Here is how they all stack up by time in office - bold means currently in office
- Eva Aariak Nunavut 1565 days
- Nellie Cournoyea NWT 1469 days
- Catherine Callbeck PEI 1353 days
- Pat Duncan Yukon 884 days
- Kathy Dunderdale NF 815 days
- Christy Clark BC 714 days
- Alison Redford Alberta 507 days
- Rita Johnson BC 217 days
- Kim Campbell Federal 132 days
- Pauline Marois Quebec 159 days
- Kathleen Wynne Ontario 14 days
I think the measurement of time in office does not really do justice to the differing levels of political importance to the positions. Leading a large province is very different than a small province of a territory. I think it is a better measure of how they stack by multiplying their days in office by the population they are governing.
Doing that gives us this list:
Bold means currently in office, underlined means won an election
- Kim Campbell Fed 3,786,000,000 132 days PC
- Christy Clark BC 3,142,000,000 714 days Lib
- Alison Redford Ab 1,848,000,000 507 days PC
- Pauline Marois Que 1,257,000,000 159 days PQ
- Rita Johnson BC 715,500,000 217 days Socred
- Kathy Dunderdale Nf 419,000,000 815 days PC
- Kathleen Wynne Ont 180,000,000 14 days Lib
- Catherine Callbeck PEI 149,000,000 1353 days Lib
- Nellie Cournoyea NWT 92,000,000 1469 days na
- Eva Aariak Nu 49,900,000 1564 days na
- Pat Duncan Yk 24,800,000 884 days Lib
Of the nine women from partisan legislatures only one could really be considered left of centre, Pauline Marois in Quebec, the other eight are four Liberals and four PC/Socred.
We still have four provinces that have not had a woman as premier - Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. At this point it does not look likely that any one of the four will have woman as premier in the next five years.
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