List of elected and appointed female deputy heads of government

This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed deputy head of government of their respective countries. This list includes female deputy heads of state of presidential republics.

List

  Denotes incumbent deputy head of government

• Italics denotes acting deputy head of government

Name	Image	Country	Continent	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Isabel Martínez de Perón		Argentina	America	Vice President	12 October 1973	1 July 1974	262 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
Victoria Garrón Orozco		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 1986	8 May 1990	4 years, 0 days
Helen Clark		New Zealand	Oceania	Deputy Prime Minister	8 August 1989	2 November 1990	1 year, 86 days
Lena Hjelm-Wallén		Sweden	Europe	Acting Deputy Prime Minister	16 February 1990	27 February 1990	11 days
Sheila Copps		Canada	America	Deputy Prime Minister	4 November 1993	30 April 1996	2 years, 178 days
Guadalupe Jerezano Mejía		Honduras	America	Third Vice President	27 January 1994	27 January 1998	4 years, 0 days
Rebeca Grynspan		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 1994	8 May 1998	4 years, 0 days
Mona Sahlin		Sweden	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	7 October 1994	16 November 1995	1 year, 101 days
Julia Mena		Nicaragua	America	Vice President	2 January 1995	2 January 1997	2 years, 0 days
Lena Hjelm-Wallén		Sweden	Europe	Acting Deputy Prime Minister	16 November 1995	7 October 1998	2 years, 325 days
Rosalía Arteaga		Ecuador	America	Vice President	10 August 1996	10 August 1998	2 years, 0 days
Sheila Copps		Canada	America	Deputy Prime Minister	19 June 1996	11 July 1997	1 year, 22 days
Isatou Njie-Saidy		The Gambia	Africa	Vice President	20 March 1997	Incumbent	27 years, 127 days
Mary Harney		Ireland	Europe	Tánaiste	26 June 1997	13 September 2006	9 years, 78 days
Masoumeh Ebtekar		Iran	Asia	Vice President	2 August 1997	3 August 2005	8 years, 1 day
Gladys Caballero de Arevalo		Honduras	America	Second Vice President	27 January 1998	27 January 2002	4 years, 0 days
Astrid Fischel Volio		Costa Rica	America	First Vice President	8 May 1998	8 May 2002	4 years, 0 days
Elizabeth Odio Benito		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 1998	8 May 2002	4 years, 0 days
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo		Philippines	Asia	Vice President	30 June 1998	20 January 2001	2 years, 174 days
Annemarie Jorritsma		Netherlands	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	3 August 1998	22 July 2002	3 years, 353 days
Els Borst		Netherlands	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	3 August 1998	22 July 2002	3 years, 353 days
Lena Hjelm-Wallén		Sweden	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	7 October 1998	21 October 2002	4 years, 14 days
Megawati Sukarnoputri		Indonesia	Asia	Vice President	26 October 1999	23 July 2001	1 year, 289 days
Milagros Ortiz Bosch		Dominican Republic	America	Vice President	16 August 2000	16 August 2004	4 years, 0 days
Adina Bastidas		Venezuela	America	Vice President	24 December 2000	13 January 2002	1 year, 20 days
Sandra Pierantozzi		Palau	Oceania	Vice President	19 January 2001	1 January 2005	3 years, 348 days
Lineth Saborío Chaverri		Costa Rica	America	First Vice President	8 May 2002	8 May 2006	4 years, 0 days
Armida Villela de López Contreras		Honduras	America	Second Vice President	27 January 2002	27 January 2006	4 years, 0 days
Margareta Winberg		Sweden	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	21 October 2002	31 October 2003	1 year, 10 days
Teima Onorio		Kiribati	Oceania	Vice President	10 July 2003	Incumbent	21 years, 15 days
Marita Ulvskog		Sweden	Europe	Acting Deputy Prime Minister	31 October 2003	1 June 2004	214 days
Anne McLellan		Canada	America	Deputy Prime Minister	12 December 2003	6 February 2006	2 years, 56 days
