List of Canadian ministries

This is a list of Canadian ministries, the collective body of ministers of the Crown that advises the Canadian monarch—presently King Charles III—on how to exercise their Crown prerogatives. Since Canadian Confederation, July 1, 1867, there have been 29 ministries.

In Canada, a ministry is formed when a new prime minister is appointed and dissolved when that individual leaves office. The one exception occurred in 1917, when the incumbent prime minister, Sir Robert Borden, formed a new national unity government (the 10th Canadian Ministry) as a wartime coalition composed primarily of members of his own Conservative Party with some individual Liberal Party members of parliament.

In contrast to various other Commonwealth realms (such as Australia and the United Kingdom) where a "new" ministry is considered to have been formed after every general election regardless of the winner, elections in Canada do not cause dissolution of the ministry unless they result in the government's defeat. As such, the current 29th Ministry, chaired by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, began governing shortly before the opening of the 42nd Parliament in 2015.

With a duration of 15 years, 87 days, the 8th Ministry, under the leadership of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, was the lengthiest; the 68-day-long 7th Ministry, under the leadership of Sir Charles Tupper, was the briefest. William Lyon Mackenzie King led three ministries—the 12th, 14th, and 16th—the most for any Canadian prime minister.

Ministries

Ministry	Dates	Prime Minister	Governing party		Duration
011st Canadian Ministry	01July 1, 1867 – November 5, 1873	John A. Macdonald		Liberal-Conservative	6 years, 127 days
022nd Canadian Ministry	02November 7, 1873 – October 8, 1878	Alexander Mackenzie		Liberal	4 years, 335 days
033rd Canadian Ministry	03October 17, 1878 – June 6, 1891	John A. Macdonald		Liberal-Conservative	12 years, 232 days
044th Canadian Ministry	04June 16, 1891 – November 24, 1892	John Abbott			1 year, 161 days
055th Canadian Ministry	05December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1894	John Sparrow David Thompson			2 years, 7 days
066th Canadian Ministry	06December 21, 1894 – April 27, 1896	Mackenzie Bowell		Conservative (Historical)	1 year, 128 days
077th Canadian Ministry	07May 1, 1896 – July 8, 1896	Charles Tupper			68 days
088th Canadian Ministry	08July 11, 1896 – October 6, 1911	Wilfrid Laurier		Liberal	15 years, 87 days
099th Canadian Ministry	09October 10, 1911 – October 11, 1917	Robert Laird Borden		Conservative (Historical)	6 years, 1 day
1010th Canadian Ministry	10October 12, 1917 – July 10, 1920			Unionist	2 years, 272 days
1111th Canadian Ministry	11July 10, 1920 – December 29, 1921	Arthur Meighen		Nat'l Liberal & Conservative	1 year, 172 days
1212th Canadian Ministry	12December 29, 1921 – June 28, 1926	William Lyon Mackenzie King		Liberal	4 years, 303 days
1313th Canadian Ministry	13June 29, 1926 – September 25, 1926	Arthur Meighen		Conservative (Historical)	88 days
1414th Canadian Ministry	14September 25, 1926 – August 7, 1930	William Lyon Mackenzie King		Liberal	3 years, 316 days
1515th Canadian Ministry	15August 7, 1930 – October 23, 1935	Richard Bedford Bennett		Conservative (Historical)	5 years, 77 days
1616th Canadian Ministry	16October 23, 1935 – November 15, 1948	William Lyon Mackenzie King		Liberal	13 years, 23 days
1717th Canadian Ministry	17November 15, 1948 – June 21, 1957	Louis St. Laurent			8 years, 218 days
1818th Canadian Ministry	18June 21, 1957 – April 22, 1963	John Diefenbaker		Progressive Conservative	5 years, 305 days
1919th Canadian Ministry	19April 22, 1963 – April 20, 1968	Lester B. Pearson		Liberal	4 years, 364 days
2020th Canadian Ministry	20April 20, 1968 – June 4, 1979	Pierre Trudeau			11 years, 45 days
2121st Canadian Ministry	21June 4, 1979 – March 3, 1980	Joe Clark		Progressive Conservative	273 days
2222nd Canadian Ministry	22March 3, 1980 – June 30, 1984	Pierre Trudeau		Liberal	4 years, 119 days
2323rd Canadian Ministry	23June 30, 1984 – September 17, 1984	John Turner			79 days
2424th Canadian Ministry	24September 17, 1984 – June 25, 1993	Brian Mulroney		Progressive Conservative	8 years, 281 days
2525th Canadian Ministry	25 June 25, 1993 – November 4, 1993	Kim Campbell			132 days
2626th Canadian Ministry	26November 4, 1993 – December 12, 2003	Jean Chrétien		Liberal	10 years, 38 days
2727th Canadian Ministry	27December 12, 2003 – February 6, 2006	Paul Martin			2 years, 56 days
2828th Canadian Ministry	28February 6, 2006 – November 4, 2015	Stephen Harper		Conservative	9 years, 271 days
2929th Canadian Ministry	29November 4, 2015 – present	Justin Trudeau		Liberal	9 years, 19 days
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See also

• List of Canadian federal parliaments
• List of prime ministers of Canada

External links

• Parliament of Canada - Ministries