Statistics for Prime Ministers of the UK by length of tenure

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Tenure	Terms	Party	Exit Reason	1st year of office	Answer	% Correct
50 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	2022	Truss	100%
10 years, 56 days	1	Labour	Resigned	1997	Blair	72%
2 years, 318 days	1	Labour	Election	2007	Brown	72%
6 years, 155 days	1	Conservative	Election	1990	Major	72%
3 years, 44 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	2019	Johnson	67%
3 years, 11 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	2016	May	67%
11 years, 208 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	1979	Thatcher	67%
3 years, 29 days	1	Labour	Election	1976	Callaghan	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%
6 years, 92 days	1	Labour	Election	1945	Attlee	56%
3 years, 259 days	1	Conservative	Election	1970	Heath	56%
6 years, 281 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	1957	Macmillan	56%
7 years, 279 days	2	Labour	Resigned	1964	Wilson	56%
8 years, 244 days	1	Liberal	Resigned	1908	Asquith	50%
7 years, 82 days	3	Conservative	Resigned	1923	Baldwin	50%
211 days	1	Concervative	Resigned due to illness	1922	Bonar Law	50%
6 years, 63 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	2010	Cameron	50%
2 years, 348 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	1937	Chamberlain	50%
363 days	1	Conservative	Election	1963	Douglas-Home	50%
12 years, 126 days	4	Liberal	Resigned	1868	Gladstone	50%
5 years, 317 days	1	Liberal	Resigned	1916	Lloyd George	50%
6 years, 289 days	2	Labour	Resigned due to illness	1924	MacDonald	50%
2 years, 221 days	1	Tory	Assassinated	1809	Perceval	50%
18 years, 343 days	2	Tory	Died	1783	Pitt	50%
20 years, 314 days	1	Whig	Resigned	1721	Walpole	50%
3 years, 145 days	1	Conservative	Resigned	1902	Balfour	44%
119 days	1	Tory	Replaced	1827	Canning	44%
13 years, 252 days	3	Conservative	Resigned due to illness	1885	Gascoyne-Cecil	44%
2 years, 122 days	1	Liberal	Resigned due to illness	1905	Campbell-Bannerman	39%
3 years, 82 days	2	Whig/Tory	Resigned due to illness	1783	Cavendish-Bentinck	39%
2 years, 42 days	1	Peelite	Resigned	1852	Hamilton-Gordon	39%
14 years, 305 days	1	Tory	Resigned due to illness	1812	Jenkinson	39%
5 years, 57 days	2	Conservative	Resigned	1834	Peel	39%
3 years, 280 days	3	Conservative	Resigned due to illness	1852	Smith-Stanley	39%
6 years, 239 days	2	Conservative	Election	1868	Disraeli	33%
144 days	1	Tory	Died	1827	Robinson	33%
12 years, 58 days	1	Tory	Resigned	1770	North	28%
10 years, 191 days	1	Whig	Died	1743	Pelham	28%
7 years, 205 days	2	Whig	Replaced	1754	Pelham-Holles	28%
9 years, 141 days	2	Whig/Liberal	Died	1855	Temple	28%
1 year, 113 days	2	Whig	Died	1765	Watson-Wentworth	28%
1 year, 119 days	1	Whig	Died	1742	Compton	22%
3 years, 229 days	1	Whig	Resigned	1830	Grey	22%
6 years, 255 days	2	Whig	Resigned	1834	Lamb	22%
2 years, 76 days	1	Whig	Resigned due to illness	1766	Pitt	22%
1 year, 109 days	1	Liberal	Election	1894	Primrose	22%
6 years, 110 days	2	Whig/Liberal	Election	1846	Russell	22%
2 years, 320 days	2	Tory	Replaced	1828	Wellesley	22%
3 years, 54 days	1	Tory	Replaced	1801	Addington	17%
225 days	1	Whig	Replaced	1756	Cavendish	17%
266 days	1	Whig	Replaced	1782	Fitzmaurice	17%
1 year, 42 days	1	Whig	Replaced	1806	Grenville	17%
317 days	1	Tory	Resigned	1762	Stuart	17%
1 year, 106 days	1	Whig	Resigned	1768	Fitzroy	11%
2 years, 85 days	1	Whig	Replaced	1763	Grenville	11%