List of prime ministers defeated by votes of no confidence

This is a list of prime ministers defeated by either a parliamentary motion of no confidence or by the similar process of loss of supply.

Only one Australian prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, has ever been defeated in the House of Representatives by an explicit motion of no confidence.

Following Whitlam's dismissal, Malcolm Fraser was appointed prime minister.

However, the Governor-General refused to see the Speaker of the House of Representatives who was to convey this motion of no confidence to him, or to acknowledge the motion of no confidence of the House of Representatives which had also called on the Governor-General to recommission the government led by Gough Whitlam.

[2] These countries are generally parliamentary systems in which the president is elected by the parliament but is also head of state.