Valborg Svensson (29 January 1903 – 20 April 1983) was a Swedish communist politician and journalist. She was a long-term member of the Stockholm city council and contributed to various publications of the Communist Party.

Svensson was born in Huskvarna, Jönköping, on 29 January 1903.^[1] Her mother died when she was 7.^[1] Her father married again, and she was adopted by a teacher when the family had more children.^[1]

At 15 she began to work as a maid and then became a worker at a textile factory in Jönköping between 1923 and 1927.^[2]

Svensson joined the Communist Party in 1928.^[1] She was a board member of a publication entitled Arbetarkvinnornas tidning (Swedish: Working women’s paper) from 1930 which was affiliated with the Communist Party.^[3] She also edited a section of the communist newspaper, Ny Dag.^[3] She received political training in Moscow from 1930 to 1933.^[3] Upon her return to Sweden she served in the central committee of the Communist Party in the period 1933–1936.^[3] She went to Bergen, Norway, where she contributed to the activities of the labor movement between 1936 and 1938.^[3] In 1942 she was elected to the Stockholm city council for the Communist Party.^[1] Following World War II she became a member of the Svenska Kvinnors Vänsterförbund (SKV; Swedish women's leftist federation), an organization affiliated with the Women's International Democratic Federation.^[2] In the 1950s she was part of the editorial board of Vi kvinnor i democratikt worldförbund, a publication of the Communist Party.^[3] Svennson served in the Stockholm city council until 1962.^[1][3]

Svensson married a Norwegian journalist, Arvid G. Hansen, in 1931.^[4] They divorced in 1939.^[4] She died in Bromma parish, Stockholm county, on 20 April 1983.^[3] She was buried at Skogskyrkogården in Gamla Enskede, Stockholm.^[1]