List of Political Parties
National Assembly
Extraparliamentary
- Action Front for Renewal and Development (Front d'action pour le renouveau et le développement)
- Benin Rebirth Party (Parti de la renaissance du Bénin)
- Communist Party of Benin (Parti Communiste du Bénin)
- Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (Forces Cauris pour un Bénin émergent)
- Liberal Democrats' Rally for National Reconstruction – Vivoten (Rassemblement des Démocrates Libéraux pour la Reconstruction nationale)
- Social Democratic Party (Parti Social-Démocrate)
- Union Makes the Nation (L'Union fait la Nation, abbreviated or the Union
Historical
- Dahomeyan Democratic Rally (1957-1965)
- People's Revolutionary Party of Benin (Parti de la Révolution Populaire du Bénin) (1975-1990)
List of Heads of State
- Hubert Maga (1958-1963)
- Christophe Soglo (1963-1964, 1965-1967)
- Sourou-Migan Apithy (1964-1965)
- Alphonse Alley (1967-1968)
- Émile Derlin Zinsou (1968-1969)
- Paul-Émile de Souza (1969-1970)
- The Presidential Council (1970-1972)
- Mathieu Kérékou (1972-1991, 1996-2006)
- Nicéphore Sogro (1991-1996)
- Thomas Boni Yayi (2006-2016)
- Patrice Talon (2016-)