The Prime Minister is the head of government of British Columbia.
Prime Ministers of the Dominion of BC[]
Party politics were not introduced to BC until 1903.
- Dr. Sir John Sebastian Helmcken KCMG PC (1875 - 1878)
- Dr. Sir John Sebastian Helmcken KCMG PC (1878 - 1882; resigned)
Robert Beaven PC (1882 - 1883) - William Smithe PC (1883 - 1886)
- William Smithe PC (1886 - 1887; died in office)
Alexander Edmund Batson Davie PC (1887 - 1889; died in office)
John Robson PC (1889 - 1890) - John Robson PC (1890 - 1892; died in office)
Theodore Davie PC (1892 - 1894) - Theodore DaviePC (1894 - 1898)
- Charles Augustus Semlin PC (1898 - 2/1900; removed by vote of non-confidence)
Joseph Martin PC (2/1900 - 8/1900; removed by vote of non-confidence)
James Dunsmuir, 2nd Baron Esquimalt GCMG GCVO PC (8/1900 - 1903) - Sir Richard McBride KCMG PC (Conservative, 1903 - 1907)
- Sir Richard McBride KCMG PC (Conservative, 1907 - 1909)
- Sir Richard McBride KCMG PC (Conservative, 1909 - 1912)
- Sir Richard McBride KCMG PC (Conservative, 1912 - 1916)
- Harlan Carey Brewster PC (Liberal, 1916 - 1918; died in office)
Sir John Oliver KCMG PC (Liberal, 1918 - 1920) - Sir John Oliver KCMG PC (Liberal, 1920 - 1924)
- Sir John Oliver KCMG PC (Liberal, 1924 - 1928)
- Simon Fraser Tolmie PC (Conservative, 1928 - 1933)
- Sir Thomas Dufferin Pattullo KCMG PC (Liberal, 1933 - 1937)
- Sir Thomas Dufferin Pattullo KCMG PC (Liberal, 1937 - 1941)
- Sir Thomas Dufferin Pattullo KCMG PC (Liberal, 1941 - 1945)
- Harold Edward Winch PC (Labour, 1945 - 1949)
- Byron Ingemar Johnson PC (Liberal, 1949 - 1952)
- Harold Edward Winch PC (Labour, 1952 - 1953; removed by vote of non-confidence)
- Sir William Andrew Cecil Bennett KCMG KBC OD PC (Social Credit, 1953 - 1956)
- Sir William Andrew Cecil Bennett KCMG KBC OD PC (Social Credit, 1956 - 1960)
- Sir William Andrew Cecil Bennett KCMG KBC OD PC (Social Credit, 1960 - 1966)
- Sir William Andrew Cecil Bennett KCMG KBC OD PC (Social Credit, 1966 - 1969)
- Sir William Andrew Cecil Bennett KCMG KBC OD PC (Social Credit, 1969 - 1972)
- David Barrett MBC PC (Labour, 1972 - 1975)
- William Richards Bennett OD PC (Social Credit, 1975 - 1979)
- William Richards Bennett OD PC (Social Credit, 1979 - 1983)
- William Richards Bennett OD PC (Social Credit, 1983 - 1986)
- Dame Grace Mary McCarthy DBC PC (Social Credit, 1986 - 1991)
- Dame Grace Mary McCarthy DBC PC (Social Credit, 1991 - 1993)
- Andrew William O'Connor MBC PC (Social Credit, 1993 - 1996)
- Sir Michael Franklin Harcourt KBC PC (Labour, 1996 - 2001)
- Sir Wilson F. T. Leung KBC PC (Liberal, 2001 - 2005)
- Sir Wilson F. T. Leung KBC PC (Liberal, 2005 - 2009)
- Sir Wilson F. T. Leung KBC PC (Liberal-Conservative Coalition, 2009 - 2013)
- Victoria Elizabeth Spintlum PC (Labour, 2013 to date)