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)		 United Australia Kooyong, VIC
(1934–1966)		 26 April 1939 29 August 1941 2 years, 125 days 18 years, 160 days 1940 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 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 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. 21st Gough Whitlam
(1916–2014)		 Labor Werriwa, NSW
(1952–1978)		 5 December 1972 11 November 1975 2 years, 341 days 1972 1974
  16. 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
  17. 1st Sir Edmund Barton
(1849–1920)		 Protectionist Hunter, NSW
(1901–1903)		 1 January 1901 24 September 1903 2 years, 266 days 1901
  18. 9th James Scullin
(1876–1953)		 Labor Yarra, VIC
(1922–1949)		 22 October 1929 6 January 1932 2 years, 76 days 1929
  19. 28th Tony Abbott
(born 1957)		 Liberal Warringah, NSW
(1994–present)		 18 September 2013 15 September 2015 1 year, 362 days 2013
  20. 17th Harold Holt
(1908–1967)		 Liberal Higgins, VIC
(1949–1967)		 26 January 1966 19 December 1967 1 year, 327 days 1966
  21. 20th William McMahon
(1908–1988)		 Liberal Lowe, NSW
(1949–1982)		 10 March 1971 5 December 1972 1 year, 270 days
  22. 6th Joseph Cook
(1860–1947)		 Commonwealth Liberal Parramatta, NSW
(1901–1921)		 24 June 1913 17 September 1914 1 year, 85 days 1913
  23. 4th George Reid
(1845–1918)		 Free Trade East Sydney, NSW
(1901–1910)		 18 August 1904 5 July 1905 321 days
  24. 29th Malcolm Turnbull
(born 1954)		 Liberal Wentworth, NSW
(2004–present)		 15 September 2015 Incumbent 237 days
  25. 3rd Chris Watson
(1867–1941)		 Labor Bland, NSW
(1901–1906)		 27 April 1904 18 August 1904 113 days
  26. 13th Arthur Fadden
(1894–1973)		 Country Darling Downs, QLD
(1936–1949)		 29 August 1941 7 October 1941 39 days
  27. 18th John McEwen
(1900–1980)		 Country Murray, VIC
(1949–1971)		 19 December 1967 10 January 1968 22 days
  28. 11th Sir Earle Page
(1880–1961)		 Country Cowper, NSW
(1919–1961)		 7 April 1939 26 April 1939 19 days
  29. 15th Frank Forde
(1890–1983)		 Labor Capricornia, QLD
(1922–1946)		 6 July 1945 13 July 1945 7 days

    Parties by time in office

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