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 of officeholders

Political parties

  QKP

  Otan → Nur Otan

  Amanat

  Independent

Status

  Denotes acting president

Symbols

^C Constitutional referendum

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Elected	Term of 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	QKP (until Sept. 1991)
			1991 1999				Independent (until Febr. 1999)
			2005 2011 2015				Otan until Dec. 2006 renamed to Nur Otan
2		Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (born 1953)	—	20 March 2019	12 June 2019	84 days	Nur Otan (until March 2022 renamed to Amanat)
			2019	12 June 2019	Incumbent	5 years, 149 days	Amanat (until April 2022)
			2022				Independent

Note

Until 16 December 1991 the head of state was called President of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Timeline

See also

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