Year Of Three Prime Ministers

Several years have been referred to as the Year of Three Prime Ministers or Year of the Three Prime Ministers. This list does represent all times that a country has had three prime ministers in a single year.

; 1868 in the United Kingdom: 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: 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.
; 1984 in Canada: Pierre Trudeau of the Canadian Liberal Party resigned in June and was replaced by John Turner following a leadership election. In the September federal election, Brian Mulroney of the Conservative Party defeated Turner.
; 1990 in New Zealand: Geoffrey Palmer of the New Zealand Labour Party resigned in September and was replaced as leader by Mike Moore. In the October general election, Jim Bolger of the National Party defeated Moore.
; 1993 in Canada: In June Brian Mulroney retired as leader of the Canadian Conservative Party, and, following a leadership election, Kim Campbell replaced him, Canada's first woman prime minister. In the October federal election, Jean Chrétien of the Liberal Party defeated Campbell, who also lost her own seat.
; 1999 in Russia: In May, President Boris Yeltsin compelled Yevgeny Primakov, his own appointee, to resign. Yeltsin then compelled the resignation of Primakov's successor, Sergei Stepashin, in August, replacing him with Vladimir Putin.
; 2013 in Australia: 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: 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: 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.

See also

* Year of the Three Emperors (German Empire, 1888)
* Year of the Three Kings (several years)
* Year of three popes (thirteen years, plus one year of four popes)
* Year of the Four Emperors (Roman Empire, 69)
* Year of the Five Emperors (Roman Empire, 193)
* Year of the Six Emperors (Roman Empire, 238)

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