Several years have been referred to as the Year of three prime ministers or Year of the three prime ministers. This list does not represent all times that a country has had three prime ministers in a single year.
1868 in the United Kingdom[1]
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, resigned in February; Benjamin Disraeli took the helm of the Conservative Party and served as Prime Minister through December, when he lost a general election to the Liberal Party, being succeeded by its leader, William Ewart Gladstone.
1941 in Australia[2]
Robert Menzies of the United Australia Party resigned in August and was replaced as leader of the governing coalition by the Country Party's Arthur Fadden; Fadden lost a motion of no confidence after 39 days, and John Curtin became prime minister 4 days later.
1999 in Russia[a]
In May, President Boris Yeltsin compelled Yevgeny Primakov, his own appointee, to resign.[5] Yeltsin then compelled the resignation of Primakov's successor, Sergei Stepashin, in August, replacing him with Vladimir Putin.[6]
2013 in Australia[7][8][9]
Julia Gillard lost a leadership spill to fellow Labor member Kevin Rudd in June 2013. In the September federal election, Tony Abbott of the Liberal Party defeated Rudd.
2016 in Croatia[10]
The year began amidst negotiations following the 2015 parliamentary election. The negotiations concluded in January, with non-partisan Tihomir Orešković replacing incumbent Zoran Milanović, a Social Democratic Party member. Orešković lost a vote of no confidence in June, and after elections in September was succeeded by Andrej Plenković of the Croatian Democratic Union.
2022 in the United Kingdom[11][12][13]
Boris Johnson announced his resignation in July amidst a government crisis, and was replaced by fellow Conservative Liz Truss in September after a party election; Truss resigned in October amidst another government crisis; Rishi Sunak won the subsequent party election unopposed.
2022 in Israel[14]
Prime minister Naftali Bennett ended his term with the dissolution of the Knesset and a snap election called, with Yair Lapid becoming interim prime minister on 1 July. After the 2022 election, Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister again on 29 December.
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^Walker, Ross (2022). Harold Holt: Always One Step Further. Black Inc. ch. 7. ISBN 9781743822555.
^Faiziev, Dzhanik; Parfyonov, Leonid (2004). "Namedni-1999" Намедни-1999. Namedni 1961–2003: Nasha era [ru] (in Russian). Event occurs at 23:24. NTV.
^"DVD-2930". UCL SSEES Library: Bain Graffy Film Collection. UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
^Dash, P. L. (1999). "Rise and Fall of Yevgeny Primakov". Economic and Political Weekly. 34 (24): 1495. JSTOR 4408072.
^Tran, Mark (9 August 1999). "Yeltsin sacks prime minister". The Guardian. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
^Anderson, Ian (2020). "Foreword". In Lewis, Jenny M.; Tiernan, Anne (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics. p. x. ISBN 9780198805465.
^Murphy, Katharine (11 December 2013). "Holden to depart Australia in 2017—as it happened". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^Abbott, Tony (25 March 2014). "Address to the Governor-General Farewell Reception". PM Transcripts. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^Pavlic, Vedran (16 December 2016). "2016 – A Year of Croatian Politics in Review". Total Croatia News. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^Hayes, Andy (25 October 2022). "New PM, new lectern: Sunak goes for 'solid and stable' after Truss's twisting 'Jenga' tower". Sky News. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^Bogdanor, Vernon (27 October 2022). "Don't Blame the Parliamentary System for Britain's Woes". Essay. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^"Send for Sunak. Why Tories must choose former Chancellor as next leader". Columnists. The Scotsman. 21 October 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
^Pfeffer, Anshel (29 December 2022). "It was a year of rookie errors, ending with the far right in cabinet". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
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