List of elected or appointed female heads of government

"Female Prime Minister" redirects here. For the Chinese TV series, see Legend of Lu Zhen.

This list should not be confused with the List of elected and appointed female heads of state.

Map showing countries which since independence have had, excluding monarchs:

  Female head of government

  Female head of state

  Female head of state/government (combined)

  Female head of state and female head of government

Three former sovereign states (East Germany, Tannu Tuva, and Yugoslavia) have also had a female Head of State or Head of Government

This is a list of women who have been elected or appointed as head of government of their respective countries. For female leaders of presidential systems, where there is no separate head of government, please see the List of elected and appointed female heads of state article.

List of female heads of government

  Denotes incumbent head of government

• Italics denotes an acting head of government and states that are either de facto (with limited to no international recognition) or defunct.

Name	Image	Country	Office	Mandate start	Mandate end	Term length
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Ceylon	Prime Minister	21 July 1960	27 March 1965
Indira Gandhi		India	Prime Minister	24 January 1966	24 April 1977
Golda Meir		Israel	Prime Minister	17 March 1969	3 June 1974
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Ceylon/ Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	29 May 1970	23 July 1977
Elisabeth Domitien		Central African Republic	Prime Minister	2 January 1975	7 April 1976
Margaret Thatcher		United Kingdom	Prime Minister	4 May 1979	28 November 1990
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo	80px	Portugal	Prime Minister	1 July 1979	3 January 1980
Indira Gandhi		India	Prime Minister	15 January 1980	31 October 1984
Dame Eugenia Charles		Dominica	Prime Minister	21 July 1980	14 June 1995
Gro Harlem Brundtland		Norway	Prime Minister	4 February 1981	14 October 1981
Milka Planinc	80px	Yugoslavia	Prime Minister	16 May 1982	15 May 1986
Gro Harlem Brundtland		Norway	Prime Minister	9 May 1986	16 October 1989
Benazir Bhutto		Pakistan	Prime Minister	2 December 1988	6 July 1990
Kazimira Prunskienė		Lithuania	Prime Minister	17 March 1990	10 January 1991
Gro Harlem Brundtland		Norway	Prime Minister	3 November 1990	25 October 1996
Khaleda Zia		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	27 February 1991	30 March 1996
Édith Cresson		France	Prime Minister	15 May 1991	2 April 1992
Hanna Suchocka		Poland	Prime Minister	11 July 1992	25 October 1993
Tansu Çiller		Turkey	Prime Minister	13 June 1993	6 March 1996
Kim Campbell		Canada	Prime Minister	25 June 1993	4 November 1993
Sylvie Kinigi		Burundi	Prime Minister	10 July 1993	27 October 1993
Agathe Uwilingiyimana		Rwanda	Prime Minister	18 July 1993	7 April 1994
Benazir Bhutto		Pakistan	Prime Minister	19 October 1993	5 November 1996
Chandrika Kumaratunga		Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	19 August 1994	14 November 1994
Reneta Indzhova		Bulgaria	Acting Prime Minister	17 October 1994	25 January 1995
Sirimavo Bandaranaike		Sri Lanka	Prime Minister	14 November 1994	10 July 2000
Claudette Werleigh		Haiti	Prime Minister	7 November 1995	27 February 1996
Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	12 June 1996	15 July 2001
Janet Jagan		Guyana	Prime Minister	6 March 1997	19 December 1997
Jenny Shipley		New Zealand	Prime Minister	5 December 1997	5 December 1999
Anne Enger Lahnstein		Norway	Acting Prime Minister	30 August 1998	23 September 1998
Irena Degutienė		Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister	4 May 1999	18 May 1999
Nyam-Osoryn Tuyaa		Mongolia	Acting Prime Minister	22 July 1999	30 July 1999
Irena Degutienė		Lithuania	Acting Prime Minister	27 October 1999	3 November 1999
Helen Clark		New Zealand	Prime Minister	5 December 1999	19 November 2008
Mame Madior Boye		Senegal	Prime Minister	3 March 2001	4 November 2002
Khaleda Zia		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	1 October 2001	29 October 2006
