List of prime ministers of Canada by constituency

Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use mdy dates The following list indicates ridings represented by Canadian prime ministers during their term(s) of office. Some prime ministers represented more than one constituency during their term(s), hence the tallied numbers exceed the number of prime ministers. Moreover, two prime ministers—John Abbott and Sir Mackenzie Bowell—served their terms while a member of the Senate. Charles Tupper and John Turner were members of neither the House of Commons or the Senate during their entire terms as Prime Minister.

Three provinces—New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island—have never been represented by a sitting prime minister. Mackenzie King briefly represented the Prince Edward Island riding of Prince, and Jean Chrétien even more briefly represented the New Brunswick riding of Beauséjour prior to their assuming the premiership, however. None of the three territories has been represented by a person who served as prime minister.

Two ridings have been represented by two sitting prime ministers. Both King and John Diefenbaker served Prince Albert; and both Wilfrid Laurier and Louis St. Laurent represented Quebec East. R. B. Bennett represented Calgary West during his premiership, as did Stephen Harper prior to his. Similarly, John A. Macdonald served his fourth term as MP for Carleton, a riding represented by Robert Borden as Opposition Leader in the 10th Parliament.

Riding		Province	Prime Minister	Portrait	Start	End	Notes
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prime minister outside Parliament		John A. Macdonald	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	1 July 1867	20 September 1867	Macdonald was appointed as the first Prime Minister on the date that Canada came into existence, but before the first Parliamentary election was held
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Kingston	Template:Flagicon Ontario			20 September 1867	5 November 1873
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Lambton	Template:Flagicon Ontario	Alexander Mackenzie	File:Alexander MacKenzie - portrait.jpg	7 November 1873	8 October 1878
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Victoria	Template:Flagicon British Columbia	John A. Macdonald	File:John A Macdonald (ca. 1875).jpg	17 October 1878	20 June 1882	Macdonald was initially elected as the MP for Marquette in the federal election; after his appointment as Prime Minister, he was required to vacate his seat and fight a ministerial by-election, in which he chose to stand in Victoria
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Carleton	Template:Flagicon Ontario			20 June 1882	21 February 1887
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Kingston	Template:Flagicon Ontario			22 February 1887	6 June 1891
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Template:Flagicon Senator for Quebec		John Abbott	File:SirJohnAbbott1.jpg	16 June 1891	24 November 1892	First person to serve as Prime Minister from the Senate
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Antigonish	Template:Flagicon Nova Scotia	John Thompson	File:John Thompson.jpg	5 December 1892	12 December 1894
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Template:Flagicon Senator for Ontario		Mackenzie Bowell	File:SirMackenzieBowell.jpg	21 December 1894	27 April 1896
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prime minister outside Parliament		Charles Tupper	File:Sir charles tupper.jpg	1 May 1896	8 July 1896	Tupper was appointed as Prime Minister following the dissolution of Parliament, but before the federal election. In the preceding 7th Parliament and subsequent 8th Parliament he represented the riding of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Quebec East	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Wilfrid Laurier	File:The Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier Photo C (HS85-10-16873) - medium crop (cropped).jpg	11 July 1896	6 October 1911	Laurier won the riding of Saskatchewan (Provisional District) in the federal election but only held the seat for 18 days. On July 11, 1896, he vacated that seat, choosing instead to sit in the riding of Quebec East, which he had also contested and won in the federal election.
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Halifax	Template:Flagicon Nova Scotia	Robert Borden	File:Borden-sm (cropped).jpg	10 October 1911	16 December 1917
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Kings	Template:Flagicon Nova Scotia			17 December 1917	10 July 1920
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Portage la Prairie	Template:Flagicon Manitoba	Arthur Meighan	File:Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg	10 July 1920	29 December 1921
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	York North	Template:Flagicon Ontario	William Mackenzie King	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg	29 December 1921	28 October 1925
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prince Albert	Template:Flagicon Saskatchewan			29 October 1925	28 June 1926
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Portage la Prairie	Template:Flagicon Manitoba	Arthur Meighan	File:Former PM Arthur Meighen.jpg	29 June 1926	25 September 1926
