This is a list of Prime Ministers of Croatia since the first multi-party elections in 1990 ranked by the length of their combined terms in office.
| Prime Minister | Incumbency | Years in power | Number of mandates | Notes |
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}} | Sanader|Ivo Sanader}} | 2003|12|23|2009|7|6}} | 2003-2009 | 1 minority & 1 majority | Sanader served one full term at the head of a minority government and one short term as the head of a majority government. He resigned during his second term. Jadranka Kosor served out the remainder of his second term. Sanader is the longest serving Prime Minister of Croatia. |
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}} | Mateša|Zlatko Mateša}} | 1995|11|7|2000|1|27}} | 1995-2000 | 1 majority | Mateša served one full term. His cabinet has the single longest duration of any Croatian government since first multi-party elections in 1990. |
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}} | Milanović|Zoran Milanović}} | 2011|12|23|2016|1|22}} | 2011-2016 | 1 majority | Milanović served one full term heading a majority coalition government. |
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}} | Račan|Ivica Račan}} | 2000|1|27|2003|12|23}} | 2000-2003 | 2 majority | Račan served one full term. He headed two cabinets: at first a six-party majority coalition (2000-2002) and then a five-party majority coalition (2002-2003). |
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}} | Valentić|Nikica Valentić}} | 1993|4|3|1995|11|7}} | 1993-1995 | none | Valentić served out the term of Hrvoje Šarinić. He never won an election in his own right. |
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}} | Kosor|Jadranka Kosor}} | 2009|7|6|2011|12|23}} | 2009-2011 | none | Jadranka Kosor served out the remainder of Ivo Sanader's second term. She never won an election in her own right. |
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}} | Plenković|Andrej Plenković}} (incumbent) | 2016|10|19}} | 2016–present | 1 minority | Andrej Plenković is currently serving his first term heading a minority coalition government. |
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}} | Gregurić|Franjo Gregurić}} | 1991|7|17|1992|8|12}} | 1991-1992 | none | Gregurić was the second of two Prime Ministers to serve out the term of Stjepan Mesić. He headed a National Unity Government at the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence and had the parliamentary support of almost all parties. He never won an election in his own right. |
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}} | Manolić|Josip Manolić}} | 1990|8|24|1991|7|17}} | 1990-1991 | none | Manolić was the first of two Prime Ministers to serve out the remainder of the term of Stjepan Mesić, who had resigned to take up a seat in the Federal Presidency (Croatia did not formally declared independence until 25 June 1991). Manolić never won an election in his own right. He was succeeded by Franjo Gregurić. |
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}} | Orešković|Tihomir Orešković}} | 2016|1|22|2016|10|19}} | 2016 | 1 minority | Orešković served one short full term heading a minority coalition government. |
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}} | Šarinić|Hrvoje Šarinić}} | 1992|8|12|1993|4|3}} | 1992-1993 | 1 majority | Šarinić served one term heading a majority government. Nikica Valentić served out the remainder of the term until the next election. |
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}} | Mesić|Stjepan Mesić}} | 1990|5|30|1990|8|24}} | 1990 | 1 majority | Mesić served one short term. He was elected Prime Minister by Parliament following the first multi-party election in 1990 (when Croatia was still part of Yugoslavia) and resigned to take up SR Croatia's seat in the Federal Presidency of Yugoslavia in Belgrade. The remaining 2 years of his term were served out by Josip Manolić and Franjo Gregurić. |
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Andrej Plenković took office as Prime Minister on 19 October 2016. If he were to continuously hold the office until: