List of Prime Ministers of Portugal by time in office

This is a list of Portuguese Prime Ministers by time in office.

Contents

Rank by time in office

# in
office		 Prime Minister Length
in days		 Rank by
length
of term		 Notes
101 António de Oliveira Salazar 13,231 1
33
35
38		 António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo 4,044 2 1st term: 2,001
2nd term: 488
3rd term: 1,555
115 Aníbal Cavaco Silva 3,643 3
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44
46		 José Luciano de Castro 3,209 4 1st term: 1428
2nd term: 1266
3rd term: 515
3
17
20
30		 Duke of Saldanha 3,126 5 1st term: 175
2nd term: 986
3rd term: 1,863
4th term: 102
43
45
47		 Ernesto Hintze Ribeiro 3,052 6 1st term: 1,444
2nd term: 1,547
3rd term: 61
21
24
29		 Duke of Loulé 3,042 7 1st term: 1,013
2nd term: 1,748
3rd term: 281
116 António Guterres 2,352 8
119 José Sócrates 2,292 9
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15
19
22		 Duke of Terceira 2,060 10 1st term: 143
2nd term: 1,500
3rd term: 5
4th term: 412
102 Marcello Caetano 2,038 11
107
114		 Mário Soares 1,647 12 1st term: 766
2nd term: 881
8
10
25
28
31		 Marquess of Sá da Bandeira 1,418 13 1st term: 208
2nd term: 624
3rd term: 140
4th term: 385
5th term: 61
13
23
26		 Joaquim António de Aguiar 1,159 14 1st term: 243
2nd term: 64
3rd term: 852
100 Domingos Oliveira 896 15
113 Francisco Pinto Balsemão 881 16
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86
92
94		 António Maria da Silva 863 17 1st term: 23
2nd term: 646
3rd term: 31
4th term: 163
27
32
34		 Duke of Ávila 845 18 1st term: 200
2nd term: 319
3rd term: 326
117 José Manuel Durão Barroso 833 19
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64
66		 Afonso Costa 731 20 1st term: 396
2nd term: 108
3rd term: 227
18 António Costa Cabral, Marquess of Tomar 677 21
36 Anselmo José Braamcamp 664 22
97 António Óscar Carmona 649 23
48 João Franco 626 24
12 Count of Bonfim 561 25
41 João Crisóstomo 464 26
98 José Vicente de Freitas 446 27
104 Vasco Gonçalves 428 28
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16		 Duke of Palmela 424 29 1st term: 222
2nd term: 2
3rd term: 200
65 António José de Almeida 405 30
42 José Dias Ferreira 401 31
60
80		 Bernardino Machado 388 32 1st term: 306
2nd term: 82
67 Sidónio Pais 371 33
111 Francisco Sá Carneiro 336 34
49 Francisco Ferreira do Amaral 326 35
55 Teófilo Braga 323 36
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73
93		 Domingos Pereira 278 37 1st term: 92
2nd term: 47
3rd term: 139
105 José Pinheiro de Azevedo 278 37
40 António de Serpa Pimentel 270 39
109 Carlos Mota Pinto 252 40
118 Pedro Santana Lopes 238 41
37 António Rodrigues Sampaio 236 42
11 Baron of Ribeira de Sabrosa 222 43
52 Wenceslau de Lima 222 43
57 Augusto de Vasconcelos 216 45
78
88		 Álvaro de Castro 212 46 1st term: 10
2nd term: 202
58 Duarte Leite 207 47
72
-		 Alfredo de Sá Cardoso 205 48 1st term: 199
2nd term: 6
99 Artur Ivens Ferraz 197 49
63 José de Castro 196 50
120 Pedro Passos Coelho &10000000000000254000000254 51
53 Francisco da Veiga Beirão 186 52
77
82		 António Granjo 174 53 1st term: 124
2nd term: 50
110 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo 155 54
4 José Jorge Loureiro 154 55
89 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar 138 56
91 Vitorino Guimarães 136 57
50 Artur de Campos Henriques 106 58
62 Joaquim Pimenta de Castro 106 58
54 António Teixeira de Sousa 101 60
81 Tomé de Barros Queirós 99 61
79 Liberato Pinto 92 62
74 António Maria Baptista 90 63
108 Alfredo Nobre da Costa 86 64
90 José Domingues dos Santos 85 65
56
-		 João Chagas 72 66 1st term: 70
2nd term: 2
103 Adelino da Palma Carlos 63 67
9 António Dias de Oliveira 62 68
70 José Relvas 62 68
6 Count of Lumiares 55 70
85 Francisco Cunha Leal 53 71
61 Vítor Hugo de Azevedo Coutinho 47 72
84 Carlos Maia Pinto 41 73
112 Diogo Freitas do Amaral 36 74
69 João Tamagnini Barbosa 35 75
51 Sebastião Sousa Teles 33 76
87 António Ginestal Machado 33 76
106 Vasco de Almeida e Costa 30 78
2 Count of Linhares 23 79
– National Salvation Junta 21 80
75 José Ramos Preto 20 81
95 José Mendes Cabeçadas 20 81
96 Manuel Gomes da Costa 20 81
83 Manuel Maria Coelho 17 83
68 João do Canto e Castro 9 85
7 Marquess of Valença 1 86
– Constitutional Junta 1 86
– Francisco Fernandes Costa less than
a day		 88

See also