# 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 30 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 30th Ministry, chaired by Prime Minister Mark Carney, began governing shortly before the dissolution of the 44th Parliament in 2025.
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 | Liberal-Conservative | 1 year, 161 days |
| 055th Canadian Ministry | 05December 5, 1892 – December 12, 1894 | John Sparrow David Thompson | Liberal-Conservative | 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 | Conservative (Historical) | 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 | Robert Laird Borden | 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 | Liberal | 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 | Liberal | 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 | Liberal | 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 | Progressive Conservative | 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 | Liberal | 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 – March 14, 2025 | Justin Trudeau | Liberal | 9 years, 130 days |
| 3030th Canadian Ministry | 30 March 14, 2025 – present | Mark Carney | Liberal | 0 days |
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