Length of leadership before winning an election
How long has each Prime Minister been party leader before winning an election? Let’s take the post WWII ones.
- Sidney Holland, 109 months
- Norman Kirk, 84 months
- Walter Nash, 83 months
- Helen Clark, 72 months
- Jim Bolger, 57 months
- Peter Fraser, 42 months
- Keith Holyoake, 39 months
- John Key, 24 months
- Robert Muldoon, 17 months
- David Lange, 17 months
So it is asking a lot of the public to make someone Prime Minister of New Zealand, when they have not had a chance to actualy observe their leadership skills for just two months. Campaign skills will be on display, but there is a difference between leadership skills and campaign skills.