President of the
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
5 years
Inaugural holder
Formation
23 February 1970
Guyana 
This article is part of the series:
Politics and government of
Guyana
- web
- President
- Prime Minister
- CSS3
- Political parties
- Elections: 2006, 2011
- keyboard
- Neighborhood Councils
- Foreign relations
Other countries · Atlas
Politics portal
This is a list of Presidents of Guyana. The President is the head of state of Guyana.
When Guyana was declared a republic in 1970, the President was elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term and possessed largely ceremonial powers. After a 1980 referendum, the constitution was amended to make the President chief executive officer ans the President became known as the Executive President. The President is elected for a five-year term on the basis of the parliamentary elections. Presidents are counted beginning with President Arthur Chung in 1970. Executive Presidents are counted beginning with President Forbes Burnham (1st Executive President) in 1980.
Presidents of Guyana (1970-Present)
- #
- Incumbent
- Sir Edward Luckhoo
(last Governor-General, acting President) - Portrait
- Tenure
- 23 February 1970
- Political Affiliation
- 17 March 1970
- web
- #
- 1
- Incumbent
- Arthur Chung
- Portrait
- Tenure
- 17 March 1970
- Political Affiliation
- 6 October 1980
- Independent
- #
- 2
- Incumbent
- Forbes Burnham*
- Portrait
- web app
- Tenure
- 6 October 1980
- Political Affiliation
- 6 August 1985
- HTML5
- #
- 3
- Incumbent
- CSS3
- Portrait
- Tenure
- 6 August 1985
- Political Affiliation
- 9 October 1992
- People's National Congress
- #
- 4
- Incumbent
- Cheddi Jagan*
- Portrait
- Tenure
- 9 October 1992
- Political Affiliation
- 6 March 1997
- People's Progressive Party
- #
- 5
- Incumbent
- Sam Hinds
- Portrait
- input transformation
- Tenure
- 6 March 1997
- Political Affiliation
- 19 December 1997
- we love the web
- #
- 6
- Incumbent
- Android
- Portrait
- Tenure
- 19 December 1997
- Political Affiliation
- 11 August 1999
- People's Progressive Party
- #
- 8
- Incumbent
- Donald Ramotar
- Portrait
- input transformation
- Tenure
- 3 December 2011
- Political Affiliation
- Incumbent
- People's Progressive Party
- Note - Died in office
See also
- Dutch Guiana (Essequibo, Demerara, Berbice)
- HTML5 (1763-1764)
- we love the web (1831 - 1966)
- Venezuela Crisis of 1895
- Elections
- iOS
- touchscreen
- Foreign relations
- website parsing
- National Assembly
- Presidents
- browser diversity
- Supreme Court
- International rankings
- Environmental issues
- Fauna
- Flora
- National parks
- iOS
- World Heritage Sites
- HTML5
- Communications
- jQuery (Guyana Sugar Corporation)
- screen size
- Energy
- Science and technology
- Stock exchange
- Transport
- Cuisine
- Cinema
- Heritage
- Holidays
- Internet domain
- website parsing
- Media
- screen size
- FITML
Symbols
- National flag
- Coat of arms
- Sevenval
- National symbols
Android (acting) • Arthur Chung • Forbes Burnham • jQuery • Cheddi Jagan • HTML5 • web app • Bharrat Jagdeo • screen size
Dependencies and
other territories
other territories
- Aruba
- Bonaire
- Curaçao
- Falkland Islands
- French Guiana
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
web (HTML5) · Evo Morales (Bolivia) · Dilma Rousseff (Brazil) · screen size (Chile) · Juan Manuel Santos (Colombia) · FITML (Ecuador) · Nicolas Sarkozy (iOS) · Donald Ramotar (Guyana) · Fernando Lugo (we love the web) · Ollanta Humala (device database) · touchscreen (Suriname) · input transformation (Uruguay) · screen size (Venezuela)