Electoral history of Kim Campbell

This article is the Electoral history of Kim Campbell, the nineteenth Prime Minister of Canada.

She succeeded Brian Mulroney as prime minister and then led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the general election of 1993.

Jean Chrétien, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, succeeded her as prime minister.

Campbell ranks twenty-first out of twenty-three prime ministers for time in office, serving one term of 132 days.

Mulroney announced his retirement early in 1993, triggering a leadership convention in June, 1993.

When she succeeded Mulroney as prime minister on June 25, 1993, there were only two months left in the five-year term of the 34th Canadian Parliament, which had been elected in 1988.

The election was a disaster for the Progressive Conservative party: they went from a solid majority in the Commons to only two seats.

Under the rules of the House of Commons, the Progressive Conservatives did not have enough seats for official party status.

[3] Prior to entering federal politics, Campbell had been on the Vancouver School Board, and then a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, elected as a member of the Social Credit Party of British Columbia.

Campbell began her political career by standing for the Vancouver School Board (1981-1984).

Following the resignation of Bill Bennett as leader of the British Columbia Social Credit Party, there was a leadership convention in July, 1986.