Year of three prime ministers

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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.

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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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Notes

  1. ↑ Referred to in Namedni-1999   [ ru ], as Год трёх премьеров (God trjoh prem'erov), [3] translated in the library catalogue of the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies as "the year of three Prime Ministers". [4]

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