New Zealand Premiers & Prime Ministers

Welcome to a historical look at past New Zealand Prime Ministers.

Henry Sewell: Premier from 7 May 1856 to 20 May 1856
William Fox: Premier from 20 May 1856 to 2 June 1856.
Frederick Aloysius Weld: Premier from 24 November 1864 to 16 October 1865.
Edward William Stafford: Premier from 2 June 1856 to 12 July 1861.
Alfred Domett: Premier from 6 August 1862 to 30 October 1863.
William Fox: Premier from 28 June 1869 to 10 September 1872.
William Fox: Premier from 12 July 1861 to 6 August 1862.
Frederick Whitaker: Premier from 30 October 1863 to 24 November 1864.
Edward William Stafford: Premier from 10 September 1872 to 11 October 1872.
Daniel Pollen: Premier from 6 July 1875 to 15 February 1876.
Edward William Stafford: Premier from 16 October 1865 to 28 June 1869.
William Fox: Premier from 3 March 1873 to 8 April 1873.
John Hall: Premier 8 October 1879 to 21 April 1882.
George Waterhouse: Premier from 11 October 1872 to 3 March 1873.
Sir Julius Vogel: Premier from 8 April 1873 to 6 July 1875.
William Hall-Jones: Liberal Prime Minister from 21 June 1906 to 6 August 1906.
Sir Julius Vogel: Premier from 15 February 1876 to 1 September 1876.
Harry Atkinson: Premier from 1 September 1876 to 13 October 1877.
Robert Stout: Premier from 16 Augest 1884 to 28 August 1884.
Harry Atkinson: Premier from 25 September 1883 to 16 August 1884.
Sir George Grey: Premier 13 October 1877-8 October 1879.
Sir Sidney Holland: National Party Prime Minister from 13 December 1949 to 20 September 1957.
Harry Atkinson: Premier from 28 Augest 1884 to 3 September 1884.
Richard John Seddon: Liberal Party Prime Minister from 1 May 1893 to 10 June 1906.
Frederick Whitaker: Premier from 21 April 1882 to 25 September 1883.
Robert Stout: Premier from 3 September 1884 to 8 October 1887.
Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell: Prime Minister from 14 May 1925 to 30 May 1925.
John Ballance: Liberal Prime Minister 24 January 1891- 27 April 1893.
Thomas MacKenzie: Liberal Party Prime Minister from 28 March 1912 to 10 July 1912.
Harry Atkinson: Premier from 8 October 1887 to 24 January 1891.
Sir Joseph George Ward: Liberal Party Prime Minister from 6 August 1906 to 28 March 1912.
Sir Joseph George Ward: United Party Prime Minister from 10 December 1928 to 28 May 1930.
Peter Fraser: Labour Party Prime Minister from 1 April 1940 to 13 December 1949.
Joseph Gordon Coates: Reform Party Prime Minister from 30 May 1925 to 10 December 1928.
William Ferguson Massey: Prime Minister 10 July 1912-10 May 1925 (Reform Party Government 1912-15, National wartime Reform-Liberal Government 1915-1919, Reform Party 1919-25). Died in Office.
Michael Joseph Savage: Labour Party Prime Minister from 6 December 1935 to 27 March 1940.
Walter Nash: Labour Party Prime Minister from 12 December 1957 to 12 December 1960.
George William Forbes: United Party Prime Minister from 28 May 1930 to 22 September 1931, Coalition Prime Minister from 22 September 1931 to 6 December 1935.
Sir Keith Holyoake: National Party Prime Minister from 12 December 1960 to 7 February 1972.
Norman Kirk: Labour Party Prime Minister from 8 December 1972 to 31 August 1974.
Sir Keith Holyoake: National Party Prime Minister from 20 September 1957 to 12 December 1957.
Wallace (Bill) Rowling: Labour Party Prime Minister from 6 September 1974 to 2 December 1975.
David Russell Lange: Labour Party Prime Minister from 14 July 1984 to 8 August 1989.
John (Jack) Marshall: National Party Prime Minister from 7 February 1972 to 8 December 1972.
Sir Geoffrey Palmer: Labour Party Prime Minister August 1989 until September 1990.
Sir Robert Muldoon: National Party Prime Minister from 12 Decembder 1975 to 26 July 1984.
Michael Kenneth Moore: Labour Party Prime Minister from 4 September 1990 to 2 November 1990.
Jim Bolger: National Party Prime Minister from October 1990 to December 1997
Jenny Shipley: National Party Prime Minister from 8 December 1997 to 5 December 1999.
Helen Clark: Labour Party Prime Minister from 27 November 1999 to 18 November 2008.
John Key: National Party Prime Minister from 19 November 2008 to 12 December 2016.
Bill English: National Party Prime Minister from 12 December 2016 to 26 October 2017
Jacinda Ardern: Labour Party Prime Minister from 26 Oct 2017– to current

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