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega		Spain	Europe	First Vice President of the Government	18 April 2004	20 October 2010	6 years, 185 days
Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka		Poland	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	2 May 2004	31 October 2005	1 year, 121 days
Yeh Chu-lan		Taiwan (Republic of China)	Asia	Vice Premier	20 May 2004	21 February 2005	277 days
Ana Vilma de Escobar		El Salvador	America	Vice President	1 June 2004	1 June 2009	5 years, 0 days
Laila Freivalds		Sweden	Europe	Acting Deputy Prime Minister	1 October 2004	1 November 2004	31 days
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka		South Africa	Africa	Deputy President	22 June 2005	24 September 2008	3 years, 94 days
Alice Nzomukunda		Burundi	Africa	Vice President	29 August 2005	5 September 2006	1 year, 7 days
Fatemeh Javadi		Iran	Asia	Vice President	3 August 2005	5 August 2009	4 years, 2 days
Zyta Gilowska		Poland	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	7 January 2006	7 September 2007	1 year, 243 days
Tsai Ing-wen		Taiwan (Republic of China)	Asia	Vice Premier	25 January 2006	21 May 2008	1 year, 116 days
Laura Chinchilla		Costa Rica	America	First Vice President	8 May 2006	8 October 2008	2 years, 153 days
Marina Barampama		Burundi	Africa	Vice President	8 September 2006	8 February 2007	153 days
Maud Olofsson		Sweden	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	6 October 2006	5 October 2010	3 years, 364 days
Wu Yi		People's Republic of China	Asia	Acting First Vice Premier	2 June 2007	17 March 2008	289 days
Julia Gillard		Australia	Oceania	Deputy Prime Minister	3 December 2007	24 June 2010	2 years, 203 days
Mary Coughlan		Ireland	Europe	Tánaiste	7 May 2008	9 March 2011	16 years, 79 days
Baleka Mbete		South Africa	Africa	Deputy President	25 September 2008	9 May 2009	1 year, 107 days
Lene Espersen		Denmark	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	10 September 2008	13 January 2011	2 years, 125 days
Thokozani Khuphe		Zimbabwe	Africa	Deputy Prime Minister	11 February 2009	11 September 2013	4 years, 212 days
Joyce Banda		Malawi	Africa	Vice President	1 May 2009	5 April 2012	2 years, 340 days
Nasrin Soltankhah		Iran	Asia	Vice President	21 September 2009	10 September 2013	3 years, 354 days
María Antonieta de Bográn		Honduras	America	First Vice President	27 January 2010	27 January 2014	4 years, 0 days
Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili		Georgia	Asia	Deputy Prime Minister	10 November 2010	Incumbent	13 years, 258 days
Jutta Urpilainen		Finland	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	22 June 2011	06 June 2014	2011|06|22|2014|06|06}
Elena Salgado		Spain	Europe	First Vice President of the Government	11 July 2011	22 December 2011	164 days
Margrethe Vestager		Denmark	Europe	Deputy Prime Minister	3 October 2011	Incumbent	12 years, 296 days
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría		Spain	Europe	First Vice President of the Government	22 December 2011	Incumbent	12 years, 216 days
Fowsiyo Yussuf Haji Aadan		Somalia	Africa	Deputy Prime Minister	4 November 2012	Incumbent	11 years, 264 days
Masoumeh Ebtekar		Iran	Asia	Vice President	10 September 2013	Incumbent	10 years, 319 days
Ana Rossana Guevara Pinto		Honduras	America	First Vice President	27 January 2014	Incumbent	10 years, 180 days
Lorena Enriqueta Herrera Estevez		Honduras	America	Third Vice President	27 January 2014	Incumbent	10 years, 180 days
Ana Helena Chacon Echeverria		Costa Rica	America	Second Vice President	8 May 2014	Incumbent	10 years, 78 days

See also

• Council of Women World Leaders
• List of current state leaders by date of assumption of office
• List of elected or appointed female heads of state
  • List of elected or appointed female deputy heads of state
• List of elected or appointed female heads of government
• List of the first female holders of political offices