OTTAWA — If Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race on Sunday, would he succeed Justin Trudeau as the first prime minister to be sworn in without first having been elected? The answer is no.
OTTAWA — If Mark Carney wins the Liberal leadership race on Sunday, would he succeed Justin Trudeau as the first prime minister to be sworn in without first having been elected?
On Feb. 29, 1984, then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau announced his intention to step down. On June 16 of that year, John Turner, at that point without a seat — so, unelected — won the Liberal Party of Canada leadership race on the second ballot, defeating Jean Chrétien.On July 9, Turner dissolved Parliament and a triggered a general election set for Sept. 4. At the polls, the Liberals lost by a landslide to Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives, who won three-quarters of the seats.
King lost his seat in a federal election in October 1925, like eight other ministers in his cabinet, according to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. In a general election in June 1945, King lost his seat in Prince Albert, Sask. But he remained prime minister and formed a government — as he'd done in 1921, 1925, 1926, 1935 and 1940. Like two decades earlier, he followed up his riding loss with a run elsewhere in the following months, winning a byelection in Glengarry, Ont., in August 1945.At Confederation, Sir John A. Macdonald was appointed by the governor general to form the first constituent government on July 1, 1867.
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