{{short description|Forcible removal of a politician, monarch, or clergyman}} '''Deposition''' (or '''dismissal''', '''termination''', '''expulsion''', '''firing''' or '''dropping out''') by political means concerns the removal of a politician or monarch.<ref name="ed2">[http://www.the-orb.net/textbooks/muhlberger/edwardii.html The Deposition of Edward II, Medieval England, Steven Muhlberger], ORB: The Online Reference for Medieval Studies, 1999</ref> It may be done by coup, impeachment, invasion, or forced abdication.<ref name="rich2">[http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20164%20richard%20ii%20(2).htm The deposition of Richard II] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212184800/http://faculty.history.wisc.edu/sommerville/123/123%20164%20richard%20ii%20(2).htm |date=2017-02-12 }}, J.P.Sommerville, History Department, University of Wisconsin</ref> The term may also refer to the official removal of a clergyman, especially a bishop, from ecclesiastical office.
== Deposed head of state or government politicians == {| class="sortable wikitable" |+ !Year !Politician !Country !Title !Type |- |81 BCE |Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Cinna | rowspan="4" | Roman Republic |Consuls |Sulla's civil war |- |48 BCE |Pompey |''Triumvir'' |Assassinated by Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator while attempting to flee to Egypt during Caesar's civil war |- |44 BCE |Julius Caesar |''Dictator perpetuo'' |Assassinated at the beginning of the Liberators' civil war |- |33 BCE |Mark Antony |''Triumvir'' |War of Actium |- |1659 CE |Richard Cromwell |{{Flag|Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland}} |Lord Protector |Stuart Restoration |- |1840 |Pedro de Araújo Lima |{{Flag|Empire of Brazil}} |Regent of Brazil |Majority Coup |- |1841 |Bento Gonçalves da Silva |{{Flag|Riograndense Republic}} |President of the Riograndense Republic |Imprisonment during the Ragamuffin War |- |1852 |Juan Manuel de Rosas |{{Flag|Argentine Confederation}} |17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Ruler of Argentina |Brazilian invasion during the Platine War |- |1861 |Sam Houston |{{Flag|Republic of Texas}} |Governor of Texas |Opposed Texas's secession from the Union and entry into the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War |- |1863 |José Antonio Páez |{{Flagcountry|State of Venezuela}} |5th President of Venezuela | |- |1865 |Jefferson Davis |{{Flag|Confederate States of America}} |President of the Confederate States of America |American Civil War |- |1871 |Mariano Melgarejo |{{Flag|Bolivia}} |15th President of Bolivia | |- |1900 |Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias |{{Flag|Republic of Acre}} |President of the Republic of Acre |Coup d'état |- |1908 |Cipriano Castro |{{Flagcountry|United States of Venezuela}} |President of Venezuela |1908 Venezuelan coup d'état, removed from office while abroad |- |1911 |Porfirio Díaz |{{Flag|Mexico|1909}} |33rd President of Mexico |Mexican Revolution |- |1917 |Alexander Kerensky |{{Flag|Russian Republic}} |Minister-President of the Russian Republic |October Revolution |- |1917, 1926 |Bernardino Machado |{{Flagcountry|First Portuguese Republic}} |Third and eighth President of Portugal |Coup d'état by Sidónio Pais (1917)<br>Coup d'état by Gomes da Costa (1926) |- |1930 |Washington Luís | rowspan="2" |{{Flagcountry|First Brazilian Republic}} |13th President of Brazil | rowspan="2" |Revolution of 1930 |- |1930 |Júlio Prestes |President-elect of Brazil |- |1938 |Kurt Schuschnigg |{{Flagcountry|Federal State of Austria}} |Chancellor of Austria |Anschluss |- |1938 |Edvard Beneš |{{Flagcountry|Second Czechoslovak Republic}} |President of Czechoslovakia |Occupation of Czechoslovakia |- |1939 |Manuel Azaña |{{Flagcountry|Second Spanish Republic}} |Prime Minister of Spain |Spanish Civil War |- |1940 |Paul Reynaud |{{Flagcountry|French Third Republic}} |Prime Minister of France |Battle of France |- |1940 |Konstantin Päts |{{Flagdeco|Estonia}} Estonia |1st President of Estonia |Soviet invasion of Estonia |- |1940 |Antanas Smetona |{{Flagdeco|Lithuania}} Lithuania |1st President of Lithuania |Soviet invasion of Lithuania |- |1940 |Kārlis Ulmanis |{{Flagdeco|Latvia}} Latvia |4th President of Latvia (self-proclaimed) |Soviet invasion of Latvia |- |1944, 1945 |Benito Mussolini |{{Flagcountry|Italian Social Republic}} |Duce |Italian campaign of World War II |- |1944 |Juan Federico Ponce Vaides |{{Flag|Guatemala}} |President of Guatemala |Guatemalan Revolution |- |1945 |Karl Dönitz |{{Flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} |President of Germany |World War II |- |1945 |Isaías Medina Angarita |{{Flagcountry|United States of Venezuela}} |President of Venezuela |1945 Venezuelan coup d'état |- |1945 |Getúlio Vargas |{{Flagcountry|Second Brazilian Republic}} |14th and 17th President of Brazil |1945 Brazilian coup d'état |- |1947 |Ferenc Nagy |{{Flagcountry|Second Hungarian Republic}} |40th Prime Minister of Hungary, 1st Prime Minister of the Second Hungarian Republic |Coup d'état |- |1948 |Teodoro Picado Michalski |{{Flagcountry|First Costa Rican Republic}} |President of Costa Rica |Costa Rican Civil War |- |1948 |Rómulo Gallegos |{{Flagcountry|United States of Venezuela}} |President of Venezuela |1948 Venezuelan coup d'état |- |1953 |Mohammad Mosaddegh |{{Flagcountry|Pahlavi Iran}} |35th Prime Minister of Iran |1953 Iranian coup d'état |- |1954 |Jacobo Árbenz |{{Flag|Guatemala}} |President of Guatemala |1954 Guatemalan coup d'état |- |1955 |Carlos Luz | rowspan="2" |{{Flagcountry|Fourth Brazilian Republic}} | rowspan="2" |President of Brazil | rowspan="2" |Preventative Coup of November 11 |- |1955 |Café Filho |- |1956 |Imre Nagy |{{Flagcountry|Hungarian People's Republic}} |Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic |Soviet invasion of Hungary |- |1956 |Bolesław Bierut |{{Flagcountry|Polish People's Republic}} |General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party |Polish October |- |1958 |Marcos Pérez Jiménez |{{Flagcountry|Republic of Venezuela}} |Military dictator of Venezuela |Fled the country during the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état |- |1959 |Fulgencio Batista<ref>{{cite web |last=Sierra |first=Jerry A. |title=Batista - From Army Sergeant to Dictator |url=http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/batista.htm |access-date=2 May 2016 |publisher=History of Cuba}}</ref> |{{Flagcountry|Republic of Cuba (1902–1959)}} |14th and 17th President of Cuba |Cuban Revolution |- |1960 |Patrice Lumumba |{{Flagcountry|Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)}} |1st President of Congo-Leopoldville |Congo Crisis |- |1960 |Syngman Rhee |{{Flagcountry|First Republic of Korea}} |1st President of South Korea |April Revolution |- |1963 |Nazem al-Qudsi |{{Flagcountry|Second Syrian Republic}} |President of Syria |1963 Syrian coup d'état |- |1963 |Juan Bosch |{{Flagcountry|Third Dominican Republic}} |President of the Dominican Republic |1963 Dominican coup d'état |- |1963 |Ngo Dinh Diem |{{Flag|South Vietnam}} |President of South Vietnam |1963 South Vietnamese coup |- |1964 |Nikita Khrushchev<ref>{{cite news |title=Khrushchev Ousted From Top Posts |work=The New York Times - On This Day, October 14, 1964 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1015.html#article |access-date=9 May 2016}}</ref> |{{Flag|Soviet Union}} |First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |Removed from office |- |1964 |João Goulart |{{Flagcountry|Fourth Brazilian Republic}} |24th President of Brazil |1964 Brazilian coup d'état |- |1966 |Kwame Nkrumah |{{Flag|Ghana}} |1st President of Ghana |1966 Ghanaian coup d'état |- |1968 |Alexander Dubček |{{Flagcountry|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic}} |First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia |- |1969 |Pedro Aleixo |{{Flag|Brazil}} |President-designate of Brazil |Removed from the office by the Brazilian Military Junta of 1969 |- |1973 |Eric Gairy |{{Flag|Grenada}} |Premier of Grenada | |- |1974 |Américo Tomás |{{Flagcountry|Estado Novo (Portugal)}} |President of Portugal |Carnation Revolution |- |1974 |Marcelo Caetano |{{Flagcountry|Estado Novo (Portugal)}} |Prime Minister of Portugal |Carnation Revolution |- |1974 |Richard Nixon |{{Flag|United States}} |37th President of the United States |Resigned to avoid removal from office by impeachment process after the Watergate scandal |- |1975 |Gough Whitlam |{{Flag|Australia}} |21st Prime Minister of Australia |1975 Australian constitutional crisis |- |1975 |Nguyễn Văn Thiệu |{{Flag|South Vietnam}} |President of South Vietnam |1975 spring offensive |- |1978 |Mohammed Daoud Khan |{{Flagcountry|Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978)}} |1st President of Afghanistan |Saur Revolution |- |1978 |Moktar Ould Daddah |{{Flag|Mauritania|1959}} |1st President of Mauritania |1978 Mauritanian coup d'état |- |1979 |Idi Amin<ref>{{cite news |date=10 April 2009 |title=Head to Head: Toppling of Idi Amin |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7992195.stm |access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> |{{Flagcountry|Second Republic of Uganda}} |3rd President of Uganda |Uganda–Tanzania War |- |1979 |Anastasio Somoza Debayle |{{Flag|Nicaragua}} |President of Nicaragua |Nicaraguan Revolution |- |1979 |Pol Pot |{{Flag|Democratic Kampuchea}} |General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea |Cambodian–Vietnamese War |- |1979 |Mustafa Ould Salek |{{Flag|Mauritania|1959}} |2nd Chairman of the Military Committee for National Recovery |1979 Mauritanian coup d'état |- |1979 |Francisco Macías Nguema |{{Flag|Equatorial Guinea}} |1st President of Equatorial Guinea |1979 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état |- |1979 |Ian Smith |{{Flag|Rhodesia}} |Prime Minister of Rhodesia |Rhodesian Bush War |- |1979 |Park Chung Hee |{{Flagcountry|Fourth Republic of Korea}} |3rd President of South Korea |Assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Jae-gyu |- |1979 |Hafizullah Amin |{{Flagcountry|Democratic Republic of Afghanistan}} |General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan |Operation Storm-333 |- |1980 |Luís Cabral |{{Flag|Guinea-Bissau}} |1st President of Guinea-Bissau |1980 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état |- |1980 |Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly |{{Flag|Mauritania|1959}} |3rd Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation |1980 Mauritanian coup d'état |- |1982 |Bachir Gemayel |{{Flag|Lebanon}} |President-elect of Lebanon |Blown up |- |1983 |Hudson Austin |{{Flag|Grenada}} |Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of Grenada |United States invasion of Grenada |- |1984 |Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla |{{Flag|Mauritania|1959}} |4th Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation |1984 Mauritanian coup d'état |- |1986 |Jean-Claude Duvalier |{{Flag|Haiti|1964}} |35th President of Haiti |Anti-Duvalier protest movement |- |1986 |Ferdinand Marcos<ref>{{cite web |title=The Downfall of Marcos |url=http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/mar-apr/hill.