Lista de primeros ministros de la Columbia Británica

David Eby ha sido el estreno de Columbia Británica desde noviembre de 2022.

El primer ministro de Columbia Británica es el primer ministro de la provincia canadiense de Columbia Británica. La provincia era una colonia de la corona británica gobernada por los gobernadores de la Columbia Británica antes de unirse a la Confederación Canadiense en 1871. Desde entonces, ha tenido un gobierno parlamentario unicameral al estilo de Westminster, en el que el primer ministro es el líder del partido que controla la mayoría de los escaños. en la asamblea legislativa. El primer ministro es el jefe de gobierno de la Columbia Británica y el rey de Canadá es el jefe de estado y está representado por el vicegobernador de la Columbia Británica. El primer ministro elige un gabinete de los miembros electos para formar el Consejo Ejecutivo de la Columbia Británica y preside ese organismo.

Los miembros son elegidos por primera vez para la legislatura durante las elecciones generales. Las elecciones generales deben realizarse cada cuatro años a partir de la fecha de la última elección. También puede tener lugar una elección si el partido gobernante pierde la confianza de la legislatura por la derrota de un proyecto de ley de suministro o la presentación de una moción de censura.

Antes de 1903, la Columbia Británica no usaba un sistema de partidos; en cambio, los primeros ministros de Columbia Británica no tenían afiliación oficial a un partido y fueron elegidos por miembros electos de la asamblea legislativa entre ellos mismos. Los candidatos se presentaron como "Gobierno", "Oposición", "Independiente", o en formulaciones tales como "Oposición independiente", indicando sus posiciones respectivas para el régimen de turno.

La Columbia Británica ha tenido 35 personas como primer ministro desde que se unió a la Confederación, de las cuales 14 personas no tenían afiliación partidista, tres eran conservadores, ocho eran liberales, cuatro eran socreds y seis eran nuevos demócratas. El primer primer ministro fue John Foster McCreight, quien asumió en 1871. Joseph Martin pasó el menor tiempo en el cargo, 106 días. Con más de veinte años, W. A. C. Bennett pasó más tiempo en el cargo y es el único primer ministro que sirvió en más de cuatro parlamentos. El primer ministro titular es David Eby, quien prestó juramento el 18 de noviembre de 2022.

