1000 Sentences With "Progressive Conservative Party"

Spokespeople for the Progressive Conservative Party did not respond to Motherboard's request for comment.

His Progressive Conservative party lost to the left-leaning NDP party in May 2015.

Here's the backstory: Troy Crowder is running as a candidate for Ontario's Progressive Conservative Party in the Sudbury riding.

The Progressive Conservative party has gained against the party, despite turmoil after the abrupt resignation of its former leader.

His political opponents, as well as some political allies in his Progressive Conservative party, say he has gone too far.

Mr. Ford, who took over the reins of the Progressive Conservative party in March, had seemed like a shoo-in.

That announcement followed the resignation of Patrick Brown as the leader of the opposition Progressive Conservative party in the province of Ontario.

Ford is the leader of the center-right Progressive Conservative party, which is aiming to end 15 years of Liberal government rule in Ontario.

He found an opening this past winter, when the Progressive Conservative party leader, Patrick Brown, resigned after accusations of sexual improprieties with young women.

The Progressive Conservative Party that Ford leads won the majority of seats in the province's legislature in Thursday's election, data from Elections Ontario showed.

Ford and his Progressive Conservative party swept to power in Ontario's parliamentary elections earlier this month with a vow to cut personal and corporate taxes.

EVER since Doug Ford became the leader of Ontario's centre-right Progressive Conservative Party on March 10th, he has been asked if he is Canada's Donald Trump.

In 2015, her left-leaning party stunned many political commentators when it convincingly won the Alberta election, ending 44 years of Progressive Conservative Party rule in Canada's energy heartland.

He again called his followers the "Ford Nation," and his campaign materials and signs largely omitted any mention of the Progressive Conservative Party in favor of the family brand.

CBC News projected the Progressive Conservative Party to win 76 out of the 124 seats in the province's legislature, with the New Democrats in second place with 39 seats.

The resignation of the leader, Patrick Brown, threw the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario into disarray about five months before provincial elections that many believed he was poised to win.

The most high-profile resignation was Patrick Brown's — he was poised to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario into an election in June, with many predicting they would have won.

Doug Ford heads the Progressive Conservative Party which is now neck and neck with the New Democratic Party, a social democratic party, in an election to form the next government of Ontario.

Ford, who was the Progressive Conservative Party candidate and has been compared to Donald Trump, rode a wave of reactionary populism and won his bid to become premier of Ontario that same month.

" Kim Campbell—who was Canada's 19 prime minister, taking over the Progressive Conservative party for Brian Mulroney who retired from politics in 1993—tweeted, on Saturday, that "he really IS a motherf**ker.

I'm describing the rise of Canadian politician Doug Ford, who this month was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, the right-of-center opposition in the country's most populous province.

Just 21 minutes after most polls closed, both the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and CTV News declared that Mr. Ford's Progressive Conservative Party would gain a majority of seats in Ontario's next provincial legislature.

The "very first item" on his agenda will be to "cancel the Liberal cap-and-trade carbon tax", he promised after leading his Progressive Conservative Party to victory in an election on June 230th.

He announced plans to run for the leadership of Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party in 2016 and a year later, after a merger with the Wildrose Party, became leader of the new United Conservative Party.

That conservative base helped elect the current Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, which made good on a campaign promise and announced this week that the old curriculum would be brought back for this fall.

While some MPPs urged their colleagues to vote yes on the bill simply to allow for further exploration of the issue, it faced staunch resistance from members of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Marketing for this year's event consisted of a digital poster shopped around Facebook and Twitter, prominently announcing the presentation of this year's lifetime achievement award to former prime minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader, Joe Clark.

As a mark of the new order, former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who led the Progressive Conservative Party, announced he was joining the board of Acreage Holdings, one of the largest cannabis firms in the United States.

Something somewhat like this happened in Canada in the 1990s, when the Conservative Party collapsed into two factional parties — the populist Reform Party in the west and a rump Progressive Conservative Party with the center-right leftovers.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Populist Doug Ford's projected election victory in Ontario will send investors searching for an economic blueprint for the right-leaning Progressive Conservative Party, which ended 15 years of Liberal rule in Canada's most populous province.

