New Zealand Prime Ministers

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New Zealand Prime Ministers

Years

Prime Minister

Party

1 Formed from merger of Reform Party and United Party in 1936

2 Acting Prime Minister

1949–57

Sidney Holland

National1

1957

Keith Holyoake

National

1957–60

Walter Nash

Labour

1960–72

Keith Holyoake

National

1972

John Marshall

National

1972–74

Norman Kirk

Labour

1974

Hugh Watt2

Labour

1974–75

Wallace Rowling

Labour

1975–84

Robert Muldoon

National

1984–89

David Lange

Labour

1989–90

Geoffrey Palmer

Labour

1990

Michael Moore

Labour

1990–96

Jim Bolger

National

1997–99

Jenny Shipley

National

1999– 

Helen Clark

Labour


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