List of Prince Edward Island premiers

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This is a list of the premiers of Prince Edward Island, both as a colony and as a province of Canada. Like the Canadian federal government, Prince Edward Island uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the premier is the leader of the party that controls the most seats in the Legislative Assembly. The premier, sometimes called the prime minister, acts as Prince Edward Island's head of government, while the Queen of Canada acts as its head of state and is represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island. The premier picks a cabinet from the elected members to form the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island.

Members are first elected to the legislature during general elections. General elections must be conducted every five years from the date of the last election, but the premier may ask for early dissolution of the legislative assembly. An election may also happen if the Governing party loses the confidence of the legislature, by the defeat of a supply bill or tabling of a confidence motion.

Before it joined Canadian confederation in 1873, Prince Edward Island was a British crown colony. It had had a system of responsible government beginning in 1851. Since 1873, Prince Edward Island has been a part of the Canadian federation. It has kept its own legislature to deal with provincial matters.

In the table, dark blue denotes the various parties that led to the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island and red bordered images denote the Liberal Party of Prince Edward Island.

[edit] Colony of Prince Edward Island

	Name	Party	Term
	George Coles	Liberal	1851-1854
	John Holl	Conservative	1854-1855
	George Coles	Liberal	1855-1859
	Edward Palmer	Conservative	1859-1863
	John Hamilton Gray	Conservative	1863-1865
	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	1865-1867
	George Coles	Liberal	1867-1869
	Joseph Hensley	Liberal	1869
	Robert Poore Haythorne	Liberal	1869-1870
	James Colledge Pope	coalition	1870- 1872
	Robert Poore Haythorne	Liberal	1872-1873

[edit] Province of Prince Edward Island

	Name	Party	Term
	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	1873
	Lemuel Cambridge Owen	Conservative	1873-1876
	Louis Henry Davies	coalition	1876-1879
	William Wilfred Sullivan	Conservative	1879-1889
	Neil McLeod	Conservative	1889-1891
	Frederick Peters	Liberal	1891-1897
	Alexander B. Warburton	Liberal	1897-1898
	Donald Farquharson	Liberal	1898-1901
	Arthur Peters	Liberal	1901-1908
	Francis Longworth Haszard	Liberal	1908-1911
	H. James Palmer	Liberal	1911
	John A. Mathieson	Conservative	1911-1917
	Aubin E. Arsenault	Conservative	1917-1919
	John Howatt Bell	Liberal	1919-1923
	James D. Stewart	Conservative	1923-1927
	Albert C. Saunders	Liberal	1927-1930
	Walter M. Lea	Liberal	1930-1931
	James D. Stewart	Conservative	1931-1933
	William J. P. MacMillan	Conservative	1933-1935
	Walter M. Lea	Liberal	1935-1936
	Thane A. Campbell	Liberal	1936-1943
	J. Walter Jones	Liberal	1943-1953
	Alex W. Matheson	Liberal	1953-1959
	Walter R. Shaw	Progressive Conservative	1959-1966
	Alexander B. Campbell	Liberal	1966-1978
	Bennett Campbell	Liberal	1978-1979
	Angus MacLean	Progressive Conservative	1979-1981
	James Lee	Progressive Conservative	1981-1986
	Joe Ghiz	Liberal	1986-1993
	Catherine Callbeck	Liberal	1993-1996
	Keith Milligan	Liberal	1996
	Pat Binns	Progressive Conservative	1996-present

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