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The margin of his victory was also the largest in any seriously contested leadership election for a Canadian conservative party, exceeding the 66.7% of the delegated vote that George A. Drew had won while winning the leadership of the old Progressive Conservative Party in 1948; Charest had won 96% of the vote in 1995, but ran unopposed as one ...
The Conservative Party of Canada elects its leaders through a process known as a leadership election.The most recent leadership election was held in 2022.. Since 2004, the party has elected its leaders on a one member, one vote basis using a ranked ballot.
July 9: 2022 Nova Scotia Liberal Party leadership election; August 6: 2022 New Brunswick Liberal Association leadership election; September 10: 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election; October 6: 2022 United Conservative Party leadership election; October 21: 2022 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election; November ...
24 June – Conservative MP Don Stewart is elected as the new member for Toronto—St. Paul's following a by-election, in a pickup of the seat from the Liberals. 31 August – Liberal MP Andy Fillmore for Halifax resigns his seat. 4 September – The New Democratic Party ends their confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals.
[71] [9] O'Toole, who led the party from 2020 to 2022 and served as Minister of Veterans Affairs in the government of Stephen Harper, has held the seat since a 2012 by-election. Jamil Jivani , conservative commentator and former president of the Canada Strong and Free Network , won the Conservative Party nomination, defeating Theresa Corless, a ...
The table below indicates which party won the election. Several provinces held elections before joining Canada, but only their post-Confederation elections are shown. These include: Lower Canada held 15 elections for its Legislative Assembly, from 1792 to 1835; Upper Canada held 13 elections to its Legislative Assembly, from 1792 to 1836;
The Conservatives drop the word "Liberal" from "Liberal-Conservative Party" in 1873, but Macdonald and some other members continue to run under the original party name. First federal election by secret ballot. 129 65 [2] – – – 12 206 4th 1878 Former prime minister John A. Macdonald's Conservative Party defeats Prime Minister Mackenzie's ...
When it became clear that neither the PC Party nor the Reform Party or Canadian Alliance (the latter being the successor to the Reform Party) could beat the incumbent Liberals that had governed since the 1993 election, an effort to unite the right-of-centre parties emerged. In 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the PCs merged, forming the ...