The president of Ontario's Progressive Conservative party, Rick Dykstra, also quit Sunday after Maclean's magazine published a story containing allegations that Dykstra had sexually assaulted a young political staff member during his time as a federal member of parliament.

Ford, a populist who has been compared to U.S. President Donald Trump with his opposition to carbon taxes and promise for income tax cuts, greeted supporters after unofficial results projected that his Progressive Conservative Party would be Thursday night's big winner.

In 2003, as the leader of the Canadian Alliance, which began as a protest party in Western Canada, Mr. Harper helped engineer a merger with the venerable but much diminished Progressive Conservative Party, whose roots traced back to Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister.

"I commented about it on Twitter at the time because I was surprised the PC [Progressive Conservative] party would be savvy enough to try something like that," Toronto-based science illustrator Glendon Mellow, who saw the Ford ad on his Xbox dashboard in June, told Motherboard in an email.

The 1942 Progressive Conservative Party leadership election was held to choose a leader to replace Arthur Meighen for the newly named Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec fielded twelve candidates in the 1989 provincial election, none of whom were elected. The party was not affiliated with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Over the years, Bennett has been active in the riding associations of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, its successor, the Conservative Party of Canada and the provincial Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The Ontario PC Youth Association (OPCYA) is the youth association of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Canada. The organization consists of Ontario Progressive Conservative Party activists between the ages of 14 and 28.

The Ontario PC Campus Association (OPCCA) is the student association of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Canada. The organization consists of Ontario Progressive Conservative Party members attending universities and colleges in the province.

Burgess is a supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

The Progressive Conservative Party led by Hugh John Flemming formed the government.

The winner was George Renouf of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

He was defeated in 1958 by Aristide Rompré of the Progressive Conservative party.

In 2004, he endorsed Frank Klees to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

James was defeated in the 1957 election by Percy Vivian of the Progressive Conservative party.

Demers was defeated in the 1958 election by Rodrigue Bourdages of the Progressive Conservative party.

Richardson was defeated in the 1958 election by Egan Chambers of the Progressive Conservative party.

Cousineau was defeated by Claudy Mailly of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1984 federal election.

The Globe and Mail, October 15, 1981. Robert Fleming joined the Progressive Conservative Party in 1982.

Henry was defeated in the 1957 election by David James Walker of the Progressive Conservative party.

His brother, Bernard Lord, is the former premier and Progressive Conservative party leader of New Brunswick.

It was held by Dale Graham of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party since its creation.

He served as the caucus chair of both the Conservative Party and the Progressive Conservative Party. He served as the Whip, and Deputy Whip of the Progressive Conservative Party and was critic of Citizenship and Immigration, Labour, Transport, Human Resources Development, and Human Resources and Skill Development.

In 1995, the Rae government was defeated by the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Mike Harris.

The resulting alliance, known as the Big Blue Machine, dominated the Progressive Conservative Party into the 1980s.

This riding elected only one Member of Parliament: Mark Charlton, of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

James Aylward is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2011 provincial election. He represents the district of Stratford-Keppoch as a member of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party. He served as the Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Progressive Conservative party from October 2017 to February 2019. In December 2014, Aylward announced his candidacy in the 2015 Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election.

O'Keefe left Parliament after his defeat to James McGrath of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1968 election.

In 1985, the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party held two leadership elections: one in January, and one in November.

Of the Provincial Premiers six are from the Liberal Party, and seven are from the Progressive Conservative Party.

In one stroke, it had replaced the Progressive Conservative Party as the major right-wing party in Canada.

In 2004, Reilly endorsed the newly formed Conservative Party of Canada, which had been formed by a merger of the Progressive Conservative Party with the Canadian Alliance (Winnipeg Free Press, 23 June 2004). Reilly's wife, Kirsty Reilly, has campaigned for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba at the provincial level.

