List of premiers of South Australia by time in office explained

This is a list of premiers of South Australia by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of years and days between dates.

Rank by time in office

Parties

	Rank	No.	Officeholder	Portrait	Party	District	Assumed office	Left office	Time in office (term)	Time in office (total)	Election wins
		1.	33rd	Sir Thomas Playford		Liberal & Country League	MP for Murray Gumeracha	5 November 1938	10 March 1965			1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962
		2.	39th	John Bannon		Labor	MP for Ross Smith	10 November 1982	4 September 1992			1982 1985 1989
		3.	44th	Mike Rann		Labor	MP for Ramsay	5 March 2002	21 October 2011			2002 2006 2010
	4.	35th	Don Dunstan		Labor	MP for Norwood	1 June 1967	17 April 1968		9 years, 214 days	1970 1973 1975 1977
2 June 1970							15 February 1979
	5.	31st	Sir Richard Butler		Liberal & Country League	MP for Wooroora Light	8 April 1927	17 April 1930		8 years, 210 days	1927 1933 1938
18 April 1933							5 November 1938
		6.	25th	Archibald Peake		Liberal & Democratic Union	MP for Victoria & Albert Alexandra	5 June 1909	3 June 1910		6 years, 312 days	1912 1918
	Liberal Union					17 February 1912		3 April 1915
14 July 1917						8 April 1920
	7.	20th	Charles Kingston		Liberalism	MP for West Adelaide	16 June 1893	1 December 1899			1893 1896 1899
		8.	45th	Jay Weatherill		Labor	MP for Cheltenham	21 October 2011	19 March 2018			2014
		9.	42nd	John Olsen		Liberal	MP for Kavel	28 November 1996	22 October 2001			1997
	10.	8th	Sir Henry Ayers		No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council	15 July 1863	4 August 1864		4 years, 34 days
20 September 1865							23 October 1865
3 May 1867							24 September 1868
13 October 1868							3 November 1868
22 January 1872							22 July 1873
		11.	28th	Sir Henry Barwell		Liberal Federation	MP for Stanley	8 April 1920	16 April 1924			1921
		12.	46th	Steven Marshall		Liberal	MP for Norwood Dunstan	19 March 2018	21 March 2022			2018
	13.	17th	Thomas Playford		No Party Alignment	MP for Newcastle East Torrens	11 June 1887	27 June 1889		3 years, 323 days
19 August 1890							21 June 1892
		14.	24th	Thomas Price		Labor	MP for Torrens	26 July 1905	5 June 1909			1905 1906
	15.	22nd	John Jenkins		Liberalism	MP for Torrens	15 May 1901	1 March 1905			1902
	16.	13th	Lionel Hill		Labor	MP for Port Pirie	28 August 1926	8 April 1927		3 years, 160 days	1930
17 April 1930							14 August 1931
							Parliamentary Labor	14 August 1931	13 February 1933
		17.	38th	Dr David Tonkin		Liberal	MP for Bragg	18 September 1979	10 November 1982			1979
	18.	11th	Sir James Boucaut		No Party Alignment	MP for Encounter Bay	28 March 1866	3 May 1867		3 years, 10 days
3 June 1875							6 June 1876
26 October 1877							27 September 1878
		19.	15th	Sir John Bray		No Party Alignment	MP for East Adelaide	24 June 1881	16 June 1884
		20.	41st	Dean Brown		Liberal	MP for Finniss	14 December 1993	28 November 1996			1993
		21.	14th	Sir William Morgan		No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council	27 September 1878	24 June 1881
	22.	9th	Sir Arthur Blyth (1823–1891)		No Party Alignment	MP for Gumeracha	4 August 1864	22 March 1865		2 years, 254 days
MP for Gumeracha (1870–1875)						10 November 1871	22 January 1872
						22 July 1873	3 June 1875
		23.	16th	Sir John Downer		bgcolor=#DCDCDC	No Party Alignment	MP for Barossa	bgcolor=#DCDCDC	16 June 1885	bgcolor=#DCDCDC	11 June 1887	bgcolor=#DCDCDC		2 year, 239 days
						Conservatism	15 October 1892		16 June 1893
		24.	4th	Sir Richard Hanson		No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide	30 September 1857	9 May 1860
