List of prime ministers of Hungary by tenure
 Viktor Orbán current and longest-serving prime minister |
 János Hadik in 1918 |
This list of prime ministers of Hungary lists each prime minister in order of term length. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater.
Viktor Orbán is the longest serving prime minister with his more than 19 years. János Hadik served as prime minister for less than one day in 1918.
Those prime ministers who served only in non official status are placed at the bottom row with an en-dash (–).
Rank by time in office
| Rank by length of terms |
Prime Minister | Length by time served |
Administrations | Party |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viktor Orbán | 19 years, 226 days | 2 | Fidesz |
| 2 | Kálmán Tisza | 14 years, 144 days | 1 | SZP |
| 3 | György Lázár | 12 years, 41 days | 1 | MSZMP |
| 4 | István Bethlen | 10 years, 132 days | 1 | KNEP/EP (Unity Party) |
| 5 | Jenő Fock | 8 years, 31 days | 1 | MSZMP |
| 6 | Sándor Wekerle | 7 years, 48 days | 3 | SZP/OAP/48AP |
| 7 | István Tisza | 5 years, 232 days | 2 | SZP/NMP |
| 8 | János Kádár | 5 years, 10 days | 2 | MSZMP |
| 9 | Gyula Andrássy | 4 years, 270 days | 1 | DP |
| 10 | Ferenc Gyurcsány | 4 years, 202 days | 1 | MSZP |
| 11 | Kálmán Széll | 4 years, 121 days | 1 | SZP |
| 12 | Dezső Bánffy | 4 years, 43 days | 1 | SZP |
| 13 | Gyula Gömbös | 4 years, 5 days | 1 | NEP |
| 14 | Gyula Horn | 3 years, 356 days | 1 | MSZP |
| 15 | István Dobi | 3 years, 348 days | 1 | FKGP/Independent |
| 16 | Ferenc Münnich | 3 years, 228 days | 1 | MSZMP |
| 17 | József Antall | 3 years, 203 days | 1 | MDF |
| 18 | Pál Teleki | 2 years, 316 days | 2 | KNEP/MÉP |
| 19 | Gyula Szapáry | 2 years, 249 days | 1 | SZP |
| 20 | Károly Khuen-Héderváry | 2 years, 225 days | 2 | SZP/NMP |
| 21 | Péter Medgyessy | 2 years, 125 days | 1 | Independent |
| 22 | Miklós Kállay | 2 years, 13 days | 1 | MÉP |
| 23 | Imre Nagy | 1 year, 299 days | 2 | MDP/MSZMP |
| 24 | Gyula Kállai | 1 year, 288 days | 1 | MSZMP |
| 25 | Kálmán Darányi | 1 year, 220 days[a] | 1 | NEP |
| 26 | Lajos Dinnyés | 1 year, 193 days | 1 | FKGP |
| 27 | András Hegedüs | 1 year, 189 days | 1 | MDP |
| 28 | Miklós Németh | 1 year, 180 days[a] | 1 | MSZMP/MSZP |
| 29 | Károly Grósz | 1 year, 152 days | 1 | MSZMP |
| 30 | Ferenc Nagy | 1 year, 116 days | 1 | FKGP |
| 31 | József Szlávy | 1 year, 107 days | 1 | DP |
| 32 | László Lukács | 1 year, 49 days | 1 | NMP |
| 33 | Gordon Bajnai | 1 year, 45 days | 1 | Independent |
| 34 | Gyula Károlyi | 1 year, 38 days[a] | 2 | EP (Unity Party)/Independent |
| 35 | Menyhért Lónyay | 1 year, 20 days | 1 | DP |
| 36 | István Bittó | 346 days | 1 | DP |
| 37 | László Bárdossy | 338 days | 1 | MÉP |
| 38 | Béla Miklós | 328 days[a] | 1 | Independent |
| 39 | Mátyás Rákosi | 327 days[a] | 3 | MDP |
| 40 | Géza Fejérváry | 294 days | 1 | Independent |
| 41 | Béla Imrédy | 278 days | 1 | NEP |
| 42 | Béla Wenckheim | 232 days | 1 | SZP |
| 43 | Péter Boross | 215 days[a] | 1 | MDF |
| 44 | Lajos Kossuth | 211 days | 1 | EP (Opposition Party) |
| 45 | Lajos Batthyány | 199 days | 1 | EP (Opposition Party) |
| 46 | Ferenc Szálasi | 163 days | 1 | NYKP |
| 47 | Döme Sztójay | 160 days | 1 | Independent |
| 48 | Sándor Garbai | 133 days | 1 | KMP |
| 49 | Sándor Simonyi-Semadam | 126 days | 1 | KNEP |
| 50 | Károly Huszár | 112 days | 1 | KNEP |
| 51 | István Friedrich | 109 days[a] | 1 | KNP/KNEP/Independent |
| 52 | Bertalan Szemere | 101 days | 1 | EP (Opposition Party) |
| 53 | Zoltán Tildy | 78 days | 1 | FKGP |
| 54 | Mihály Károlyi | 72 days | 1 | F48P |
| 55 | Dénes Berinkey | 69 days[a] | 1 | PRP (Civil Radical Party) |
| 56 | Móric Esterházy | 66 days | 1 | Independent |
| 57 | Géza Lakatos | 48 days | 1 | Independent |
| 58 | Gyula Peidl | 5 days | 1 | MSZDP |
| 59 | János Hadik | 17 hours | 1 | OAP |
| — | Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám | 31 days | 1 | Independent |
| — | Ádám Récsey | 4 days | 1 | Military |
| — | Ferenc Keresztes-Fischer | 2 days | 2 | MÉP |