Lars Stjernkvist (born 1955) is a Swedish politician and journalist. He served as the secretary general of the

Swedish Social Democratic Party The Swedish Social Democratic Party, formally the Swedish Social Democratic Workers' Party ( sv, Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti ; S/SAP), usually referred to as The Social Democrats ( sv, link=no, Socialdemokraterna ), is a social-d ...

between 1982 and 1992. He also served at the

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from 1991 and 1998.

Biography

Stjernkvist was born in

Motala Motala () is a locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 29,823 inhabitants (41,956 in the entire municipality) in 2010. It is the third largest city of Östergötland, following Linköping and Norrköping. M ...

, Östergötlands, in 1955. He joined the Social Democratic Party on 24 October 1975. He was appointed chairman of the party's Östergötlands organization. Next he moved to

Norrköping Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Linköp ...

where he worked for a local newspaper entitled ''

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''. He was elected to the Parliament on 30 September 1991, and his tenure ended on 11 May 1998. Then he served as director general of now-defunct Swedish Integration Agency from 1998 to 2000. In 1999 he was named as the secretary general of the Social Democratic Party, replacing Ingela Thalén in the post. Stjernkvist's term ended in 2004, and he was replaced by

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as party's secretary general. Stjernkvist became a

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in Norrköping in 2007. Then he was appointed chairman of the Norrköping municipal board in 2010. He resigned from the office in September 2020. Following his resignation from the post Stjernkvist has been working as a journalist for the local newspapers in Norrköping. He joined the Swedish Postcode Foundation as a board member in May 2021.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stjernkvist, Lars 20th-century Swedish journalists 1955 births Living people Members of the Riksdag from the Social Democrats Members of the Riksdag 1991–1994 Members of the Riksdag 1994–1998 People from Motala Municipality 21st-century Swedish journalists