Kerstin Ingegerd Gellerman (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Lagerkvist; 5 June 1926 – 10 August 1987) was a Swedish pharmacist and politician ( People's Party member). She married the researcher and editor in 1950. Their daughter Helena Gellerman became a Liberal

member of the Riksdag Members of Parliament (Swedish language, Swedish: ''riksdagsledamöter'', singular: ''riksdagsledamot'') in Sweden sit in the Riksdag. Description ''Members of Parliament'' refers to the elected members of the Riksdag. In Swedish, an MP is us ...

in 2018. Kerstin Gellerman, who was the daughter of the power plant director , graduated with a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree in 1948. She was a member of the Skallsjö municipal council from 1967 to 1968 and then (after the municipal merger) of the

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municipal council from 1969 to 1987, including as the council's second vice-chairman from 1983 to 1985. She was a member of parliament for the constituency of Västra Götaland County North from 1985 to 1987. In the

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, she was a member of the Agriculture Committee. She was primarily involved in issues of environmental protection and animal welfare. After her death, she was replaced in the Riksdag by .

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* ''Enkammarriksdagen 1971–1993/94. Ledamöter och valkretsar'', band 2 (Sveriges riksdag 1996), s. 166–167

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gellerman, Kerstin 1926 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Swedish women politicians Members of the Riksdag 1985–1988 Women members of the Riksdag Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden) Swedish pharmacists People from Skellefteå

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