Chang Sang		South Korea	Acting Prime Minister	11 July 2002	31 July 2002
Maria das Neves		São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister	3 October 2002	18 September 2004
Anneli Jäätteenmäki		Finland	Prime Minister	17 April 2003	24 June 2003
Beatriz Merino		Peru	Prime Minister	28 June 2003	15 December 2003
Luisa Diogo		Mozambique	Prime Minister	17 February 2004	16 January 2010
Radmila Šekerinska		Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister	12 May 2004	12 June 2004
Radmila Šekerinska		Macedonia	Acting Prime Minister	3 November 2004	15 December 2004
Yulia Tymoshenko		Ukraine	Prime Minister	24 January 2005	6 September 2005
Cynthia Pratt		Bahamas	Acting Prime Minister	4 May 2005	6 June 2005
Maria do Carmo Silveira		São Tomé and Príncipe	Prime Minister	8 June 2005	21 April 2006
Angela Merkel		Germany	Chancellor	22 November 2005	Incumbent
Portia Simpson-Miller		Jamaica	Prime Minister	30 March 2006	11 September 2007
Han Myeong-sook		South Korea	Prime Minister	19 April 2006	7 March 2007
Yulia Tymoshenko		Ukraine	Prime Minister	18 December 2007	3 March 2010
Zinaida Greceanîi		Moldova	Prime Minister	31 March 2008	14 September 2009
Michèle Pierre-Louis		Haiti	Prime Minister	5 September 2008	11 November 2009
Sheikh Hasina		Bangladesh	Prime Minister	29 December 2008	Incumbent
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir		Iceland	Prime Minister	1 February 2009	23 May 2013
Jadranka Kosor		Croatia	Prime Minister	6 July 2009	23 December 2011
Cécile Manorohanta		Madagascar	Acting Prime Minister	18 December 2009	20 December 2009
Kamla Persad-Bissessar		Trinidad and Tobago	Prime Minister	26 May 2010	9 September 2015
Mari Kiviniemi		Finland	Prime Minister	22 June 2010	22 June 2011
Julia Gillard		Australia	Prime Minister	24 June 2010	27 June 2013
Iveta Radičová	80px	Slovakia	Prime Minister	8 July 2010	4 April 2012
Rosario Fernández		Peru	Prime Minister	19 March 2011	28 July 2011
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé		Mali	Prime Minister	3 April 2011	22 March 2012
Yingluck Shinawatra		Thailand	Prime Minister	3 July 2011	7 May 2014
Helle Thorning-Schmidt		Denmark	Prime Minister	3 October 2011	28 June 2015
Portia Simpson-Miller		Jamaica	Prime Minister	5 January 2012	Incumbent
Adiato Djaló Nandigna		Guinea-Bissau	Acting Prime Minister	10 February 2012	12 April 2012
Alenka Bratušek		Slovenia	Prime Minister	20 March 2013	18 September 2014
Sibel Siber		Northern Cyprus	Prime Minister	13 June 2013	2 September 2013
Tatiana Turanskaya		Transnistria	Prime Minister	10 June 2013	13 October 2015
Aminata Touré		Senegal	Prime Minister	1 September 2013	8 July 2014
Erna Solberg		Norway	Prime Minister	16 October 2013	Incumbent
Laimdota Straujuma		Latvia	Prime Minister	22 January 2014	Incumbent
Ana Jara		Peru	Prime Minister	22 July 2014	2 April 2015
Ewa Kopacz		Poland	Prime Minister	22 September 2014	16 November 2015
Florence Duperval Guillaume		Haiti	Acting Prime Minister	20 December 2014	16 January 2015
Saara Kuugongelwa		Namibia	Prime Minister	21 March 2015	Incumbent
Natalia Gherman		Moldova	Acting Prime Minister	22 June 2015	30 July 2015
Vassiliki Thanou		Greece	Acting Prime Minister	27 August 2015	21 September 2015
Maija Parnas		Transnistria	Acting Prime Minister	13 October 2015	30 November 2015
Beata Szydło		Poland	Prime Minister	16 November 2015	Incumbent
Tatiana Turanskaya		Transnistria	Prime Minister	30 November 2015	2 December 2015
Maija Parnas		Transnistria	Acting Prime Minister	2 December 2015	23 December 2015

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 deputy heads of government
• List of female speakers of national and territorial lower houses
• List of female speakers of national and territorial unicameral parliaments
• List of female speakers of national and territorial upper houses
• List of the first female holders of political offices
• Women's suffrage

External links

• Council of Women World Leaders
• Women Prime Ministers (Zárate's Political Collections)de:Liste weiblicher Staatsoberhäupter und Regierungschefs