List of Prime Ministers of Australia by time in office

Table columns:
Rank:
No:
Prime Minister:
Portrait:
Party:
District:
Assumed Office:
Left Office:
TERM Time in Office:
TOTAL Time in Office:
Election Wins:

Table rows:
cells: 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 1949 1951 1954 1955 1958 1961 1963
cells: Liberal
19 December 1949
26 January 1966
16 years, 38 days
cells: 2.
25th
John Howard (born 1939)
Liberal
Bennelong, NSW (1974–2007)
11 March 1996
3 December 2007
11 years, 267 days
11 years, 267 days
1996 1998 2001 2004
cells: 3.
23rd
Bob Hawke (born 1929)
Labor
Wills, VIC (1980–1992)
11 March 1983
20 December 1991
8 years, 284 days
8 years, 284 days
1983 1984 1987 1990
cells: 4.
22nd
Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015)
Liberal
Wannon, VIC (1955–1983)
11 November 1975
11 March 1983
7 years, 120 days
7 years, 120 days
1975 1977 1980
cells: 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
7 years, 105 days
1917 1919 1922
cells: National Labor
cells: Nationalist
cells: 6.
10th
Joseph Lyons (1879–1939)
United Australia
Wilmot, TAS (1929–1939)
6 January 1932
7 April 1939
7 years, 91 days
7 years, 91 days
1931 1934 1937
cells: 7.
8th
Stanley Bruce (1883–1967)
Nationalist
Flinders, VIC (1918–1929)
9 February 1923
22 October 1929
6 years, 255 days
6 years, 255 days
1925 1928
cells: 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
cells: 5 July 1905
13 November 1908
3 years, 131 days
cells: Commonwealth Liberal
2 June 1909
29 April 1910
331 days
cells: 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
cells: 29 April 1910
24 June 1913
3 years, 56 days
cells: 17 September 1914
27 October 1915
1 year, 40 days
cells: 10.
16th
Ben Chifley (1885–1951)
Labor
Macquarie, NSW (1940–1951)
13 July 1945
19 December 1949
4 years, 159 days
4 years, 159 days
1946
cells: 11.
24th
Paul Keating (born 1944)
Labor
Blaxland, NSW (1969–1996)
20 December 1991
11 March 1996
4 years, 82 days
4 years, 82 days
1993
cells: 12.
14th
John Curtin (1885–1945)
Labor
Fremantle, WA (1934–1945)
7 October 1941
5 July 1945
3 years, 271 days
3 years, 271 days
1943
cells: 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
3 years, 59 days
1969
cells: 14.
27th
Julia Gillard (born 1961)
Labor
Lalor, VIC (1998–2013)
24 June 2010
27 June 2013
3 years, 3 days
3 years, 3 days
2010
cells: 15.
21st
Gough Whitlam (1916–2014)
Labor
Werriwa, NSW (1952–1978)
5 December 1972
11 November 1975
2 years, 341 days
2 years, 341 days
1972 1974
cells: 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
cells: 27 June 2013
18 September 2013
83 days
cells: 17.
1st
Sir Edmund Barton (1849–1920)
Protectionist
Hunter, NSW (1901–1903)
1 January 1901
24 September 1903
2 years, 266 days
2 years, 266 days
1901
cells: 18.
29th
Malcolm Turnbull (born 1954)
Liberal
Wentworth, NSW (2004–present)
15 September 2015
Incumbent
2 years, 203 days
2 years, 203 days
2016
cells: 19.
9th
James Scullin (1876–1953)
Labor
Yarra, VIC (1922–1949)
22 October 1929
6 January 1932
2 years, 76 days
2 years, 76 days
1929
cells: 20.
28th
Tony Abbott (born 1957)
Liberal
Warringah, NSW (1994–present)
18 September 2013
15 September 2015
1 year, 362 days
1 year, 362 days
2013
cells: 21.
17th
Harold Holt (1908–1967)
Liberal
Higgins, VIC (1949–1967)
26 January 1966
19 December 1967
1 year, 327 days
1 year, 327 days
1966
cells: 22.
20th
William McMahon (1908–1988)
Liberal
Lowe, NSW (1949–1982)
10 March 1971
5 December 1972
1 year, 270 days
1 year, 270 days
cells: 23.
6th
Joseph Cook (1860–1947)
Commonwealth Liberal
Parramatta, NSW (1901–1921)
24 June 1913
17 September 1914
1 year, 85 days
1 year, 85 days
1913
cells: 24.
4th
George Reid (1845–1918)
Free Trade
East Sydney, NSW (1901–1910)
18 August 1904
5 July 1905
321 days
321 days
cells: 25.
3rd
Chris Watson (1867–1941)
Labor
Bland, NSW (1901–1906)
27 April 1904
18 August 1904
113 days
113 days
cells: 26.
13th
Arthur Fadden (1894–1973)
Country
Darling Downs, QLD (1936–1949)
29 August 1941
7 October 1941
39 days
39 days
cells: 27.
18th
John McEwen (1900–1980)
Country
Murray, VIC (1949–1971)
19 December 1967
10 January 1968
22 days
22 days
cells: 28.
11th
Sir Earle Page (1880–1961)
Country
Cowper, NSW (1919–1961)
7 April 1939
26 April 1939
19 days
19 days
cells: 29.
15th
Frank Forde (1890–1983)
Labor
Capricornia, QLD (1922–1946)
6 July 1945
13 July 1945
7 days
7 days

Questions about this table:
originalText: who was the longest serving australian prime minister
answer: answerTexts: Sir Robert Menzies