President of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville

The first President of Bougainville was Joseph Kabui,^[1] who was elected in June 2005, following the 2000 peace agreement which ended the Bougainville War. Kabui died of an apparent heart attack on 7 June 2008,^[1] and Vice-President John Tabinaman took over as Acting President until a new election was held.^[2]

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No.	President		Took office	Left office	Tenure	Party		Election	Vice-President
1		Joseph Kabui (1954–2008) [1]	15 June 2005	7 June 2008[a]	2 years, 358 days		Bougainville People's Congress	2005	Joseph Watawi (until 2007)
									John Tabinaman (from 2007)
–		John Tabinaman (c. 1952–2021) Acting [2]	7 June 2008	6 January 2009	213 days	Unknown		–	Mathias Salas
2		James Tanis (born 1965?)	6 January 2009	10 June 2010	1 year, 155 days		Bougainville Independence Movement	2008	Ezekiel Massat
3		John Momis (born 1942) [3]	10 June 2010	25 September 2020	10 years, 107 days		New Bougainville Party	2010	Patrick Nisira (until 2017)
								2015
									Raymond Masono (from 2017)
4		Ishmael Toroama (born 1968) [4]	25 September 2020	Incumbent	5 years, 335 days		Bougainville People's Alliance Party	2020	Patrick Nisira (until 2025)
								2025	Ezekiel Massat (since 2025)

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Bougainville has been headed by several different types of administration: a decentralised administration headed by a Premier (as North Solomons Province from 1975 to 1990), an appointed administrator during the height of the Bougainville Civil War (from 1990 to 1995), a Premier heading the Bougainville Transitional Government (from 1995 to 1998), the co-chairmen of the Bougainville Constituent Assembly (1999), a Governor heading a provincial government as in other parts of Papua New Guinea (2000 to 2005) and the Autonomous Bougainville Government (since 2005).^[5][6][7]