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231193912/http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1986/mar-apr/hill.html |archive-date=31 December 2016 |access-date=30 April 2016 |publisher=H Monte Hill, Air University}}</ref> |{{Flag|Philippines|1985}} |10th President of the Philippines |People Power Revolution |- |1987 |Habib Bourguiba |{{Flag|Tunisia|1959}} |1st President of Tunisia |1987 Tunisian coup d'état |- |1987 |Thomas Sankara |{{Flag|Burkina Faso}} |President of Burkina Faso |1987 Burkina Faso coup d'état |- |1987 |Chun Doo-hwan |{{Flagcountry|Fifth Republic of Korea}} |5th President of South Korea |June Democratic Struggle |- |1988 |Ne Win |{{Flagcountry|Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma}} |President of Burma |8888 Uprising |- |1989 |Alfredo Stroessner<ref>[http://www.rightlivelihood.org/fileadmin/Files/PDF/Press_releases/2014/English/140130_PR_EN_25ydemocracyparaguay.pdf 25 Years after the Fall of Alfredo Stroessner] Right Livelihood.</ref> |{{Flag|Paraguay}} |42nd President of Paraguay |1989 Paraguayan coup d'état |- |1989 |Erich Honecker<ref>{{cite news |date=1989-10-18 |title=East Germany Leader Ousted |work=BBC News - On This Day (18 October) |publisher=BBC |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/18/newsid_2450000/2450783.stm |access-date=29 April 2016}}</ref> |{{Flag|East Germany}} |General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (effective leader of East Germany) |Peaceful Revolution |- |1989 |Miloš Jakeš |{{Flagcountry|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic}} |General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |Velvet Revolution |- |1989 |Wojciech Jaruzelski |{{Flagcountry|Polish People's Republic}} |President of Poland & First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party |Solidarity Movement |- |1989 |Todor Zhivkov<ref>{{cite news |date=28 November 1990 |title=Evolution in Europe: Bulgarian Communist stalwart says he'd do it all differently |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/28/world/evolution-in-europe-bulgarian-communist-stalwart-says-he-d-do-it-all-differently.html |access-date=2 May 2016}}</ref> |{{Flagcountry|People's Republic of Bulgaria}} |General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party |Revolutions of 1989 |- |1989 |Károly Grósz |{{Flagcountry|Hungarian People's Republic}} |General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party |End of communism in Hungary |- |1989 |Manuel Noriega<ref>{{cite news |date=1989-12-20 |title=US Forces Oust General Noriega |work=BBC News - On This Day (20 December) |publisher=BBC |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/20/newsid_4054000/4054951.stm |access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> |{{Flag|Panama}} |Military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989 |United States invasion of Panama |- |1989 |Nicolae Ceaușescu<ref>{{cite web |date=15 January 2011 |title=The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu |url=https://theseventhart.info/tag/the-autobiography-of-nicolae-ceausescu-review/ |access-date=29 April 2016 |publisher=The Seventh Art}}</ref> |{{Flagcountry|Socialist Republic of Romania}} |President of Romania |Romanian Revolution |- |1990 |Hissène Habré |{{Flag|Chad}} |5th President of Chad |1990 Chadian coup d'état |- |1991 |Siad Barre |{{Flagcountry|Somali Democratic Republic}} |3rd President of Somalia |Somali Rebellion |- |1991 |Mengistu Haile Mariam |{{Flagcountry|People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia}} |1st President of Ethiopia |Forced to flee when the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front began winning the Ethiopian Civil War |- |1991 |Mikhail Gorbachev |{{Flag|Soviet Union}} |1st President of the Soviet Union |Dissolution of the Soviet Union |- |1991 |Jean-Bertrand Aristide |{{Flag|Haiti}} |39th President of Haiti |1991 Haitian coup d'état |- |1992 |Zviad Gamsakhurdia |{{Flagdeco|Georgia|1990}} Georgia |1st President of Georgia |1991–1992 Georgian coup d'état |- |1992 |Ayaz Mutallibov |{{Flag|Azerbaijan}} |1st President of Azerbaijan |Resigned under pressure of the opposition |- |1992 |Mohammad Najibullah |{{Flagcountry|Democratic Republic of Afghanistan}} |2nd President of Afghanistan |Afghan Civil War |- |1992 |Joseph Saidu Momoh |{{Flag|Sierra Leone}} |2nd President of Sierra Leone |Sierra Leone Civil War |- |1992 |Fernando Collor de Mello |{{Flag|Brazil}} |32nd President of Brazil |Impeachment and resignation |- |1993 |Carlos Andrés Pérez |{{Flagcountry|Republic of Venezuela}} |40th President of Venezuela |Impeachment |- |1993 |Abulfaz Elchibey |{{Flag|Azerbaijan}} |2nd President of Azerbaijan |1993 Azerbaijani coup d'état |- |1993, 1999 |Nawaz Sharif |{{Flag|Pakistan}} |12th and 14th Prime Minister of Pakistan |1999 Pakistani coup d'état |- |1993 |Alexander Rutskoy |{{Flag|Russia|1991}} |Vice President of Russia |1993 Russian constitutional crisis |- |1994 |Juvénal Habyarimana |{{Flagdeco|Rwanda|1961}} Rwanda |2nd President of Rwanda |Assassinated by an unknown force before the Arusha Accords ending the Rwandan Civil War went into effect |- |1997 |Mobutu Sese Seko |{{Flag|Zaire}} |President of Zaire |First Congo War |- |1998 |Suharto |{{Flag|Indonesia}} |2nd President of Indonesia |Indonesian Revolution of 1998 |- |1999 |João Bernardo Vieira |{{Flag|Guinea-Bissau}} |2nd President of Guinea-Bissau |Guinea-Bissau Civil War |- |2000 |Aslan Maskhadov| |{{Flag|Chechen Republic of Ichkeria|name=Chechnya}} |3rd President of Chechnya |Russian invasion |- |2000 |Slobodan Milošević<ref>{{cite news |title=Milošević's Yugoslavia - Downfall |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/milosevic_yugoslavia/downfall.stm |access-date=29 April 2016}}</ref> |{{Flag|Serbia and Montenegro|name=Yugoslavia}} |3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević |- |2001 |Laurent-Désiré Kabila |{{Flagdeco|Democratic Republic of the Congo|1997}} Democratic Republic of the Congo |3rd President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo |Second Congo War |- |2001 |Joseph Estrada |{{Flag|Philippines}} |14th President of the Philippines |Second EDSA Revolution |- |2001 |Mullah Omar |{{Flagcountry|Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)}} |Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan |United States invasion of Afghanistan |- |2002 |Hugo Chávez |{{Flag|Venezuela}} |President of Venezuela |2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt |- |2003 |Saddam Hussein |{{flagdeco|Iraq|1991}} Iraq |5th President of Iraq |2003 Invasion of Iraq |- |2003 |Charles Taylor<ref>{{cite web |title=President Charles Ghankay Taylor, 1997-2003 |url=http://www.liberiapastandpresent.org/charles_taylor.htm |access-date=2 May 2016 |publisher=Liberia Past and Present}}</ref> |{{Flag|Liberia}} |22nd President of Liberia |Second Liberian Civil War |- |2003 |Eduard Shevardnadze |{{flagdeco|Georgia|1990}} Georgia |1st President of Georgia |Rose Revolution |- |2003 |Kumba Yala |{{Flag|Guinea-Bissau}} |3rd President of Guinea-Bissau |2003 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état |- |2004 |Rolandas Paksas |{{Flag|Lithuania}} |3rd President of Lithuania |Impeachment |- |2005 |Lucio Gutiérrez |{{Flag|Ecuador}} |43rd President of Ecuador |Removed from office |- |2005 |Askar Akayev |{{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}} |1st President of Kyrgyzstan |Tulip Revolution |- |2005 |Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya |{{Flag|Mauritania|1959}} |5th President of Mauritania |2005 Mauritanian coup d'état |- |2006 |Thaksin Shinawatra |{{Flag|Thailand}} |31st Prime Minister of Thailand |2006 Thai coup d'état |- |2008 |Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi |{{Flag|Mauritania|1959}} |8th President of Mauritania |2008 Mauritanian coup d'état |- |2009 |Marc Ravalomanana |{{Flag|Madagascar}} |5th President of Madagascar |2009 Malagasy political crisis |- |2009 |Manuel Zelaya |{{Flag|Honduras|1949}} |52nd President of Honduras |2009 Honduran coup d'état |- |2010 |Kurmanbek Bakiyev |{{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}} |2nd President of Kyrgyzstan |Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010 |- |2011 |Zine El Abidine Ben Ali<ref>{{cite web |date=17 December 2015 |title=Tunisia: The fall of Ben Ali |url=http://www.al-bab.com/arab/countries/tunisia/tunisia_fall_of_ben_ali.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525045026/http://al-bab.com/arab/countries/tunisia/tunisia_fall_of_ben_ali.htm |archive-date=25 May 2016 |access-date=29 April 2016 |publisher=Al-Bab}}</ref> |{{Flag|Tunisia}} |2nd President of Tunisia |Tunisian Revolution |- |2011 |Hosni Mubarak<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Egypt's Last Pharaoh? The rise and fall of Hosni Mubarak |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2045328_2045338_2048689,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=30 April 2016}}</ref> |{{Flag|Egypt}} |4th President of Egypt |2011 Egyptian revolution |- |2011 |Muammar Gaddafi |{{Flagcountry|Libyan Arab Jamahiriya}} |Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution of Libya |First Libyan Civil War |- |2012 |Ali Abdullah Saleh |{{Flag|Yemen}} |1st President of Yemen |Yemeni Revolution |- |2012 |Raimundo Pereira |{{Flag|Guinea-Bissau}} |Acting President of Guinea-Bissau |2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état |- |2013 |Mohamed Morsi |{{Flag|Egypt}} |5th President of Egypt |2013 Egyptian coup d'état |- |2014 |Viktor Yanukovych |{{Flag|Ukraine}} |4th President of Ukraine |Revolution of Dignity |- |2014 |Yingluck Shinawatra |{{Flag|Thailand}} |28th Prime Minister of Thailand |2014 Thai coup d'état |- |2014 |Blaise Compaoré |{{Flag|Burkina Faso}} |2nd President of Burkina Faso |2014 Burkina Faso uprising |- |2016 |Dilma Rousseff |{{Flag|Brazil}} |36th President of Brazil |Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff |- |2017 |Park Geun-hye |{{Flag|South Korea}} |11th President of South Korea |Impeachment of Park Geun-hye |- |2017 |Robert Mugabe |{{Flag|Zimbabwe}} |2nd President of Zimbabwe |2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état |- |2017 |Yahya Jammeh |{{Flag|The Gambia}} |2nd President of the Gambia |2016–2017 Gambian constitutional crisis |- |2018 |Serzh Sargsyan |{{Flag|Armenia}} |3rd President of Armenia |2018 Armenian revolution |- |2019, 2022 |Nursultan Nazarbayev |{{Flag|Kazakhstan}} |1st President of Kazakhstan Chairman of the Security Council of Kazakhstan |2018–2020 Kazakh protests 2022 Kazakh unrest |- |2019 |Abdelaziz Bouteflika<ref>{{cite news |date=3 April 2019 |title=Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Algerian leader resigns amid protests |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47795108 |access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref> |{{Flag|Algeria}} |7th President of Algeria |2019 Algerian protests |- |2019 |Omar al-Bashir<ref>{{cite news |date=12 April 2019 |title=Sudan coup: Protesters defy curfew after military ousts Bashir |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47903332 |access-date=12 April 2019}}</ref> |{{Flag|Sudan}} |7th President of Sudan |2019 Sudanese coup d'état |- |2019 |Evo Morales |{{Flag|Bolivia}} |65th President of Bolivia |2019 Bolivian protests |- |2020 |Sooronbay Jeenbekov |{{Flag|Kyrgyzstan}} |5th President of Kyrgyzstan |2020 Kyrgyz Revolution |- |2021 |Aung San Suu Kyi |{{Flag|Myanmar}} |State Counsellor of Myanmar |2021 Myanmar coup d'état |- |2021 |Ashraf Ghani |{{Flagcountry|Islamic Republic of Afghanistan}} |5th President of Afghanistan |2021 Taliban offensive |- |2021 |Alpha Condé |{{Flag|Guinea}} |4th President of Guinea |2021 Guinean coup d'état |- |2022 |Roch Marc Christian Kaboré |{{Flag|Burkina Faso}} |3rd President of Burkina Faso |January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état |- |2022 |Gotabaya Rajapaksa<ref>{{cite news |title=Sri Lanka leader flees as protesters storm home |publisher=France 24 |agency=AFP |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220709-sri-lanka-leader-flees-as-protesters-storm-home |access-date=9 July 2022}}</ref> |{{Flag|Sri Lanka}} |8th President of Sri Lanka |2022 Sri Lankan political crisis |- |2022 |Imran Khan |{{Flag|Pakistan}} |22nd Prime Minister of Pakistan |2022 Pakistani constitutional crisis |- |2022 |Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba |{{Flagu|Burkina Faso}} |Interim President of Burkina Faso |September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état |- |2022 |Pedro Castillo |{{Flag|Peru}} |63rd President of Peru |2022 Peruvian self-coup d'état attempt |- |2023 |Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou |{{Flag|Niger}} |15th Prime Minister of Niger |2023 Nigerien coup d'état |- |2023 |Ali Bongo Ondimba |{{Flag|Gabon}} |3rd President of Gabon |2023 Gabonese coup d'état |- |2024 |Sheikh Hasina |{{Flag|Bangladesh}} |10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh |2024 Non-cooperation movement |- |2024 |Bashar al-Assad |{{Flagcountry|Ba'athist Syria}} |19th President of Syria |2024 Syrian opposition offensives |- |2024 |Yoon Suk Yeol |{{Flag|South Korea}} |13th President of South Korea |Impeachment due to enacting martial law |- |2025 |Paetongtarn Shinawatra |{{Flag|Thailand}} |31st Prime Minister of Thailand |2025 Thai political crisis |- |2025 |K. P. Sharma Oli |{{Flag|Nepal}} |38th Prime Minister of Nepal |2025 Nepalese Gen Z protests |- |2025 |Christian Ntsay |{{Flagu|Madagascar}} |28th Prime Minister of Madagascar |2025 Malagasy protests |- |2025 |Dina Boluarte |{{Flagu|Peru}} |64th President of Peru |Impeachment |- |2025 |Andry Rajoelina |{{Flagu|Madagascar}} |8th President of Madagascar |2025 Malagasy coup d'état |- |2025 |Umaro Sissoco Embaló |{{Flag|Guinea-Bissau}} |6th President of Guinea-Bissau |2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état |- |2026 |Nicolás Maduro |{{Flag|Venezuela}} |President of Venezuela |Ousted by the United States Armed Forces during intervention in Venezuela |- |2026 |Ali Khamenei |{{Flag|Iran}} |Supreme Leader of Iran |Killed by the United States Armed Forces during Assassination of Ali Khamenei |}
==Deposed head of state or government monarchs== {| class="sortable wikitable" |+ !Year !Monarch !Country !Title !Type |- |587 BCE |Zedekiah |Kingdom of Judah |King of Judah |Fall of Jerusalem |- |539 BCE |Nabonidus |Neo-Babylonian Empire |King of the Neo-Babylonian Empire |Fall of Babylon |- |331 BCE |Darius III |{{Flagu|Achaemenid Empire}} |King of Kings |Battle of Gaugamela |- |320 BCE |Perdiccas |Macedonian Empire |Regent of Macedonia |First War of the Diadochi |- |207 BCE |Qin Er Shi |Qin dynasty |Emperor of China |Fall of the Qin |- |316 BCE |Olympias | rowspan="3" |Macedonia |Queen of Macedonia |Second War of the Diadochi |- |310 BCE |Alexander IV of Macedon and Roxana |King and Queen of Macedon |Assassinated by Cassander during the Third War of the Diadochi |- |168 BCE |Perseus of Macedon |Basileus of Macedonia |Third Macedonian War |- |63 BCE |Mithridates IV of Pontus |Kingdom of Pontus |King of Pontus |Third Mithridatic War |- |47 BCE |Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator | rowspan="2" |Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt |Pharaoh of Egypt |Alexandrian war |- |30 BCE |Cleopatra |Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt |War of Actium |- |41 CE |Caligula | rowspan="10" |Roman Empire | rowspan="10" |Roman emperor |Assassinated by the Praetorian Guard and the Roman Senate in favor of his uncle Claudius and attempted abolition of the Principate |- |68 |Nero |Outlawed and killed during rebellion by Gaius Julius Vindex |- |69 |Galba |Assassinated by the Praetorian Guard during the Year of the Four Emperors |- |69 |Otho |Defeated by Vitellius at the First Battle of Bedriacum |- |69 |Vitellius |Defeated by Vespasian at the Second Battle of Bedriacum |- |193 |Commodus |Assassinated at the beginning of the Year of the Five Emperors |- |193 |Pertinax |Assassinated by the Praetorian Guard during the Year of the Five Emperors |- |193 |Didius Julianus |Assassinated in revolt by Septimius Severus during the Year of the Five Emperors |- |193 |Pescennius Niger |Killed by the Imperial Roman army while retreating from Antioch |- |197 |Clodius Albinus |Claim to the emperorship defeated during the Year of the Five Emperors, decisively defeated at the Battle of Lugdunum |- |220 |Emperor Xian of Han |Han dynasty |Emperor of China |End of the Han dynasty |- |235 |Severus Alexander | rowspan="3" |Roman Empire | rowspan="3" |Roman emperor |Assassinated by the Imperial Roman army at the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century |- |238 |Maximinus Thrax |Assassinated by the ''Legio II Parthica'' during the siege of Aquilea |- |238 |Gordian I |Committed suicide after defeat of his forces at the Battle of Carthage |- |238 |Gordian II | rowspan="3" |Roman Empire |Co-emperor |Killed at the Battle of Carthage |- |238 |Pupienus | rowspan="2" |Roman emperor |Assassinated by Balbinus during the Year of the Six Emperors |- |238 |Balbinus |Assassinated by the Praetorian Guard during the Year of the Six Emperors |- |249 |Cao Shuang |Cao Wei |Regent of Cao Wei |Incident at the Gaoping Tombs |- |251 |Decius and Herennius Etruscus | rowspan="5" |Roman Empire |Roman emperors |Gothic War |- |260 |Valerian I | rowspan="3" |Roman emperor |Battle of Edessa |- |307 |Severus II |Civil wars of the Tetrarchy |- |312 |Maxentius |Battle of the Milvian Bridge |- |324 |Valens |Eastern Roman emperor |Battle of Adrianople |- |475 |Julius Nepos | rowspan="2" |{{Flag|Western Roman Empire}} | rowspan="2" |Western Roman emperor |Defeated in rebellion by Orestes |- |476 |Romulus Augustulus |Fall of the Western Roman Empire |- |493 |Odoacer |Kingdom of Italy |King of Italy |Killed by Theodoric the Great during the Ostrogothic conquest of Italy |- |626 |Emperor Gaozong of Tang |Tang