		25.	47th	Peter Malinauskas		Labor	Member of the Legislative Council MP for Croydon	21 March 2022	Incumbent		^[1]	2022
	26.	13th	Sir John Colton		No Party Alignment	MP for Noarlunga	6 June 1876	26 October 1877		2 years, 142 days
16 June 1884							16 June 1885
		27.	29th	John Gunn		Labor	MP for Adelaide	16 April 1924	28 August 1926			1924
		28.	27th	Crawford Vaughan		Labor	MP for Sturt	3 April 1915	13 February 1917			1915
						National Labor		13 February 1917	14 July 1917
		29.	34th	Frank Walsh		Labor	MP for Edwardstown	10 March 1965	1 June 1967			1965
		30.	36th	Steele Hall		Liberal & Country League	MP for Gouger	17 April 1968	2 June 1970			1968
	31.	10th	John Hart		No Party Alignment	MP for Port Adelaide Light The Burra	23 October 1865	28 March 1866		1 year, 339 days
24 September 1868							13 October 1868
30 May 1870							10 November 1871
		32.	19th	Sir Frederick Holder		No Party Alignment	MP for Burra	21 June 1892	15 October 1892		1 year, 274 days
	Liberalism					8 December 1899		15 May 1901
		33.	6th	George Waterhouse		No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council	8 October 1861	4 July 1863
		34.	26th	John Verran		Labor	MP for Wallaroo	3 June 1910	17 February 1912			1910
		35.	12th	Henry Strangways		No Party Alignment	MP for West Torrens	3 November 1868	30 May 1870
		36.	5th	Thomas Reynolds		No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide	9 May 1860	8 October 1861
		37.	40th	Lynn Arnold		Labor	MP for Ramsay	4 September 1992	14 December 1993
		38.	18th	Sir John Cockburn		No Party Alignment	MP for Mount Barker	27 June 1889	19 August 1890			1890
		39.	1st	Boyle Travers Finniss		No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide	24 October 1856	21 August 1857
		40.	37th	Des Corcoran		Labor	MP for Hartley	15 February 1979	18 September 1979
	41.	7th	Francis Dutton		No Party Alignment	MP for Light	4 July 1863	15 July 1863		193 days
22 March 1865							20 September 1865
	42.	23rd	Sir Richard Butler		Conservatism	MP for Barossa	1 March 1905	26 July 1905
		43.	43rd	Rob Kerin		Liberal	MP for Frome	22 October 2001	5 March 2002
		44.	32nd	Robert Richards		Parliamentary Labor	MP for Wallaroo	13 February 1933	18 April 1933
		45.	3rd	Sir Robert Torrens		No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide	1 September 1857	30 September 1857
		46.	2nd	John Baker		No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council	21 August 1857	1 September 1857
		47.	21st	Vaiben Louis Solomon		Conservatism	MP for Northern Territory	1 December 1899	8 December 1899

Total time in office of political parties in South Australia

South Australian Parliament – days as of

Current parties

• Australian Labor Party – days as of .
• Liberal Party of Australia – days.

Other parties

• Conservative or Liberal (Pre 1975): 17415 days.
  • Liberal and Country League – days.
  • Liberal Federation – days.
  • Liberal Union – days.
  • Liberal and Democratic Union – days.

Before political parties

• Independent – days
• Non-Party Conservatism – days.
• Non-Party Liberalism – days.

See also

• Premier of South Australia
• List of prime ministers of Australia by time in office
• List of Australian heads of government by time in office
• List of premiers of New South Wales by time in office
• List of premiers of Queensland by time in office
• List of premiers of Tasmania by time in office
• List of premiers of Victoria by time in office
• List of premiers of Western Australia by time in office
• List of chief ministers of the Northern Territory by time in office
• List of chief ministers of the Australian Capital Territory by time in office

Notes and References

1. Peter Malinauskas's time in office as of