List of presidents of Kazakhstan

This article is about list of presidents of Kazakhstan. For complete list of all Kazakh leaders, see List of leaders of Kazakhstan. For the head of state office, see President of Kazakhstan.

The president of Kazakhstan holds the highest authority in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Established under the Constitution of Kazakhstan, the president is the head of state and is directly elected by the people for a nonrenewable term of seven years. Alongside the prime minister, the president leads the executive branch of the Kazakh government and serves as the commander-in-chief of the Kazakh Armed Forces. Since the establishment of the office of the presidency on 24 April 1990, under the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakhstan has had only two individuals serve as president. The current president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, assumed office on 20 March 2019, following the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, the country's founding president.

List

Political parties

  QKP

  Otan → Nur Otan

  Amanat

  Independent

Status

  Denotes acting president

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of office			Prior office	Political party
				Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Nursultan Nazarbayev (born 1940)	1990	24 April 1990	20 March 2019	28 years, 330 days	13th Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR		QKP (until Sep. 1991)
			1991 1999						Independent (until Feb. 1999)
			2005 2011 2015						Otan (renamed Nur Otan in Dec. 2006)
2		Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (born 1953)	—	20 March 2019	12 June 2019	84 days	6th Chairman of the Senate of Kazakhstan		Nur Otan (until Apr. 2022) (renamed Amanat in Mar. 2022)
			2019	12 June 2019	Incumbent	4 years, 316 days
			2022						Independent (since Apr. 2022)

See also

• President of Kazakhstan
• List of leaders of Kazakhstan
• Politics of Kazakhstan
• Government of Kazakhstan