This article is the Electoral history of Sir Charles Tupper, the sixth Prime Minister of Canada. A Conservative, he became prime minister upon the resignation of Prime Minister Sir Mackenzie Bowell over the Manitoba Schools Question in 1896. Tupper was the shortest-serving prime minister, with a term of only 68 days. He led his party in two general elections (1896, 1900) and lost both, to Sir Wilfrid Laurier Prior to Confederation in 1867, Tupper was active in Nova Scotia politics, and was Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, when he was elected to the first House of Commons of Canada. Summary Tupper had the shortest term in office of all twenty-three prime ministers, serving for just 68 days in the spring of 1896. Tupper was the second of three prime ministers from Nova Scotia, the others being Sir John Sparrow David Thompson and Sir Robert Laird Borden. He became prime minister upon the resignation of Sir Mackenzie Bowell, who resigned after a Cabinet revolt over his handling of the Manitoba Schools Question. Tupper never sat in the Commons as prime minister, being sworn in as prime minister after the Commons was dissolved and the 1896 election called. He was defeated in the 1896 election by Wilfrid Laurier. Tupper maintained the leadership of the Conservative Party and ran again in the general election of 1900. He was again defeated, including losing his own seat of Cape Breton. He then retired, the last of the Fathers of Confederation to leave politics. Tupper stood for election to the House of Commons of Canada twelve times, nine times for the constituency of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (1867, 1870, 1872, 1874, 1878 (twice), 1882, and 1887 (twice)), and three times for the constituency of Cape Breton (1896 (twice), 1900). He was elected eleven times, including four times by acclamation (two ministerial by-elections (1870, 1878), one general election (1882), and one case where a sitting Member of Parliament resigned his seat to allow Tupper to re-enter the Commons (1896)). He lost at the constituency level only once, in his final election of 1900. He served a total of 22 years, 7 months, 17 days in the Commons. Prior to his election to the House of Commons in 1867, Tupper was a member of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia and served as Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867. Federal general elections, 1896 and