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
Labor
Liberal
Country (National)
United Australia
Nationalist
National Labor
Commonwealth Liberal
Free Trade
Protectionist
Rank | No | Prime Minister | Portrait | Party | Division | 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) |
United Australia | Kooyong, VIC (1934–1966) |
26 April 1939 | 29 August 1941 | 2 years, 125 days | 18 years, 163 days | 1940 (1st) 1949, 1951, 1954, 1955 1958, 1961, 1963 | ||
Liberal | 19 December 1949 | 26 January 1966 | 16 years, 38 days | ||||||||
2. | 25th | John Howard (born 1939) |
Liberal | Bennelong, NSW (1974–2007) |
11 March 1996 | 3 December 2007 | 11 years, 267 days | 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004 | |||
3. | 23rd | Bob Hawke (born 1929) |
Labor | Wills, VIC (1980–1992) |
11 March 1983 | 20 December 1991 | 8 years, 284 days | 1983, 1984, 1987, 1990 | |||
4. | 22nd | Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015) |
Liberal | Wannon, VIC (1955–1983) |
11 November 1975 | 11 March 1983 | 7 years, 120 days | 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 | 7 years, 105 days | 1917, 1919, 1922 | |||
National Labor | |||||||||||
Nationalist | |||||||||||
6. | 10th | Joseph Lyons (1879–1939) |
United Australia | Wilmot, TAS (1929–1939) |
6 January 1932 | 7 April 1939 | 7 years, 91 days | 1931, 1934, 1937 | |||
7. | 8th | Stanley Bruce (1883–1967) |
Nationalist | Flinders, VIC (1918–1929) |
9 February 1923 | 22 October 1929 | 6 years, 255 days | 1925, 1928 | |||
8. | 2nd | Alfred Deakin (1856–1919) |
Protectionist | Ballaarat, VIC (1901–1913) |
24 September 1903 | 27 April 1904 | 216 days | 4 years, 313 days | 1903, 1906 | ||
5 July 1905 | 13 November 1908 | 3 years, 131 days | |||||||||
Commonwealth Liberal | 2 June 1909 | 29 April 1910 | 331 days | ||||||||
9. | 5th | Andrew Fisher (1862–1928) |
Labor | Wide Bay, QLD (1901–1915) |
13 November 1908 | 2 June 1909 | 201 days | 4 years, 297 days | 1910 1914 | ||
29 April 1910 | 24 June 1913 | 3 years, 56 days | |||||||||
17 September 1914 | 27 October 1915 | 1 year, 40 days | |||||||||
10. | 16th | Ben Chifley (1885–1951) |
Labor | Macquarie, NSW (1940–1951) |
13 July 1945 | 19 December 1949 | 4 years, 159 days | 1946 | |||
11. | 24th | Paul Keating (born 1944) |
Labor | Blaxland, NSW (1969–1996) |
20 December 1991 | 11 March 1996 | 4 years, 82 days | 1993 | |||
12. | 14th | John Curtin (1885–1945) |
Labor | Fremantle, WA (1934–1945) |
7 October 1941 | 5 July 1945 | 3 years, 271 days | 1943 | |||
13. | 19th | John Gorton (1911–2002) |
Liberal | Senate (VIC) (1950 – 1968) Higgins, VIC (1968 – 1975) |
10 January 1968 | 10 March 1971 | 3 years, 59 days | 1969 | |||
14. | 27th | Julia Gillard (born 1961) |
Labor | Lalor, VIC (1998–2013) |
24 June 2010 | 27 June 2013 | 3 years, 3 days | 2010 | |||
15. | 29th | Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954) |
Liberal | Wentworth, NSW (2004–2018) |
15 September 2015 | 24 August 2018 | 2 years, 343 days | 2016 | |||
16. | 21st | Gough Whitlam (1916–2014) |
Labor | Werriwa, NSW (1952–1978) |
5 December 1972 | 11 November 1975 | 2 years, 341 days | 1972, 1974 | |||
17. | 26th | Kevin Rudd (born 1957) |
Labor | Griffith, QLD (1998–2013) |
3 December 2007 | 24 June 2010 | 2 years, 203 days | 2 years, 286 days | 2007 | ||
27 June 2013 | 18 September 2013 | 83 days | |||||||||
18. | 1st | Sir Edmund Barton (1849–1920) |
Protectionist | Hunter, NSW (1901–1903) |
1 January 1901 | 24 September 1903 | 2 years, 266 days | 1901 | |||
19. | 9th | James Scullin (1876–1953) |
Labor | Yarra, VIC (1922–1949) |
22 October 1929 | 6 January 1932 | 2 years, 76 days | 1929 | |||
20. | 28th | Tony Abbott (born 1957) |
Liberal | Warringah, NSW (1994–present) |
18 September 2013 | 15 September 2015 | 1 year, 362 days | 2013 | |||
21. | 17th | Harold Holt (1908–1967) |
Liberal | Higgins, VIC (1949–1967) |
26 January 1966 | 17 December 1967 | 1 year, 325 days | 1966 | |||
22. | 20th | William McMahon (1908–1988) |
Liberal | Lowe, NSW (1949–1982) |
10 March 1971 | 5 December 1972 | 1 year, 270 days | ||||
23. | 6th | Joseph Cook (1860–1947) |
Commonwealth Liberal | Parramatta, NSW (1901–1921) |
24 June 1913 | 17 September 1914 | 1 year, 85 days | 1913 | |||
24. | 4th | George Reid (1845–1918) |
Free Trade | East Sydney, NSW (1901–1910) |
18 August 1904 | 5 July 1905 | 321 days | ||||
25. | 3rd | Chris Watson (1867–1941) |
Labor | Bland, NSW (1901–1906) |
27 April 1904 | 18 August 1904 | 113 days | ||||
26. | 30th | Scott Morrison (born 1968) |
Liberal | Cook, NSW (2007–present) |
24 August 2018 | Incumbent | 49 days | ||||
27. | 13th | Arthur Fadden (1894–1973) |
Country | Darling Downs, QLD (1936–1949) |
29 August 1941 | 7 October 1941 | 39 days | ||||
28. | 18th | John McEwen (1900–1980) |
Country | Murray, VIC (1949–1971) |
19 December 1967 | 10 January 1968 | 22 days | ||||
29. | 11th | Sir Earle Page (1880–1961) |
Country | Cowper, NSW (1919–1961) |
7 April 1939 | 26 April 1939 | 19 days | ||||
30. | 15th | Frank Forde (1890–1983) |
Labor | Capricornia, QLD (1922–1946) |
6 July 1945 | 13 July 1945 | 7 days |
Prime Ministers' parties by time in office
- Liberal Party of Australia – 17184 days as of 12 October 2018.
- Australian Labor Party – 13620 days
- Nationalist Party – 5142 days
- United Australia Party – 3505 days
- Protectionist Party – 2442 days
- Commonwealth Liberal Party – 783 days
- Free Trade Party – 322 days
- Country Party – 84 days
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