dynasty |Emperor of China |Xuanwu Gate Incident |- |628 |Khosrow II |{{Flag|Sasanian Empire}} |King of Kings |Sasanian civil war of 628–632 |- |649 |Emperor Taizong of Tang |Tang dynasty |Emperor of China |Transition from Sui to Tang |- |652 |Yazdegerd III |{{Flagu|Sasanian Empire}} |King of Kings |Muslim conquest of Persia |- |695 |Justinian II |Roman Empire |Roman Emperor |Justinian II |- |705 |Wu Zetian |Zhou dynasty |Empress of China |Coup d'état by Emperor Zhongzong of Tang |- |960 |Guo Zongxun |Later Zhou dynasty |Emperor of China |Coup at Chen Bridge |- |1013 |Æthelred the Unready |{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of England}} |King of England |Overthrown by Danish invasion |- |1126 |Emperor Qinzong |Northern Song dynasty |Emperor of China |Jingkang incident |- |1167 |Diarmaid mac Murchadha |Kingdom of Leinster |King of Leinster |Deposed by the Irish High King Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair for allegations that he had kidnapped Derbforgaill ingen Maeleachlainn |- |1206 |Alexios IV Angelos and Alexios V Doukas |{{Flag|Byzantine Empire}} |Eastern Roman emperor |Fourth Crusade |- |1248 |Sancho II of Portugal |{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal}} |King of Portugal |Deposed by Pope Innocent IV in the bull ''Grandi non immerito'' |- |1279 |Zhao Bing |Southern Song dynasty |Emperor of China |Mongol conquest of China |- |1298 |Adolf, King of the Romans |{{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} |King of the Romans |Deposed by prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire |- |1327 |Edward II of England<ref name="ed2" /> |{{Flagu|Kingdom of England|name=England}} |King of England |Forced to abdicate by Parliament of 1327 |- |1370 |Toghon Temür |Yuan dynasty |Emperor of China |Red Turban Rebellions |- |1399 |Richard II of England<ref name="rich2" /> |{{Flagu|Kingdom of England|name=England}} |King of England |Invasion of England by Henry Bolingbroke |- |1400 |Wenceslaus, King of the Romans |{{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} |King of the Romans |Deposed by Sigismund of Luxembourg in favor of Rupert III |- |1453 |Constantine XI Palaiologos |{{Flag|Byzantine Empire}} |Eastern Roman emperor |Fall of Constantinople, conquest of the former Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire |- |1461 |Henry VI of England | rowspan="3" |{{Flagu|Kingdom of England|name=England}} | rowspan="3" |King of England | rowspan="2" |Wars of the Roses |- |1470 |Edward IV of England |- |1483 |Edward V of England |Abducted to the Tower of London during the Wars of the Roses |- |1532 |Huáscar | rowspan="2" |{{Flag|Inca Empire}} | rowspan="2" |Sapa Inca |Inca Civil War |- |1533 |Atahualpa |Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire |- |1567 |Mary, Queen of Scots |{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Scotland}} |Queen of Scotland | |- |1568 |Eric XIV |{{Flag|Sweden}} |King of Sweden |Uprising against Erik XIV |- |1572 |Túpac Amaru |{{Flag|Neo-Inca State}} |Sapa Inca | |- |1623 |Gwanghaegun of Joseon |{{Flagicon image|Flag of Korea (1856).svg}} Joseon |Korean Emperor |Overthrown by the Westerner faction in favor of Injo of Joseon |- |1640 |Philip III of Portugal |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Portugal|name=Portugal}} frameless|23x23px Kingdom of the Algarve |King of Portugal King of the Algarve |Portuguese Restoration War |- |1644 |Chongzhen Emperor |Ming dynasty | rowspan="2" |Emperor of China |Late Ming peasant rebellions |- |1645 |Li Zicheng |Shun dynasty |Transition from Ming to Qing |- |1649 |Charles I of England |{{Flagu|Kingdom of England|name=England}}<br />{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Scotland}} |King of England King of ScotlandKing of Ireland |English Civil War |- |1688 |James II of England |{{Flagu|Kingdom of England|name=England}}<br />{{Flagu|Kingdom of Scotland|name=Scotland}}<br />{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Ireland}} |King of England<br />King of Scotland<br />King of Ireland |Glorious Revolution |- |1695 |Zumbi dos Palmares |Palmares |King of Palmares | |- |1735 |Stanisław Leszczyński |{{Flag|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth}} |King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania |War of the Polish Succession |- |1790 |Maria Christina and Albert Casimir |{{Flagicon image|Austrian Low Countries Flag.svg}} Austrian Netherlands |Governor of the Austrian Netherlands |Brabant Revolution |- |1792 |Louis XVI |{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} |King of France |French Revolution |- |1795 |Stanisław August Poniatowski |{{Flag|Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth}} |King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania |Third Partition of Poland |- |1806 |Francis II |{{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} |Holy Roman Emperor |Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire at the end of the War of the Third Coalition, remained Emperor of Austria |- |1807 |Selim III | rowspan="2" |{{Flag|Ottoman Empire}} | rowspan="2" |Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | rowspan="2" |Ottoman coups of 1807–1808 |- |1808 |Mustafa IV |- |1809 |Gustav IV Adolf |frameless|23x23px Sweden |King of Sweden |Finnish War and Coup of 1809 |- |1810 |Ferdinand VII of Spain |{{Flag|Spanish Empire}} |King of Spain and the Indies |Forced to abdicate by Napoleon at the beginning of the Peninsular War, which also led to the Spanish American wars of independence in which Spain lost most of its colonies |- |1814 |Christian Frederick |{{Flag|Denmark–Norway}} |King of Norway |Swedish–Norwegian War (1814) |- |1814-15 |Napoleon I |{{Flagcountry|First French Empire}} |Emperor of the French |Exiled to Elba after defeat in the War of the Sixth Coalition, returned