| Prime Minister of Grenada | |
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| 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; 51 years ago (1974-02-07) |
| Salary | EC$80,619 /US$29,859 annually[1] |
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This is alist ofheads of government ofGrenada, from the establishment of the office of the chief minister in 1960 to the present day.
† Died in office
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Election | Term of office | Political party | ||
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| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | .jpg) | Herbert Blaize (1918–1989) | 1957 | January 1960 | March 1961 | 1 year, 2 months | GNP |
| 2 |  | George E. D. Clyne (?–1984) | 1961 | March 1961 | August 1961 | 5 months | GULP |
| 3 |  | Eric Gairy (1922–1997) | — | August 1961 | 19 June 1962 | 10 months | GULP |
| (1) | | Herbert Blaize (1918–1989) | 1962 | September 1962 | March 1967 | 4 years, 6 months | GNP |
| 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 | 5 months | GNP |
| 2 | | Sir Eric Gairy (1922–1997) | 1967 1972 | August 1967 | 6 February 1974 | 6 years, 6 months | GULP |
| 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)[2] | 5 years, 34 days | GULP |
| Prime ministers of thePeople'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) | |||||||
| — | .jpg) | Sir Paul Scoon (1935–2013) | — | 25 October 1983 | 9 December 1983 | 45 days | None |
| Chairman of the Interim Advisory Council (1983–1984)[a] | |||||||
| 3 | .jpg) | Nicholas Brathwaite (1925–2016) | — | 9 December 1983 | 4 December 1984 | 361 days | Independent[3] |
| Prime ministers of Grenada (1984–present) | |||||||
| 4 | | Herbert Blaize (1918–1989) | 1984 | 4 December 1984 | 19 December 1989[†] | 5 years, 15 days | NNP |
| TNP | |||||||
| 5 |  | Ben Jones (1924–2005) | — | 20 December 1989 | 16 March 1990 | 86 days | TNP |
| (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 | 3 years, 154 days | NDC |
This is agraphical lifespan timeline of the prime ministers of Grenada. They are listed in order of first assuming office.
The following chart lists prime ministers by lifespan (living prime ministers on the green line), with the years outside of their tenure in beige.
