Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

This is a list of federal conservative party leaders in Canada after Confederation

## List of Tory leaders in Canada since Confederation

This is a list of leaders of Canada’ Conservative parties (1867–present) and prime ministers from those parties since Confederation.

### Conservative (1867-1942)

|colspan="2"|Name|From|To|Riding as leader|style="width:20%;"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Sir John A. Macdonald|July 1, 1867|June 6, 1891|Kingston, ON  (1867–18, 1887–91); Victoria, BC (1878–82); Carleton, ON (1882–88)|1st Prime Minister||
||Sir John Abbott|June 16, 1891|November 24, 1892|Senator for Inkerman, QC|3rd Prime Minister||
||Sir John Sparrow David Thompson|December 5, 1892|December 12, 1894|Antigonish, NS|4th Prime Minister||
||Sir Mackenzie Bowell|December 21, 1894|April 27, 1896|Senator for Hastings, ON|5th Prime Minister||
||Sir Charles Tupper|May 1, 1896|February 6, 1901|Cape Breton, NS|6th Prime Minister||
||Sir Robert Laird Borden|February 6, 1901|July 10, 1920|Halifax, NS (1900–04, 1908–17); Carleton, ON (1905–08); Kings, NS (1917–21)|8th Prime Minister||
||Arthur Meighen|July 10, 1920|September 24, 1926|Portage la Prairie, MB (1908–21, 1925–26); Grenville, ON (1922–25)|9th Prime Minister||
||Hugh Guthrie _(interim leader)_|October 11, 1926|October 12, 1927|Wellington South|||
||R. B. Bennett|October 12, 1927|July 7, 1938|Calgary West, AB|11th Prime Minister||
||Robert Manion|July 7, 1938|May 14, 1940|London, ON|Resigned after lost seat in 1940 election||
||Richard Hanson _(interim leader)_|May 14, 1940|November 12, 1941|York—Sunbury, NB|||
||Arthur Meighen|November 12, 1941|December 9, 1942|Senator for St. Marys, Ontario|Resigned after failed attempt to enter the House of Commons in the York South by-election.||

### Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–2003)

|scope="col"|Picture|scope="col"|Name|scope="col"|Term start|scope="col"|Term end|scope="col"|Riding as leader|style="width:20%;" scope="col"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||John Bracken|December 11, 1942|July 20, 1948|Neepawa|Former Premier of Manitoba|||||||
||George Drew|October 2, 1948|November 29, 1956|Carleton|Former Premier of Ontario|||||||
||William Earl Rowe|November 29, 1956 _(Interim)_|December 14, 1956|Dufferin—Simcoe|Interim leader until 1956 leadership convention|||||||
||John Diefenbaker|December 14, 1956|September 9, 1967|Prince Albert|13th Prime Minister of Canada|||||||
||Robert Stanfield|September 9, 1967|February 22, 1976|Halifax|Former Premier of Nova Scotia|||||||
||Joe Clark|February 22, 1976|February 19, 1983|Rocky Mountain, Yellowhead|16th Prime Minister of Canada|||||||
||Erik Nielsen|February 19, 1983 _(Interim)_|June 11, 1983|Yukon|Interim leader until 1983 leadership convention|||||||
||Brian Mulroney|June 11, 1983|June 13, 1993|Central Nova, Manicouagan, Charlevoix|18th Prime Minister of Canada|||||||
||Kim Campbell|June 13, 1993|December 14, 1993|Vancouver Centre|19th Prime Minister of Canada|||||||
||Jean Charest|December 14, 1993|April 2, 1998|Sherbrooke|Former Premier of Quebec|||||||
||Elsie Wayne|April 2, 1998 _(Interim)_|November 14, 1998|Saint John|Interim until 1998 leadership election|||||||
||Joe Clark|November 14, 1998|May 31, 2003|Kings—Hants, Calgary Centre|His second tenure as leader|||||||
||Peter MacKay|May 31, 2003|December 7, 2003|Central Nova|Final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party; merged the PC Party with Stephen Harper's Canadian Alliance in 2003, cofounding the new Conservative Party of Canada.|||||||

### Conservative Party of Canada (2003–present)

|colspan="3"|Leader|Term start|Term end|Constituency|Notes||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|—||||20 March 2004|Senator for Grandville, Quebec|Interim leader, served concurrently as Senate Opposition Leader.|
|1st||Stephen Harper|20 March 2004|<small>Acting: 19 October 2015 – 4 November 2015</small>|Calgary Southwest, Alberta|First official leader of the modern Conservative Party of Canada; Served as Leader of the Official Opposition from 2004–2006, and Prime Minister from 2006–2015.|
|—||Rona Ambrose|5 November 2015|27 May 2017|Sturgeon River—Parkland, Alberta|Interim leader and served as Leader of the Official Opposition|
|2nd||Andrew Scheer|27 May 2017|24 August 2020|Regina—Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan|Served as Leader of the Official Opposition from 2017 to 2020. He resigned on December 12, 2019, but stayed as leader until his successor was chosen on August 24, 2020.|
|3rd||Erin O'Toole|24 August 2020|2 February 2022|Durham, Ontario|Served as Leader of the Official Opposition from 2020 to 2022. He was removed by the Conservative caucus on February 2, 2022.|
|—||Candice Bergen|2 February 2022|10 September 2022|Portage—Lisgar, Manitoba|Interim leader and served as Leader of the Official Opposition in 2022.|
|4th||Pierre Poilievre|10 September 2022|_Incumbent_|Carleton, Ontario|Serves as current Leader of the Official Opposition.|