List of Prime Ministers of Vietnam

Status

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office			Political Party
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
Chairman of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
1		Hồ Chí Minh (1890–1969)	17 August 1945	20 September 1955	10 years, 34 days	Communist Party of Indochina (until 1951) Worker's Party of Vietnam (from 1951)
—		Huỳnh Thúc Kháng (1876–1947)	31 May 1946	21 September 1946	113 days	Independent
Prime Minister of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
2		Phạm Văn Đồng (1906–2000)	20 September 1955	2 July 1976	20 years, 286 days	Worker's Party of Vietnam

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• Leaders of South Vietnam

1.^ The Politburo of the Central Committee is the highest decision-making body of the CPV and the Central Government. The membership composition, and the order of rank of the individual Politburo members is decided in an election within the newly formed Central Committee in the aftermath of a Party Congress.[6] The Central Committee can overrule the Politburo, but that does not happen often.[7]

2.^ These numbers are official. The "—" denotes acting head of government. The first column shows how many heads of government there have been in Vietnamese history, while the second show how many heads of government there was in that state.

3.^ The Central Committee when it convenes for its first session after being elected by a National Party Congress elects the Politburo.[6] According to David Koh, in interviews with several high-standing Vietnamese officials, the Politburo ranking is based upon the number of approval votes by the Central Committee. Lê Hồng Anh, the Minister of Public Security, was ranked 2nd in the 10th Politburo because he received the second-highest number of approval votes. Another example being Tô Huy Rứa of the 10th Politburo, he was ranked lowest because he received the lowest approval vote of the 10th Central Committee when he was standing for election for a seat in the Politburo. This system was implemented at the 1st plenum of the 10th Central Committee.[8] The Politburo ranking functioned as an official order of precedence before the 10th Party Congress, and some believe it still does.[6]

4.^ Phạm Văn Đồng became 4th-ranked member in the Politburo hierarchy when Hồ Chí Minh, the 1st ranked, died in 1969.[9]

5.^ Phạm Văn Đồng was ranked 2nd in the Politburo hierarchy when Lê Duẩn, the General Secretary of the Central Committee, died on 10 July 1986.

6.^ Died in office.

General
The prime ministers, and when they took and left office, was taken from these sources:

• "Trần Trọng Kim" (PDF) (in Vietnamese). giaocam.saigonline.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 December 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
• "Cac Thu Tuong Chinh Phu Tien Nhiem" [Predecessors of the current Prime Minister] (in Vietnamese). Government of Vietnam. Retrieved 15 September 2012.

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