Received 956 votes, finishing fourth out of six candidates. The winner was Laurie Scott of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Following Noble's retirement from federal politics, his successor in Parliament was Gus Mitges, also of the Progressive Conservative party.

Having lost the fight against Confederation, the Responsible Government League decided to join with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and form the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland with H. G. R. Mews as the new party's first leader and RGL leaders Cashin and Malcolm Hollett leading the party through the 1950s.

"Tories" denotes members of the Progressive Conservative Party and its predecessor parties, the Canadian Alliance and the modern Conservative Party.

Dubois left national politics after his defeat in the 1984 federal election to Maurice Tremblay, of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Yukon Progressive Conservative Party () was a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. It was succeeded by the Yukon Party.

The speaker was William J. Woodroffe. Premier Richard Hatfield led the government. The Progressive Conservative Party was the ruling party.

Francis Alvin George Hamilton, (March 30, 1912June 29, 2004) was a Canadian politician. Hamilton led the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan from 1949 until he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1957 general election. That election brought the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to power under John George Diefenbaker.

Watson was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's candidate in York East in the 1965 federal election, losing by 3,000 votes.

Lowell Murray, (born 26 September 1936) is a former Canadian senator and long- time activist with the federal Progressive Conservative Party.

Mulroney led the Progressive Conservative Party in two general elections (1984) and (1988). He won both, defeating John Turner each time.

Results based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is compared to a combination of Progressive Conservative Party and Canadian Alliance totals.

The Yukon Party () is a conservative political party in Yukon, Canada. It is the successor to the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.

Earlier in 2015, Gretzky endorsed Patrick Brown during his successful campaign for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Wyborn finished third out of three candidates with 1,056 votes (13.83%). The winner was Reginald Lissaman of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Rempel finished fourth out of four candidates with 374 votes (9.79%). The winner was John McDowell of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Of the 20 Social Credit MPs elected in Quebec in the 1963 federal election, 13 followed Caouette into the Ralliement, five ran in the next election as independents and two joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The Ralliement ran as a separate party in the 1965 federal election. In 1968, Thompson joined the Progressive Conservative Party.

The 40th Manitoba Legislature was created following a general election in 2011. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Greg Selinger formed a majority government. Following the election, Hugh McFadyen of the Progressive Conservative Party stepped down as Leader of the Opposition. Brian Pallister became Progressive Conservative party leader and Leader of the Opposition in September 2012.

John Williston "Bud" Bird, (born March 22, 1932 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian businessman who is a former mayor of the city of Fredericton, a Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, and a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada member of the House of Commons of Canada.

The Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party spoke in favour of adopting a version of Clare's Law in Manitoba during the 2019 general election.

All changes are from the 1990 by-election, with the exception of the Progressive Conservative Party, who did not field a candidate.

Their son, Paul Sutherland, was also a North York and Toronto city councillor, and an unsuccessful candidate for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.

Cyril Frost Kennedy DSC (20 April 1915 – 12 January 1974) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

Received 1,088 votes in 2003, finishing fourth in a field of five candidates. The winner was Toby Barrett of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Received 707 votes, finishing fifth in a field of five candidates. The winner was John O'Toole of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Alnwick/Haldimand is in the provincial electoral district of Northumberland—Peterborough South, represented by David Piccini of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Gates was a student at Acadia University. He received 200 votes (0.43%), finishing fifth against Progressive Conservative Party of Canada incumbent Pat Nowlan.

The Premier of Manitoba and leader of the Progressive Party of Manitoba, John Bracken became leader of the Conservative Party in 1942 subject to several conditions, one of which was that the party be renamed the Progressive Conservative Party. John Diefenbaker, Prime Minister of Canada (1957–1963). Meanwhile, many former supporters of the Progressive Conservative Party shifted their support to either the federal CCF or to the federal Liberals. The advancement of the provincially popular western-based conservative Social Credit Party in federal politics was stalled, in part by the strategic selection of leaders from the west by the Progressive Conservative Party.

In 1996, he argued that most Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba Members of the Legislative Assembly supported the Reform Party rather than the Progressive Conservative Party at the federal level.Dan Lett, "PCs set to vote Reform?", Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1996, A1. Two years later, he said that he could not envision a merger of the two federal parties.

