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List of prime ministers

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The parties shown are those to which the prime ministers belonged at the time they held office, and the electoral divisions shown are those they represented while in office. Several prime ministers belonged to parties other than those given and represented other electorates before and after their time in office.

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List of prime ministers of Australia
No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)
Constituency
Election
(Parliament)
Term of office Political
party
Ministry Ref.
Took office Left office Time in office
1 Edmund Barton
(1849–1920)
MP for Hunter, NSW
1901 (1st) 1 January
1901
24 September
1903
2 years, 266 days Protectionist Barton [1]
2 Alfred Deakin
(1856–1919)
MP for Ballaarat, Vic[a]
— (1st) 24 September
1903
27 April
1904
216 days Protectionist 1st Deakin [2]
1903 (2nd)
3 Chris Watson
(1867–1941)
MP for Bland, NSW
— (2nd) 27 April
1904
18 August
1904
113 days Labor Watson [3]
4 George Reid
(1845–1918)
MP for East Sydney, NSW
— (2nd) 18 August
1904
5 July
1905
321 days Free Trade Reid [4]
(2) Alfred Deakin
(1856–1919)
MP for Ballaarat, Vic[a]
— (2nd) 5 July
1905
13 November
1908
3 years, 131 days Protectionist 2nd Deakin [2]
1906 (3rd)
5 Andrew Fisher
(1862–1928)
MP for Wide Bay, Qld
— (3rd) 13 November
1908
2 June
1909
201 days Labor 1st Fisher [5]
(2) Alfred Deakin
(1856–1919)
MP for Ballaarat, Vic[a]
— (3rd) 2 June
1909
29 April
1910
331 days Liberal 3rd Deakin [2]
(5) Andrew Fisher
(1862–1928)
MP for Wide Bay, Qld
1910 (4th) 29 April
1910
24 June
1913
3 years, 56 days Labor 2nd Fisher [5]
6 Joseph Cook
(1860–1947)
MP for Parramatta, NSW
1913 (5th) 24 June
1913
17 September
1914
1 year, 85 days Liberal Cook [6]
(5) Andrew Fisher
(1862–1928)
MP for Wide Bay, Qld
1914 (6th) 17 September
1914
27 October
1915
1 year, 40 days Labor 3rd Fisher [5]
Billy Hughes
(1862–1952)
MP for West Sydney, NSW (until 1917)
MP for Bendigo, Vic (1917–22)
MP for North Sydney, NSW (from 1922)
— (6th) 27 October
1915
14 November
1916
7 years, 105 days Labor 1st Hughes [7]
7 – (6th) 14 November
1916
17 February
1917
National Labor 2nd Hughes
– (6th) 17 February
1917
9 February
1923
Nationalist 3rd Hughes
1917 (7th) 4th Hughes
1919 (8th) 5th Hughes
8 Stanley Bruce
(1883–1967)
MP for Flinders, Vic
1922 (9th) 9 February
1923
22 October
1929
6 years, 255 days Nationalist
(Coalition)
1st Bruce [8]
1925 (10th) 2nd Bruce
1928 (11th) 3rd Bruce
9 James Scullin
(1876–1953)
MP for Yarra, Vic
1929 (12th) 22 October
1929
6 January
1932
2 years, 76 days Labor Scullin [9]
10 Joseph Lyons
(1879–1939)
MP for Wilmot, Tas
1931 (13th) 6 January
1932
7 April
1939
7 years, 91 days United Australia 1st Lyons [10]
1934 (14th) 2nd Lyons
— (14th) United Australia
(Coalition)
3rd Lyons
1937 (15th) 4th Lyons
11 Earle Page
(1880–1961)
MP for Cowper, NSW
— (15th) 7 April
1939
26 April
1939
19 days Country
(Coalition)
Page
(Caretaker)
[11]
12 Robert Menzies
(1894–1978)
MP for Kooyong, Vic
— (15th) 26 April
1939
29 August
1941
2 years, 125 days United Australia 1st Menzies [12]
United Australia
(Coalition)
2nd Menzies
1940 (16th) 3rd Menzies
13 Arthur Fadden
(1894–1973)
MP for Darling Downs, Qld
— (16th) 29 August
1941
7 October
1941
39 days Country
(Coalition)
Fadden [13]
14 John Curtin
(1885–1945)
MP for Fremantle, WA
7 October
1941
5 July
1945
3 years, 271 days Labor 1st Curtin [14]
1943 (17th) 2nd Curtin
15 Frank Forde
(1890–)
MP for Capricornia, Qld
— (17th) 5 July
1945
13 July
1945
7 days Labor Forde
(Caretaker)
[15]
16 Ben Chifley
(1885–1951)
MP for Macquarie, NSW
— (17th) 13 July
1945
6 June
1951
5 years, 328 days Labor 1st Chifley [16]
1946 (18th) 2nd Chifley
1949 (19th) 3rd Chifley
17 Herbert Vere Evatt
(1894–)
MP for Barton, NSW
— (20th) 6 June
1951
21 February
1955
3 years, 260 days Labor 1st Evatt [17]
1952 (21st) 2nd Evatt
— (22nd) 3rd Evatt
18 Jack Lang
(1876–)
MP for Blaxland, NSW
— (23rd) 21 February
1955
17 December
1955
299 days Labor 1st Lang [18]
19 Richard Casey
(1890–)
MP for La Trobe, Vic
1955 (24th) 17 December
1955
8 January
1960
4 years, 22 days Liberal
(Coalition)
1st Casey [19]
1957 (25th) 2nd Casey
20 Athol Townley
(1905–)
MP for Denison, Tas
— (25th) 8 January
1960
Incumbent 1 year, 358 days[b] Liberal
(Coalition)
1st Townley [20]
1960 (26th) 2nd Townley
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