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[edit] Heads of Government

(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)

Tenure	Incumben	Affiliation	Notes
1955 to 1959	Roland Theodore Symonette, Chief Minister	UBP
1959 to 7 January 1964	Sir Roland Theodore Symonette, Premier	UBP
Self-Government
7 January 1964 to 16 January 1967	Sir Roland Theodore Symonette, Premier	UBP	nickname: Pop Symonette
16 January 1967 to 1969	Lynden Oscar Pindling, Premier	PLP
The Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands
1969 to 10 July 1973	Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
10 July 1973	Independence as The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
10 July 1973 to 1983	Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
1983 to 21 August 1992	Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, Prime Minister	PLP
21 August 1992 to 3 May 2002	Hubert Alexander Ingraham, Prime Minister	FNM
3 May 2002 to 4 May 2007	Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister	PLP
4 May 2007 to Present	Hubert Alexander Ingraham, Prime Minister	FNM


FNM	Free National Movement centre-right, conservative, the former UBP
PLP	Progressive Liberal Party centre-left, liberal, founded in 1953
UBP	United Bahamian Party conservative, mainly white
CDR	Coalition of Democratic Reform founded in 2000
AIM	Abaco Independence Movement Abaco Island regionalist, separatist to 1974, mainly white
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