Liberal party leader John Turner, who took over as Canada’s 17th prime minister after Pierre Trudeau resigned, is crushed by Brian Mulroney’s Conservatives in the federal election.
The Liberals won only 40 seats in total, including Turner’s Vancouver Quadra riding, and at the time it was the worst defeat ever suffered by a governing party. He stepped down as prime minister on Sept. 17 but remained an MP until 1993.
The election having been called just over a week after he was sworn in, Turner held the office of prime minister for two months and seventeen days, the second-shortest stint in Canadian history.