In 2003, he participated in a public protest against the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada. Prior to seeking elected office himself, Goertzen also served as the President of the Steinbach Progressive Conservative Association, as a Regional Director on the Board of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party and as a member of the Management Committee of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party.

Mike Harris, then leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, credited Hennessy with bringing "a touch of the common person back to the caucus discussions".

Members of the Progressive Conservative Party represented Charleswood throughout its lifetime. Sterling Lyon was premier of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981 while representing Charleswood.

Crawford was defeated in the 1979 federal election by Gary Gurbin of the Progressive Conservative party, as the riding was renamed to Bruce—Grey.

He also campaigned in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections at Cariboo—Chilcotin, but was defeated by Lorne Greenaway of the Progressive Conservative party.

Received 1,278 votes (2.1%), placing fourth in a field of five candidates. The winner was Joseph Tascona of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party votes.

He received 1,669 votes in Springfield, finishing last in a field of four candidates. The winner was Joe Slogan of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Shewman placed first on the first count with 1,528 votes (42.89%), and was declared elected on transfers. He later joined the Progressive Conservative Party.

His seat was lost to Peter Peterson of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the great Mulroney Tory sweep of the 1984 federal election.

Moores announced he was leaving politics in January 1979, and on March 17, 1979, Peckford was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland.

He was defeated by Noël Drouin of the Progressive Conservative party in 1957. Landry made one further unsuccessful attempt at winning back Dorchester in 1958.

After serving his only federal term, the 23rd Canadian Parliament, he was defeated by Vincent Brassard of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election.

In the 1930 Canadian federal election, Ganong was elected the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada member of parliament for the Charlotte riding, serving until 1935.

He is the past president of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick: Executive Official website, retrieved July 9, 2014.

The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick is a centre-right, conservative political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The party has its origins in the pre-Canadian confederation Conservative Party that opposed the granting of responsible government to the colony. It has historically followed the Red Tory tradition. The Progressive Conservative Party currently leads the provincial government since 2018 under Premier Blaine Higgs.

As part of provincial initiatives in the late 1990s, the Government of Ontario pursued a policy of municipal amalgamations to rationalize municipal levels of government services and "reduc[e] government entanglement and bureaucracy with an eye to eliminating waste and duplication as well as unfair downloading by the province".Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. 1994. The Common Sense Revolution. Toronto: Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

In the 1973 election, she was defeated by Liberal candidate Lloyd Axworthy. Trueman did not seek re-election to the provincial legislature after this, but ran for the federal Progressive Conservative Party in the national election of 1980. She was again defeated by Lloyd Axworthy, at that time a candidate of the federal Liberals. In 1984, she was elected president of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party.

As part of provincial initiatives in the late 1990s, the Government of Ontario pursued a policy of municipal amalgamations to rationalize municipal levels of government services and "reduc[e] government entanglement and bureaucracy with an eye to eliminating waste and duplication as well as unfair downloading by the province".Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. 1994. The Common Sense Revolution. Toronto: Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

J. Arthur Moore became speaker in 1955 after Powers' death. The Progressive Conservative Party led by Hugh John Flemming defeated the Liberals to form the government.

He was re-elected there for successive terms in 1953 and 1957, then defeated in the 1958 election by Harold Danforth of the Progressive Conservative party.

He was defeated in the 1958 election by Grant Campbell of the Progressive Conservative party after serving his only full federal term, the 23rd Canadian Parliament.

The Progressive Conservative Party won no seats in the legislature increasing its share of the popular vote by four-and-half percentage points to over 11%.

Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage Riding History Nova Scotia Legislature Its current Member of the Legislative Assembly is Barbara Adams of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party.

Mockler is a key organizer for the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Mockler as a Senator on January 2, 2009.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election of 1996 was held on May 4, 1996 to elect a new leader to succeed Pat Mella.

Fulford switched his support to the Progressive Conservative party in 1970 following a dispute over federal Liberal language policies. He died at hospital in Brockville aged 85.

