List of Prime Ministers of Australia by time in office
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This is a list of Prime Ministers of Australia by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days from being sworn in until leaving office.
Rank by time in office
- Parties
Australian Labor Party Liberal Party of Australia Australian Country Party Nationalist Party of Australia
United Australia Party Commonwealth Liberal Party National Labor Party Free Trade Party Protectionist Party
Rank: | No: | Prime Minister: | Portrait: | Party: | District: | Assumed Office: |
Left Office: |
TERM Time in Office: |
TOTAL Time in Office: |
Election Wins: |
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1. | 12th | Sir Robert Menzies (1894–1978) |
60px | United Australia | Kooyong, VIC (1934–1966) |
26 April 1939 | 29 August 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 18 years, 160 days | 1940 1949 1951 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963 |
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Liberal | 19 December 1949 | 26 January 1966 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||||||
2. | 25th | John Howard (born 1939) |
Liberal | Bennelong, NSW (1974–2007) |
11 March 1996 | 3 December 2007 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1996 1998 2001 2004 |
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3. | 23rd | Bob Hawke (born 1929) |
Labor | Wills, VIC (1980–1992) |
11 March 1983 | 20 December 1991 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1983 1984 1987 1990 |
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4. | 22nd | Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015) |
Liberal | Wannon, VIC (1955–1983) |
11 November 1975 | 11 March 1983 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1975 1977 1980 | |||
5. | 7th | Billy Hughes (1862–1952) |
Labor | West Sydney, NSW (1901–1917) Bendigo, VIC (1917–1922) North Sydney, NSW (1922–1949) |
27 October 1915 | 9 February 1923 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1917 1919 1922 | |||
National Labor | |||||||||||
Nationalist | |||||||||||
6. | 10th | Joseph Lyons (1879–1939) |
United Australia | Wilmot, TAS (1929–1939) |
6 January 1932 | 7 April 1939 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1931 1934 1937 | |||
7. | 8th | Stanley Bruce (1883–1967) |
Nationalist | Flinders, VIC (1918–1929) |
9 February 1923 | 22 October 1929 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1925 1928 | |||
8. | 2nd | Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) |
Protectionist | Ballaarat, VIC (1901–1913) |
24 September 1903 | 27 April 1904 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | 4 years, 313 days | 1903 1906 | ||
5 July 1905 | 13 November 1908 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||||||||
Commonwealth Liberal | 2 June 1909 | 29 April 1910 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||||||
9. | 5th | Andrew Fisher (1862–1928) |
Labor | Wide Bay, QLD (1901–1915) |
13 November 1908 | 2 June 1909 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | 4 years, 297 days | 1910 1914 | ||
29 April 1910 | 24 June 1913 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||||||||
17 September 1914 | 27 October 1915 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | |||||||||
10. | 16th | Ben Chifley (1885–1951) |
Labor | Macquarie, NSW (1940–1951) |
13 July 1945 | 19 December 1949 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1946 | |||
11. | 24th | Paul Keating (born 1944) |
Labor | Blaxland, NSW (1969–1996) |
20 December 1991 | 11 March 1996 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1993 | |||
12. | 14th | John Curtin (1885–1945) |
Labor | Fremantle, WA (1934–1945) |
7 October 1941 | 5 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1943 | |||
13. | 19th | John Gorton (1911–2002) |
Liberal | 22.2.1950 – 1.2.1968: Senate (Vic) 2.2.1968 – 23.2.1968: Not in Parliament 24.2.1968 – 11.11.1975: Higgins, VIC (1968–1975) |
10 January 1968 | 10 March 1971 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1969 | |||
14. | 27th | Julia Gillard (born 1961) |
Labor | Lalor, VIC (1998–2013) |
24 June 2010 | 27 June 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 2010 | |||
15. | 21st | Gough Whitlam (1916–2014) |
60px | Labor | Werriwa, NSW (1952–1978) |
5 December 1972 | 11 November 1975 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1972 1974 | ||
16. | 26th | Kevin Rudd (born 1957) |
Labor | Griffith, QLD (1998–2013) |
3 December 2007 | 24 June 2010 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 2 years, 286 days | 2007 | ||
27 June 2013 | 18 September 2013 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||||||||
17. | 1st | Sir Edmund Barton (1849–1920) |
Protectionist | Hunter, NSW (1901–1903) |
1 January 1901 | 24 September 1903 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1901 | |||
18. | 9th | James Scullin (1876–1953) |
Labor | Yarra, VIC (1922–1949) |
22 October 1929 | 6 January 1932 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1929 | |||
19. | 28th | Tony Abbott (born 1957) |
Liberal | Warringah, NSW (1994–present) |
18 September 2013 | 15 September 2015 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 2013 | |||
20. | 17th | Harold Holt (1908–1967) |
Liberal | Higgins, VIC (1949–1967) |
26 January 1966 | 19 December 1967 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1966 | |||
21. | 20th | William McMahon (1908–1988) |
Liberal | Lowe, NSW (1949–1982) |
10 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
22. | 6th | Joseph Cook (1860–1947) |
Commonwealth Liberal | Parramatta, NSW (1901–1921) |
24 June 1913 | 17 September 1914 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | 1913 | |||
23. | 4th | George Reid (1845–1918) |
Free Trade | East Sydney, NSW (1901–1910) |
18 August 1904 | 5 July 1905 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
24. | 29th | Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954) |
Liberal | Wentworth, NSW (2004–present) |
15 September 2015 | Incumbent | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. | ||||
25. | 3rd | Chris Watson (1867–1941) |
60px | Labor | Bland, NSW (1901–1906) |
27 April 1904 | 18 August 1904 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | |||
26. | 13th | Arthur Fadden (1894–1973) |
Country | Darling Downs, QLD (1936–1949) |
29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
27. | 18th | John McEwen (1900–1980) |
Country | Murray, VIC (1949–1971) |
19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
28. | 11th | Sir Earle Page (1880–1961) |
Country | Cowper, NSW (1919–1961) |
7 April 1939 | 26 April 1939 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days | ||||
29. | 15th | Frank Forde (1890–1983) |
Labor | Capricornia, QLD (1922–1946) |
6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | Script error: The function "age_generic" does not exist. days |
Parties by time in office
- Liberal Party of Australia – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days as of 2 October 2024.
- Australian Labor Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days
- Nationalist Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days (Party Deregistered)
- United Australia Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days (Party Deregistered)
- Protectionist Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days (Party Deregistered)
- Commonwealth Liberal Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days (Party Deregistered)
- Free Trade Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days (Party Deregistered)
- Country Party – Expression error: Unexpected < operator. days (Party Renamed)