Historical rankings of Prime Ministers of Canada

East Block (left) and the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council (right) have housed the office of the prime minister since Canadian Confederation, the former from 1867-1977 and the latter since 1977.

Historical rankings of Canadian prime ministers are surveys conducted in order to construct rankings of the success of individuals who have served as Prime Minister of Canada. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians, economists and political scientists. The rankings focus on the achievements, leadership qualities, failures and faults in office.

Scholar survey results

  • Blue backgrounds indicate first quartile.
  • Green backgrounds indicate second quartile.
  • Orange backgrounds indicate third quartile.
  • Red backgrounds indicate fourth quartile.

Note: Click the "sort" icon at the head of each column to view the rankings for each survey in numerical order.

SequencePrime MinisterPolitical partyMaclean's 1997[1]Maclean's 2011[2]Maclean's 2016[3]Aggr.[4]
1John A. MacdonaldConservative22303
2Alexander MackenzieLiberal11131313
3John Abbott ^Conservative17192020
4John Thompson ^Conservative10141615
5Mackenzie Bowell ^Conservative19212122
6Charles Tupper ^Conservative16181918
7Wilfrid LaurierLiberal31202
8Robert BordenConservative, Unionist78908
9Arthur Meighen ^Conservative14161717
10William Lyon Mackenzie KingLiberal13101
11R. B. BennettConservative12121414
12Louis St. LaurentLiberal47606
13John DiefenbakerProgressive Conservative13101212
14Lester PearsonLiberal64505
15Pierre TrudeauLiberal55404
16Joe Clark ^Progressive Conservative15171818
17John Turner ^Liberal18202221
18Brian MulroneyProgressive Conservative89809
19Kim Campbell ^Progressive Conservative20222323
20Jean ChrétienLiberal9*6707
21Paul Martin ^Liberal—151516
22Stephen HarperConservative—11*1111
23Justin TrudeauLiberal——10*10

Sequence listed by first term as Prime Minister

* Ranking calculated before the prime minister had left office

^ Served less than 2 years, 3 months, as Prime Minister, while all others served for more than 4 years, 11 months.

William Lyon Mackenzie King (photo) is the highest rated prime Minister based on three aggregate results from Maclean's

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Other surveys

Lester B. Pearson

The Institute for Research on Public Policy undertook a survey to rank the prime ministers who had served in the 50 years preceding 2003.[5] They ranked those nine prime ministers as follows:

  1. Pearson
  2. Mulroney
  3. Trudeau
  4. St. Laurent
  5. Chrétien
  6. Diefenbaker
  7. Clark ^
  8. Turner ^
  9. Campbell ^

^ Served less than 10 months as Prime Minister, while all others served for more than 4 years, 11 months.

In October 2016, Maclean's again ranked the prime ministers, this time splitting them into two lists. The long-serving prime ministers were ranked as follows:

  1. King
  2. Laurier
  3. Macdonald
  4. Pierre Trudeau
  5. Pearson
  6. St. Laurent
  7. Chrétien
  8. Mulroney
  9. Borden
  10. Harper
  11. Diefenbaker
  12. Mackenzie
  13. Bennett

The short-term prime ministers were ranked as follows:

  1. Justin Trudeau
  2. Martin
  3. Thompson
  4. Meighen
  5. Clark
  6. Tupper
  7. Abbott
  8. Bowell
  9. Turner
  10. Campbell

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hillmer, Norman and Granatstein, J. L. "Historians rank the BEST AND WORST Canadian Prime Ministers," Maclean's, April 21, 1997. Accessed July 9, 2012.
  2. ↑ Hillmer, Norman and Azzi, Stephen. "Canada's best prime ministers," Maclean's, June 10, 2011. Accessed July 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ Hillmer, Norman and Azzi, Stephen. "Ranking Canada’s best and worst prime ministers" Maclean's, October 7, 2016. Accessed June 22, 2017.
  4. ↑ Aggregate of all polls in the table using Copeland's method.
  5. ↑ MacDonald, L. Ian. "The Best Prime Minister of the Last 50 Years — Pearson, by a landslide," Policy Options, June–July 2003. Accessed April 3, 2014.


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