 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Sahlin aive nhengo yeparamende, achimiririra Stockholm County, kubva muna 1982 kusvika 1996 uye zvakare kubva muna 2002 kusvika muna 2011. Akabatawo mabasa akasiyana ehurumende muhurumende yeSweden kubva muna 1990 kusvika muna 1991, kubva muna 1994 kusvika muna 1995 uye kubva muna 1998 kusvika muna 2006. Sahlin akasarudzwa mutungamiri mutsva weSocial Democratic Party musi wa17 Kurume 2007, achitevera Göran Persson uyo akasiya basa semutungamiri zvichitevera kukundwa musarudzo huru dza2006. Sahlin ndiye mutungamiri wechikadzi wekutanga weSweden Social Democratic Party uye akazova muna 2011 wekutanga kubvira Claes Tholin muna 1907 kusiya chinzvimbo ichocho asina kushanda seMutungamiriri weSweden. Muna 2012, mutsivi wake Håkan Juholt akabatana naye semunhu wechipiri iye zvino mupenyu kuita kudaro. Musi wa14 Mbudzi 2010, zvichitevera kumwe kukundwa musarudzo kweSocial Democrats, akazivisa chinangwa chake chekusiya chigaro sachigaro webato, izvo zvaakaita kutanga kwa2011. 