This is a list of premiers of Western Australia by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days between dates.
Rank by time in office
editRank | No. | Officeholder | Portrait | Party | District | Assumed office |
Left office |
Time in office (term) |
Time in office (total) |
Election wins | |
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1. | 19th | Sir David Brand (1912–1979) KCMG |
Liberal | MLA for Greenough (1945–1975) |
2 April 1959 | 3 March 1971 | 11 years, 335 days | 1959 1962 1965 1968 | |||
2. | 1st | Sir John Forrest (1847–1918) GCMG |
Pro-Forrest | MLA for Bunbury (1890–1901) |
29 December 1890 | 15 February 1901 | 10 years, 48 days | 1890 1894 1897 | |||
3. | 14th | Philip Collier (1873–1948) |
Labor | MLA for Boulder (1905–1948) |
16 April 1924 | 24 April 1930 | 6 years, 8 days | 9 years, 126 days | 1924 1927 1933 1936 | ||
24 April 1933 | 20 August 1936 | 3 years, 118 days | |||||||||
4. | 15th | John Willcock (1879–1956) |
Labor | MLA for Geraldton (1917–1947) |
20 August 1936 | 31 July 1945 | 8 years, 345 days | 1939 1943 | |||
5. | 29th | Colin Barnett (1950– ) |
Liberal | MLA for Cottesloe (1990–2018) |
23 September 2008 | 17 March 2017 | 8 years, 175 days | 2008 2013 | |||
6. | 26th | Richard Court (1947– ) AC |
Liberal | MLA for Nedlands (1982–2001) |
16 February 1993 | 10 February 2001 | 7 years, 360 days | 1993 1996 | |||
7. | 13th | Sir James Mitchell (1866–1951) GCMG |
Nationalist | MLA for Northam (1905–1933) |
17 May 1919 | 16 April 1924 | 4 years, 335 days | 7 years, 335 days | 1921 1930 | ||
24 April 1930 | 24 April 1933 | 3 years, 0 days | |||||||||
8. | 21st | Sir Charles Court (1911–2007) AK KCMG OBE |
Liberal | MLA for Nedlands (1953–1982) |
8 April 1974 | 25 January 1982 | 7 years, 292 days | 1974 1977 1980 | |||
9. | 30th | Mark McGowan (1967– ) |
Labor | MLA for Rockingham (1996–2023) |
17 March 2017 | 8 June 2023 | 6 years, 83 days | 2017 2021 | |||
10. | 18th | Albert Hawke (1900–1986) |
Labor | MLA for Northam (1933–1968) |
23 February 1953 | 2 April 1959 | 6 years, 37 days | 1953 1956 | |||
11. | 17th | Sir Ross McLarty (1891–1962) KBE MM |
Liberal | MLA for Murray-Wellington (1930–1950) Murray (1950–1962) |
1 April 1947 | 23 February 1953 | 5 years, 328 days | 1947 1950 | |||
12. | 23rd | Brian Burke (1947– ) |
Labor | MLA for Balga (1983–1988) |
25 February 1983 | 25 February 1988 | 5 years, 0 days | 1983 1986 | |||
13. | 27th | Dr Geoff Gallop (1951– ) AC |
Labor | MLA for Victoria Park (1986–2006) |
16 February 2001 | 25 January 2006 | 4 years, 343 days | 2001 2005 | |||
14. | 10th | John Scaddan (1876–1934) CMG |
Labor | MLA for Brown Hill-Ivanhoe (1911–1916) |
7 October 1911 | 27 July 1916 | 4 years, 294 days | 1911 1914 | |||
15. | 8th | Sir Newton Moore (1870–1936) KCMG |
Ministerial | MLA for Bunbury (1904–1911) |
7 May 1906 | 16 September 1910 | 4 years, 132 days | 1908 | |||
16. | 20th | John Tonkin (1902–1995) AC |
Labor | MLA for Melville (1950–1977) |
3 March 1971 | 8 April 1974 | 3 years, 66 days | 1971 | |||
17. | 25th | Dr Carmen Lawrence (1948– ) |
Labor | MLA for Glendalough (1989–1994) |
12 February 1990 | 16 February 1993 | 3 years, 4 days | ||||
18. | 28th | Alan Carpenter (1957– ) |
Labor | MLA for Willagee (1996–2009) |
25 January 2006 | 23 September 2008 | 2 years, 242 days | ||||
19. | 5th | Sir Walter James (1863–1943) KCMG KC |
Opposition | MLA for East Perth (1894–1904) |
1 July 1902 | 10 August 1904 | 2 years, 40 days | ||||
20. | 9th | Frank Wilson (1866–1951) CMG |
Nationalist | MLA for Sussex (1904–1917) |
16 September 1910 | 7 October 1911 | 1 year, 21 days | 1 year, 357 days | |||
Liberal (WA) | 27 July 1916 | 28 June 1917 | 336 days | ||||||||
21. | 24th | Peter Dowding (1943– ) SC |
Labor | MLA for Maylands (1986–1990) |
25 February 1988 | 12 February 1990 | 1 year, 352 days | 1989 | |||
22. | 11th | Sir Henry Lefroy (1854–1930) KCMG |
Nationalist | MLA for Moore (1911–1921) |
28 June 1917 | 17 April 1919 | 1 year, 293 days | 1917 | |||
23. | 16th | Frank Wise (1897–1986) AO |
Labor | MLA for Gascoyne (1933–1951) |
31 July 1945 | 1 April 1947 | 1 year, 244 days | ||||
24. | 31st | Roger Cook (1965– ) |
Labor | MLA for Kwinana (2008–) |
8 June 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 76 days[1] | ||||
25. | 22nd | Ray O'Connor (1926–2013) |
Liberal | MLA for Mount Lawley (1962–1984) |
25 January 1982 | 25 February 1983 | 1 year, 31 days | ||||
26. | 6th | Henry Daglish (1866–1920) |
Labor | MLA for Subiaco (1901–1911) |
10 August 1904 | 25 August 1905 | 1 year, 15 days | ||||
27. | 3rd | George Leake (1856–1902) CMG |
Opposition | MLA for West Perth (1901–1902) |
27 May 1901 | 21 November 1901 | 178 days | 1 year, 3 days | 1901 | ||
23 December 1901 | 1 July 1902 | 190 days | |||||||||
28. | 7th | Sir Cornthwaite Rason (1858–1927) |
Ministerial | MLA for Guildford (1901–1906) |
25 August 1905 | 7 May 1906 | 255 days | 1905 | |||
29. | 2nd | George Throssell (1840–1910) CMG |
Pro-Forrest | MLA for Northam (1890–1904) |
15 February 1901 | 27 May 1901 | 101 days | ||||
30. | 4th | Alf Morgans (1850–1933) |
Ministerial | MLA for Coolgardie (1897–1904) |
21 November 1901 | 23 December 1901 | 32 days | ||||
31. | 12th | Sir Hal Colebatch (1872–1953) CMG |
Nationalist | Member of the Legislative Council (1912–1923) |
17 April 1919 | 17 May 1919 | 30 days |
- ^ Roger Cook's time in office as of 23 August 2024
See also
edit- Premier of Western 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 South Australia by time in office
- List of premiers of Victoria 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