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  Canadian federal election, 1988 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
The Liberal Party, led by John Napier Turner, was opposed to the agreement, as was the New Democratic Party led by Ed Broadbent.
The election was the last for Canada's Social Credit movement: the party won no seats, and insignificant portion of the popular vote.
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 Canadian federal election, 1963 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1963 was held to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
Despite winning 41% of the vote, which is usually sufficient for ensuring the election of a majority government, the Liberals fell seven seats short of their target.
They were again disappointed by the failure of their new partnership with the labour movement to produce an electoral breakthrough, particularly in the province of Ontario, which has the largest population and the largest number of seats in the House of Commons.
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 Canadian federal election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000.
The election was regarded as a great success by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and the Liberal Party, but a failure for every other party.
On election night, controversy arose when a CBC producer's gratuitously sexist comment about Stockwell Day's daughter-in-law, Juliana Thiessen Day, was accidentally broadcast on the Canadian networks' pooled election feed from Day's riding.
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 Canadian federal election, 1972 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1972 was held on October 30, 1972 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
On election night, the results appeared to give 109 seats to the Tories, however once the counting had finished the next day, the final results gave the Liberals a minority government and left the New Democratic Party led by David Lewis holding the balance of power.
The election was the second fought by Liberal leader Pierre Trudeau.
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 Canadian federal election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canadian federal election, 2004 (more formally, the 38th general election), was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
On election day, polling times were arranged to allow results from most provinces to be announced more or less simultaneously, with the exception of Atlantic Canada, whose results were known before the close of polling in other provinces.
Although on the eve of the election the party was polling slightly ahead of the Liberals everywhere west of Quebec, it had dropped in support, polling behind or an par with Liberals everywhere except Alberta and British Columbia, where it held onto its traditional support.
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 Federal
Canadian federal election, 1891 The 1891 Canadian election was won by House of Commons.
Canadian federal election, 1940 The 1940 Canadian election was the 19th General Election in Canadian history.
Canadian federal election, 1945 The 1945 Canadian election was the 20th General Election in Canadian history.
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 Canadian federal election, 1867 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1867, held on September 20th, was the first election for the new nation of Canada.
As it was, Brown ran concurrently for seats in the Ontario legislature and the Canadian House of Commons and hoped to become Premier of Ontario.
Elections held in the previous year in the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia focussed on the issue of whether or not to form a confederation.
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 canadian federal election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elections are generally held in either the fall or spring.
The most recent instance of this was the 1988 election, which was considered by most parties to be a referendum on free trade with the United States.
Canadian election turn-out is generally higher than that in the United States but lower than in most European nations.
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 A. A. Heaps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Labour candidate in 1923 in the riding of Winnipeg North but was defeated.
He was elected in the 1925 election and joined J.S. Woodsworth as the sole Labour MPs in Parliament.
He was defeated in the 1940 election due to a strong candidacy in Winnipeg North by the Communist Party's candidate.
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 Canadian federal election, 1965 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the Canadian federal election of 1965, the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
This was the first election for the Rhinoceros Party of Canada, a satirical party led by Cornelius the First.
Cornelius, a resident of the Granby zoo, did not seek election because Canadian election law does not permit rhinoceroses or other zoo animals to seek election.
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 Liberal-Progressive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This phenomenon occurred particularly in the 1925 Canadian election1925 and 1926 Canadian election1926/ elections.
In the 1926 Canadian election, a total of 11 candidates ran as Liberal Progressive: eight in Manitoba (the entire Progressive contingent who had decided to nominate joint candidates with the Liberals), all of whom were elected, and three unsuccessful candidates in Ontario.
In the 1940 Canadian election, two Liberal Progressives ran in Manitoba, of whom one was elected.
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 Donald Matheson Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sutherland ran for public office in the 1917 federal election held as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 as a Laurier Liberal, but was defeated in the riding of Oxford North.
By 1921, he had changed allegiances to the Conservatives and, in the 1925 general election, he won the seat of Oxford North and became a Tory Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons.
Bennett's reforms were insufficient to appease an unruly electorate, however, and the Bennett government was defeated in the 1935 general election.
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 Encyclopedia: 1962 Canadian election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When the Canadian federal election of 1962 was called, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada of John George Diefenbaker had governed for almost five years with the largest majority in the House of Commons in Canadian history.
The Tories were reduced to a tenuous minority government as a result of economic difficulties such as high unemployment and a slumping Canadian dollar, as well as unpopular decisions such as the cancellation of the Avro Arrow.
