List of The First Female Holders of Political Offices in Europe - Sweden

Sweden

  • Regent: Ingeborg of Norway - 1319
  • Monarch - Margaret I - 1389
  • Governor (häradshövding) of Stranda Hundred - Sigrid Sture - 1577

United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway:

  • Member of the Executive Committee of a Political party - Kata Dalström - 1900
  • Chairperson of the Women's trades union - Anna Sterky - 1902

Kingdom of Sweden:

  • Member of the City Council of Stockholm - Gertrud Månsson - 1910
  • Member of a City Council - 37 women, among them Hanna Lindberg - 1910
  • Member of the legislative assembly - Emilia Broomé - 1914
  • Member of the Riksdag (lower house) - Elisabeth Tamm, Agda Östlund, Nelly Thüring and Bertha Wellin - 1921
  • Member of the Riksdag (upper house) - Kerstin Hesselgren - 1921
  • Minister without portfolio - Karin Kock-Lindberg - 1947
  • Minister for Public Housekeeping - Karin Kock-Lindberg - 1948
  • Minister of Family, Consumption, Aid and Immigration - Ulla Lindström - 1954
  • Acting Prime Minister - Ulla Lindström - 1958
  • Permanent Representative of Sweden to the United Nations - Agda Rössel - 1958
  • Chairperson of City Council - Blenda Ljungberg - 1959
  • Municipal commissioner - Ella Tengbom-Velander - 1967
  • Supreme Court Justice - Ingrid Gärde Widemar - 1968
  • County Governor - Camilla Odhnoff - 1974
  • Minister for Foreign Affairs - Karin Söder - 1976
  • Minister for Health and Social Affairs - Karin Söder - 1979
  • Minister for Education - Lena Hjelm-Wallén - 1982
  • Minister for Employment - Anna-Greta Leijon - 1982
  • Leader of a political party represented in the Riksdag - Karin Söder - 1985
  • Minister for Justice - Anna-Greta Leijon - 1987
  • Minister for the Environment - Birgitta Dahl - 1987
  • Speaker of the Riksdag - Ingegerd Troedsson - 1991
  • Minister for Finance - Anne Wibble - 1991
  • Minister for Culture - Birgit Friggebo - 1991
  • Deputy Prime Minister - Mona Sahlin - 1994
  • Minister for Agriculture - Margareta Winberg - 1994
  • Minister for Defence - Leni Björklund - 2002
  • Mayor of Stockholm - Annika Billström - 2002

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