| Year | Winning Party | Prime Minister(s) |
|---|
| 1901 | Protectionist | Edmund Barton |
| 1903 | Protectionist | Alfred Deakin |
| 1906 | Anti-Socialist | Alfred Deakin |
| 1910 | Labour | Andrew Fisher |
| 1913 | Commonwealth Liberal | Joseph Cook |
| 1914 | Labour | Andrew Fisher, Billy Hughes |
| 1917 | Nationalist | Billy Hughes |
| 1919 | Nationalist | Billy Hughes |
| 1922 | Nationalist/Country | Billy Hughes, Stanley Bruce |
| 1925 | Nationalist/Country | Stanley Bruce |
| 1928 | Nationalist/Country | Stanley Bruce |
| 1929 | Labour | James Scullin |
| 1931 | United Australia/Country | Joseph Lyons |
| 1934 | United Australia/Country | Joseph Lyons |
| 1937 | United Australia/Country | Joseph Lyons |
| 1940 | United Australia/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1943 | Labour | John Curtin |
| 1946 | Labour | Ben Chifley |
| 1949 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1951 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1954 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1955 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1958 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1961 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1963 | Liberal/Country | Robert Menzies |
| 1966 | Liberal/Country | Harold Holt |
| 1969 | Liberal/Country | John Gorton |
| 1972 | Labour | Gough Whitlam |
| 1974 | Labour | Gough Whitlam |
| 1975 | Liberal/National Country | Malcolm Fraser |
| 1977 | Liberal/National Country | Malcolm Fraser |
| 1980 | Liberal/National Country | Malcolm Fraser |
| 1983 | Labour | Bob Hawke |
| 1984 | Labour | Bob Hawke |
| 1987 | Labour | Bob Hawke |
| 1990 | Labour | Bob Hawke |
| 1993 | Labour | Paul Keating |
| 1996 | Liberal/National | John Howard |
| 1998 | Liberal/National | John Howard |
| 2001 | Liberal/National | John Howard |
| 2004 | Liberal/National | John Howard |
| 2007 | Labour | Kevin Rudd |
| 2010 | Labour (Minority) | Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard |
| 2013 | Liberal/National | Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott |
| 2016 | Liberal/National | Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull |
| 2019 | Liberal/National | Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison |
| 2022 | Labour | Scott Morrison, Anthony Albanese |
