This is a list of premiers of Tasmania by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days between dates.
Rank | No. | Officeholder | Portrait | Party | District | Assumed office | Left office | Time in office (term) | Time in office (total) | Election wins | |
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1. | 30th | Sir Robert Cosgrove (1884–1969) KCMG | Labor | MHA for Denison (1933–1958) | 18 December 1939 | 18 December 1947 | 8 years, 0 days | 18 years, 182 days | 1941 1946 1948 1950 1955 1956 | ||
25 February 1948 | 26 August 1958 | 10 years, 182 days | |||||||||
2. | 32nd | Eric Reece (1909–1999) AC | Labor | MHA for Braddon (1945–1975) | 26 August 1958 | 26 May 1969 | 10 years, 273 days | 13 years, 240 days | 1959 1964 1972 | ||
3 May 1972 | 31 March 1975 | 2 years, 332 days | |||||||||
3. | 37th | Robin Gray (1940– ) | Liberal | MHA for Wilmot (1976–1984) Lyons (1984–1995) | 26 May 1982 | 29 June 1989 | 7 years, 34 days | 1982 1986 | |||
4. | 24th | Sir Walter Lee (1874–1963) KCMG | Commonwealth Liberal | MHA for Wilmot (1909–1946) | 15 April 1916 | 12 August 1922 | 6 years, 119 days | 6 years, 290 days | 1916 1919 1922 | ||
Nationalist | 14 August 1923 | 25 October 1923 | 72 days | ||||||||
15 March 1934 | 22 June 1934 | 99 days | |||||||||
5. | 19th | Sir Elliott Lewis (1858–1935) KCMG | Conservatism | MHA for Richmond (1886–1903) | 12 October 1899 | 9 April 1903 | 3 years, 179 days | 6 years, 188 days | 1900 1912 | ||
Commonwealth Liberal | MHA for Denison (1909–1922) | 19 June 1909 | 20 October 1909 | 123 days | |||||||
27 October 1909 | 14 June 1912 | 2 years, 231 days | |||||||||
6. | 12th | Sir Philip Fysh (1835–1919) KCMG | No Party Alignment | MHA for Buckingham (1884–1894) | 9 August 1877 | 5 March 1878 | 208 days | 5 years, 349 days | |||
Liberalism | 29 March 1887 | 17 August 1892 | 5 years, 141 days | ||||||||
7. | 45th | Will Hodgman (1969– ) | Liberal | MHA for Franklin (2002–2020) | 31 March 2014 | 20 January 2020 | 5 years, 295 days | 2014 2018 | |||
8. | 27th | Sir John McPhee (1878–1952) KCMG | Nationalist | MHA for Denison (1919–1934) | 15 June 1928 | 15 March 1934 | 5 years, 273 days | 1928 1931 | |||
9. | 13th | William Giblin (1840–1887) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Wellington (1877–1885) | 5 March 1878 | 20 December 1878 | 290 days | 5 years, 215 days | 1882 | ||
30 October 1879 | 15 August 1884 | 4 years, 290 days | |||||||||
10. | 41st | Jim Bacon (1950–2004) AC | Labor | MHA for Denison (1993–2004) | 14 September 1998 | 21 March 2004 | 5 years, 189 days | 1998 2002 | |||
11. | 18th | Sir Edward Braddon (1829–1904) KCMG | Free Trade | MHA for West Devon (1893–1901) | 14 April 1894 | 12 October 1899 | 5 years, 181 days | 1897 | |||
12. | 28th | Albert Ogilvie (1890–1939) | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1917–1939) | 22 June 1934 | 11 June 1939 | 4 years, 354 days | 1934 1937 | |||
13. | 21st | Sir John Evans (1855–1943) CMG | Conservatism | MHA for Kingborough (1897–1909) | 12 July 1904 | 19 June 1909 | 4 years, 342 days | 1906 1909 | |||
14. | 26th | Joseph Lyons (1879–1939) CH | Labor | MHA for Wilmot (1909–1929) | 25 October 1923 | 15 June 1928 | 4 years, 234 days | 1925 | |||
15. | 42nd | Paul Lennon (1955– ) AO | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1989–2008) | 21 March 2004 | 26 May 2008 | 4 years, 66 days | 2006 | |||
16. | 39th | Ray Groom (1944– ) AO | Liberal | MHA for Denison (1986–2001) | 17 February 1992 | 18 March 1996 | 4 years, 30 days | 1992 1996 | |||
17. | 35th | Doug Lowe (1942– ) AM | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1969–1986) | 1 December 1977 | 11 November 1981 | 3 years, 345 days | 1979 | |||
18. | 6th | James Whyte (1820–1882) | No Party Alignment | MLC for Pembroke (1856–1876) | 20 January 1863 | 24 November 1866 | 3 years, 308 days | ||||
19. | 4th | Sir Francis Smith (1819–1909) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Fingal (1857–1860) | 12 May 1857 | 1 November 1860 | 3 years, 173 days | ||||
20. | 8th | Sir James Wilson (1812–1880) KCMG | No Party Alignment | MLC for Hobart (1859–1880) | 4 August 1869 | 4 November 1872 | 3 years, 92 days | 1871 | |||