Stonewall is located in the Riding of Lakeside of Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and is currently represented by Ralph Eichler of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Maheux replaced Ezra Levant, who resigned amid controversy. In 2003, the Canadian Alliance merged with the federal Progressive Conservative Party to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

Leon Burton Rideout (April 8, 1920 – 1987) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

The Progressive Conservative party formed government in 1971. Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Werry as Minister of Telephones and Utilities. He died in a car accident in 1973.

The new PC Party aims to be the successor to the former Progressive Conservative Party. A few prominent figures are associated with this new party (Stevens and Heward Grafftey). David Orchard, a fervent opponent of the merger of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance, made no official statement about the new party. During the 2006 election, Orchard endorsed and later joined the Liberal Party.

Thereafter, he was elected an additional twelve times, until he died in office in 1979. Diefenbaker sought the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party three times, unsuccessfully in 1942 and 1948, before winning it in 1957. Following the loss in the election in 1965, the party held a leadership convention in 1967 which he lost, ending his leadership of the Progressive Conservative party. Robert Stanfield succeeded him as party leader.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded 262 candidates in the 1968 Canadian federal election, and elected seventy-two members to emerge as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here. This page also includes information about Progressive Conservative Party candidates in by-elections held between 1968 and 1972.

John Abraham Lohr (born 1961) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, he represents the electoral district of Kings North. He was re-elected in the 2017 provincial election. On January 8, 2018, Lohr announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

In the 1968 Canadian federal election, Faribault was the Quebec lieutenant to Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leader Robert Stanfield and an unsuccessful candidate in the Gamelin riding.

He was a member of the Progressive Conservative party. Guilbault left federal politics after his defeat in the 1993 federal election to Pauline Picard of the Bloc Québécois.

She will represent the PC party in the 2018 Ontario General Election. In the 2018 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election, McKenna supported Caroline Mulroney's unsuccessful bid.

He was defeated in the 1981 election by Jim Gordon of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party."Northern ridings boost Conservative majority". The Globe and Mail, March 20, 1981.

In 2003, he supported cooperation between the Canadian Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the Portage—Lisgar riding, before the two parties were formally merged.

Change from 2000 for top three parties is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

Hugh Mackay (December 19, 1887 – December 6, 1957) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Klees also received the single biggest contribution to his campaign to run as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from OPTUS Capital Corporation owned by Silver.

On September 4, 2007 she was appointed the interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, She was the fifth woman to serve as leader/interim leader of a PEI political party (after Leone Bagnall, Pat Mella, Catherine Callbeck and Sharon Labchuk). On May 26, 2010, Olive Crane resigned as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island and announced her intentions to seek the permanent leadership. On October 2, 2010, she won the leadership of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party on the second ballot, defeating her main opponent Jamie Ballem. Crane led the party in the 2011 election, receiving 40 per cent of the vote and winning five seats.

Note: Change from 2000 for top three parties is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party votes.

Peter Reilly (26 November 1933 - 15 March 1977) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a broadcaster and journalist by career.

McCauley was re-elected in the 1980 election, but lost in 1984 to Dennis Cochrane of the Progressive Conservative party. McCauley served in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments.

Effie J. Triantafilopoulos is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the riding of Oakville North—Burlington as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Prior to running for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, Triantafilopoulos was a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2015 election. She placed second in Oakville North—Burlington, behind Pam Damoff.

"Behind the scenes of election campaigns", Winnipeg Free Press, 21 June 2004, A13. Kaufmann supports the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, and was a supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada until he joined the Canadian Alliance in 2000.Paul Samyn, "Has PC heavyweights on wish list, gets warmer reception than Reform", Winnipeg Free Press, 1 May 2000, A1. Somewhat improbably, he has listed Margaret Thatcher and Stanley Knowles as his political heroes.

Paul Rhodes (born 1956) is a Canadian political strategist. He was communications director for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 1995, 1999 and 2003 elections, and communications director for Ontario Premier Mike Harris from 1995 to 1997. Rhodes was an architect of the Common Sense Revolution, the policy platform which ushered the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party into government in 1995. Before entering politics, Rhodes was a reporter for CTV's affiliate in Kitchener, CKCO.