and restored control of France but was defeated again in the Battle of Waterloo and exiled in Saint Helena |- |1815 |Louis XVIII |frameless|23x23px Kingdom of France |King of France |Briefly deposed in Napoleon's Hundred Days |- |1823 |Augustin I of Mexico |{{Flagcountry|First Mexican Empire}} |Emperor of Mexico |Casa Mata Plan Revolution |- |1830 |Charles X |frameless|23x23px Kingdom of France |King of France |July Revolution |- |1834 |Miguel I |{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal}} |King of Portugal |Liberal Wars |- |1848 |Louis Philippe I |{{Flagcountry|Kingdom of France}} |French Revolution of 1848 |- |1858 |Bahadur Shah Zafar<ref>{{cite web |date=31 May 2012 |title=The last days of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar in Burma |url=http://twocircles.net/2012may31/last_days_mughal_emperor_bahadur_shah_zafar_burma.html#.VyYMa2NlnVo |access-date=1 May 2016 |publisher=Two Circles}}</ref> |Mughal Empire |Mughal emperor |British defeat of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 |- |1864 |Christian IX of Denmark |frameless|23x23px Duchy of Schleswig frameless|23x23px Duchy of Holstein frameless|23x23px Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg |Duke of Schleswig Duke of Holstein Duke of Lauenberg |Second Schleswig War |- |1866 |Franz Joseph I of Austria |{{Flagu|German Confederation}} |President of the German Confederation | rowspan="4" |Austro-Prussian War |- |1866 |George V of Hanover |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Hanover|name=Hanover}} |King of Hanover |- |1866 |Frederick William, Elector of Hesse |{{Flagu|Hesse}} |Elector of Hesse |- |1866 |Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg |{{Flagu|Nassau}} |Duke of Nassau |- |1867 |Maximilian I of Mexico |{{Flagu|Second Mexican Empire|name=Mexico}} |Emperor of Mexico |Defeat of Second French intervention in Mexico |- |1868 |Isabella II of Spain |{{Flagu|Spain|variant=1785}} |Queen of Spain |Glorious Revolution (Spain) |- |1871 |Napoleon III |{{Flagu|Second French Empire}} |Emperor of the French |Franco-Prussian War |- |1889 |Pedro II of Brazil |{{Flagu|Empire of Brazil|name=Empire of Brazil}} |Emperor of Brazil |Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil |- |1893 |Liliʻuokalani |{{Flagcountry|Hawaiian Kingdom}} |Queen of the Hawaiian Islands |Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom |- |1896 |Frederick William Koko Mingi VIII of Nembe |Nembe Kingdom |King of Nembe |Deposed by the British Empire |- |1898 |Guangxu Emperor |{{Flagu|Qing dynasty|name=China}} |Emperor of China |Defeat of Hundred Days' Reform |- |1908 |Abdul Hamid II<ref>{{cite web |date=25 April 2006 |title=The Young Turk Revolution and the 1908 annexation of Bosnia |url=http://www.balkanalysis.com/blog/2006/04/25/the-young-turk-revolution-and-the-1908-annexation-of-bosnia-herzegovina/ |access-date=2 May 2016 |publisher=Balkan Analysis}}</ref> |{{Flagu|Ottoman Empire}} |Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |Young Turk Revolution |- |1910 |Manuel II of Portugal |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Portugal|name=Portugal}} |King of Portugal |5 October 1910 revolution |- |1912 |Puyi |{{Flagu|Qing dynasty|name=China}} |Emperor of China |1911 Revolution |- |1914 |Peter I of Serbia |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Serbia|name=Serbia}} |King of Serbia |Serbian campaign of World War I |- |1917 |Nicholas II of Russia |{{Flagu|Russian Empire|name=Russia}} |Emperor of all the Russias |February Revolution |- |1918 |Charles I of Austria |{{Flagu|Austria-Hungary|variant=1869}} |Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary |Dissolution of Austria-Hungary as a result of World War I |- |1918 |Wilhelm II, German Emperor |{{Flagu|German Empire|name=Germany}} |German Emperor |German Revolution of 1918–1919 |- |1922 |Mehmed VI |{{Flagu|Ottoman Empire}} |Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire during the Turkish War of Independence |- |1931 |Alfonso XIII |{{Flagu|Spain|variant=1785}} |King of Spain |Abdicated after the monarchists were overwhelmingly defeated in the 1931 Spanish local elections |- |1939 |Zog I of Albania |{{Flagu|Albanian Kingdom}} |King of Albania |Italian invasion of Albania |- |1940 |Charlotte |{{Flagu|Luxembourg}} |Grand Duchess of Luxembourg |German invasion of Luxembourg |- |1940 |Wilhelmina of the Netherlands |{{Flagu|Netherlands}} |Queen of the Netherlands |German invasion of the Netherlands |- |1941 |Reza Shah |{{Flagu|Pahlavi Iran|name=Iran}} |Shah of Iran |Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran |- |1941 |George II of Greece |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece}} |King of Greece |German invasion of Greece |- |1947 |George VI |{{Flagu|British Raj}} |Emperor of India |Independence of India |- |1947 |Michael I of Romania |{{Flagu|Romania}} |King of Romania |Soviet occupation of Romania |- |1952 |Farouk of Egypt<ref>{{cite news |date=24 January 2014 |title=The overthrow of Egypt's King Farouk - a dramatic departure from power |publisher=Al-Arabiya |url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/01/25/The-overthrow-of-the-king-Farouk-s-dramatic-departure-from-power.html |access-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Egypt|name=Egypt}} |King of Egypt |Egyptian revolution of 1952 |- |1958 |Faisal II of Iraq |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Iraq|name=Iraq}} |King of Iraq |14 July Revolution |- |1962 |Muhammad al-Badr |{{Flagu|Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen|name=North Yemen}} |King and Imam of Yemen |North Yemen Civil War |- |1964 |Jamshid bin Abdullah of Zanzibar |{{Flagu|Sultanate of Zanzibar|name=Zanzibar}} |Sultan of Zanzibar |Zanzibar Revolution |- |1967 |Constantine II of Greece |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Greece|name=Greece}} |King