List of Heads of State of Malawi

Affiliations:-
MCP = Malawi Congress Party - nationalist, authoritarian, sole legal party 1966-1993
UDF = United Democratic Front - liberal

Term	Incumbent	Affiliation	Notes
Malawi
6 July 1964 to 6 July 1966	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II represented by:- Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones , Governor-General
Republic of Malawi
6 July 1966 to 21 May 1994	Hastings Kamuzu Banda, President	MCP
21 May 1994 to 20 May 2004	Bakili Muluzi, President	UDF
20 May 2004 to present	Bingu wa Mutharika, President	UDF

For colonial heads prior to independence see: Colonial Heads of Malawi (Nyasaland)

See also

• Heads of Government of Malawi
• Lists of incumbents