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prince Albert	Template:Flagicon Saskatchewan	William Mackenzie King	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg	25 September 1926	6 August 1930
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Calgary West	Template:Flagicon Alberta	R.B. Bennett	File:Richard Bedford Bennett.jpg	7 August 1930	22 October 1935
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prince Albert	Template:Flagicon Saskatchewan	William Mackenzie King	File:William Lyon Mackenzie King 1942.jpg	23 October 1935	10 June 1945
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prime minister outside Parliament				11 June 1945	6 August 1945	Mackenzie King lost his own seat in the 1945 election and thus served as Prime Minister outside Parliament for two months; subsequently re-entered Parliament in a by-election in Glengarry, a safe seat vacated by the sitting MP to allow Mackenzie King to stand for election
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Glengarry	Template:Flagicon Ontario			6 August 1945	15 November 1948
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Quebec East	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Louis St. Laurent	File:Louis St. Laurent portrait.jpg	15 November 1948	20 June 1957
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prince Albert	Template:Flagicon Saskatchewan	John Diefenbaker	File:John G. Diefenbaker (cropped).jpg	21 June 1957	21 April 1963
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Algoma East	Template:Flagicon Ontario	Lester B. Pearson	File:Lester B. Pearson (1963 ABC press photo).jpg	22 April 1963	20 April 1968
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Mount Royal	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Pierre Trudeau	File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg	20 April 1968	3 June 1979
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Yellowhead	Template:Flagicon Alberta	Joe Clark	File:Joe Clark being interviewed 1979 crop.jpg	4 June 1979	2 March 1980
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Mount Royal	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Pierre Trudeau	File:Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau 1975 (UPI press photo) (cropped).jpg	3 March 1980	30 June 1984
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prime minister outside Parliament		John Turner	File:John Turner 1987 crop (cropped).jpg	30 June 1984	17 September 1984	Was not serving in either the Senate or the House of Commons when he succeeded Trudeau and decided to call a general election rather than contest a by-election during his time in office. Successfully contested Vancouver Quadra in the 1984 election, but left office as Prime Minister before taking his seat in the Commons.
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Manicouagan	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Brian Mulroney	File:Brian Mulroney (cropped).jpg	17 September 1984	21 November 1988
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Charlevoix	Template:Flagicon Quebec			21 November 1988	25 June 1993
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Vancouver Centre	Template:Flagicon British Columbia	Kim Campbell	File:Prime Minister Kim Campbell of Canada (42-WHPO-P05407-13-1) (cropped).jpg	25 June 1993	3 November 1993
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Saint-Maurice	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Jean Chrétien	File:Jean Chrétien 1993.jpg	4 November 1993	12 December 2003
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	LaSalle—Émard	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Paul Martin	File:Paul Martin in 2006 (3x4).jpg	12 December 2003	5 February 2006
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Calgary Southwest	Template:Flagicon Alberta	Stephen Harper	File:Stephen Harper by Remy Steinegger Infobox.jpg	6 February 2006	3 November 2015
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Papineau	Template:Flagicon Quebec	Justin Trudeau	File:Prime Minister Trudeau's message on Christmas 2023 (0m29s) (cropped).jpg	4 November 2015	14 March 2025
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Prime minister outside Parliament		Mark Carney	File:Mark Carney portrait May 2025 (4).jpg	14 March 2025	28 April 2025	Was not sitting in either the Senate or the House of Commons upon becoming Prime Minister. Ran for election in Nepean in the 2025 election.
style="background-color: Template:Party color;" |	Nepean	Template:Flagicon Ontario			28 April 2025	incumbent

Ridings represented by future or former prime ministers

Prior to, or following, their tenure as prime minister, the following individuals represented other ridings:

• Sir John Abbott: Argenteuil, QC
• Richard Bedford Bennett: Calgary, AB
• Sir Robert Borden: Carleton, ON
• Sir Mackenzie Bowell: Hastings North, ON
• Jean Chrétien: Saint-Maurice—Laflèche, QC; Beauséjour, NB
• Joe Clark: Rocky Mountain, AB; Kings—Hants, NS; Calgary Centre, AB
• John Diefenbaker: Lake Centre, SK
• Stephen Harper: Calgary West, AB; Calgary Heritage, AB
• W.L. Mackenzie King: Waterloo North, ON; Prince, PE
• Sir Wilfrid Laurier: Drummond—Arthabaska, QC
• Alexander Mackenzie: York East, ON
• Arthur Meighen: Grenville, ON
• Brian Mulroney: Central Nova, NS
• Sir Charles Tupper: Cumberland, NS; Cape Breton, NS
• John Turner: St. Lawrence—St. George, QC; Ottawa-Carleton, ON; Vancouver Quadra, BC

External links

• Canadian Prime Ministers, Parliament of Canada website