of Greece |1967 Greek counter-coup |- |1969 |Idris of Libya<ref>{{cite news |date=September 1969 |title=Bloodless Coup in Libya |work=BBC News - On This Day (1 September) |publisher=BBC |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/newsid_3911000/3911587.stm |access-date=7 May 2016}}</ref> |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Libya|name=Libya}} |King of Libya |1969 Libyan coup d'état |- |1973 |Mohammed Zahir Shah |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Afghanistan|name=Afghanistan}} |King of Afghanistan |1973 Afghan coup d'état |- |1974 |Haile Selassie<ref>{{cite web |title=The Last Emperor - The Fall of Haile Selassie |url=http://adst.org/2015/10/the-last-emperor-the-fall-of-haile-selassie/ |access-date=7 May 2016 |publisher=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training}}</ref> |{{Flagu|Ethiopian Empire|name=Ethiopia}} |Emperor of Ethiopia |1974 Ethiopian coup d'état |- |1975 |Sisavang Vatthana |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Laos|name=Laos}} |King of Laos |Laotian Civil War |- |1979 |Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |{{Flagu|Pahlavi Iran|name=Imperial State of Iran}} |Shah of Iran |Iranian Revolution |- |1987 |Elizabeth II |{{Flagu|Fiji}} |Queen of Fiji |Fijian monarchy abolished after the 1987 Fijian coups d'état |- |2008 |Gyanendra |{{Flagu|Kingdom of Nepal|name=Nepal}} |King of Nepal |2006 Nepalese revolution and abolition by Nepalese Constituent Assembly |}
== Deposed politicians and monarchs at subnational level == {| class="sortable wikitable" !Year !Politician !Division !Country !Title !Type |- |1660 |Salvador de Sá |Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro |frameless|23x23px State of Brazil {{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal}} |Governor of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro |Cachaça Revolt |- |1662 |Frederick Coyett |frameless|23x23px Governorate of Formosa |{{Flagcountry|Dutch Republic}} |Governor of Formosa |Siege of Fort Zeelandia |- |1666 |Jerônimo de Mendonça Furtado |Captaincy of Pernambuco |frameless|23x23px State of Brazil {{Flagcountry|Kingdom of Portugal}} |Governor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco |Imprisonment during the Conjuration of Our Father |- |1789 |César-Constantin-François de Hoensbroeck |{{Flagicon image|LuikVlag.svg}} Prince-Bishopric of Liège |{{Flag|Holy Roman Empire}} |Prince-Bishop of Liège |Liège Revolution |- |1870 |William Woods Holden |{{Flag|North Carolina}} | rowspan="6" |{{Flag|United States}} |Governor of North Carolina | rowspan="6" |Impeachment |- |1871 |David Butler |{{Flag|Nebraska}} |Governor of Nebraska |- |1913 |William Sulzer |{{Flag|New York (state)|New York}} |Governor of New York |- |1917 |James Edward Ferguson |{{Flag|Texas}} |Governor of Texas |- |1923 |Jack Walton |{{Flag|Oklahoma}} |Governor of Oklahoma |- |1929 |Henry Simpson Johnston |{{Flag|Oklahoma}} |Governor of Oklahoma |- |1930 |João Pessoa |{{Flag|Paraíba}} |{{Flag|Brazil}} |Governor of Paraíba |Assassinated |- |1988 |Evan Mecham |{{Flag|Arizona}} |{{Flag|United States}} |Governor of Arizona |Impeachment |- |1992 |Edmundo Pinto |{{Flag|Acre}} |{{Flag|Brazil}} |Governor of Acre |Assassinated |- |2005 |Diepreye Alamieyeseigha |frameless|23x23px Bayelsa State | rowspan="5" |{{Flag|Nigeria}} |Governor of Bayelsa State | rowspan="5" |Impeachment |- |2006 |Rasheed Ladoja |frameless|23x23px Oyo State |Governor of Oyo State |- |2006 |Ayo Fayose |frameless|23x23px Ekiti State |Governor of Ekiti State |- |2006 |Joshua Dariye |frameless|23x23px Plateau State |Governor of Plateau State |- |2006 |Peter Obi |frameless|23x23px Anambra State |Governor of Anambra State |- |2009 |Rod Blagojevich |{{Flag|Illinois}} |{{Flag|United States}} |Governor of Illinois |Impeachment and removed from the office |- |2009 |Marcelo Miranda |{{Flag|Tocantins}} |{{Flag|Brazil}} |Governor of Tocantins |Removed from the office by the Superior Electoral Court |- |2014 |Murtala Nyako |frameless|23x23px Adamawa State |{{Flag|Nigeria}} |Governor of Adamawa State |Impeachment |- |2020 |Wilson Witzel |{{Flag|Rio de Janeiro}} |{{Flag|Brazil}} |Governor of Rio de Janeiro |Impeachment of Wilson Witzel |}
== Deposed politicians at local level == {| class="sortable wikitable" !Year !Politician !Place !Division !Country !Title !Type |- |1865 |Philip Tomppert |frameless|23x23px Louisville |{{Flag|Kentucky}} |{{Flag|United States}} |Mayor of Louisville |Impeachment |- |1964 |Pelópidas da Silveira |{{Flag|Recife}} |{{Flag|Pernambuco}} | rowspan="4" |{{Flag|Brazil}} |Mayor of Recife |Imprisonment during the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état |- |1965 |Edgard Grecco |frameless|23x23px Mauá | rowspan="3" |{{Flag|São Paulo}} |Mayor of Mauá | rowspan="5" |Impeachment |- |2011 |Hélio de Oliveira Santos |{{Flag|Campinas}} | rowspan="2" |Mayor of Campinas |- |2011 |Demétrio Vilagra |{{Flag|Campinas}} |- |2015 |Juan Rosario Mazzone |frameless|23x23px El Bordo |frameless|23x23px Salta |{{Flag|Argentina}} |Mayor of El Bordo |- |2022 |Jorge Muñoz Wells |{{Flag|Lima}} |{{Flag|Lima}} |{{Flag|Peru}} |Mayor of Lima |- |2024 |Alice Guo |{{Flagicon image|Flag_of_Bamban,_Tarlac_1.png}} Bamban |{{Flag|Pampanga}} |{{flag|Philippines}} |Mayor of Bamban |Dismissal by Ombudsman |}
==Notable deposed bishops== * Cyril of Alexandria * Cyril Lucaris * John Chrysostom * Nestorius * Photios I of Constantinople * Antipope Benedict XIII * Antipope John XXIII * The Nine Bishops of the Nonjuring Schism * Robert Duncan, VII Bishop of Pittsburgh * Mark Lawrence, XIV Bishop of South Carolina * John-David Schofield, IV Bishop of San Joaquin
==See also== *Coup d'état *Defrocking *Motion of no confidence
== References== {{reflist}}
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