Àkójọ àwọn olórí orílẹ̀-èdè ilẹ̀ Benin

Awon Olori Orile-ede ile Benin

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Republic of Dahomey	Autonomous
4 December 1958 to 1 August 1960	René Tirant, High Commissioner
1 August 1960 to 31 December 1960	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, Head of State	RDD
Republic of Dahomey (République de Dahomé)	Independent from France
31 December 1960 to 27 October 1963	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, President	RDD	1st Term
27 October 1963 to 28 October 1963	Provisional Government:-
	Coutoucou Hubert Maga, Head of the Provisional Government	RDD
	Sourou-Migan Apithy	PRD
	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin	UDD
28 October 1963 to 25 January 1964	General Christophe Soglo, Head of the Provisional Government	Mil	1st Term
25 January 1964 to 27 November 1965	Sourou-Migan Apithy, President	PD	Forced to resign by Gen.Christophe Soglo
27 November 1965 to 29 November 1965	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin, acting President	PD	1st Term
29 November 1965 to 22 December 1965	Tahirou Congacou, acting President	PD
22 December 1965 to 19 December 1967	General Christophe Soglo, President	Mil	2nd Term
19 December 1967 to 20 December 1967	Jean-Baptiste Hachème, Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee	Mil
20 December 1967 to 21 December 1967	Lieutenant-Colonel Iropa Maurice Kouandété, Head of State	Mil	1st Term
21 December 1967 to 17 July 1968	Alphonse Amadou Alley, Head of State	Mil
17 July 1968 to 10 December 1969	Émile Derlin Henri Zinsou, President		Nominated by the military regime; deposed
10 December 1969 to 13 December 1969	Major Iropa Maurice Kouandété, Chief-of-Staff of the Army	Mil	2nd Term
13 December 1969 to 7 May 1970	Paul-Émile de Souza, Chairman of the Directory	Mil
7 May 1970 to 7 May 1972	Major Coutoucou Hubert Maga, Chairman of the Presidential Council	RDD	2nd Term; Presidential Council formed after Presidential elections abandoned
	Sourou-Migan Apithy	PD
	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin	PD
7 May 1972 to 26 October 1972	Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin, Chairman of the Presidential Council	PD	2nd Term; deposed
26 October 1972 to 30 November 1975	Major Mathieu Kérékou, President	Mil/PRPB	1st Term
People’s Republic of Benin  (République populaire du Benin)
30 November 1975 to 29 September 1980	General Mathieu Kérékou, President	Mil/PRPB	1st Term (contd.); changed name to Ahmed Kérékou on conversion to Islam
29 September 1980 to c.1990	General Ahmed Kérékou, President of the Military Revolutionary Government and Head of State		1st Term (contd.); previously named Mathieu Kérékou; shortly thereafter reportedly a Born-again Christian once again using Mathieu Kérékou; sometime Brigadier-General; re-elected 31 July 1984
c.1990 to 1 March 1990	General Mathieu Kérékou, President and Head of the Armed Forces		1st Term (contd.)
Republic of Benin  (République du Benin)
1 March 1990 to 4 April 1991	General Ahmed Mathieu Kérékou, President	PPRB	1st Term (contd.)
4 April 1991 to 4 April 1996	Nicéphore Dieudonné Soglo, President	PRB	Inaugurated 4 April 1991
4 April 1996 to 6 April 2006	General Mathieu Ahmed Kérékou, President	FARD	2nd Term; re-elected 22 March 2001; inaugurated 3 April 2001
6 April 2006 to 2016	Thomas Yayi Boni, President	n-p	Inaugurated 6 April 2006
11 April 2016 to present	Thomas Patrice Talon, President	n-p	Inaugurated 11 April 2021

Affiliations:-

FARD	Front d'Action pour le Rénouveau et le Développement             (Action for Renewal and Development) centrist
PD	Parti Démocratique             (Democratic Party) merger of PRD and UDD 1964
PRB	Parti de la renaissance du Bénin       (Benin Rebirth Party) centrist
UTRD	Union pour le Triomphe du Renouvellement Démocratique             (Union for the Triumph of the Democratic Renewal)
PRD	Parti du Rénouveau Démocratique             (Democratic Renewal Party)
PRPB	Parti du Revolutionare Popular du Benin             (Popular Revolutionary Party of Benin) communist, only legal party 1979-1990
RDD	Rassemblement Démocratique du Dahomé             (Dahomey Democratic Rally)
UDD	Union Démocratique du Dahomé             (Dahomey Democratic Union)
Mil	Military
n-p	non-partisan