Quebec Liberal Party leadership elections

Note: Before 1938, the leaders of the Quebec Liberal Party were chosen by the party caucus.

(Held June 11, 1938)

• Adélard Godbout acclaimed

Télesphore-Damien Bouchard and Édouard Lacroix withdrew before balloting.^[1]

(Held May 20, 1950)

• Georges-Émile Lapalme acclaimed

George Carlyle Marler declined nomination; Horace Phillipon, Jean-Marie Nadeau withdrew before balloting.^[2]

(Held May 31, 1958)^[3]

• Jean Lesage 630 (72.2%)
• Paul Gérin-Lajoie 145 (16.6%)
• René Hamel 97 (11.1%)
• Aimé Fauteux 1 (0.1%)

(Held January 17, 1970)^[4]

• Robert Bourassa 843 (53.2%)
• Claude Wagner 455 (28.7%)
• Pierre Laporte 288 (18.1%)

(Held April 15, 1978)^[5]

• Claude Ryan 1,748 (68.4%)
• Raymond Garneau 807 (31.6%)

(Held October 15, 1983)^[6]

• Robert Bourassa 2,138 (75.4%)
• Pierre Paradis 353 (12.5%)
• Daniel Johnson, Jr. 343 (12.1%)

(Held December 14, 1993)

• Daniel Johnson Jr. acclaimed

(Held April 30, 1998)

• Jean Charest acclaimed

(Held March 17, 2013)

• Philippe Couillard 1,390 (58.5%)
• Pierre Moreau 523 (22.0%)
• Raymond Bachand 464 (19.5%)

Couillard resigned as Liberal leader on October 4, 2018, following his government's defeat in the 2018 provincial election and was initially supposed to take place on May 31, 2020. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the leadership election was initially postponed indefinitely. On May 11, 2020, after candidate Alexandre Cusson withdrew from the race, Dominique Anglade was chosen as leader by acclamation.^[7]

• Dominique Anglade acclaimed

(Held June 9–14, 2025)

Rodriguez resigned as leader on December 17, 2025, after a political scandal and crisis. Milliard was acclaimed as leader as no other candidates qualified to be on the ballot; a leadership convention was to be held on March 14, 2026.

(Held February 13, 2026)

• Charles Milliard acclaimed