List of Prime Ministers of Australia

Below is a list of Prime Ministers of Australia by name, birth date, birth place, date first elected to the Australian parliament, political party, electoral constituency, date assumed office, date left office, date left parliament (where applicable) and date of death (where applicable).

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 prime ministerships.

For a less detailed version of this list see here.

List

Footnotes

#The Electoral Division of Ballaarat was spelled with a double "a" until 1977.
#Holt went missing on 17 December 1967. On 19 December he was declared presumed dead and his commission as Prime Minister was terminated on that day. In 2005 the Victorian Coroner ruled that he had in fact drowned on 17 December.
#Gorton was elected to the Senate at the general election of 10 December 1949, but his term did not commence until 22 February 1950. He was first elected to the House of Representatives at a by-election on 24 February 1968, after he had been appointed Prime Minister.
#Gorton retired from the House of Representatives at the double dissolution of 11 November 1975, and stood for an Australian Capital Territory Senate seat as an independent at the general election of 13 December 1975, but was unsuccessful.

ee also

*Politics of Australia
*History of Australia

External links

* [http://www.pm.gov.au/ Official website of the Prime Minister of Australia]