List of Premiers of Tasmania by time in office
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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 by time in office
| Rank: | No: | Office Holder: | Portrait: | Party: | District: | Assumed Office: | Left Office: | TERM Time in Office: | TOTAL Time in Office: | 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 (1941– ) | 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. | 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 |
| | 8. | 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 | |||||||||
| | 9. | 41st | Jim Bacon (1950–2004) AC | Labor | MHA for Denison (1993–2004) | 14 September 1998 | 21 March 2004 | | 5 years, 189 days | 1998 2002 | |
| | 10. | 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 |
| | 11. | 45th | Will Hodgman (1969– ) |  | Liberal | MHA for Franklin (2002– ) | 31 March 2014 | Incumbent | | 5 years, 17 days[1] | 2014 2018 |
| | 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 | MHA 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 | MHA 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 | MHA 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. | 7th | Sir Richard Dry (1815–1869) KCMG |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Tamar (1862–1869) | 24 November 1866 | 4 August 1869 | | 2 years, 253 days | 1866 1869 |
| | 25. | 34th | Bill Neilson (1925–1989) AC |  | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1941–1977) | 31 March 1975 | 1 December 1977 | | 2 years, 245 days | 1976 |
| | 26. | 43rd | David Bartlett (1968– ) |  | Labor | MHA for Denison (2004–2011) | 26 May 2008 | 23 January 2011 | | 2 years, 242 days | 2010 |
| | 27. | 38th | Michael Field (1948– ) AC | Labor | MHA for Braddon (1975–1997) | 29 June 1989 | 17 February 1992 | | 2 years, 233 days | 1989 | |
| | 28. | 40th | Tony Rundle (1939– ) AO | Liberal | MHA for Braddon (1982–2002) | 18 March 1996 | 14 September 1998 | | 2 years, 180 days | ||
| | 29. | 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 | |||||||||
| | 30. | 23rd | Albert Solomon (1876–1914) |  | Commonwealth Liberal | MHA for Bass (1909–1914) | 14 June 1912 | 6 April 1914 | | 1 year, 296 days | 1913 |
| | 31. | 17th | Henry Dobson (1841–1918) |  | Conservatism | MHA for Brighton (1891–1900) | 17 August 1892 | 14 April 1894 | | 1 year, 240 days | 1893 |
| | 32. | 14th | Sir Adye Douglas (1815–1906) |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Fingal (1872–1886) | 15 August 1884 | 8 March 1886 | | 1 year, 205 days | |
| | 33. | 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 |
| | 34. | 20th | William Propsting (1861–1937) CMG |  | Conservatism | MHA for North Hobart (1903–1906) | 9 April 1903 | 12 July 1904 | | 1 year, 94 days | |
| | 35. | 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 | |
| | 36. | 11th | Thomas Reibey (1821–1912) |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Westbury (1874–1903) | 20 July 1876 | 9 August 1877 | | 1 year, 20 days | |
| | 37. | 25th | John Hayes (1868–1956) |  | Nationalist | MHA for Bass (1913–1923) | 12 August 1922 | 14 August 1923 | | 1 year, 2 days | |
| | 38. | 14th | Dr William Crowther (1817–1885) FRCS |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Hobart (1866–1885) | 20 December 1878 | 30 October 1879 | | 314 days | |
| | 39. | 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 | |||||||||
| | 40. | 9th | Frederick Innes (1816–1882) |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Selby (1872–1873) | 4 November 1872 | 4 August 1873 | | 273 days | |
| | 41. | 36th | Harry Holgate (1933–1997) AO | Labor | MHA for Bass (1972–1992) | 11 November 1981 | 26 May 1982 | | 196 days | ||
| | 42. | 29th | Edmund Dwyer-Gray (1870–1945) |  | Labor | MHA for Denison (1925–1945) | 11 June 1939 | 18 December 1939 | | 190 days | |
| | 43. | 1st | William Champ (1808–1892) |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Launceston (1856–1857) | 1 November 1856 | 26 February 1857 | | 117 days | |
| | 44. | 31st | Edward Brooker (1891–1948) |  | Labor | MHA for Franklin (1931–1948) | 18 December 1947 | 24 February 1948 | | 68 days | |
| | 45. | 2nd | Thomas Gregson (1798–1874) |  | No Party Alignment | MHA for Richmond (1856–1872) | 26 February 1857 | 25 April 1857 | | 58 days |
Notes
^ Will Hodgman's time in office as of 17 April 2019
See also
- Premier of Tasmania
- List of Prime Ministers of Australia by time in office
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- List of Premiers of New South Wales by time in office
- List of Premiers of Queensland by time in office
- List of Premiers of South Australia by time in office
- List of Premiers of Victoria by time in office
- List of Premiers of Western Australia by time in office
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