2025 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election
June 9–14, 2025
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| Date | June 9–14, 2025 |
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| Convention | Quebec City |
| Resigning leader | Dominique Anglade |
| Won by | Pablo Rodriguez |
| Ballots | 2 |
| Candidates | 5 |
| Entrance fee | $40,000 |
| Spending limit | $400,000 |
The 2025 Quebec Liberal Party leadership election was held from June 9 to 14, 2025, to elect a new leader to replace former Quebec Liberal Party leader Dominique Anglade, who announced her resignation on November 7, 2022 amid mounting criticism within the party for her performance in the 2022 Quebec general election and for her subsequent decision to remove Liberal MNA Marie-Claude Nichols from caucus. Anglade had led the party to losses in the election held a month earlier, finishing with only 21 seats and 14% of the popular vote, their lowest seat count since 1956 and their lowest share of the popular vote in their history; while the party remained the official opposition, they fell behind the governing Coalition Avenir Québec and opposition Québec solidaire and Parti Québécois to place fourth in the popular vote.
Former federal cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez was elected on the second ballot against former Quebec chamber of commerce president Charles Milliard by less than 5 percentage points. Rodriguez became the first Hispanic to lead a provincial party in Quebec. Rodriguez also was the first former federal cabinet minister to be elected to lead the Quebec Liberal Party since Jean Charest in 1998 and the first one from the federal Liberal Party since Jean Lesage in 1960.
In November 2025, Rodriguez served a legal notice to newspaper Le Journal de Montréal, after it reported that Quebec Liberal Party members were allegedly financially rewarded for voting for Rodriguez in the leadership election; he denied the accusations. After mounting criticism from within the party, Rodriguez resigned as leader in December 2025; Milliard would succeed him in February 2026.