2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election

2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election

March 9, 2025

34,300 points available
17,151 points needed to win
Opinion polls
Turnout151,899 (92.7%)
 
Candidate Mark Carney Chrystia Freeland
Points 29,456.91
(85.88%)
2,728.57
(7.96%)
Popular vote 131,674
(86.84%)
11,134
(7.34%)

 
Candidate Karina Gould Frank Baylis
Points 1,100.34
(3.21%)
1,014.18
(2.96%)
Popular vote 4,785
(3.16%)
4,038
(2.66%)


Leader before election

Justin Trudeau

Elected Leader

Mark Carney

2025 Liberal leadership election
DateMarch 9, 2025
ConventionRogers Centre, Ottawa
Resigning leaderJustin Trudeau
Won byMark Carney
Candidates4
Entrance fee$350,000
Spending limit$5,000,000

From February 26 to March 9, 2025, members of the Liberal Party of Canada voted on a successor for Justin Trudeau after he announced his intent to resign as the party leader and prime minister of Canada.

Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada, won the ranked-choice voting (RCV) election with over 85% of the first-preference vote and points, as well as a majority in all 343 ridings. This margin of victory surpassed Justin Trudeau's 2013 leadership victory margin in vote share, points, and ridings.

Carney was sworn in as prime minister on March 14, the first prime minister in Canadian history to not have previously held elected office. Carney subsequently called a snap federal election on March 23, where he ran and won in Nepean.