# List of prime ministers of Italy by time in office

Since 1861, there have been 60 people sworn into office as prime minister of Italy: 30 during the monarchic period and 31 during the republican period, with Alcide De Gasperi having served during both. Moreover, 59 of them were men, while in 2022 Giorgia Meloni became the first woman to hold the office.

## Notable lengths

Of the 60 prime ministers, eight served more than 5 years, while seventeen served less than a year. Benito Mussolini was the longest-serving head of government, having settled a dictatorship and ruled the country for a record of 20 years and 267 days; Tommaso Tittoni was the shortest-serving prime minister, having governed for 16 days only in 1905. The longest-serving prime minister of the Italian Republic was Silvio Berlusconi, who held the position for more than nine years between 1994 and 2011, while the shortest-serving prime minister of the Italian Republic was Fernando Tambroni, who governed for 123 days in 1960.

## List of office holders

This list is based on the difference between dates; if counted by the number of calendar days, the figures would be one day greater for each term served.
| N. | Prime Minister | Time in office | Party | Term |
| 1 | Benito Mussolini | 20 years, 267 days | National Fascist Party | 1 |
| 2 | Giovanni Giolitti | 10 years, 184 days | Historical Left → Liberal Union | 5 |
| 3 | Silvio Berlusconi | 9 years, 53 days | Forza Italia → The People of Freedom | 4 |
| 4 | Agostino Depretis | 8 years, 275 days | Historical Left | 8 |
| 5 | Alcide De Gasperi | 7 years, 250 days | Christian Democracy | 8 |
| 6 | Giulio Andreotti | 7 years, 122 days | Christian Democracy | 7 |
| 7 | Aldo Moro | 6 years, 89 days | Christian Democracy | 5 |
| 8 | Francesco Crispi | 5 years, 278 days | Historical Left | 4 |
| 9 | Amintore Fanfani | 4 years, 199 days | Christian Democracy | 6 |
| 10 | Romano Prodi | 4 years, 148 days | Independent → Democratic Party | 2 |
| 11 | Marco Minghetti | 4 years, 83 days | Historical Right | 2 |
| 12 | Bettino Craxi | 3 years, 257 days | Italian Socialist Party | 2 |
| 13 | Antonio Starabba di Rudinì | 3 years, 210 days | Historical Right | 5 |
| 14 | Giovanni Lanza | 3 years, 208 days | Historical Right | 1 |
| 15 | Mariano Rumor | 3 years, 9 days | Christian Democracy | 5 |
| 16 | Antonio Segni | 2 years, 357 days | Christian Democracy | 2 |
| 17 | Matteo Renzi | 2 years, 294 days | Democratic Party | 1 |
| 18 | Giuseppe Zanardelli | 2 years, 261 days | Historical Left | 1 |
| 19 | Giuseppe Conte | 2 years, 257 days | Independent | 2 |
| 20 | Benedetto Cairoli | 2 years, 224 days | Historical Left | 2 |
| 21 | Giorgia Meloni | 2 years, 120 days | Brothers of Italy | 1 |
| 22 | Antonio Salandra | 2 years, 89 days | Liberal Union | 2 |
| 23 | Luigi Federico Menabrea | 2 years, 48 days | Historical Right | 3 |
| 24 | Luigi Pelloux | 1 year, 360 days | Military | 2 |
| 25 | Giuliano Amato | 1 year, 350 days | Italian Socialist Party → Independent | 2 |
| 26 | Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora | 1 year, 265 days | Military | 2 |
| 27 | Mario Draghi | 1 year, 251 days | Independent | 1 |
| 28 | Ivanoe Bonomi | 1 year, 240 days | Reformist Socialist → Labour Democratic Party | 3 |
| 29 | Vittorio Emanuele Orlando | 1 year, 216 days | Liberal Union | 1 |
| 30 | Emilio Colombo | 1 year, 196 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 31 | Bettino Ricasoli | 1 year, 193 days | Historical Right | 2 |
| 32 | Massimo D'Alema | 1 year, 188 days | Democrats of the Left | 2 |
| 33 | Paolo Gentiloni | 1 year, 171 days | Democratic Party | 1 |
| 34 | Mario Monti | 1 year, 163 days | Independent | 1 |
| 35 | Giovanni Spadolini | 1 year, 156 days | Italian Republican Party | 2 |
| 36 | Mario Scelba | 1 year, 146 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 37 | Paolo Boselli | 1 year, 134 days | Liberal Union | 1 |
| 38 | Lamberto Dini | 1 year, 122 days | Independent | 1 |
| 39 | Urbano Rattazzi | 1 year, 115 days | Historical Left | 2 |
| 40 | Ciriaco De Mita | 1 year, 101 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 41 | Francesco Cossiga | 1 year, 74 days | Christian Democracy | 2 |
| 42 | Adone Zoli | 1 year, 43 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 43 | Carlo Azeglio Ciampi | 1 year, 13 days | Independent | 1 |
| 44 | Luigi Luzzatti | 364 days | Historical Right | 1 |
| 45 | Francesco Saverio Nitti | 358 days | Italian Radical Party | 2 |
| 46 | Giovanni Leone | 337 days | Christian Democracy | 2 |
| 47 | Pietro Badoglio | 329 days | Military | 2 |
| 48 | Alessandro Fortis | 317 days | Historical Left | 2 |
| 49 | Enrico Letta | 300 days | Democratic Party | 1 |
| 50 | Giovanni Goria | 259 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 51 | Arnaldo Forlani | 253 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 52 | Luigi Facta | 247 days | Liberal Union → Italian Liberal Party | 2 |
| 53 | Giuseppe Saracco | 236 days | Historical Left | 1 |
| 54 | Sidney Sonnino | 220 days | Historical Right | 2 |
| 55 | Ferruccio Parri | 172 days | Action Party | 1 |
| 56 | Giuseppe Pella | 155 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 57 | Fernando Tambroni | 123 days | Christian Democracy | 1 |
| 58 | Luigi Carlo Farini | 106 days | Historical Right | 1 |
| 59 | Camillo Benso di Cavour | 75 days | Historical Right | 1 |
| 60 | Tommaso Tittoni | 16 days | Historical Right | 1 |