Prime Ministers of the UK by length of tenure - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Tenure Terms Party Exit
Reason
1st year
of office
Answer % Correct
50 days 1 Conservative Resigned 2022 Truss
98%
3 years, 44 days 1 Conservative Resigned 2019 Johnson
71%
3 years, 11 days 1 Conservative Resigned 2016 May
71%
2 years, 318 days 1 Labour Election 2007 Brown
68%
10 years, 56 days 1 Labour Resigned 1997 Blair
66%
6 years, 155 days 1 Conservative Election 1990 Major
66%
6 years, 92 days 1 Labour Election 1945 Attlee
61%
6 years, 63 days 1 Conservative Resigned 2010 Cameron
61%
8 years, 239 days 2 Conservative Resigned due to illness 1940 Churchill
61%
1 year, 279 days 1 Conservative Resigned due to illness 1955 Eden
61%
11 years, 208 days 1 Conservative Resigned 1979 Thatcher
61%
363 days 1 Conservative Election 1963 Douglas-Home
59%
3 years, 259 days 1 Conservative Election 1970 Heath
56%
20 years, 314 days 1 Whig Resigned 1721 Walpole
56%
211 days 1 Concervative Resigneddue to illness 1922 Bonar Law
54%
3 years, 29 days 1 Labour Election 1976 Callaghan
54%
7 years, 279 days 2 Labour Resigned 1964 Wilson
54%
6 years, 281 days 1 Conservative Resigned 1957 Macmillan
51%
2 years, 348 days 1 Conservative Resigned 1937 Chamberlain
49%
6 years, 289 days 2 Labour Resigned due to illness 1924 MacDonald
49%
8 years, 244 days 1 Liberal Resigned 1908 Asquith
46%
5 years, 317 days 1 Liberal Resigned 1916 Lloyd George
46%
18 years, 343 days 2 Tory Died 1783 Pitt
46%
119 days 1 Tory Replaced 1827 Canning
44%
12 years, 126 days 4 Liberal Resigned 1868 Gladstone
44%
2 years, 221 days 1 Tory Assassinated 1809 Perceval
44%
7 years, 82 days 3 Conservative Resigned 1923 Baldwin
41%
13 years, 252 days 3 Conservative Resigned due to illness 1885 Gascoyne-Cecil
37%
5 years, 57 days 2 Conservative Resigned 1834 Peel
37%
2 years, 122 days 1 Liberal Resigned due to illness 1905 Campbell-Bannerman
34%
3 years, 280 days 3 Conservative Resigned due to illness 1852 Smith-Stanley
34%
3 years, 145 days 1 Conservative Resigned 1902 Balfour
32%
6 years, 239 days 2 Conservative Election 1868 Disraeli
32%
14 years, 305 days 1 Tory Resigned due to illness 1812 Jenkinson
32%
144 days 1 Tory Died 1827 Robinson
32%
3 years, 82 days 2 Whig/Tory Resigned due to illness 1783 Cavendish-Bentinck
27%
2 years, 42 days 1 Peelite Resigned 1852 Hamilton-Gordon
27%
6 years, 255 days 2 Whig Resigned 1834 Lamb
27%
9 years, 141 days 2 Whig/Liberal Died 1855 Temple
27%
12 years, 58 days 1 Tory Resigned 1770 North
24%
10 years, 191 days 1 Whig Died 1743 Pelham
24%
7 years, 205 days 2 Whig Replaced 1754 Pelham-Holles
24%
2 years, 320 days 2 Tory Replaced 1828 Wellesley
24%
1 year, 119 days 1 Whig Died 1742 Compton
22%
2 years, 76 days 1 Whig Resigned due to illness 1766 Pitt
22%
6 years, 110 days 2 Whig/Liberal Election 1846 Russell
22%
1 year, 113 days 2 Whig Died 1765 Watson-Wentworth
22%
225 days 1 Whig Replaced 1756 Cavendish
20%
266 days 1 Whig Replaced 1782 Fitzmaurice
20%
1 year, 109 days 1 Liberal Election 1894 Primrose
20%
3 years, 229 days 1 Whig Resigned 1830 Grey
17%
317 days 1 Tory Resigned 1762 Stuart
17%
3 years, 54 days 1 Tory Replaced 1801 Addington
15%
1 year, 106 days 1 Whig Resigned 1768 Fitzroy
15%
2 years, 85 days 1 Whig Replaced 1763 Grenville
15%
1 year, 42 days 1 Whig Replaced 1806 Grenville
12%
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