Fälldin I cabinet

Fälldin's First Cabinet

42nd Cabinet of Sweden
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin
Date formed8 October 1976
Date dissolved18 October 1978
People and organisations
Monarch
Carl XVI Gustaf
Prime Minister
Thorbjörn Fälldin
Member parties
Centre Party
People's Party
Moderate Party
Status in legislature
Coalition majority
Opposition parties
Social Democrats
Left Party – the Communists
Opposition leader
Olof Palme (S)
History
Outgoing formation
Nuclear power discord
Legislature term1976–1979
PredecessorPalme I
SuccessorUllsten

The first cabinet of Thorbjörn Fälldin (Swedish: Regeringen Fälldin I) was the cabinet and Government of Sweden from 8 October 1976 to 18 October 1978. It was a coalition majority government consisting the Centre Party, the People's Party, and the Moderate Party, with Thorbjörn Fälldin of the Centre Party as prime minister. It was the first non-social democratic cabinet in Sweden in 40 years, after Axel Pehrsson's cabinet in 1936.[1]

Ministers

PortfolioMinisterTook officeLeft officeParty
Prime Minister8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Deputy Prime Minister8 October 19767 March 1978 People's Party
7 March 197818 October 1978 People's Party
Minister for Foreign Affairs8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Minister of Economics8 October 197618 October 1978 Moderate
Minister for the Budget8 October 197618 October 1978 People's Party
Minister for Education8 October 197618 October 1978 People's Party
Minister for Justice8 October 197618 October 1978 Independent
Minister for Health and Social Affairs8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Minister for Employment8 October 19767 March 1978 People's Party
7 March 197818 October 1978 People's Party
Minister for Agriculture8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Minister for Defence8 October 197618 October 1978 Moderate
Minister of Communications
Bo Turesson
8 October 197618 October 1978 Moderate
Minister for Physical Planning and Local Government8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Minister for Housing8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Minister for Enterprise8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre
Minister of Commerce and Industry8 October 197618 October 1978 Moderate
Ministers without portfolio
Migration8 October 197618 October 1978 People's Party
Health Care8 October 197618 October 1978 Moderate
Minister for Schools8 October 197618 October 1978 Moderate
Energy8 October 197618 October 1978 Centre

References

  1. ↑ "Statsministerämbetet". Government Offices of Sweden (in Swedish). 17 March 2026. Retrieved 28 August 2026.