List of Leaders of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada

The following is a list of Leaders of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada.

Name		Party	Took Office	Left Office
	Luc Letellier de St-Just	Liberal	July 1, 1867	November 5, 1873
	Alexander Campbell	Conservative	November 7, 1873	October 8, 1878
	Sir Richard William Scott	Liberal	October 8, 1878	April 27, 1896
	Sir Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	April 27, 1896	March 1, 1906
	Sir James Alexander Lougheed	Conservative	April 1, 1906	October 6, 1911
	Sir Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	October 6, 1911	September 24, 1912
	Sir George William Ross	Liberal	September 24, 1912	March 7, 1914
	Hewitt Bostock	Liberal	March 19, 1914	January 1, 1919
	Raoul Dandurand	Liberal	January 1, 1919	December 31, 1919
	Hewitt Bostock (2nd time)	Liberal	January 1, 1920	December 28, 1921
	Sir James Alexander Lougheed (2nd time)	Conservative	December 28, 1921	November 2, 1925
	William Benjamin Ross	Conservative	January 1, 1926	June 28, 1926
	Raoul Dandurand (2nd time)	Liberal	June 29, 1926	December 31, 1926
	William Benjamin Ross (2nd time)	Conservative	December 31, 1926	January 10, 1929
	Wellington Bartley Willoughby	Conservative	January 11, 1929	August 7, 1930
	Raoul Dandurand (3rd time)	Liberal	August 7, 1930	October 22, 1935
	Arthur Meighen	Conservative	October 22, 1935	January 16, 1942
	Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne	Conservative	January 16, 1942	December 10, 1942
		Progressive Conservative	December 11, 1942	September 11, 1945
	John Thomas Haig	Progressive Conservative	September 12, 1945	June 20, 1957
	William Ross Macdonald	Liberal	June 20, 1957	April 21, 1963
	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Progressive Conservative	April 22, 1963	October 31, 1967
	Jacques Flynn	Progressive Conservative	October 31, 1967	June 3, 1979
	Raymond Joseph Perrault	Liberal	June 3, 1979	March 2, 1980
	Jacques Flynn (2nd time)	Progressive Conservative	March 3, 1980	September 16, 1984
	Allan MacEachen	Liberal	September 16, 1984	November 30, 1991
	Royce Herbert Frith	Liberal	November 30, 1991	October 25, 1993
	John Lynch-Staunton	Progressive Conservative	October 25, 1993	February 1, 2004
		Conservative	February 2, 2004	September 30, 2004
	Noël A. Kinsella	Conservative	October 1, 2004	February 7, 2006
	Dan Hays	Liberal	February 8, 2006	January 18, 2007
	Céline Hervieux-Payette	Liberal	January 18, 2007	November 3, 2008
	Jim Cowan	Liberal	November 3, 2008	January 29, 2014
		Liberal Senate caucus	January 29, 2014	November 5, 2015
	Claude Carignan	Conservative	November 5, 2015	Incumbent

See also

• Canadian politics