Maurice Allard (January 2, 1922 – September 14, 1988) was a Canadian politician, as well as a law professor and a lawyer. He was elected in 1958 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party representing the riding of Sherbrooke. He ran as an Independent Progressive Conservative and was defeated in the same riding in 1962. Allard quit the Progressive Conservative party in 1963 due to his opposition to party leader John George Diefenbaker.

Gardiner was a prominent member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in both federal and provincial politics, organizing conventions and developing policy in the 1930s and 1940s. He was instrumental in the updating of the Conservative Party as it was then known to the Progressive Conservative Party to acknowledge its change in policy to incorporate progressive values. He was a close adviser to Ontario PC premiers George Drew and Leslie Frost.

Horace Smith (March 17, 1914 – March 22, 2001) was a Canadian politician in the Province of New Brunswick. In the 1970 New Brunswick general election Smith was elected as the Progressive Conservative Party candidate in the Sunbury riding. He would be reelected three more times, serving for seventeen years until 1987. He was secretary of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick and also served as President of the Union of New Brunswick Municipalities.

Logo of the Progressive Conservative Party during the election. The Progressive Conservative Party aimed to regain its former place in Canadian politics under the leadership of former Prime Minister Joe Clark. The PC Party had a very disappointing election, falling from 20 to 12 seats, and being almost exclusively confined to the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland. It won the 12 seats needed for Official party status in the House of Commons, however.

He was re-elected for successive terms in 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980. In the 1984 federal election, Cyr was defeated by Charles-Eugène Marin of the Progressive Conservative party.

Ronald Alexander Stewart (born 13 April 1927) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a wholesale distributor and independent businessman by career.

Jacques left the Progressive Conservative party and became an independent candidate for the Mercier riding in the 1993 federal election. However, she lost to Francine Lalonde of the Bloc Québécois.

"Cartier fete within budget, minister says". The Globe and Mail, October 10, 1984. He represented the electoral district of Langelier as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Although many considered her to be a moderate Tory, in January 1985 Scrivener endorsed Frank Miller as a candidate to succeed Davis as the leader of the Progressive Conservative party.

The Toronto Telegram's Chester Bloom expressed criticism of bias over the broadcast of "The Servant of All" episode of 16 September 1962. Bloom's politics sided with the Progressive Conservative party.

In April 2019, Premier Doug Ford of the Progressive Conservative Party committed $5.5billion from the provincial government to complete what the TTC is calling the "Line 2 East Extension" by 2030.

Andrew Witer (born November 23, 1946) is a Canadian politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1988, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Further, he was reported to be seeking to replace Joe Clark as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Turmel denied the report, but the journalist stood by her story.

In the 1958 election he was defeated by Pierre Sévigny of the Progressive Conservative party. Vincent also made an unsuccessful bid to return to Parliament at Longueuil in the 1962 election.

Charles Hedley Forbes (May 28, 1896 - 1979) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to 1944.

Harrison Charles Monteith (May 8, 1913 – 1997) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

Paul Caleb Mersereau (February 10, 1903 – 1975) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

The party originated before Newfoundland's confederation with Canada as the Responsible Government League (RGL). The RGL campaigned for responsible government to return to Newfoundland, after being suspended in 1934. In the 1948 referendum, Newfoundland narrowly voted to join Canada as its tenth province. Following the referendum, federal parties started organizing in Newfoundland and most members of the RGL decided to align themselves with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, to form the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland.

Notice for Klein's prosperity bonus would come less than a year following the 2004 Alberta general election which saw the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta elected for the tenth consecutive majority government, and Klein continuing as Premier for the fourth straight term. Despite retaining power in Alberta the election showed cracks in the popularity of Premier Klein and the Progressive Conservative Party, which saw their share of the popular vote drop from 61.9 percent in 2001 to 46.8 percent.

