List of Premiers of South Australia by time in office
Rank by time in office
Parties Australian Labor Party Liberal Party of Australia Liberal and Country League / Liberal Federation Non-Party Conservatism Non-Party Liberalism

List of Premiers of South Australia by time in office

Section Title: Rank by time in office
Table Section Text: Parties Australian Labor Party Liberal Party of Australia Liberal and Country League / Liberal Federation Non-Party Conservatism Non-Party Liberalism

Rank:	No:	Premier:	Portrait:	Party:	District:	Assumed Office:	Left Office:	TERM Time in Office:	TOTAL Time in Office:	Election Wins:

1.	33rd	Sir Thomas Playford (1896–1981) GCMG	-	Liberal & Country League	MP for Gumeracha (1938–1968)	5 November 1938	10 March 1965	-	26 years, 125 days	1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962

2.	39th	John Bannon (1943–2015) AO	-	Labor	MP for Ross Smith (1977–1993)	10 November 1982	4 September 1992	-	9 years, 299 days	1982 1985 1989

3.	44th	Mike Rann (1953– ) CNZM	-	Labor	MP for Ramsay (1993–2012)	5 March 2002	21 October 2011	-	9 years, 230 days	2002 2006 2010

4.	35th	Don Dunstan (1926–1999) AC, QC	-	Labor	MP for Norwood (1953–1979)	1 June 1967	17 April 1968	321 days	9 years, 214 days	1970 1973 1975 1977

2 June 1970	15 February 1979	8 years, 258 days

5.	31st	Sir Richard Butler (1885–1966) KCMG	-	Liberal & Country League	MP for Wooroora (1921–1938)	8 April 1927	17 April 1930	3 years, 9 days	8 years, 210 days	1927 1933 1938

18 April 1933	5 November 1938	5 years, 201 days

6.	25th	Archibald Peake (1859–1920)	-	Liberal & Democratic Union	MP for Victoria & Albert (1902–1915) Alexandra (1915–1920)	5 June 1909	3 June 1910	363 days	6 years, 312 days	1912 1918

Liberal Union	17 February 1912	3 April 1915	3 years, 45 days

14 July 1917	8 April 1920	2 years, 269 days

7.	20th	Charles Kingston (1850–1908)	-	Non-Party Liberalism	MP for West Adelaide (1881–1900)	16 June 1893	1 December 1899	-	6 years, 168 days	1893 1896 1899

8.	45th	Jay Weatherill (1964– )	-	Labor	MP for Cheltenham (2002– )	21 October 2011	19 March 2018	-	6 years, 149 days	2014

9.	42nd	John Olsen (1945– ) AO	-	Liberal	MP for Kavel (1992–2002)	28 November 1996	22 October 2001	-	4 years, 328 days	1997

10.	8th	Sir Henry Ayers (1821–1897) GCMG	-	No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council (1857–1893)	15 July 1863	4 August 1864	1 year, 20 days	4 years, 34 days

20 September 1865	23 October 1865	33 days

3 May 1867	24 September 1868	1 year, 144 days

13 October 1868	3 November 1868	21 days

22 January 1872	22 July 1873	1 year, 151 days

11.	28th	Sir Henry Barwell (1877–1959) KCMG	-	Liberal Federation	MP for Stanley (1915–1925)	8 April 1920	16 April 1924	-	4 years, 8 days	1921

12.	17th	Thomas Playford (1837–1915)	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Newcastle (1887–1890) East Torrens (1890–1894)	11 June 1887	27 June 1889	2 years, 16 days	3 years, 323 days

19 August 1890	21 June 1892	1 year, 307 days

13.	24th	Thomas Price (1852–1909)	Thomas Price.jpeg	Labor	MP for Torrens (1902–1909)	26 July 1905	5 June 1909	-	3 years, 314 days	1905 1906

14.	22nd	John Jenkins (1851–1923)	-	Non-Party Liberalism	MP for Torrens (1901–1905)	15 May 1901	1 March 1905	-	3 years, 290 days	1902

15.	13th	Lionel Hill (1881–1963)	Lionel Hill1.JPG	Labor	MP for Port Pirie (1918–1933)	28 August 1926	8 April 1927	223 days	3 years, 160 days	1930

17 April 1930	14 August 1931	1 year, 119 days

Parliamentary Labor	14 August 1931	13 February 1933	1 year, 183 days

16.	38th	Dr David Tonkin (1929–2000) AO	Liberal	MP for Bragg (1970–1983)	18 September 1979	10 November 1982	-	3 years, 53 days	1979

17.	11th	Sir James Boucaut (1831–1916) KCMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Encounter Bay (1875–1878)	28 March 1866	3 May 1867	1 year, 36 days	3 years, 10 days

3 June 1875	6 June 1876	1 year, 3 days

26 October 1877	27 September 1878	336 days

18.	15th	Sir John Bray (1842–1894) KCMG, JP	-	No Party Alignment	MP for East Adelaide (1871–1892)	24 June 1881	16 June 1884	-	2 years, 358 days

19.	41st	Dean Brown (1943– ) AO	Liberal	MP for Finniss (1993–2006)	14 December 1993	28 November 1996	-	2 years, 350 days	1993

20.	14th	Sir William Morgan (1828–1883) KCMG	-	No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council (1867–1884)	27 September 1878	24 June 1881	-	2 years, 270 days