The 1962 election was the first contested by the social democratic New Democratic Party, which had been formed from an alliance between the old Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.
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 Encyclopedia: 1925 Canadian election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the 1925 Canadian federal election, William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party formed a minority government.
A third party, the Progressives, which had nominated candidates for the first time in the 1921 election, held the balance of the seats.
This plan was complicated by the fact that his party lost the election, and that King himself had lost his seat in the House of Commons.
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 CBC - British Columbia Votes 2005 - Features - Election Dictionary
Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance (n, proper) official name of the political party commonly known as the "Canadian Alliance." The party was formed in 2000 after a failed attempt to merge the opposition Reform Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Canadian politics in general is said to be more "left-leaning" than American politics because of the generally accepted socialist principles of health care, employment insurance and other government-administered policies with social impact.
Canadian politics in general is said to be more "left-leaning" than American politics because of the generally accepted socialist principles of health care and employment insurance.
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 Federal Election Trivia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Canadians have gone to the polls most often in the fall; 13 fall elections have been held since 1867, 12 elections have been held in summer, 9 in the spring and only 4 have been held in winter.
A Prime Minister may lose his or her seat in an election, but can remain in office as long as the party has sufficient support in the House of Commons to be able to govern, though again, he or she must, by custom, win a seat very promptly.
In the general election of December 6, 1921, 4 women ran as candidates and only one was elected: Miss Agnes Campbell MacPhail became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons; she was elected as a Progressive.
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 Canadian federal elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Elections can be called by the ruling party at any time and must be called within five years of the last election.
The most recent instance of this was the 1988 election which was proclaimed by both parites to be a referedum on free trade with the United States.
The next Canadian election is expected in the spring of 2004.
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 1917 Canadian Election Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1917 Canadian federal election (sometimes reffered to as the khaki election) was held on December 17, 1917 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons.
Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription (see Conscription Crisis of 1917).
However citing the emergency of the First World War, the government postponed the election, largely in hope that a coalition government could be formed, as was the case in Britain.
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 1921 Canadian election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1921 Canadian federal election saw the defeat of the Union goverment that had governed Canada through the First World War and its replacement with a Liberal government under the young leader William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Since the 1911 Canadian election the country had been governed by the Conservatives first under Robert Borden and then under Arthur Meighen.
The election was the first one in which the majority of Canadian women were allowed to vote.
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 Henri Bourassa biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Born in Montreal, Bourassa was a grandson of Louis-Joseph Papineau.
In 1896, he was elected to the House of Commons as an independent Liberal, but resigned in 1899 to protest against the sending of Canadian troops to the Boer War.
He returned to the House of Commons in the 1925 Canadian election with his election as an Independent MP and remained until his defeat in the 1935 Canadian election.
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 1925 Canadian election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 1925 Canadian election saw Mackenzie King 's Liberals form a minoritygovernment leading to the King-Byng Affair.
A third party, the Progressives, which had exploded onto thescene in the 1921 election, held the balance of theseats.
Complicating this plan was the fact that not only had his party lost the election, but King himself personally lost his seat.Meighen was outraged and demanded that King resign from the Prime Minister 's office.
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 ICPSR Data Files - U of Calgary
The election studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds, enduring political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on questions of public policy, and participation in political life.
The 1980 Election Study is comprised of several integrated survey data collections occurring at strategically chosen periods in the course of the election year, along with vote validation and contextual data.
Interviews were conducted in-person prior to the 1984 election, and in the post-election wave, half of the respondents were randomly assigned to be reinterviewed in person, and the other half to be reinterviewed by telephone using a shortened version of the questionnaire.
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 Canadian federal election, 1925 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Canadian federal election of 1925 was held to elect members of the (Click link for more info and facts about Canadian House of Commons) Canadian House of Commons.
Meighen was outraged by King's move, and demanded that King resign from the (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) Prime Minister's office.
While Diefenbaker stood no chance against King in 1925, he would later win both the (Riding a horse as a means of transportation) riding of Prince Albert and the Prime Minister's office.
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 New Democratic Party - free-definition
The importance of labour to the party is still reflected in the party's leadership elections as labour votes are scaled to 25% of the total number of ballots cast.
In addition, a younger French Canadian candidate, Pierre Ducasse, gave such a stirring speech at the convention that it is hoped that he could be critical in gaining votes in Quebec where the party is typically weak.
In the election of June 28, 2004, the NDP won the 3rd largest number of votes, behind the Conservative Party of Canada and the Liberal Party of Canada.
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