The Prime Minister

Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime...

 of Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan

Iraqi Kurdistan or Kurdistan Region is an autonomous region of Iraq. It borders Iran to the east, Turkey to the north, Syria to the west and the rest of Iraq to the south. The regional capital is Arbil, known in Kurdish as Hewlêr...

heads the Kurdistan Regional Government

Kurdistan Regional Government

The Kurdistan Regional Government , , is the official ruling body of the predominantly Kurds-populated Kurdistan Region in Northern Iraq...

, the government of Iraq's Kurdistan Autonomous Region. The government is elected as part of the Kurdistan National Assembly

Kurdistan National Assembly

The Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament or IKP is the parliament of Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraqi Kurdistan. The IKP is made up of representatives from the various parties, lists or slates that are elected every four years to serve by the inhabitants of the provinces of Iraqi Kurdistan currently...

.

1992-2005

After the 1992 elections

Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 1992

On May 19, 1992, elections were held to the Kurdistan National Assembly, the parliament of the Kurdish Autonomous Region in Iraq. At the time, the National Assembly had 105 seats, of which 5 were reserved for the Assyrian community. Parties had to achieve more than 7% of the vote to be elected....

 resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...

, each holding 50 out of 100 seats, they decided to create a unity government (which was not recognized by the government of Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003...

). The unity government soon collapsed and in 1994 a civil war

Iraqi Kurdish Civil War

The Iraqi Kurdish Civil War was a military conflict which took place between rival Kurdish factions in Iraqi Kurdistan in the mid 1990s...

 broke out, which lasted until 1998. This resulted in the establishment of two Kurdistan Regional Governments in 1996, a KDP-controlled one in Arbil

Arbil

Arbil / Hewlêr is the fourth largest city in Iraq after Baghdad, Basra and Mosul...

 and a PUK-controlled one in as-Sulaymaniyah, each with their own Prime Minister.

PUK-controlled part

Prime Ministers of the PUK-controlled part of Iraqi Kurdistan: http://rulers.org/ruli.html#iraq

#	Name	Picture	Born-Died	Took Office	Left Office	Political Party
1	Fuad Masum		unknown	4 July 1992	26 April 1993	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
2	Kosrat Rasul Ali Kosrat Rasul Ali Kosrat Rasul Ali is a Kurdish politician and prominent member of Iraqi President Jalal Talebani's party: the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan . He served as Prime Minister for the PUK's as-Sulaymaniyah-based administration of Kurdistan from 1993 until 2001, when he was succeeded by Barham Salih...		1952-	26 April 1993	21 January 2001	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
3	Barham Ahmad Salih		1960-	21 January 2001	4 July 2004	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...
4	Omar Fattah Hussein Omer Fattah Hussain Omer Fattah Hussain is the former deputy prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq. Due to political problems in the PUK. He handed his resignation in on the 24th February 2009... (acting)		unknown	4 July 2004	14 June 2005	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...

KDP-controlled part

Prime Ministers of the KDP-controlled part of Iraqi Kurdistan: http://rulers.org/ruli.html#iraq

#	Name	Picture	Born-Died	Took Office	Left Office	Political Party
1	Rowsch Shaways Rowsch Shaways Rowsch Nuri Shaways is a Kurdish politician who first served as Prime Minister of the KDP-controlled part of Kurdistan. After the invasion he served as one of Iraq's two vice presidents in the interim government established in 2004...		1947-	26 September 1996	20 December 1999	Kurdistan Democratic Party
2	Nechervan Idris Barzani Nechervan Idris Barzani Nechirvan Idris Barzani , or ) is a Kurdish politician in Iraqi Kurdistan. He served as the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government from March 2006 to August 2009...		1966-	20 December 1999	14 June 2005	Kurdistan Democratic Party

2006-Present

After the reconciliation between the KDP and PUK, parliamentary elections

Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 2005

The Iraqi Kurdistan legislative elections of 2005 for the parliament of the Kurdistan Region, were held on 30 January 2005, to coincide with the Iraqi parliamentary election, January 2005 and elections to the provincial councils...

 were held on January 30, 2005 and an agreement was made to let a KDP leader become Prime Minister for the first term and a PUK Prime Minister to become President for the second term, so Nechervan Barzani became Prime Minister. After the 2009 elections

Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 2009

The Iraqi Kurdistan legislative elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan were eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. People currently living outside Iraqi Kurdistan were not allowed to vote. The elections followed...

, Barham Salih became Prime Minister.

Prime Ministers of Kurdistan Regional Government:

#	Name	Picture	Born-Died	Took Office	Left Office	Political Party	Term
1	Nechervan Idris Barzani Nechervan Idris Barzani Nechirvan Idris Barzani , or ) is a Kurdish politician in Iraqi Kurdistan. He served as the prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government from March 2006 to August 2009...		1966-	1 March 2006	31 August 2009	Kurdistan Democratic Party	1 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 2005 The Iraqi Kurdistan legislative elections of 2005 for the parliament of the Kurdistan Region, were held on 30 January 2005, to coincide with the Iraqi parliamentary election, January 2005 and elections to the provincial councils...
1	Barham Ahmad Salih		1960-	1 September 2009	-	Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Patriotic Union of Kurdistan The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is a Kurdish political party in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was founded on June 1, 1975, by coordinations between Jalal Talabani and Nawshirwan Mustafa...	1 Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 2009 The Iraqi Kurdistan legislative elections of 2009 took place on 25 July 2009. A total of 2.5 million citizens of Iraqi Kurdistan were eligible to vote for the parliamentary and presidential elections. People currently living outside Iraqi Kurdistan were not allowed to vote. The elections followed...