List of New Zealand Prime Ministers by term

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The following is a list of Prime Ministers of New Zealand ranked by their total term in office (multiple terms are added together to give the total term in office).

[edit] List of New Zealand Prime Ministers by term

Rank Name Term(s)
1 Richard Seddon 13 years, 2 months, 2 weeks and 3 days
2 William Massey 12 years, 10 months
3 Keith Holyoake 12 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 6 days. [1]
4 Peter Fraser 9 years, 9 months, 2 weeks
5 Edward Stafford 8 years, 10 months, 2 weeks, 5 days[2]
6 Robert Muldoon 8 years, 7 months, 2 weeks
7 Joseph Ward 7 years, 1 month, 1 week, 4 days[3]
8 Jim Bolger 7 years, 1 month, 6 days
9 Sidney Holland 6 years, 8 months, 1 week
10 Harry Atkinson 5 years, 2 months, 4 weeks, 5 days[4]
11 David Lange 5 years, 1 week, 5 days
12 George Forbes 4 years, 6 months, 3 weeks, 1 day
13 Michael Joseph Savage 4 years, 3 months, 3 weeks
14 Gordon Coates 3 years, 6 months, 2 weeks, 6 days
15 William Fox 3 years, 4 months, 1 week[5]
16 Robert Stout 3 years, 1 month, 2 weeks, 5 days[6]
17 Walter Nash 3 years
18 Julius Vogel 2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 2 days[7]
19 John Hall 2 years, 6 months, 1 week, 6 days
20 Frederick Whitaker 2 years, 5 months, 1 week[8]
21 John Ballance 2 years, 4 months, 3 days
22 Jenny Shipley 1 year, 11 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
23 George Grey 1 year, 11 months, 5 days
24 Norman Kirk 1 year, 8 months, 1 week, 1 day
25 Alfred Domett 1 year, 2 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
26 Bill Rowling 1 year, 2 months, 6 days
27 Geoffrey Palmer 1 year, 3 weeks, 4 days
28 Frederick Weld 11 months, 2 weeks
29 Jack Marshall 11 months, 1 day
30 Daniel Pollen 7 months, 1 week, 1 day
31 George Waterhouse 4 months, 3 weeks, 6 days
32 Thomas Mackenzie 4 months, 2 weeks
33 William Hall-Jones 1 month, 3 weeks, 6 days
34 Mike Moore 1 month, 3 weeks, 5 days
35 Francis Bell 2 weeks, 6 days
36 Henry Sewell 1 week, 6 days

NB: The current Prime Minister, Helen Clark, is not listed. As of 5 December 2006, she had served for 7 years, on 10 January 2007 she passed Sir Joseph Ward to become New Zealand's 7th longest-serving Prime Minister.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Served 2 terms - 20 September 1957 - 12 December 1957: 2 months, 3 weeks, 1 day and 12 December 1960 - 7 February 1972: 11 years, 1 month, 5 days.
  2. ^ Served 3 terms: (5 years, 1 month, 6 days), 16 October 1865 - 28 June 1869 (3 years, 8 months, 1 week, 5 days), 10 September 1872 - 11 October 1872 (1 month, 1 day)
  3. ^ Served 2 terms: 6 August 1906 - 28 March 1912 (5 years, 7 months, 3 weeks) and 10 December 1928 - 28 May 1930 (1 year, 5 months, 2 weeks, 4 days)
  4. ^ Served 4 terms: 1 September 1876 - 13 October 1877 (1 year, 1 month, 1 week, 3 days), 25 September 1883 - 16 August 1884 (11 months, 2 weeks), 28 August 1884 - 3 September 1884 (6 days), 8 October 1887 - 24 January 1891 (3 years, 2 months, 2 weeks, 2 days)
  5. ^ Served 4 terms: (Twelve days), (3 weeks, 3 days), 28 June 1869 - 10 September 1872 (3 years, 2 months, twelve days), and 3 March 1873 - 8 April 1873 (1 month, 6 days)
  6. ^ Served 2 terms: 16 August 1884 - 28 August 1884 (2 weeks) and 3 September 1884 - 8 October 1887 (3 years, 1 month, 5 days)
  7. ^ Served 2 terms: 8 April 1873 - 6 July 1875 (2 years, 3 months, 2 days), 15 February 1876 - 1 September 1876 (5 months, 2 weeks)
  8. ^ Served 2 terms: (1 year, 1 month, 3 days), 21 April 1882 - 25 September 1883 (1 year, 4 months, 4 days).
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