21. | 44th | Lara Giddings (1972– ) | Labor | MHA for Franklin (2002– ) | 23 January 2011 | 31 March 2014 | 3 years, 67 days | ||||
22. | 10th | Alfred Kennerley (1810–1897) | No Party Alignment | MLC for Hobart (1865–1877) | 4 August 1873 | 20 July 1876 | 2 years, 351 days | ||||
23. | 33rd | Sir Angus Bethune (1908–2004) | Liberal | MHA for Wilmot (1946–1975) | 26 May 1969 | 3 May 1972 | 2 years, 343 days | 1969 | |||
24. | 47th | Jeremy Rockliff (1970– ) | Liberal | MHA for Braddon (2002– ) | 8 April 2022 | Incumbent | 2 years, 260 days [1] | ||||
25. | 7th | Sir Richard Dry (1815–1869) KCMG | No Party Alignment | MLC for Tamar (1862–1869) | 24 November 1866 | 4 August 1869 | 2 years, 253 days | 1866 1869 | |||
26. | 34th | Bill Neilson (1925–1989) AC | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1941–1977) | 31 March 1975 | 1 December 1977 | 2 years, 245 days | 1976 | |||
27. | 43rd | David Bartlett (1968– ) | Labor | MHA for Denison (2004–2011) | 26 May 2008 | 23 January 2011 | 2 years, 242 days | 2010 | |||
28. | 38th | Michael Field (1948– ) AC | Labor | MHA for Braddon (1975–1997) | 29 June 1989 | 17 February 1992 | 2 years, 233 days | 1989 | |||
29. | 40th | Tony Rundle (1939– ) AO | Liberal | MHA for Braddon (1982–2002) | 18 March 1996 | 14 September 1998 | 2 years, 180 days | ||||
30. | 46th | Peter Gutwein (1964– ) | Liberal | MHA for Bass (2002–2022) | 20 January 2020 | 8 April 2022 | 2 years, 78 days | 2021 | |||
31. | 22nd | John Earle (1865–1932) | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1909–1917) | 20 October 1909 | 27 October 1909 | 7 days | 2 years, 16 days | |||
6 April 1914 | 15 April 1916 | 2 years, 9 days | |||||||||
32. | 23rd | Albert Solomon (1876–1914) | Commonwealth Liberal | MHA for Bass (1909–1914) | 14 June 1912 | 6 April 1914 | 1 year, 296 days | 1913 | |||
33. | 17th | Henry Dobson (1841–1918) | Conservatism | MHA for Brighton (1891–1900) | 17 August 1892 | 14 April 1894 | 1 year, 240 days | 1893 | |||
34. | 14th | Sir Adye Douglas (1815–1906) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Fingal (1872–1886) | 15 August 1884 | 8 March 1886 | 1 year, 205 days | ||||
35. | 5th | Thomas Chapman (1815–1884) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Queenborough (1861–1862) Campbell Town (1862-1864) | 2 August 1861 | 20 January 1863 | 1 year, 171 days | 1861 | |||
36. | 20th | William Propsting (1861–1937) CMG | Conservatism | MHA for North Hobart (1903–1906) | 9 April 1903 | 12 July 1904 | 1 year, 94 days | ||||
37. | 16th | Sir James Agnew (1815–1901) KCMG | No Party Alignment | MHA for Macquarie (1886–1887) | 8 March 1886 | 29 March 1887 | 1 year, 21 days | ||||
38. | 11th | Thomas Reibey (1821–1912) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Westbury (1874–1903) | 20 July 1876 | 9 August 1877 | 1 year, 20 days | ||||
39. | 25th | John Hayes (1868–1956) | Nationalist | MHA for Bass (1913–1923) | 12 August 1922 | 14 August 1923 | 1 year, 2 days | ||||
40. | 14th | Dr William Crowther (1817–1885) FRCS | No Party Alignment | MLC for Hobart (1866–1885) | 20 December 1878 | 30 October 1879 | 314 days | ||||
41. | 3rd | William Weston (1804–1888) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Ringwood (1856–1857) | 25 April 1857 | 12 May 1857 | 17 days | 291 days | |||
1 November 1860 | 2 August 1861 | 274 days | |||||||||
42. | 9th | Frederick Innes (1816–1882) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Selby (1872–1873) | 4 November 1872 | 4 August 1873 | 273 days | ||||
43. | 36th | Harry Holgate (1933–1997) AO | Labor | MHA for Bass (1972–1992) | 11 November 1981 | 26 May 1982 | 196 days | ||||
44. | 29th | Edmund Dwyer-Gray (1870–1945) | Labor | MHA for Denison (1925–1945) | 11 June 1939 | 18 December 1939 | 190 days | ||||
45. | 1st | William Champ (1808–1892) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Launceston (1856–1857) | 1 November 1856 | 26 February 1857 | 117 days | ||||
46. | 31st | Edward Brooker (1891–1948) | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1931–1948) | 18 December 1947 | 24 February 1948 | 68 days | ||||
47. | 2nd | Thomas Gregson (1796–1874) | No Party Alignment | MHA for Richmond (1856–1872) | 26 February 1857 | 25 April 1857 | 58 days |
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