List of prime ministers of Hungary

This article lists the prime ministers of Hungary (Hungarian: Magyarország miniszterelnöke, lit. 'minister-president') from when the first Prime Minister (in the modern sense), Lajos Batthyány, took office in 1848 (during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848) until the present day. The prime minister is head of the Government of Hungary. On 30 November 2020, Viktor Orbán became the longest serving prime minister in the modern era.

Kingdom of Hungary (1848–1849)

Parties   Opposition Party

Hungarian State (1849)

Parties   Opposition Party

After the collapse of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the restored Hungarian Kingdom became an integral part of the Austrian Empire until 1867, when dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was created and the Hungarian Kingdom was organized as Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen.

Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen (1867–1918)

Parties   Deák Party/Liberal Party/National Party of Work   National Constitution Party   F48P–Károlyi   Independent

First Hungarian Republic (1918–1919)

Parties   F48P–Károlyi   Civic Radical Party (PRP)

Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)

Parties   MSZP/SZKMMP   MSZDP

Counter-revolutionary governments (1919)

Parties   Independent

Hungarian Republic (1919–1920)

Parties   KNEP   Independent

Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)

Parties   KNEP   EP–NEP–MÉP   Independent

Government of National Unity (1944–1945)

Parties   NYKP

Soviet-backed provisional governments (1944–1946)

Parties   FKGP   Independent   MKP

¹ Left Budapest on 9 December 1944

² At Debrecen to 11 April 1945

Hungarian Republic (1946–1949)

Parties   FKGP   MKP–MDP

Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989)

Chairman of the Council of Ministers

Parties   MDP–MSZMP   MSZP

Hungarian Republic / Hungary (from 1989)

Parties   MSZP   Fidesz   MDF   Independent

⁸ FKGP split into two groups on 24 February 1992. EKGP (Group of 33 then 36 MPs) continued to support the government, while FKGP (Group of 12 then 10 MPs) went into opposition.

⁹ SZDSZ left the Gyurcsány II Cabinet on 20 April 2008.

¹⁰ The Bajnai Cabinet was supported externally by SZDSZ.

Timeline

Combined

Revolution of 1848

Lands of the Crown of St. Stephen

First Hungarian Republic/Hungarian Soviet Republic

Kingdom of Hungary

Second Hungarian Republic

Hungarian People's Republic

Third Hungarian Republic

See also

• List of Hungarian monarchs
• List of heads of state of Hungary
• List of palatines of Hungary
• List of prime ministers of Hungary by tenure
• List of prime ministers of Hungary (graphical)
• Records of prime ministers of Hungary

Notes

Sources

• Bölöny, József – Hubai, László: Magyarország kormányai 1848–2004 [Cabinets of Hungary 1848–2004], Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 2004 (5th edition).
• Izsák, Alajos – Pölöskei, Ferenc – Romsics, Ignác – Urbán, Aladár: Magyar miniszterelnökök 1848–2002 [Prime ministers of Hungary 1848–2002], Kossuth Kiadó, Budapest, 2003.
• Markó, László: A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig – Életrajzi Lexikon [The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days – A Biographical Encyclopedia] (2nd edition); Helikon Kiadó Kft., 2006, Budapest; ISBN 963-547-085-1.

External links

• Rulers.org

References