List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of government facts for kids
This article is about amazing women who have served as deputy heads of government in their countries. A deputy head of government is usually the second-highest leader in a country's government, working closely with the Prime Minister or President. They help lead the country, make important decisions, and sometimes step in if the main leader is away. This list includes women who were chosen by voting or appointed to these powerful roles.
List of Women Deputy Heads of Government
This color means the person is currently serving as a deputy head of government.
- Italics mean the person was temporarily in charge (acting) or served in a government that was not fully recognized by other countries, or a government that no longer exists.
| Name | Image | Country | Continent | Office | Mandate start | Mandate end | Term length |
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| Rosalia Zemlyachka |  |
 Soviet Union |
Europe | Deputy Premier | 8 May 1939 | 26 August 1943 | 4 years, 110 days |
| Ana Pauker |  |
 Romania |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 1949 | 9 July 1952 | 3 years, 190 days |
| Tyyne Leivo-Larsson |  |
 Finland |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 26 April 1958 | 29 August 1958 | 125 days |
| Agatha Barbara |  |
 Malta |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 18 September 1976 | 12 December 1981 | 5 years, 85 days |
| Elena Ceaușescu |  |
 Romania |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | March 1980 | 22 December 1989 | 9 years, 296 days |
| Colette Flesch |  |
 Luxembourg |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 22 November 1980 | 20 July 1984 | 3 years, 241 days |
| Helen Clark |  |
 New Zealand |
Oceania | Deputy Prime Minister | 8 August 1989 | 2 November 1990 | 1 year, 86 days |
| Roza Otunbayeva |  |
 Kyrgyzstan |
Asia | Deputy Prime Minister | 26 February 1992 | 10 October 1992 | 227 days |
| Marianne Jelved |  |
 Denmark |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 25 January 1993 | 27 November 2001 | 8 years, 306 days |
| Sheila Copps | .jpg) |
 Canada |
America | Deputy Prime Minister | 4 November 1993 | 30 April 1996 | 2 years, 178 days |
| Chandrika Kumaratunga | .jpg) |
 Sri Lanka |
Asia | Prime Minister | 19 August 1994 | 12 November 1994 | 85 days |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike |
.PNG) |
Sri Lanka |
Asia | Prime Minister | 14 November 1994 | 9 August 2000 | 5 years, 269 days |
| Mary Harney |  |
 Ireland |
Europe | Tánaiste | 26 June 1997 | 13 September 2006 | 9 years, 78 days |
| Annemarie Jorritsma |  |
 Netherlands |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 3 August 1998 | 22 July 2002 | 3 years, 353 days |
| Els Borst |  |
Netherlands |
Europe | Second Deputy Prime Minister | 3 August 1998 | 22 July 2002 | 3 years, 353 days |
| Valentina Matviyenko | _(cropped).jpg) |
 Russia |
Eurasia | Deputy Prime Minister | 24 September 1998 | 11 March 2003 | 4 years, 168 days |
| Yulia Tymoshenko |  |
 Ukraine |
Europe | Vice Prime Minister | 30 December 1999 | 19 January 2001 | 1 year, 20 days |
| Susanne Riess-Passer |  |
 Austria |
Europe | Vice-Chancellor | 4 February 2000 | 28 February 2003 | 3 years, 24 days |
| Teimumu Kepa |  |
 Fiji |
Oceania | Deputy Prime Minister | 15 March 2001 | 5 December 2006 | 5 years, 265 days |
| Rita Kieber-Beck | .jpg) |
 Liechtenstein |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 5 April 2001 | 21 April 2005 | 4 years, 16 days |
| Cynthia Pratt |  |
 Bahamas |
America | Deputy Prime Minister | 3 May 2002 | 4 May 2005 | 3 years, 1 day |
| Radmila Šekerinska | _(cropped).jpg) |
 Republic of Macedonia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 1 November 2002 | 27 August 2006 | 3 years, 299 days |
| Wu Yi |  |
 China |
Asia | Second Vice Premier | 15 March 2003 | 2 June 2007 | 4 years, 79 days |
| Mia Mottley | .jpg) |
 Barbados |
North America | Deputy Prime Minister | 23 May 2003 | 15 January 2008 | 4 years, 237 days |
| Beatriz Merino |  |
 Peru |
America | Prime Minister | 23 June 2003 | 15 December 2003 | 175 days |
| Jadranka Kosor |  |
 Croatia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 23 December 2003 | 6 July 2009 | 5 years, 195 days |
| Luísa Diogo |  |
 Mozambique |
Africa | Prime Minister | 17 August 2004 | 16 January 2010 | 5 years, 152 days |
| María Teresa Fernández de la Vega |  |
