Prime Minister of Sweden

The Prime Minister or statsminister is the head of Government in Sweden. Before 1876, when the office of Prime Minister was instituted, Sweden did not have a formal head of Government. The architect behind the new Riksdag of 1866, Louis De Geer became the first Prime Minister, but ironically it had been the absence of his informal leadership in the Government that had brought about the reform.

Prime Ministers under the Privy Council Government

• Louis Gerhard De Geer, liberal (1876-1880)
• Arvid Posse, conservative (1880-1883)
• Carl Johan Thyselius, conservative (1883-1884)
• Robert Themptander, liberal (1884-1888)
• Gillis Bildt, conservative (1888-1889)
• Gustaf Åkerhielm, protectionist (1889-1891)
• Erik Gustaf Boström, conservative (1891-1900)
• Fredrik von Otter, unaffiliated (1900-1902)
• Erik Gustaf Boström, conservative (1902-1905)
• Johan Ramstedt, unaffiliated (1905)
• Christian Lundeberg, conservative-liberal coalition (1905)
• Karl Staaff, liberal (1905-1906)
• Arvid Lindman, conservative (1906-1911)
• Karl Staaff, liberal (1911-1914)
• Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, conservative (1914-1917)
• Carl Swartz, conservative (1917)
• Nils Edén, liberal-social democrat coalition (1917-1920)
• Hjalmar Branting, social democrat (1920)
• Louis De Geer jr., unaffiliated executive government (1920-1921)
• Oscar von Sydow, unaffiliated executive government (1921)
• Hjalmar Branting, social democrat (1921-1923)
• Ernst Trygger, conservative (1923-1924)
• Hjalmar Branting, social democrat (1924-1925)
• Rickard Sandler, social democrat (1925-1926)
• Carl Gustaf Ekman, liberal (1926-1928)
• Arvid Lindman, conservative (1928-1930)
• Carl Gustaf Ekman, liberal (1930-1932)
• Felix Hamrin, liberal (1932)
• Per Albin Hansson, social democrat (1932-1936)
• Axel Pehrsson, league of farmers (1936)
• Per Albin Hansson, social democrat (1936-1939)
• Per Albin Hansson, coalition government (1939-1945)
• Per Albin Hansson, social democrat (1945-1946)
• Tage Erlander, social democrat (1946-1951)
• Tage Erlander, social democrat-league of farmers coalition (1951-1957)
• Tage Erlander, social democrat (1957-1969)
• Olof Palme, social democrat (1969-1973(1976))