Bill 'Rainbow Boy' Avery
1945.
A prime minister is an elected member of a parliament, just like all the others. In each election the prime minister must stand for election in their constituency. If they lose, then they will no longer be a member of the parliament and cannot become a prime minister again.
He lost the 1990 election, after being Prime Minister for only two months.
They can. It can only happen during a General Election.
It is possible that a Prime Minister could win the general election (i.e., win the most seats) but lose in his/her own riding.In that case, the Prime Minister would likely prevail upon a government backbencher in a so-called "safe seat" to resign, and the Prime Minister would run in the subsequent by-election. The Prime Minister would remain as Prime Minister during this procedure.The Prime Minister could also interpret the result as the electorate signifying satisfaction with his/her party, but dissatisfaction with him/herself personally. In such a case, the Prime Minister might resign and the Governor General would then ask another government member to form a government. Given the ego of your typical Prime Minister, that scenario is not likely to develop unless the Prime Minister also loses the by-election in the safe seat.
Morarji Desai
Firstly, England doesn't have its own Prime Minister. The current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is Prime Minister of all of the UK, not just England. Prime Ministers are replaced if the existing Prime Minister resigns or is otherwise unable to continue to do the job. When there is a General Election - which there will be no later than June 2010 - then the same Prime Minister could be voted back in or could lose out to another political party who will have their own Prime Minister designate. This will probably be David Cameron.
If an election comes and his party loses. I'm pretty sure that's how it would happen.AnswerThe Prime Minister can be dismissed by the Governor General at any time (though one will usually resign before this happens). Usually this will only happen when the Prime Minister loses the confidence of the House of Commons.Normally, the Prime Minister can first ask for a general election instead of resigning, in order to try his chances at a fresh mandate. This request can, however, be refused if the Governor General feels that holding an election would be an abuse of Parliament or of the electorate, though this has only happened once. A Prime Minister will normally resign if he does not feel that a newly elected house will support him, rather than attempting to pass a budget.A Prime Minister can also lose the support of his party, in which case, he will be replaced as leader of the party, and the new leader will be appointed as Prime Minister.
Australia's former treasurer, Paul Keating, defeated Hawke at the election held in 1991.
The House of Commons can defeat a sitting government with a vote of no confidence. This is what led to the May 2011 Canadian Federal election.
Bruce's first federal election was the by-election for the seat of Flinders, then a semi-rural area on the eastern side of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria. He then campaigned in six House of Representatives elections, five of them successfully. In 1929 he became the only Australian Prime Minister to lose his own seat in a landslide victory for Labor, when the government of James Scullin took office. Bruce lost Flinders after the distribution of preferences. In 1931 he regained the seat, but resigned in 1933.