Premieres de la Columbia Británica

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No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Electoral mandates (Assembly)	Political party		Riding	Cabinet	Ref.
1		John Foster McCreight (1827–1913)	14 November 1871	23 December 1872	Title created (caretaker government) 1871 election (1st Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Victoria City
2		Amor De Cosmos (1825–1897)	23 December 1872	11 February 1874	Appointment (1st Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Victoria
3 (1 of 2)		George Anthony Walkem (1834–1908)	11 February 1874	1 February 1876	Appointment (1st Parliament) 1875 election (2nd Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Cariboo
4		Andrew Charles Elliott (1829–1889)	1 February 1876	25 June 1878	Appointment (2nd Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Victoria City
5 (2 of 2)		George Anthony Walkem (1834–1908)	25 June 1878	13 June 1882	1878 election (3rd Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Cariboo
6		Robert Beaven (1836–1920)	13 June 1882	29 January 1883	1882 election (4th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Victoria City
7		William Smithe (1842–1887)	29 January 1883	28 March 1887	Appointment (4th Parliament) 1886 election (5th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Cowichan
8		Alexander Edmund Batson Davie (1847–1889)	1 April 1887	1 August 1889	Appointment (5th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Lillooet
9		John Robson (1824–1892)	2 August 1889	29 June 1892	Appointment (5th Parliament) 1890 election (6th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for New Westminster (1889–1890) MLA for Cariboo (1890–1892)
10		Theodore Davie (1852–1898)	2 July 1892	4 March 1895	Appointment (6th Parliament) 1894 election (7th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Cowichan-Alberni
11		John Herbert Turner (1834–1923)	4 March 1895	15 August 1898	Appointment (7th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Victoria City
12		Charles Augustus Semlin (1836–1927)	15 August 1898	28 February 1900	1898 election (8th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Yale-West
13		Joseph Martin (1852–1923)	28 February 1900	15 June 1900	Appointment (8th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Vancouver City
14		James Dunsmuir (1851–1920)	15 June 1900	21 November 1902	1900 election (9th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for South Nanaimo
15		Edward Gawler Prior (1853–1920)	21 November 1902	1 June 1903	Appointment (9th Parliament)		Non-partisan	MLA for Victoria City
16		Richard McBride (1870–1917)	1 June 1903	15 December 1915	Appointment (9th Parliament) 1903 election (10th Parliament) 1907 election (11th Parliament) 1909 election (12th Parliament) 1912 election (13th Parliament)		Conservative (Ldr. 1903)	MLA for Westminster-Dewdney (1903) MLA for Dewdney (1903–1907) MLA for Victoria City (1907–1915)
			Led first partisan administration. During First World War, the provincial government purchased and took possession of two submarines to defend the province from the threat of German attack; quickly transferred by order of the federal government to the Royal Canadian Navy in August 1914. Created the province's first university, the University of British Columbia.
17		William John Bowser (1867–1933)	15 December 1915	23 November 1916	Appointment (13th Parliament)		Conservative (Ldr. 1915)	MLA for Vancouver City
18		Harlan Carey Brewster (1870–1918)	23 November 1916	1 March 1918	1916 election (14th Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1912)	MLA for Victoria City
			Brought in women's suffrage, instituted prohibition, and combatted political corruption.
19		John Oliver (1856–1927)	6 March 1918	17 August 1927	Appointment (14th Parliament) 1920 election (15th Parliament) 1924 election (16th Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1918)	MLA for Dewdney (1918–1920) MLA for Victoria City (1920–1924) MLA for Nelson (1924–1927)
			Developed the produce industry in the Okanagan Valley, and tried to persuade the federal government to lower the freight rate for rail transport. In 1923, hosted the visit of Warren Harding to Vancouver, the first ever visit of a sitting United States President to Canada.
20		John Duncan MacLean (1873–1948)	20 August 1927	21 August 1928	Appointment (16th Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1927)	MLA for Yale
21		Simon Fraser Tolmie (1867–1937)	21 August 1928	15 November 1933	1928 election (17th Parliament)		Conservative (Ldr. 1926)	MLA for Saanich
			Attempted to apply "business principles to the business of government" during the Great Depression hit. Unemployment reached 28% – the highest in Canada. Set up relief camps. The Kidd Report recommended such sharp cuts to social services that the Conservative Party split and decided to run no candidates in the 1933 election. Local riding associations that supported Tolmie ran "Unionist" candidates while those supporting former premier Bowser stood "non-partisan" candidates and others ran as Independent Conservatives, resulting in electoral collapse and only 2 Conservative MLAs (one pro-Bowser, one pro-Tolmie) being returned and Tolmie losing his own seat.
22		Thomas Dufferin Pattullo (1873–1956)	15 November 1933	9 December 1941	1933 election (18th Parliament) 1937 election (19th Parliament) 1941 election (20th Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1929)	MLA for Prince Rupert
