List of Canadian Senate appointments by Prime Minister
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This page is a list of Canadian Senate appointments by Prime Minister. Members of the Canadian Senate are appointed by the King or Queen of Canada on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. This list is sorted by party, and further sorted into three categories, Senators appointed who sat in the government caucus, Senators appointed who sat in opposition caucuses, and Senators appointed who sat in neither.
Only Prime Minsters Pierre Trudeau, Sir John A. Macdonald, John Thompson, and Paul Martin, appointed opposition senators in any great numbers. Only six opposition Senators have been appointed on the recommendation of other Prime Ministers. Of those six, only four have been from the party forming the Official Opposition. Of those four, three were appointed on the recommendation of Prime Minister Robert Borden, who was trying to create a cross-party coalition National Government during World War I. The other appointment was made on the recommendation of Louis St. Laurent, upon the advice of his strategists, as the PC Party was in danger of losing official party status in the Senate by dropping below five seats. No other Prime Minister appointed opposition senators, and some, namely Kim Campbell, appointed none.
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[edit] Harper
Stephen Harper -Conservative- 2006.02.06 -
Total = 1
Conservative = 1
Pro-Government senators appointed - 1 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Martin
Paul Martin -Liberal- 2003.12.12 - 2006.02.06
Liberal = 12
Conservative = 2
Progressive Conservative = 2
New Democratic Party = 11
Total = 17
Pro-Government senators appointed - 12 - 70.6%
Opposition senators appointed - 5 - 29.4%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
1 Not recognized as a New Democratic Party senator by the New Democratic Party.
[edit] Chrétien
Jean Chrétien -Liberal- 1993.11.04 - 2003.12.11
Liberal = 72
Independent = 3
Total = 75
Pro-Government senators appointed - 72 - 96.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 4.0%
[edit] Campbell
Kim Campbell -Progressive Conservative- 1993.06.25 - 1993.11.03
Total = 0
Pro-Government senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Mulroney
Brian Mulroney -Progressive Conservative- 1984.09.17 - 1993.06.24
Progressive Conservative 55
Reform = 1
Independent = 1
Total = 57
Pro-Government senators appointed - 55 - 96.4%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 1.8%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.8%
[edit] Turner
John Turner -Liberal- 1984.06.30 - 1984.09.16
Liberal = 3
Total = 3
Pro-Government senators appointed - 3 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Clark
Joe Clark -Progressive Conservative- 1979.06.04 - 1980.03.02
Progressive Conservative = 11
Total = 11
Pro-Government senators appointed - 11 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - - 0 0.0%
[edit] Trudeau
Pierre Trudeau -Liberal- 1980.03.03 - 1984.06.29
1968.04.20 - 1979.06.03
Liberal = 70
Progressive Conservative = 7
Independent = 3
Social Credit = 1
Total = 81
Pro-Government senators appointed - 70 - 86.4%
Opposition senators appointed - 8 - 9.9%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 3.7%
[edit] Pearson
Lester B. Pearson -Liberal- 1963.04.22 - 1968.04.19
Liberal = 38
Independent Liberal = 1
Total = 39
Pro-Government senators appointed - 38 - 97.4%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 2.6%
[edit] Diefenbaker
John Diefenbaker -Progressive Conservative- 1957.06.21 - 1963.04.21
Progressive Conservative = 36
Independent Conservative = 1
Total = 37
Pro-Government senators appointed - 36 - 97.3%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 2.7%
[edit] St. Laurent
Louis St. Laurent -Liberal- 1948.11.15 - 1957.06.20
Liberal = 51
Independent Liberal = 2
Progressive Conservative = 1
Independent = 1
Total = 55
