List of Prime Ministers of Canada - Prime Ministers

Prime Ministers

Abbreviation key: No.: Incumbent No., Min.: Ministry
Colour key: Liberal Party of Canada Historical conservative parties: Liberal-Conservative, Conservative (historical), Unionist, National Liberal and Conservative, Progressive Conservative Conservative Party of Canada
Provinces key: AB: Alberta, BC: British Columbia, MB: Manitoba, NS: Nova Scotia, ON: Ontario, QC: Quebec, SK: Saskatchewan
No. Portrait Name

 Min. Term of office Electoral mandates (Parliaments) Political party Refs
1
 Sir John A. Macdonald

 1st
1867
1873
  • Inter-election appt. (none)
  • 1867 election (1st Parl't)
  • 1872 election (2nd Parl't)
 Liberal-Conservative Party
2 Alexander Mackenzie

 2nd
1873
1878
  • Inter-election appt. (2nd Parl't)
  • 1874 election (3rd Parl't)
 Liberal Party
1
 Sir John A. Macdonald

 3rd
1878
1891
  • 1878 election (4th Parl't)
  • 1882 election (5th Parl't)
  • 1887 election (6th Parl't)
  • 1891 election (7th Parl't)
 Liberal-Conservative Party
3 Sir John Abbott

 4th
1891
1892
  • Inter-election appt. (7th Parl't)
 Liberal-Conservative Party
4 Sir John Thompson

 5th
1892
1894
  • Inter-election appt. (7th Parl't)
 Liberal-Conservative Party
5 Sir Mackenzie Bowell

 6th
1894
1896
  • Inter-election appt. (7th Parl't)
 Conservative Party (historical)
6 Sir Charles Tupper

 7th
1896
1896
  • Inter-election appt. (none)
 Conservative Party (historical)
7 Sir Wilfrid Laurier

 8th
1896
1911
  • 1896 election (8th Parl't)
  • 1900 election (9th Parl't)
  • 1904 election (10th Parl't)
  • 1908 election (11th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
8 Sir Robert Borden

 9th
1911
1917
  • 1911 election (12th Parl't)
 Conservative Party (historical)
10th
1917
1920
  • 1917 election (13th Parl't)
 Unionist Party
9
 Arthur Meighen

 11th
1920
1921
  • Inter-election appt. (13th Parl't)
 National Liberal and Conservative Party
10
 William Lyon Mackenzie King

 12th
1921
1926
  • 1921 election (14th Parl't)
  • 1925 election (15th Parl't)
Liberal Party
9
 Arthur Meighen

 13th
1926
1926
  • Inter-election appt. (15th Parl't)
 Conservative Party (historical)
10
 William Lyon Mackenzie King

 14th
1926
1930
  • 1926 election (16th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
11 R. B. Bennett

 15th
1930
1935
  • 1930 election (17th Parl't)
 Conservative Party (historical)
10
 William Lyon Mackenzie King

 16th
1935
1948
  • 1935 election (18th Parl't)
  • 1940 election (19th Parl't)
  • 1945 election (20th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
12 Louis St. Laurent

 17th
1948
1957		  (20th Parl't)
  • 1949 election (21st Parl't)
  • 1953 election (22nd Parl't)
 Liberal Party
13 John Diefenbaker

 18th
1957
1963
  • 1957 election (23rd Parl't)
  • 1958 election (24th Parl't)
  • 1962 election (25th Parl't)
 Progressive Conservative Party
14 Lester B. Pearson

 19th
1963
1968
  • 1963 election (26th Parl't)
  • 1965 election (27th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
15
 Pierre Trudeau

 20th
1968
1979
  • Inter-election appt. (27th Parl't)
  • 1968 election (28th Parl't)
  • 1972 election (29th Parl't)
  • 1974 election (30th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
16 Joe Clark

 21st
1979
1980
  • 1979 election (31st Parl't)
 Progressive Conservative Party
15
 Pierre Trudeau

 22nd
1980
1984
  • 1980 election (32nd Parl't)
 Liberal Party
17 John Turner

 23rd
1984
1984
  • Inter-election appt. (32nd Parl't)
 Liberal Party
18 Brian Mulroney

 24th
1984
1993
  • 1984 election (33rd Parl't)
  • 1988 election (34th Parl't)
 Progressive Conservative Party
19 Kim Campbell

 25th
1993
1993
  • Inter-election appt. (34th Parl't)
 Progressive Conservative Party
20 Jean Chrétien

 26th
1993
2003
  • 1993 election (35th Parl't)
  • 1997 election (36th Parl't)
  • 2000 election (37th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
21 Paul Martin

 27th
2003
2006
  • Inter-election appt. (37th Parl't)
  • 2004 election (38th Parl't)
 Liberal Party
22 Stephen Harper

 28th
2006
Incumbent
  • 2006 election (39th Parl't)
  • 2008 election (40th Parl't)
  • 2011 election (41st Parl't)
 Conservative Party of Canada
Min. Minority government
LS Party won the election, but prime minister lost own seat
* The Interpretation Act of 1967 states that "where an appointment is made effective or terminates on a specified day, that appointment is considered to be effective or to terminate after the end of the previous day." Under the Act, Prime Ministers' tenures are therefore credited as having concluded at the end of their last full day in office (the earlier date given), although their resignation was received by the Governor General on the following day. This provision applies to Trudeau in 1979 and 1984, Clark, Turner, Mulroney, Campbell, Chrétien and Martin.

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