 Spain |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 18 April 2004 | 20 October 2010 | 6 years, 185 days |
| Tzipi Livni | .jpg) |
 Israel |
Asia | Deputy Prime Minister | 4 May 2006 | 31 March 2009 | 2 years, 331 days |
| Julia Gillard |  |
 Australia |
Oceania | Deputy Prime Minister | 3 December 2007 | 24 June 2010 | 2 years, 203 days |
| Thokozani Khuphe |  |
 Zimbabwe |
Africa | Deputy Prime Minister | 11 February 2009 | 11 September 2013 | 4 years, 212 days |
| Sujata Koirala |  |
 Nepal |
Asia | Deputy Prime Minister | 12 October 2009 | 6 February 2011 | 1 year, 117 days |
| Girlyn Miguel | .jpg) |
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
America | Deputy Prime Minister | 19 December 2010 | 14 December 2015 | 4 years, 360 days |
| Edita Tahiri |  |
 Kosovo |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 23 February 2011 | 9 December 2014 | 3 years, 289 days |
| Jutta Urpilainen | .jpg) |
Finland |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 22 June 2011 | 6 June 2014 | 2 years, 349 days |
| Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría | .jpg) |
Spain |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 22 December 2011 | 1 June 2018 | 6 years, 161 days |
| Milanka Opačić |  |
Croatia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 23 December 2011 | 22 January 2016 | 4 years, 30 days |
| Han Myeong-sook |  |
 South Korea |
Asia | Prime Minister | 16 January 2012 | 12 April 2012 | 87 days |
| Olga Golodets |  |
Russia |
Eurasia | Deputy Prime Minister | 21 May 2012 | 21 January 2020 | 7 years, 245 days |
| Fowsiyo Yussuf Haji Aadan |  |
 Somalia |
Africa | Deputy Prime Minister | 4 November 2012 | 17 January 2014 | 1 year, 74 days |
| Vesna Pusić |  |
Croatia |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 16 November 2012 | 22 January 2016 | 3 years, 67 days |
| Liu Yandong |  |
China |
Asia | Second Vice Premier | 16 March 2013 | 19 March 2018 | 5 years, 3 days |
| Natalia Gherman |  |
 Moldova |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 30 May 2013 | 20 January 2016 | 2 years, 235 days |
| Elżbieta Bieńkowska |  |
 Poland |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 27 November 2013 | 22 September 2014 | 299 days |
| Zorana Mihajlović |  |
 Serbia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 27 April 2014 | 26 October 2022 | 8 years, 182 days |
| Joan Burton | .jpg) |
Ireland |
Europe | Tánaiste | 4 July 2014 | 6 May 2016 | 1 year, 307 days |
| Ana Jara |  |
Peru |
America | Prime Minister | 22 July 2014 | 2 April 2015 | 254 days |
| Saara Kuugongelwa | .jpg) |
 Namibia |
Africa | Prime Minister | 21 March 2015 | 21 March 2025 | 10 years, 0 days |
| Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa | .jpg) |
 Samoa |
Oceania | Deputy Prime Minister | 21 March 2016 | 11 September 2020 | 4 years, 174 days |
| Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze |  |
Ukraine |
Europe | Vice Prime Minister | 14 April 2016 | 29 August 2019 | 3 years, 137 days |
| Frances Fitzgerald |  |
Ireland |
Europe | Tánaiste | 6 May 2016 | 28 November 2017 | 1 year, 206 days |
| Isabella Lövin |  |
 Sweden |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 25 May 2016 | 5 February 2021 | 4 years, 256 days |
| Paula Bennett |  |
New Zealand |
Oceania | Deputy Prime Minister | 12 December 2016 | 26 October 2017 | 318 days |
| Tatyana Kirova | |
 Transnistria |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 17 December 2016 | Incumbent | 8 years, 224 days |
| Sevil Shhaideh | .JPG) |
 Romania |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 4 January 2017 | 16 June 2017 | 163 days |
| Marija Pejčinović Burić | .jpg) |
Croatia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 19 June 2017 | 19 July 2019 | 2 years, 30 days |
| Mercedes Aráoz |  |
Peru |
America | Prime Minister | 17 September 2017 | 2 April 2018 | 259 days |
| Carola Schouten | .jpg) |
Netherlands |
Europe | Third Deputy Prime Minister | 26 October 2017 | 2 July 2024 | 6 years, 250 days |
| Beata Szydło |  |
Poland |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 11 December 2017 | 4 June 2019 | 1 year, 175 days |
| Sun Chunlan | _(cropped).jpg) |
China |
Asia | Second Vice Premier | 19 March 2018 | 11 March 2023 | 4 years, 357 days |
| Tatyana Golikova | .jpg) |
Russia |
Eurasia | Deputy Prime Minister | 18 May 2018 | Incumbent | 7 years, 72 days |
| Wan Azizah Wan Ismail | .jpg) |
 Malaysia |
Asia | Deputy Prime Minister | 21 May 2018 | 24 February 2020 | 1 year, 279 days |
| Carmen Calvo Poyato | .jpg) |