Pro-Government senators appointed - 51 - 92.7%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 1.8%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 5.5%
[edit] Bennett
Richard Bedford Bennett -Conservative- 1930.08.07 - 1935.10.22
Conservative = 32
Independent = 1
Total = 33
Pro-Government senators appointed - 32 - 97.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 3.0%
[edit] Mackenzie King
William Lyon Mackenzie King -Liberal- 1935.10.23 - 1948.11.14
1921.12.29 - 1926.06.28
1926.09.25 - 1930.08.06
Liberal = 101
Liberal (Unionist) = 1
Liberal Progressive = 1
Total = 103
Pro-Government senators appointed - 102 - 99.1%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 0.9%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Meighen
Arthur Meighen -National Liberal and Conservative Party- 1920.07.10 - 1921.12.28
Conservative 1926.06.29 - 1926.09.24
Conservative = 13
Independent = 1
Liberal (Unionist) = 1
Total = 15
Pro-Government senators appointed - 14 - 93.3%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 6.7%
[edit] Borden
Robert Laird Borden -Conservative- 1911.10.10 - 1917.10.11
Unionist 1917.10.12 - 1920.07.09
Conservative = 57
Liberal = 3
Liberal (Unionist) = 1
Independent Conservative = 1
Total = 62
Pro-Government senators appointed - 58 - 93.5%
Opposition senators appointed - 3 - 4.8%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.6%
[edit] Laurier
Wilfrid Laurier -Liberal- 1896.07.11 - 1911.10.06
Liberal = 80
Independent Liberal = 1
Total = 81
Pro-Government senators appointed - 80 - 98.8%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.2%
[edit] Tupper
Charles Tupper -Conservative- 1896.05.01 - 1896.07.08
Conservative = 1
Total = 1
Pro-Government senators appointed - 1 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Bowell
Mackenzie Bowell -Conservative- 1894.12.21 - 1896.04.27
Conservative = 9
Liberal-Conservative = 4
Total = 13
Pro-Government senators appointed - 13 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Thompson
John Sparrow David Thompson -Liberal-Conservative- 1892.12.05 - 1894.12.12
Conservative = 4
Liberal = 1
Total = 5
Pro-Government senators appointed - 4 - 80.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 1 - 20.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Abbott
John Joseph Caldwell Abbott -Liberal-Conservative- 1891.06.16 - 1892.11.24
Conservative = 5
Liberal-Conservative = 1
Total = 6
Pro-Government senators appointed - 6 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Mackenzie
Alexander Mackenzie -Liberal- 1873.11.07 - 1878.10.08
Liberal = 13
Nationalist = 2
Reformer = 1
Total = 16
Pro-Government senators appointed - 16 - 100.0%
Opposition senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 0 - 0.0%
[edit] Macdonald
John A. Macdonald -Liberal-Conservative- 1878.10.17 - 1891.06.06
1867.07.01 - 1873.11.05
Conservative = 53
Liberal-Conservative = 24
Liberal = 10
Independent Liberal = 1
Independent Conservative = 1
Independent = 1
Nationalist Conservative = 1
Total = 91
Pro-Government senators appointed - 78 - 85.7%
Opposition senators appointed - 10 - 11.0%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 3 - 3.2%
[edit] Royal Proclamation
Royal Proclamation 1867.07.01 - 1867.07.01
Conservative = 36
Liberal = 24
Liberal-Conservative = 7
Nationalist Liberal = 2
Independent Conservative = 1
Declined Appointment = 3
Total = 73
Pro-Government* senators appointed - 43 - 58.90%
Opposition senators appointed - 26 - 35.62%
Non-Partisan senators appointed - 1 - 1.37%
Declined senators - 3 - 4.11%
Note: Three candidates declined appointment to the Senate.
Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau Conservative from Quebec was replaced by Joseph Édouard Cauchon Independent Conservative on November 2nd 1867. The other two were William Todd Liberal and Edward Chandler Liberal-Conservative both from New Brunswick
* The first government of Canada was that of the Conservatives. Although the Royal Proclamation was a non-partisan one, for the purposes of this article, the Governemnt of the day is represented in this statistic
