| Cabinet Name: | Butkevičius Cabinet |
| Incumbent: | 2012–2016 |
| Government Head: | Algirdas Butkevičius |
| State Head: | Dalia Grybauskaitė |
| Political Parties: | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, Labour Party, Order and Justice, Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (2012–2014)----Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, Labour Party, Order and Justice (2014–2016) |
| Legislature Term: | Eleventh Seimas |
| Opposition Parties: | Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, Liberal Movement (2012–2014)----Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, Liberal Movement, Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (2014–2016) |
| Opposition Leader: | Andrius Kubilius |
| Previous: | Kubilius Cabinet II |
| Successor: | Skvernelis Cabinet |
Butkevičius Cabinet was the 16th cabinet of Lithuania since 1990. It consisted of the Prime Minister, who was the Head of Government, and 14 government ministers from the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Labour Party, the Order and Justice, and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania.[1]
After the parliamentary elections in 2012, President Dalia Grybauskaitė appointed Algirdas Butkevičius, leader of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, as the Prime Minister on 26 November 2012. The cabinet received its mandate on 13 December 2012. At that time, the ministers in the Butkevičius Cabinet had the highest average age of all the cabinets in the independent Lithuanian history, with the average age of its members exceeding 54 years.[2]
It initially consisted of four parties (Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Labour Party, the Order and Justice, and the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania), but latter party left the government in August 2014.
Butkevičius cabinet became the second successive government of Lithuania to serve the full four-year term of the Seimas, returning its mandate on 14 November 2016, after the elections to the Seimas that October. Also this government was first one to retain its majority in Seimas throughout latter's full term. The government continued to serve in an acting capacity until the Skvernelis Cabinet started its work on 13 December 2016.[3]
| Position | Name | Party | From | To | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime Minister | Algirdas Butkevičius | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Education and Science | Labour Party | December 13, 2012 | May 11, 2015[4] | ||
| Audronė Pitrėnienė | June 2, 2015[5] | December 13, 2016 | |||
| Energy | Jarosław Niewierowicz | Independent | December 13, 2012 | August 25, 2014[6] | |
| Rokas Masiulis | Independent | September 25, 2014[7] | December 13, 2016 | ||
| Finance | Rimantas Šadžius | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | June 15, 2016 | |
| Rasa Budbergytė | June 23, 2016 | December 13, 2016 | |||
| Economy | Birutė Vėsaitė | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | June 3, 2013 [8] | |
| Evaldas Gustas | June 11, 2013[9] | December 13, 2016 | |||
| Transport | Rimantas Sinkevičius | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Culture | Šarūnas Birutis | Labour Party | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Defence | Juozas Olekas | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Social Security and Labour | Algimanta Pabedinskienė | Labour Party | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Agriculture | Vigilijus Jukna | Labour Party | December 13, 2012 | July 11, 2014[10] | |
| July 17, 2014[11] | December 13, 2016 | ||||
| Interior | Dailis Alfonsas Barakauskas | Order and Justice | December 13, 2012 | October 30, 2014[12] | |
| Saulius Skvernelis | Independent | November 11, 2014[13] | April 13, 2016[14] | ||
| Tomas Žilinskas | Independent | April 13, 2016 | December 13, 2016 | ||
| Foreign Affairs | Linas Antanas Linkevičius | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Justice | Juozas Bernatonis | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | December 13, 2016 | |
| Environment | Valentinas Mazuronis | Order and Justice | December 13, 2012 | June 15, 2014[15] | |
| July 17, 2014 | December 13, 2016 | ||||
| Health | Vytenis Andriukaitis | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania | December 13, 2012 | July 10, 2014[16] | |
| Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė | July 17, 2014 | February 17, 2016[17] | |||
| Juras Požela | March 10, 2016[18] | 16 October 2016[19] |