Spain |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 7 June 2018 | 12 July 2021 | 3 years, 35 days |
| Alenka Bratušek |  |
 Slovenia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 13 September 2018 | 13 March 2020 | 1 year, 182 days |
| Thea Tsulukiani | _(cropped).jpg) |
 Georgia |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 13 September 2019 | 22 February 2021 | 1 year, 162 days |
| Deputy Prime Minister | 31 March 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 120 days | ||||
| Raluca Turcan | .jpg) |
Romania |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 4 November 2019 | 23 December 2020 | 1 year, 49 days |
| Chrystia Freeland | .jpg) |
Canada |
America | Deputy Prime Minister | 20 November 2019 | 16 December 2024 | 5 years, 26 days |
| Nadia Calviño | .jpg) |
Spain |
Europe | Third Deputy Prime Minister | 13 January 2020 | 31 March 2021 | 1 year, 77 days |
| Second Deputy Prime Minister | 31 March 2021 | 12 July 2021 | 103 days | ||||
| First Deputy Prime Minister | 12 July 2021 | 29 December 2023 | 2 years, 170 days | ||||
| Viktoria Abramchenko | .jpg) |
Russia |
Eurasia | Deputy Prime Minister | 21 January 2020 | 14 May 2024 | 4 years, 114 days |
| Aleksandra Pivec |  |
Slovenia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 13 March 2020 | 5 October 2020 | 206 days |
| Veronika Remišová | |
 Slovakia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 21 March 2020 | 15 May 2023 | 3 years, 55 days |
| Armanda Berta dos Santos |  |
 East Timor |
Asia | Deputy Prime Minister | 29 May 2020 | 1 July 2023 | 3 years, 33 days |
| Olha Stefanishyna |  |
Ukraine |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 4 June 2020 | Incumbent | 5 years, 55 days |
| Annika Saarikko | .jpg) |
Finland |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 10 September 2020 | 20 June 2023 | 2 years, 283 days |
| Petra De Sutter | .jpg) |
 Belgium |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 1 October 2020 | 3 February 2025 | 4 years, 125 days |
| Sophie Wilmès | .jpg) |
Belgium |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 1 October 2020 | 14 July 2022 | 1 year, 286 days |
| Maja Gojković |  |
Serbia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 28 October 2020 | 2 May 2024 | 3 years, 187 days |
| Violeta Bermúdez | .jpg) |
Peru |
America | Prime Minister | 18 November 2020 | 28 July 2021 | 252 days |
| Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz | .jpg) |
Kosovo |
Europe | Second Deputy Prime Minister | 22 March 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 129 days |
| Emilija Redžepi |  |
Kosovo |
Europe | Third Deputy Prime Minister | 22 March 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 129 days |
| Sabine Monauni | .jpg) |
Liechtenstein |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 25 March 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 126 days |
| Yolanda Díaz | .jpg) |
Spain |
Europe | Third Deputy Prime Minister | 31 March 2021 | 12 July 2021 | 103 days |
| Second Deputy Prime Minister | 12 July 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 17 days | ||||
| Robinah Nabbanja | .jpg) |
 Uganda |
Africa | Prime Minister | 21 June 2021 | Incumbent | 4 years, 38 days |
| Mirtha Vásquez | .png) |
Peru |
America | Prime Minister | 6 October 2021 | 31 January 2022 | 117 days |
| Yulia Svyrydenko |  |
Ukraine |
Europe | First Vice Prime Minister | 4 November 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 267 days |
| Paulette Lenert | .jpg) |
Luxembourg |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 5 January 2022 | 17 November 2023 | 1 year, 104 days |
| Sigrid Kaag | .jpg) |
Netherlands |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 10 January 2022 | 8 January 2024 | 1 year, 363 days |
| Santia Bradshaw |  |
Barbados |
North America | Deputy Prime Minister | 26 January 2022 | Incumbent | 3 years, 184 days |
| Anja Šimpraga |  |
Croatia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 29 April 2022 | 17 May 2024 | 2 years, 18 days |
| Thérèse Coffey |  |
 United Kingdom |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 6 September 2022 | 25 October 2022 | 49 days |
| Ebba Busch | _(cropped).jpg) |
Sweden |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 18 October 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 284 days |
| Betssy Chávez | .jpg) |
Peru |
America | Prime Minister | 26 November 2022 | 7 December 2022 | 11 days |
| Carmel Sepuloni |  |
New Zealand |