			Attempted to extend government services and relief to the unemployed during the Great Depression. Re-elected in 1937 using the slogan "socialized capitalism". Failed to win a majority in 1941 and removed as leader by his party when he was unwilling to form a coalition government with the Conservative Party to keep the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power.
23		John Hart (1879–1957)	9 December 1941	29 December 1947	Appointment (20th Parliament) 1945 election (21st Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1941)	MLA for Victoria City
			Became Liberal leader and premier in order to form a coalition government with the Conservatives, which his predecessor had refused to do, in order to keep the socialist CCF out of power. Undertook an ambitious program of rural electrification, hydroelectric and highway construction. Built Highway 97 to northern British Columbia and relaunched the Bridge River Power Project, which was the province's first major hydroelectric development. Established the BC Power Commission to provide power to smaller communities that were not serviced by private utilities.
24		Boss Johnson (1890–1964)	29 December 1947	1 August 1952	Appointment (21st Parliament) 1949 election (22nd Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1947)	MLA for New Westminster
			Introduced compulsory health insurance, and a 3% provincial sales tax to pay for it, expanded the highway system, extended the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, and negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the Kenney Dam. Coalition government collapsed when Conservatives left to form the Official Opposition in January 1952, leaving Johnson to lead a straight Liberal government until its defeat in that year's general election.
25		W. A. C. Bennett (1900–1979)	1 August 1952	15 September 1972	1952 election (23rd Parliament) 1953 election (24th Parliament) 1956 election (25th Parliament) 1960 election (26th Parliament) 1963 election (27th Parliament) 1966 election (28th Parliament) 1969 election (29th Parliament)		Social Credit	MLA for South Okanagan
			Longest-serving premier. Oversaw rapid expansion of the province's highway system and BC Rail, creation of BC Ferries, BC Hydro, and the Bank of British Columbia, hydro-electric dam-building projects on the Columbia and Peace Rivers and the creation of the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University.
26		Dave Barrett (1930–2018)	15 September 1972	22 December 1975	1972 election (30th Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 1970)	MLA for Coquitlam
			Reformed the welfare system, established the province's Labour Relations Board, and expanded the public sector. Reformed Legislative Assembly by introducing question period and full Hansard transcripts of legislative proceedings. Brought in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) to protect the supply of farm land and Insurance Corporation of British Columbia to provide public car insurance.
27		Bill Bennett (1932–2015)	22 December 1975	6 August 1986	1975 election (31st Parliament) 1979 election (32nd Parliament) 1983 election (33rd Parliament)		Social Credit (Ldr. 1973)	MLA for South Okanagan (1975–1979) MLA for Okanagan South (1979–1986)
			Implemented significant cuts to social services and education and repealed labour laws, resulting in a general strike. Spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Expo 86 and the construction of BC Place, Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system, and the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre. Built the Coquihalla Highway.
28		Bill Vander Zalm (b. 1934)	6 August 1986	2 April 1991	Appointment (33rd Parliament) 1986 election (34th Parliament)		Social Credit (Ldr. 1986)	MLA for Richmond	Vander Zalm ministry
29		Rita Johnston (b. 1935)	2 April 1991	5 November 1991	Appointment (34th Parliament)		Social Credit (Ldr. 1991)	MLA for Surrey-Newton	Johnston ministry
30		Mike Harcourt (b. 1943)	5 November 1991	22 February 1996	1991 election (35th Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 1987)	MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant	Harcourt ministry
31		Glen Clark (b. 1957)	22 February 1996	25 August 1999	Appointment (35th Parliament) 1996 election (36th Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 1996)	MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway	G. Clark ministry
32		Dan Miller (b. 1944)	25 August 1999	24 February 2000	Appointment (36th Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 1999)	MLA for North Coast	Miller ministry
33		Ujjal Dosanjh (b. 1947)	24 February 2000	5 June 2001	Appointment (36th Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 2000)	MLA for Vancouver-Kensington	Dosanjh ministry
34		Gordon Campbell (b. 1948)	5 June 2001	14 March 2011	2001 election (37th Parliament) 2005 election (38th Parliament) 2009 election (39th Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 1993)	MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey	Campbell ministry
35		Christy Clark (b. 1965)	14 March 2011	18 July 2017	Appointment (39th Parliament) 2013 election (40th Parliament) 2017 election (41st Parliament)		Liberal (Ldr. 2011)	MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey (2011–2013) MLA for Westside-Kelowna (2013–2017) MLA for Kelowna West (2017)	C. Clark ministry
36		John Horgan (b. 1959)	18 July 2017	18 November 2022	Appointment (41st Parliament) 2020 election (42nd Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 2014)	MLA for Langford-Juan de Fuca	Horgan ministry
37		David Eby (b. 1976)	18 November 2022	incumbent	Appointment (42nd Parliament)		New Democratic (Ldr. 2022)	MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey	Eby ministry
Min. Led a minority government Co. Led a coalition government