List of premiers of Queensland by time in office

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This is a list of premiers of Queensland by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days between dates.

Rank by time in office

Rank No. Officeholder Portrait Party District Assumed
office
Left
office
Time in office
(term)
Time in office
(total)
Election
wins
  1. 31st Sir
Joh Bjelke-Petersen
(1911–2005)
KCMG
Country
& National
Barambah
(1950–1987)
8 August 1968 1 December 1987 19 years, 115 days 1969 1972
1974
1977 1980
1983
1986
  2. 28th Sir
Frank Nicklin
(1895–1978)
KCMG MM
Country
Landsborough
(1950–1968)
12 August 1957 17 January 1968 10 years, 158 days 1957 1960
1963
1966
  3. 24th William Forgan Smith
(1887–1953)
Labor
Mackay
(1915–1942)
17 June 1932 16 September 1942 10 years, 91 days 1932 1935
1938
1941
  4. 36th Peter Beattie
(1952–)
AC
Labor
Brisbane Central
(1989–2007)
20 June 1998 13 September 2007 9 years, 85 days 1998 2001
2004
2006
  5. 39th Annastacia Palaszczuk
(1969–)
Labor
Inala
(2006–2023)
14 February 2015 15 December 2023 8 years, 304 days 2015 2017
2020
  6. 9th Sir
QC
Liberalism North Brisbane
(1878–1888)
13 November 1883 13 June 1888 4 years, 213 days 7 years, 75 days 1883
 
Ministerial
Brisbane North
(1888–1893)
12 August 1890 27 March 1893 2 years, 227 days
  7. 34th Wayne Goss
(1951–2014)
Labor
Logan
(1986–1998)
7 December 1989 19 February 1996 6 years, 74 days 1989 1992
1995
  8. 1st Sir
Robert Herbert
(1831–1905)
GCB
No Party Alignment Leichhardt
(1860–1863)
10 December 1859 1 February 1866 6 years, 53 days 6 years, 71 days
West Moreton
(1863–1866)
20 July 1866 7 August 1866 18 days
  9. 26th Ned Hanlon
(1887–1952)
Labor
Ithaca
(1926–1952)
7 March 1946 15 January 1952 5 years, 314 days 1947 1950
  10. 8th Sir
Thomas McIlwraith
(1835–1900)
KCMG
Conservative Mulgrave
(1878–1886)
21 January 1879 13 November 1883 4 years, 296 days 5 years, 314 days 1888 1893
Brisbane North
(1888–1896)
13 June 1888 30 November 1888 170 days
Ministerial
27 March 1893 27 October 1893 214 days
  11. 27th Vince Gair
(1901–1980)
Labor
South Brisbane
(1932–1960)
17 January 1952 24 April 1957 5 years, 97 days 5 years, 207 days 1953 1956
  Queensland Labor 24 April 1957 12 August 1957 110 days
  12. 20th Ted Theodore
(1884–1950)
Labor
Chillagoe
(1912–1925)
22 October 1919 26 February 1925 5 years, 127 days 1920 1923
  13. 17th William Kidston
(1849–1919)
Labor
Rockhampton
(1932–1960)
19 January 1906 18 May 1907 1 year, 119 days 4 years, 262 days 1907 1908
1909
  Kidston 18 May 1907 19 November 1907 185 days
  Kidston/Liberal 18 February 1908 7 February 1911 2 years, 354 days
  14. 37th Anna Bligh
(1960–)
Labor
South Brisbane
(1995–2012)
13 September 2007 26 March 2012 4 years, 195 days 2009
  15. 11th Sir
Hugh Nelson
(1833–1906)
KCMG
Ministerial
Murilla
(1888–1898)
27 October 1893 13 April 1898 4 years, 168 days 1896
  16. 19th T. J. Ryan
(1876–1921)
KC
Labor
Barcoo
(1909–1919)
1 June 1915 22 October 1919 4 years, 143 days 1915 1918
  17. 18th Digby Denham
(1859–1944)
Liberal Oxley
(1902–1915)
7 February 1911 1 June 1915 4 years, 114 days 1912
  18. 15th Sir
Robert Philp
(1851–1922)
KCMG
Ministerial
Townsville
(1888–1912)
17 December 1899 17 September 1903 3 years, 274 days 4 years, 10 days
Conservative 19 November 1907 18 February 1908 91 days
  19. 2nd Arthur Macalister
(1818–1883)
CMG
No Party Alignment Ipswich
(1860–1868)
(1872–1876)
1 February 1866 20 July 1866 169 days 3 years, 296 days
7 August 1866 15 August 1867 1 year, 8 days
8 January 1874 5 June 1876 2 years, 149 days
  20. 5th Sir
Arthur Palmer
(1819–1898)
KCMG
No Party Alignment Port Curtis
(1866–1878)
3 May 1870 7 January 1874 3 years, 249 days
  21. 22nd William McCormack
(1879–1947)
Labor
Cairns
(1912–1930)
22 October 1925 21 May 1929 3 years, 211 days 1926
  22. 25th
Frank Cooper

