List of Australian Prime Ministers by time served

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Longest prime ministership
6740 days
Robert Menzies
from 1939 to 1941 and 1949 to 1966

Shortest prime ministership
8 days
Frank Forde
in 1945

This is a list of Australian Prime Ministers by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days between dates.

1 Rank by time in office
2 Total time in office of Australian political parties
3 Notes
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Rank by time in office

Rank	Prime Minister	Length in days	Notes
1	Robert Menzies	6740	Australia's longest serving Prime Minister had two non-consecutive terms in office. His second term, from 1949 to 1966, lasted a record 5883 days.
2	John Howard	4021^[1]	If Howard remains in office until 19 April 2012, he will have served the longest continuous term of any Australian Prime Minister. If he remains in office until 24 August 2014, he will overtake Robert Menzies as Australia's longest serving Prime Minister.
3	Bob Hawke	3207
4	Malcolm Fraser	2678
5	Billy Hughes	2663	Hughes served as Prime Minister for three parties; Labor, National Labor, and Nationalist.
6	Joseph Lyons	2649	Died in office.
7	Stanley Bruce	2448
8	Alfred Deakin	1777	Served three non-consecutive terms, of 217 days, 1228 days, and 322 days, respectively.
9	Andrew Fisher	1761	Served three non-consecutive terms, of 202 days, 1156 days, and 406 days, respectively.
10	Ben Chifley	1621
11	Paul Keating	1544
12	John Curtin	1368	Died in office.
13	John Gorton	1156
14	Gough Whitlam	1072
15	Edmund Barton	997	Australia's first Prime Minister.
16	James Scullin	807
17	Harold Holt	693	Disappeared while swimming, presumed to have drowned.
18	William McMahon	637
19	Joseph Cook	451
20	George Reid	322
21	Chris Watson	113
22	Arthur Fadden	40
23	John McEwen	23	Served in the interim between the disappearance of Harold Holt and the election to the Liberal leadership of John Gorton.
24	Earle Page	20	Served in the interim between the death of Joseph Lyons and the election to the United Australia Party leadership of Robert Menzies.
25	Frank Forde	8	Served in the interim between the death of John Curtin and the election to the Labor leadership of Ben Chifley.

[edit] Total time in office of Australian political parties

Liberal Party of Australia - 15066 days^[2]
Australian Labor Party - 13644 days
Nationalist Party of Australia - 4631 days
United Australia Party - 2972 days
Protectionist Party - 2441 days
Commonwealth Liberal Party - 783 days
Free Trade Party - 322 days
National Labor Party - 96 days
National Party of Australia - 83 days

The National Party (known as the Country Party prior to 1975, and as the National Country Party until 1982) has been in government as a junior coalition partner to the Nationalist, United Australia and Liberal parties for a total of 19737 days^[3]