Oceania | Deputy Prime Minister | 25 January 2023 | 27 November 2023 | 306 days |
| Manuela Roka Botey | .jpg) |
 Equatorial Guinea |
Africa | Prime Minister | 1 February 2023 | 17 August 2024 | 1 year, 198 days |
| Mariya Gabriel | .jpg) |
 Bulgaria |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 6 June 2023 | 9 April 2024 | 308 days |
| Riikka Purra | .jpg) |
Finland |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 20 June 2023 | Incumbent | 2 years, 39 days |
| María Jesús Montero | .jpg) |
Spain |
Europe | Fourth Deputy Prime Minister | 21 November 2023 | 29 December 2023 | 38 days |
| First Deputy Prime Minister | 29 December 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 212 days | ||||
| Cristina Gherasimov |  |
Moldova |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 5 February 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 174 days |
| Lyudmila Petkova |  |
Bulgaria |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 9 April 2024 | 16 January 2025 | 282 days |
| Irena Vujović | .jpg) |
Serbia |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 2 May 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 88 days |
| Cheng Li-chun | .jpg) |
 Taiwan (Republic of China) |
Asia | Vice Premier | 20 May 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 70 days |
| Fleur Agema | .jpg) |
Netherlands |
Europe | First Deputy Prime Minister | 2 July 2024 | 3 June 2025 | 336 days |
| Sophie Hermans | .jpg) |
Netherlands |
Europe | Second Deputy Prime Minister | 2 July 2024 | 3 June 2025 | 336 days |
| First Deputy Prime Minister | 3 June 2025 | Incumbent | 56 days | ||||
| Mona Keijzer | .jpg) |
Netherlands |
Europe | Fourth Deputy Prime Minister | 2 July 2024 | 3 June 2025 | 336 days |
| Third Deputy Prime Minister | 3 June 2025 | Incumbent | 56 days | ||||
| Angela Rayner | .jpg) |
United Kingdom |
Europe | Deputy Prime Minister | 5 July 2024 | Incumbent | 1 year, 24 days |
| Harini Amarasuriya | |
Sri Lanka |
Asia | Prime Minister | 24 September 2024 | Incumbent | 308 days |
| Sara Aagesen | .png) |
Spain |
Europe | Third Deputy Prime Minister | 25 November 2024 | Incumbent | 246 days |
| Maria Benvinda Levy | |
Mozambique |
Africa | Prime Minister | 15 January 2025 | Incumbent | 195 days |
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Natalia Nikiforova
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Tatiana Turanskaya
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Alla Dzhioyeva
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Kamila Talieva
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Deyana Kostadinova
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Daniela Bobeva
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Zinaida Zlatanova
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Aster Mamo
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Kori Udovički
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Violeta Bulc
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Åsa Romson
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Margot Wallström
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Meglena Kuneva
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Rumyana Bachvarova
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Csilla Hegedüs
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Damira Niyazalieva
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Natalya Kochanova
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Marie-Noëlle Koyara
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Dariga Nazarbayeva
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Martina Dalić
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Cholpon Sultanbekova
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Sevil Shhaideh
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Denitsa Zlateva
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Malina Krumova
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Grațiela-Leocadia Gavrilescu
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Mariyana Nikolova
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Ledina Mandia
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Fazila Jeewa-Daureeawoo
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See also
- Council of Women World Leaders
- List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
- List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government
- List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of state
- Women in government