21.	9th	Sir Arthur Blyth (1823–1890) KCMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Gumeracha (1857–1868)	4 August 1864	22 March 1865	230 days	2 years, 254 days

MP for Gumeracha (1870–1875)	10 November 1871	22 January 1872	73 days

22 July 1873	3 June 1875	1 year, 316 days

22.	16th	Sir John Downer (1843–1915) KCMG, QC	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Barossa (1878–1901)	16 June 1885	11 June 1887	1 year, 360 days	2 year, 239 days

Non-Party Conservatism	15 October 1892	16 June 1893	244 days

23.	4th	Sir Richard Hanson (1805–1876)	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide (1857–1861)	30 September 1857	9 May 1860	-	2 years, 222 days

24.	13th	Sir John Colton (1823–1902) KCMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Noarlunga (1875–1878) (1889–1887)	6 June 1876	26 October 1877	1 year, 142 days	2 years, 142 days

16 June 1884	16 June 1885	1 year, 0 days

25.	29th	John Gunn (1884–1959)	-	Labor	MP for Adelaide (1918–1926)	16 April 1924	28 August 1926	-	2 years, 134 days	1924

26.	27th	Crawford Vaughan (1874–1947)	-	Labor	MP for Sturt (1915–1918)	3 April 1915	13 February 1917	1 year, 316 days	2 years, 102 days	1915

National Labor	13 February 1917	14 July 1917	151 days

27.	34th	Frank Walsh (1897–1968)	-	Labor	MP for Edwardstown (1956–1968)	10 March 1965	1 June 1967	-	2 years, 83 days	1965

28.	36th	Steele Hall (1928– )	-	Liberal & Country League	MP for Gouger (1959–1973)	17 April 1968	2 June 1970	-	2 years, 46 days	1968

29.	10th	John Hart (1809–1873)	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Port Adelaide (1862–1866) Light (1868–1870) The Burra (1870–1873)	23 October 1865	28 March 1866	156 days	1 year, 339 days

24 September 1868	13 October 1868	19 days

30 May 1870	10 November 1871	1 year, 164 days

30.	19th	Sir Frederick Holder (1850–1909) KCMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Burra (1887–1901)	21 June 1892	15 October 1892	116 days	1 year, 274 days

Non-Party Liberalism	8 December 1899	15 May 1901	1 year, 158 days

31.	6th	George Waterhouse (1824–1906)	-	No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council (1860–1864)	8 October 1861	4 July 1863	-	1 year, 269 days

32.	26th	John Verran (1856–1932)	-	Labor	MP for Wallaroo (1901–1918)	3 June 1910	17 February 1912	-	1 year, 259 days	1910

33.	12th	Henry Strangways (1832–1920)	-	No Party Alignment	MP for West Torrens (1862–1871)	3 November 1868	30 May 1870	-	1 year, 208 days

34.	5th	Thomas Reynolds (1818–1875)	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide (1860–1862)	9 May 1860	8 October 1861	-	1 year, 152 days

35.	40th	Lynn Arnold (1949– ) AO	Labor	MP for Ramsay (1985–1993)	4 September 1992	14 December 1993	-	1 year, 101 days

36.	18th	Sir John Cockburn (1850–1929) KCMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Mount Barker (1887–1898)	27 June 1889	19 August 1890	-	1 year, 53 days	1890

37.	46th	Steven Marshall (1968– )	-	Liberal	MP for Norwood (2010–2014) Dunstan (2014–)	19 March 2018	Incumbent	-	1 year, 32 days	2018

38.	1st	Boyle Travers Finniss (1807–1893)	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide (1857–1860)	24 October 1856	21 August 1857	-	301 days

39.	37th	Des Corcoran (1928–2004) AO	Labor	MP for Hartley (1977–1982)	15 February 1979	18 September 1979	-	215 days

40.	7th	Francis Dutton (1818–1877) CMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Light (1862–1865)	4 July 1863	15 July 1863	11 days	193 days

22 March 1865	20 September 1865	182 days

41.	23rd	Sir Richard Butler (1850–1925)	-	Non-Party Conservatism	MP for Barossa (1902–1924)	1 March 1905	26 July 1905	-	147 days

42.	43rd	Rob Kerin (1954– )	Liberal	MP for Frome (1993–2008)	22 October 2001	5 March 2002	-	134 days

43.	32nd	Robert Richards (1885–1967)	-	Parliamentary Labor	MP for Wallaroo (1918–1949)	13 February 1933	18 April 1933	-	64 days

44.	3rd	Sir Robert Torrens (1814–1884) GCMG	-	No Party Alignment	MP for Adelaide (1857–1858)	1 September 1857	30 September 1857	-	29 days

45.	2nd	John Baker (1813–1872)	-	No Party Alignment	Member of the Legislative Council (1857–1861)	21 August 1857	1 September 1857	-	11 days

46.	21st	Vaiben Louis Solomon (1853–1908)	-	Non-Party Conservatism	MP for Northern Territory (1891–1901)	1 December 1899	8 December 1899	-	7 days

Sentence(s)

Bannon of Labor was second longest-serving Premier of South Australia in 1992.

final_sentence: Bannon of Labor was second longest-serving Premier of South Australia in 1992.