The Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Vice President of the Government or First Deputy Prime Minister (when there is more than one deputy prime minister) is the second highest position in the Government of Spain. Between 1840 and 1934 the title was Vice President of the Council of Ministers. Since its creation, there have been twenty-one deputy prime ministers.

List of officeholders

Office name:

  • Vice Presidency of the Council of Ministers (1840–1841; 1925–1931; 1933–1934)
  • Vice Presidency of the Government (1938–1939; 1962–1973; 1982–1995; 2011–2020)
  • First Vice Presidency of the Government (1974–1975; 1976; 1977–1979; 1981–1982; 1996–2011; 2020–present)
  • Vice Presidency of the Government for Defence Affairs (1975–1976)
  • First Vice Presidency of the Government for Defence Affairs (1976–1977)
  • First Vice Presidency of the Government, in charge of the Coordination of the Security and National Defence Affairs (1979–1981)
  • Vice Presidency of the Government for Economic Affairs (1982; 2011)
More information Portrait, Name (Birth–Death) ...
Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Term of office Party Government Prime Minister
(Tenure)
Ref.
Took office Left office Duration
Joaquín María Ferrer
(1777–1861)
3 October
1840
10 May
1841
219 days Progressive
(Esparterist)
Espartero II Baldomero Espartero

(1840–1841)
[1]
[2]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Severiano Martínez Anido
(1862–1938)
3 December
1925
30 January
1930
4 years and 58 days Military Civil Directory Miguel Primo
de Rivera


(1923–1930)
[3]
[4]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Diego Martínez Barrio
(1883–1962)
22 December
1933
3 March
1934
71 days PRR Lerroux II Alejandro Lerroux

(1933–1934)
[5]
[6]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Francisco Gómez-Jordana
(1876–1944)
31 January
1938
9 August
1939
1 year and 190 days National
Movement

(Military)
Franco I Francisco Franco

(1938–1973)
[7]
[8]
Office disestablished during this interval.
Agustín Muñoz Grandes
(1896–1970)
11 July
1962
28 July
1967
5 years and 17 days National
Movement

(Military)
Franco VI Francisco Franco

(1938–1973)
[9]
[10]
Franco VII
Luis Carrero Blanco
(1904–1973)
22 September
1967
9 June
1973
5 years and 260 days National
Movement

(Military)
[11]
[12]
Franco VIII
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda
(1915–1980)
12 June
1973
31 December
1973
202 days National
Movement

(Nonpartisan)
Carrero Blanco Luis Carrero Blanco

(1973)
[13]
José García Hernández
(1915–2000)
4 January
1974
12 December
1975
1 year and 342 days National
Movement

(Nonpartisan)
Arias Navarro I Carlos Arias Navarro

(1973–1976)
[14]
[15]
Fernando de Santiago
(1910–1994)
12 December
1975
5 July
1976
286 days National
Movement

(Military)
Arias Navarro II [16]
[17]
[18]
8 July
1975
23 September
1976
Suárez I Adolfo Suárez

(1976–1981)
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado
(1912–1995)
23 September
1976
5 July
1977
4 years and 157 days National
Movement

(Military)
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
5 July
1977
6 April
1979
Military Suárez II
6 April
1979
27 February
1981
Suárez III
Rodolfo Martín Villa
(born 1934)
2 December
1981
30 July
1982
240 days UCD Calvo-Sotelo Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo

(1981–1982)
[23]
[24]
Juan Antonio García Díez
(1940–1998)
30 July
1982
3 December
1982
126 days UCD [25]
[26]
Alfonso Guerra
(born 1940)
3 December
1982
26 July
1986
8 years and 42 days PSOE González I Felipe González

(1982–1996)
[27]
[28]
[29]
[30]
26 July
1986
7 December
1989
González II
7 December
1989
14 January
1991
González III
Narcís Serra
(born 1943)
13 March
1991
14 July
1993
4 years and 111 days PSC–PSOE [31]
[32]
[33]
14 July
1993
2 July
1995
González IV
Office disestablished during this interval.
Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
(born 1947)
6 May
1996
28 April
2000
3 years and 358 days PP Aznar I José María Aznar

(1996–2004)
[34]
[35]
Mariano Rajoy
(born 1955)
28 April
2000
4 September
2003
3 years and 129 days PP Aznar II [36]
[37]
Rodrigo Rato
(born 1949)
4 September
2003
18 April
2004
227 days PP [38]
[39]
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
(born 1949)
18 April
2004
14 April
2008
6 years and 186 days Independent Zapatero I José Luis
Rodríguez Zapatero


(2004–2011)
[40]
[41]
[42]
14 April
2008
21 October
2010
Zapatero II
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
(1951–2019)
21 October
2010
12 July
2011
264 days PSOE [43]
[44]
Elena Salgado
(born 1949)
12 July
2011
22 December
2011
163 days Independent [45]
[46]
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría
(born 1971)
22 December
2011
4 November
2016
6 years and 167 days PP Rajoy I Mariano Rajoy

(2011–2018)
[47]
[48]
[49]
4 November
2016
7 June
2018
Rajoy II
Carmen Calvo
(born 1957)
7 June
2018
13 January
2020
3 years and 35 days PSOE Sánchez I Pedro Sánchez

(2018–present)
[50]
[51]
[52]
13 January
2020
12 July
2021
Sánchez II
Nadia Calviño
(born 1968)
12 July
2021
21 November
2023
2 years and 170 days Independent [53]
[54]
[55]
21 November
2023
29 December
2023
Sánchez III
María Jesús Montero
(born 1966)
29 December
2023
Incumbent 293 days PSOE [56]
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