Gunnar Hedlund (1 October 1900 – 26 November 1989) was a Swedish politician who served as chairman of the Centre Party from 1949 to 1971.

[3] In 1942 he was elected to the lower chamber of the Riksdag (parliament), representing the Centre Party, or Bondeförbundet (The Farmers' League) as it was known until 1957.

[2] In 1948 he took over the leadership of the party temporarily (when the former leader Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp had suffered a stroke) and was formally elected to the post in 1949.

[4] In 1951 the Centre Party entered into a coalition government with the Social Democrats, and Hedlund became Minister of the Interior, succeeding Eije Mossberg.

However, he became an opponent of Social Democratic leader and prime minister Olof Palme during this election, and the second coalition never formed.