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 | No. | Officeholder | Portrait | Party | District | Assumed office | Left office | Time in office (term) | Time in office (total) | Election wins | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 31st | Joh Bjelke-Petersen | Country & National | Barambah | 8 August 1968 | 1 December 1987 | 1969 1972 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 | ||||||
| 2. | 28th | Frank Nicklin | Country | Landsborough | 12 August 1957 | 17 January 1968 | 1957 1960 1963 1966 | ||||||
| 3. | 24th | William Forgan Smith | Labor | Mackay | 17 June 1932 | 16 September 1942 | 1932 1935 1938 1941 | ||||||
| 4. | 36th | Peter Beattie | Labor | Brisbane Central | 20 June 1998 | 13 September 2007 | 1998 2001 2004 2006 | ||||||
| 5. | 39th | Annastacia Palaszczuk | Labor | Inala | 14 February 2015 | 15 December 2023 | 2015 2017 2020 | ||||||
| 6. | 9th | Samuel Griffith | Liberalism | North Brisbane | 13 November 1883 | 13 June 1888 | 7 years, 75 days | 1883 | |||||
| Ministerial | Brisbane North | 12 August 1890 | 27 March 1893 | ||||||||||
| 7. | 34th | Wayne Goss | Labor | Logan | 7 December 1989 | 19 February 1996 | 1989 1992 1995 | ||||||
| 8. | 1st | Robert Herbert | No Party Alignment | Leichhardt | 10 December 1859 | 1 February 1866 | 6 years, 71 days | ||||||
| West Moreton | 20 July 1866 | 7 August 1866 | |||||||||||
| 9. | 26th | Ned Hanlon | Labor | Ithaca | 7 March 1946 | 15 January 1952 | 1947 1950 | ||||||
| 10. | 8th | Thomas McIlwraith | Conservative | Mulgrave | 21 January 1879 | 13 November 1883 | 5 years, 314 days | 1888 1893 | |||||
| Brisbane North | 13 June 1888 | 30 November 1888 | |||||||||||
| Ministerial | 27 March 1893 | 27 October 1893 | |||||||||||
| 11. | 27th | Vince Gair | Labor | South Brisbane | 17 January 1952 | 24 April 1957 | 5 years, 207 days | 1953 1956 | |||||
| Queensland Labor | 24 April 1957 | 12 August 1957 | |||||||||||
| 12. | 20th | Ted Theodore | Labor | Chillagoe | 22 October 1919 | 26 February 1925 | 1920 1923 | ||||||
| 13. | 17th | William Kidston | Labor | Rockhampton | 19 January 1906 | 18 May 1907 | 4 years, 262 days | 1907 1908 1909 | |||||
| Kidston | 18 May 1907 | 19 November 1907 | |||||||||||
| Kidston/Liberal | 18 February 1908 | 7 February 1911 | |||||||||||
| 14. | 37th | Anna Bligh | Labor | South Brisbane | 13 September 2007 | 26 March 2012 | 2009 | ||||||
| 15. | 11th | Hugh Nelson | Ministerial | Murilla | 27 October 1893 | 13 April 1898 | 1896 | ||||||
| 16. | 19th | T. J. Ryan | Labor | Barcoo | 1 June 1915 | 22 October 1919 | 1915 1918 | ||||||
| 17. | 18th | Digby Denham | Liberal | Oxley | 7 February 1911 | 1 June 1915 | 1912 | ||||||
| 18. | 15th | Robert Philp | Ministerial | Townsville | 17 December 1899 | 17 September 1903 | 4 years, 10 days | ||||||
| Conservative | 19 November 1907 | 18 February 1908 | |||||||||||
| 19. | 2nd | Arthur Macalister | No Party Alignment | Ipswich | 1 February 1866 | 20 July 1866 | 3 years, 296 days | ||||||
| 7 August 1866 | 15 August 1867 | ||||||||||||
| 8 January 1874 | 5 June 1876 | ||||||||||||
| 20. | 5th | Arthur Palmer | No Party Alignment | Port Curtis | 3 May 1870 | 7 January 1874 | |||||||
| 21. | 22nd | William McCormack | Labor | Cairns | 22 October 1925 | 21 May 1929 | 1926 | ||||||
| 22. | 25th | Frank Cooper | Labor | Bremer | 16 September 1942 | 7 March 1946 | 1944 | ||||||
| 23. | 23rd | Arthur Moore | Country and Progressive National Party | Aubigny | 21 May 1929 | 17 June 1932 | 1929 | ||||||
| 24. | 38th | Campbell Newman | Liberal National | Ashgrove | 26 March 2012 | 14 February 2015 | 2012 | ||||||
| 25. | 35th | Rob Borbidge | National | Surfers Paradise | 19 February 1996 | 26 June 1998 | |||||||
| 26. | 16th | Arthur Morgan | Ministerial | Warwick | 17 September 1903 | 19 January 1906 | 1904 | ||||||
| 27. | 7th | John Douglas | No Party Alignment | Maryborough | 8 March 1877 | 21 January 1879 | 1878 | ||||||
| 28. | 32nd | Mike Ahern | National | Landsborough | 1 December 1987 | 25 September 1989 | |||||||
| 29. | 10th | Boyd Morehead | Conservative | Balonne | 30 November 1888 | 12 August 1890 | |||||||
| 30. | 4th | Charles Lilley | No Party Alignment | Fortitude Valley | 25 November 1868 | 2 May 1870 | |||||||
| 31. | 3rd | Robert Mackenzie | No Party Alignment | Burnett | 15 August 1867 | 25 November 1868 | |||||||
| 32. | 13th | James Dickson | Ministerial | Bulimba | 1 October 1898 | 1 December 1899 | 1899 | ||||||
| 33. | 40th | Steven Miles | Labor | Mount Coot-tha Murrumba | 15 December 2023 | 28 October 2024 | |||||||
| 34. | 6th | George Thorn | No Party Alignment | Ipswich | 5 June 1876 | 8 March 1877 | |||||||
| 35. | 21st | William Gillies | Labor | Eacham | 26 February 1925 | 22 October 1925 | |||||||
| 36. | 29th | Jack Pizzey | Country | Isis | 17 January 1968 | 31 July 1968 | |||||||
| 37. | 12th | Thomas Byrnes | Ministerial | Warwick | 13 April 1898 | 27 September 1898 | |||||||
| 38. | 33rd | Russell Cooper | National | Roma | 25 September 1989 | 7 December 1989 | |||||||
| 39. | 41st | David Crisafulli | Liberal National | Mundingburra Broadwater | 28 October 2024 | Incumbent | 2024 | ||||||
| 40. | 30th | Gordon Chalk | Liberal | Lockyer | 1 August 1968 | 8 August 1968 | |||||||
| 41. | 14th | Anderson Dawson | Labor | Charters Towers | 1 December 1899 | 7 December 1899 | |||||||