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Communist Party. The Communist Party of Canada changed its name multiple times in its history. It was founded as the Communist Party of Canada in 1921. It was underground until 1924, and founded a public face, Workers' Party of Canada, from 1922 until 1924 when the Communist Party was legalized.
Prior to 1903, there was no strong party discipline in the province, and governments rarely lasted more than two years as independent-minded members changed allegiances. MLAs were elected under a myriad of party labels many as Independents, and no one party held strong majorities. The first party government, in 1903, was Conservative.
List of Canadian minor party and independent politicians elected House of Commons 2 / 338 This is a list of members of the House of Commons of Canada who were elected as an independent or as a member of a minor political party. Excluded are MPs who were elected from a major party but then defected during a parliamentary term. Federal elections 1867–1916 Election Member of Parliament ...
Independent candidates in Manitoba provincial elections (8 P) Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories (7 C, 1 P) Independent MPs in the Canadian House of Commons (3 C, 108 P)
The Anti-Confederation Party won 18 of the 19 Nova Scotia seats in the new House of Commons of Canada in the 1867 general election, and 36 of the 38 seats in the Nova Scotia legislature; however, the party was unsuccessful in achieving independence for Nova Scotia.
This party was a split from and rival to a group calling itself the Independent Labour Party. A later Independent Labour Party was organized in British Columbia in 1926 by the Federated Labour Party and Canadian Labour Party (B.C. section) branches. In 1928, it severed its CLP(BC) connections. In 1931, it reorganized, and was renamed the ...
For a list of all single-candidate parties, see List of federal political parties in Canada. Bridge Party of Canada; Canada Party (2015) Christian Democrat Party of Canada; Democratic Representative Caucus; Equal Rights Party (Canada) League for Socialist Action (Canada) McCarthyites (Canada) National Credit Control; Nationalist Party of Canada
At the federal level, Canada has been dominated by two relatively centrist parties practising "brokerage politics", [a] [37] [38] [39] the centre-left leaning Liberal Party of Canada and the centre-right leaning Conservative Party of Canada (or its predecessors). [40] "