Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden

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The Swedish constitution of 1974 requires that the Prime Minister of Sweden appoints one of the Ministers in the cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister (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.

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