List of Australian Prime Ministers by state

This is a list of Australian Prime Ministers by state. Their statehood is based on the location of the division which they represented.

By Order of First Term

# Name State Division Party
1 Edmund Barton New South WalesHunter Protectionist
2 Alfred Deakin Victoria Ballarat Protectionist
3 Chris Watson New South Wales Bland Labor
4 George Reid New South Wales East Sydney Free Trade
5 Andrew Fisher Queensland Wide Bay Labor
6 Joseph Cook New South Wales Parramatta Commonwealth Liberal
7 Billy Hughes[1] New South Wales/Victoria/New South Wales West Sydney/Bendigo/North Sydney Labor/National Labor/Nationalist
8 Stanley Bruce Victoria Flinders Nationalist
9 James Scullin Victoria Yarra Labor
10 Joseph Lyons Tasmania Wilmot United Australia
11 Earle Page New South Wales Cowper Country
12 Robert Menzies Victoria Kooyong United Australia/Liberal
13 Arthur Fadden Queensland Darling Downs Country
14 John Curtin Western Australia Fremantle Labor
15 Frank Forde Queensland Capricornia Labor
16 Ben Chifley New South Wales Macquarie Labor
17 Harold Holt Victoria Higgins Liberal
18 John McEwen Victoria Murray Country
19 John Gorton Victoria Higgins Liberal
20 William McMahon New South Wales Lowe Liberal
21 Gough Whitlam New South Wales Werriwa Labor
22 Malcolm Fraser Victoria Wannon Liberal
23 Bob Hawke Victoria Wills Labor
24 Paul Keating New South Wales Blaxland Labor
25 John Howard New South Wales Bennelong Liberal
26 Kevin Rudd Queensland Griffith Labor
27 Julia Gillard Victoria Lalor Labor
28 Tony Abbott New South Wales Warringah Liberal
29 Malcolm Turnbull New South Wales Wentworth Liberal

By state

State Prime Minister #
New South Wales Edmund Barton 1
Chris Watson 3
George Reid 4
Joseph Cook 6
Billy Hughes[1] 7
Earle Page 11
Ben Chifley 16
William McMahon 20
Gough Whitlam 21
Paul Keating 24
John Howard 25
Tony Abbott 28
Malcolm Turnbull 29
Queensland Andrew Fisher 5
Arthur Fadden 13
Frank Forde 15
Kevin Rudd 26
Tasmania Joseph Lyons 10
Victoria Alfred Deakin 2
Billy Hughes[1] 7
Stanley Bruce 8
James Scullin 9
Robert Menzies 13
Harold Holt 17
John McEwen 18
John Gorton 19
Malcolm Fraser 22
Bob Hawke 23
Julia Gillard 27
Western Australia John Curtin 14

Per state

Number State
13 New South Wales[1]
11 Victoria[1]
4 Queensland
1 Tasmania
1 Western Australia
0 ACT
0 Northern Territory
0 South Australia

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Hughes, while Prime Minister, held a New South Wales seat, then a Victorian seat, then a different New South Wales seat.

See also

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