List of Prime Ministers of Australia by time in office

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:
	1.	12th	Sir Robert Menzies (1894–1978)	60px	United Australia	Kooyong, VIC (1934–1966)	26 April 1939	29 August 1941		18 years, 160 days	1940 1949 1951 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963
					Liberal		19 December 1949	26 January 1966
	2.	25th	John Howard (born 1939)		Liberal	Bennelong, NSW (1974–2007)	11 March 1996	3 December 2007			1996 1998 2001 2004
	3.	23rd	Bob Hawke (born 1929)		Labor	Wills, VIC (1980–1992)	11 March 1983	20 December 1991			1983 1984 1987 1990
	4.	22nd	Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015)		Liberal	Wannon, VIC (1955–1983)	11 November 1975	11 March 1983			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			1917 1919 1922
					National Labor
					Nationalist
	6.	10th	Joseph Lyons (1879–1939)		United Australia	Wilmot, TAS (1929–1939)	6 January 1932	7 April 1939			1931 1934 1937
	7.	8th	Stanley Bruce (1883–1967)		Nationalist	Flinders, VIC (1918–1929)	9 February 1923	22 October 1929			1925 1928
	8.	2nd	Alfred Deakin (1856–1919)		Protectionist	Ballaarat, VIC (1901–1913)	24 September 1903	27 April 1904	days	4 years, 313 days	1903 1906
							5 July 1905	13 November 1908
					Commonwealth Liberal		2 June 1909	29 April 1910	days
	9.	5th	Andrew Fisher (1862–1928)		Labor	Wide Bay, QLD (1901–1915)	13 November 1908	2 June 1909	days	4 years, 297 days	1910 1914
							29 April 1910	24 June 1913
							17 September 1914	27 October 1915
	10.	16th	Ben Chifley (1885–1951)		Labor	Macquarie, NSW (1940–1951)	13 July 1945	19 December 1949			1946
	11.	24th	Paul Keating (born 1944)		Labor	Blaxland, NSW (1969–1996)	20 December 1991	11 March 1996			1993
	12.	14th	John Curtin (1885–1945)		Labor	Fremantle, WA (1934–1945)	7 October 1941	5 July 1945			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			1969
	14.	27th	Julia Gillard (born 1961)		Labor	Lalor, VIC (1998–2013)	24 June 2010	27 June 2013			2010
	15.	21st	Gough Whitlam (1916–2014)	60px	Labor	Werriwa, NSW (1952–1978)	5 December 1972	11 November 1975			1972 1974
	16.	26th	Kevin Rudd (born 1957)		Labor	Griffith, QLD (1998–2013)	3 December 2007	24 June 2010		2 years, 286 days	2007
							27 June 2013	18 September 2013	days
	17.	1st	Sir Edmund Barton (1849–1920)		Protectionist	Hunter, NSW (1901–1903)	1 January 1901	24 September 1903			1901
	18.	9th	James Scullin (1876–1953)		Labor	Yarra, VIC (1922–1949)	22 October 1929	6 January 1932			1929
	19.	28th	Tony Abbott (born 1957)		Liberal	Warringah, NSW (1994–present)	18 September 2013	15 September 2015			2013
	20.	17th	Harold Holt (1908–1967)		Liberal	Higgins, VIC (1949–1967)	26 January 1966	19 December 1967			1966
	21.	20th	William McMahon (1908–1988)		Liberal	Lowe, NSW (1949–1982)	10 March 1971	5 December 1972
	22.	6th	Joseph Cook (1860–1947)		Commonwealth Liberal	Parramatta, NSW (1901–1921)	24 June 1913	17 September 1914			1913
	23.	4th	George Reid (1845–1918)		Free Trade	East Sydney, NSW (1901–1910)	18 August 1904	5 July 1905	days
	24.	29th	Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954)		Liberal	Wentworth, NSW (2004–present)	15 September 2015	Incumbent
	25.	3rd	Chris Watson (1867–1941)	60px	Labor	Bland, NSW (1901–1906)	27 April 1904	18 August 1904	days
	26.	13th	Arthur Fadden (1894–1973)		Country	Darling Downs, QLD (1936–1949)	29 August 1941	7 October 1941	days
	27.	18th	John McEwen (1900–1980)		Country	Murray, VIC (1949–1971)	19 December 1967	10 January 1968	days
	28.	11th	Sir Earle Page (1880–1961)		Country	Cowper, NSW (1919–1961)	7 April 1939	26 April 1939	days
	29.	15th	Frank Forde (1890–1983)		Labor	Capricornia, QLD (1922–1946)	6 July 1945	13 July 1945	days

Parties by time in office

• Liberal Party of Australia – days as of 23 April 2024.

• Australian Labor Party – days
• Nationalist Party – days (Party Deregistered)
• United Australia Party – days (Party Deregistered)
• Protectionist Party – days (Party Deregistered)
• Commonwealth Liberal Party – days (Party Deregistered)
• Free Trade Party – days (Party Deregistered)
• Country Party – days (Party Renamed)

See also

• Prime Minister of Australia
• List of Australian state premiers by time in office

External Links

• From Menzies to Malcolm: the careers of Australia's prime ministers visualised