List of heads of government of Grenada facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Prime Minister of Grenada
Coat of arms of Grenada
Incumbent Dickon Mitchell since 24 June 2022
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Governor-General
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Precursor	Premier of Grenada
Inaugural holder	Eric Gairy
Formation	7 February 1974
Salary	80,619 Eastern Caribbean dollars/29,859 USD annually

This is a list of heads of government of Grenada, from the establishment of the office of the chief minister in 1960 to the present day.

List of officeholders

Political parties and other affiliations      Grenada National Party (GNP)      Grenada United Labour Party (GULP)      New Jewel Movement (NJM)      Independent      New National Party (NNP)      The National Party (NP)      National Democratic Congress (NDC)

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Died in office

Chief ministers of Grenada (1960–1967)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office			Political party
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Herbert Blaize (1918–1989)	1957	January 1960	March 1961	1 year, 59 days	GNP
2		George E. D. Clyne (?–1984)	1961	March 1961	August 1961	153 days	GULP
3		Eric Gairy (1922–1997)	—	August 1961	19 June 1962	322 days	GNP
(1)		Herbert Blaize (1918–1989)	1962	September 1962	March 1967	4 years, 181 days	GNP

Premiers of the Associated State of Grenada (1967–1974)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office			Political party
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Herbert Blaize (1918–1989)	—	March 1967	August 1967	153 days	GNP
2		Sir Eric Gairy (1922–1997)	1967 1972	August 1967	6 February 1974	6 years, 189 days	GULP

Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–present)

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Election	Term of office			Political party
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
Prime Minister of Grenada (1974–1979)
1		Sir Eric Gairy (1922–1997)	1976	7 February 1974	13 March 1979 (Deposed in a coup)	5 years, 34 days	GULP
Prime ministers of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada (1979–1983)
2		Maurice Bishop (1944–1983)	—	13 March 1979	14 October 1983 (Deposed in a coup)	4 years, 215 days	NJM
—		Bernard Coard (born 1944)	—	14 October 1983	19 October 1983 (Deposed in a coup)	5 days	NJM
Head of the Revolutionary Military Council of Grenada (1983)
—		General Hudson Austin (1938–2022)	—	19 October 1983	25 October 1983 (Deposed by US invasion)	6 days	Military / NJM
Governor-General of Grenada (1983)
—		Sir Paul Scoon (1935–2013)	—	25 October 1983	9 December 1983	45 days	None
Chairman of the Interim Advisory Council (1983–1984)
3		Nicholas Brathwaite (1925–2016)	—	9 December 1983	4 December 1984	361 days	Independent
Prime ministers of Grenada (1984–present)
4		Herbert Blaize (1918–1989)	1984	4 December 1984	19 December 1989	5 years, 15 days	NNP
							NP
5		Ben Jones (1924–2005)	—	20 December 1989	16 March 1990	86 days	NP
(3)		Nicholas Brathwaite (1925–2016)	1990	16 March 1990	1 February 1995	4 years, 322 days	NDC
6		George Brizan (1942–2012)	—	1 February 1995	22 June 1995	141 days	NDC
7		Keith Mitchell (born 1946)	1995 1999 2003	22 June 1995	9 July 2008	13 years, 17 days	NNP
8		Tillman Thomas (born 1947)	2008	9 July 2008	20 February 2013	4 years, 226 days	NDC
(7)		Keith Mitchell (born 1946)	2013 2018	20 February 2013	24 June 2022	9 years, 124 days	NNP
9		Dickon Mitchell (born 1978)	2022	24 June 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 223 days	NDC

Timeline

This is a graphical lifespan timeline of prime ministers of Grenada. They are listed in order of office, with those who served multiple premierships being shown in order of their first.

See also

In Spanish: Primer ministro de Granada para niños

• Prime Ministers of Queen Elizabeth II
• Prime Ministers of King Charles III
• List of Commonwealth Heads of Government
• Politics of Grenada
• Prime Minister of the West Indies Federation
• Governor-General of Grenada
• List of heads of state of Grenada
• List of Privy Counsellors (1952–2022)
• Leader of the Opposition (Grenada)