deputy Prime Minister does not have any assignments and usually occupies another post in the cabinet. It also occurs that the Deputy Prime Minister takes over some of the Prime Ministers duties temporarily, for instance when the Prime Minister is on holiday.

[edit] List of officeholders

Minister	Took office	Left office	Party	Cabinet(s)
Per Ahlmark	8 October 1976	7 March 1978	Liberal Party	Fälldin I
Ola Ullsten	7 March 1978	18 October 1978	Liberal Party	Fälldin I
Sven Romanus	18 October 1978	12 October 1979	Independent	Ullsten
Ingemar Mundebo	12 October 1979	3 July 1980	Liberal Party	Fälldin II
Ola Ullsten (2nd term)	1 August 1980	8 October 1982	Liberal Party	Fälldin II, Fälldin III
Ingvar Carlsson	8 October 1982	28 February 1986	Social Democrats	Palme II
Svante Lundkvist	28 February 1986	9 October 1986	Social Democrats	Carlsson I
Kjell-Olof Feldt	9 October 1986	16 February 1990	Social Democrats
Lena Hjelm-Wallén	16 February 1990	27 February 1990	Social Democrats
Odd Engström	27 February 1990	4 October 1991	Social Democrats	Carlsson II
Bengt Westerberg	4 October 1991	7 October 1994	Liberal Party	Bildt
Mona Sahlin	7 October 1994	16 November 1995	Social Democrats	Carlsson III
Lena Hjelm-Wallén^[1] (2nd term)	16 November 1995	21 October 2002	Social Democrats	Carlsson III, Persson
Margareta Winberg	21 October 2002	31 October 2003	Social Democrats	Persson
Marita Ulvskog	31 October 2003	1 June 2004	Social Democrats
Lars Engqvist	1 June 2004	1 October 2004	Social Democrats
Laila Freivalds	1 October 2004	1 November 2004	Social Democrats
Bo Ringholm	1 November 2004	6 October 2006	Social Democrats
Maud Olofsson	6 October 2006	Incumbent	Centre Party	Reinfeldt