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| Date | August 7, 1948 |
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| Convention | Ottawa Coliseum, Lansdowne Park, Ottawa, Ontario |
| Resigning leader | William Lyon Mackenzie King |
| Won by | Louis St. Laurent |
| Ballots | 1 |
| Candidates | 3 |
The 1948 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election was called to replace retiring Liberal leader and sitting Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The convention was held exactly 29 years after the 1919 leadership convention that saw King elected Liberal leader. The National Film Board of Canada made a short film about the event for its Eye Witness series.[1]
Secretary of State for External Affairs Louis St. Laurent defeated Minister of Agriculture (and former Premier of Saskatchewan) James Garfield Gardiner and former cabinet minister Charles Gavan Power on the first ballot, and would be sworn in as prime minister later that year.
- ^ "Eye Witness No. 6". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved March 11, 2023.