(1872–1949)
Labor
Bremer
(1915–1946)
16 September 1942 7 March 1946 3 years, 172 days 1944
  23. 23rd Arthur Moore
(1876–1963)
CMG
Country and Progressive
National Party
Aubigny
(1915–1941)
21 May 1929 17 June 1932 3 years, 27 days 1929
  24. 38th Campbell Newman
(1963–)
Liberal National Ashgrove
(2012–2015)
26 March 2012 14 February 2015 2 years, 325 days 2012
  25. 35th Rob Borbidge
(1954–)
National
Surfers Paradise
(1980–2001)
19 February 1996 26 June 1998 2 years, 127 days
  26. 16th Sir
Arthur Morgan

(1856–1916)
Ministerial
Warwick
(1898–1906)
17 September 1903 19 January 1906 2 years, 124 days 1904
  27. 7th John Douglas
(1828–1904)
CMG
No Party Alignment Maryborough
(1875–1880)
8 March 1877 21 January 1879 1 year, 319 days 1878
  28. 32nd Mike Ahern
(1942–2023)
AO
National
Landsborough
(1968–1990)
1 December 1987 25 September 1989 1 year, 298 days
  29. 10th Boyd Morehead
(1843–1905)
Conservative Balonne
(1883–1896)
30 November 1888 12 August 1890 1 year, 255 days
  30. 4th Sir
Charles Lilley
(1827–1897)
No Party Alignment Fortitude Valley
(1860–1874)
25 November 1868 2 May 1870 1 year, 158 days
  31. 3rd Sir
Robert Mackenzie
(1811–1873)
Bt
No Party Alignment Burnett
(1860–1869)
15 August 1867 25 November 1868 1 year, 102 days
  32. 13th Sir
James Dickson
(1832–1901)
KCMG
Ministerial
Bulimba
(1892–1901)
1 October 1898 1 December 1899 1 year, 61 days 1899
  33. 6th George Thorn
(1838–1905)
No Party Alignment Ipswich
(1876–1878)
5 June 1876 8 March 1877 276 days
  34. 21st William Gillies
(1868–1928)
Labor
Eacham
(1912–1925)
26 February 1925 22 October 1925 238 days
  35. 29th Jack Pizzey
(1911–1968)
Country
Isis
(1950–1968)
17 January 1968 31 July 1968 227 days
  36. 12th Thomas Byrnes
(1860–1898)
Ministerial
Warwick
(1896–1898)
13 April 1898 27 September 1898 167 days
  37. 40th
Steven Miles

(1977-)
Labor
Mount Coot-tha
(2015-2017)

Murrumba
(2017-)
15 December 2023 Incumbent 128 days[1]
  38. 33rd Russell Cooper
(1941–)
AM
National
Roma
(1983–1992)
25 September 1989 7 December 1989 73 days
  39. 30th Sir
Gordon Chalk
(1913–1991)
KBE
Liberal
Lockyer
(1950–1976)
1 August 1968 8 August 1968 7 days
  40. 14th Anderson Dawson
(1863–1910)
Labor
Charters Towers
(1893–1901)
1 December 1899 7 December 1899 6 days

Notes

  1. ^ Steven Miles' time in office as of 21 April 2024

See also