Quebec Liberal Party leadership elections


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

1938 leadership convention

Télesphore-Damien Bouchard and Édouard Lacroix withdrew before balloting.

1950 leadership convention

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

1958 leadership convention

1970 leadership convention

1978 leadership convention

1983 leadership convention

1993 leadership convention

1998 leadership convention

2013 leadership convention

2020 leadership convention

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.