She was chosen as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party on May 29, 2000, and held the position until Stuart Murray was acclaimed as party leader in November. She was then named as the party's Deputy Leader. To date, she is the only woman to lead the Manitoba Progressive Conservative party, and only the third female party leader in Manitoba's history. In the general election of 2003, Mitchelson defeated New Democrat Doug Longstaffe, 4,935 votes to 4,402.

Described as a Red Tory, Chong joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the late 1980s.Jon Willing, "New riding up for grabs", Guelph Mercury, 25 May 2004, A4. He ran for parliament in the 2000 federal election as a Progressive Conservative, and finished third Waterloo—Wellington against incumbent Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Lynn Myers. Chong supported Peter MacKay for the leadership of the federal PC party in 2003.

Pallister began his political career at the provincial level, winning a by-election in Portage la Prairie on September 15, 1992 as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. He entered the provincial legislature as a backbench supporter of the Filmon government, and pushed for balanced budget legislation."Brian Pallister's commitment to fiscal responsibility", Winnipeg Free Press, 30 May 1997, A10. In 1993, he endorsed Jean Charest's bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

He also coached minor soccer and football in the past. He has been involved in the community for many years. He has been a member of many boards and committees, including Codiac Regional Police Board, Lakeview Manor Senior Citizens Home, and the Atlantic Baptist University. On October 18, 2014 after the Progressive Conservative Party under David Alward failed to form government, Fitch was made interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition of New Brunswick.

Robert Lorne Stanfield, (April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003) was the 17th Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He was born into an affluent Nova Scotia clothing manufacturing and political family in 1914. He graduated from Dalhousie University and Harvard Law School in the 1930s. Stanfield became the leader of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party in 1948, and after a rebuilding period, led the party to government in 1956.

Robertson was defeated by Ben Thompson of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election. Robertson's father, William George Robertson, was a Liberal member of the Ontario Legislature between 1926 and 1929.

Norman James Macdonald Lockhart (10 April 1884 – 30 August 1974) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Lockhart was a Conservative and Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

The 1971 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on February 12 of that year to replace retiring premier John Robarts. The party selected Bill Davis on the fourth ballot.

Retrieved 11 July 2008 She also ran in the Canadian federal election in 1993 as a candidate for Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the electoral district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

No information. Received 1,295 votes, finishing fourth in a field of five candidates. The winner was Ted Chudleigh of the Progressive Conservative Party. However, Matthew Raymond Smith was applauded for his effort.

See Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 federal election for biography. Received 2,564 votes for a credible fourth- place finish. The winner was Norm Sterling of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

John Bracken (June 22, 1883 - March 18, 1969) was an agronomist, the 11th and longest-serving Premier of Manitoba (1922–1943) and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–1948).

Dean Waldon Whiteway (born July 20, 1944) is a Canadian politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1974 to 1979, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Party leader. See his biography page for further details. Received 518 votes, finishing fifth in a field of six candidates. The winner was Jerry Ouellette of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

He later served as chief executive officer of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, although he left this position in March 2003 amid financial difficulties within the party (WFP, 6 April 2003).

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba won a majority government in the 1990 provincial election. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Charles Price (December 4, 1888 - October 23, 1957) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to 1944.

John Woods (February 20, 1876 – June 15, 1957) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1944 to 1952.

Fred Somers (January 5, 1912 – November 17, 1981) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

David Alexander Stewart (May 23, 1874 - March 20, 1947) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party representing Restigouche County.

The idea also fit with the growing movement toward economic nationalism within the Liberals. The Liberals and NDP passed the bill over the opposition of the Progressive Conservative Party led by Robert Stanfield.

Allan Gerard MacMaster (born September 26, 1974) is a Canadian politician. He represents the electoral district of Inverness in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Ernie Hardeman (born December 4, 1947) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the rural riding of Oxford for the Progressive Conservative Party.

Albert Kolyn (born November 13, 1932) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Murray was defeated by Wally Nesbitt of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1953 federal election. He died 28 November 1983.DEATHS, The Globe and Mail (1936-current); 29 November 1983, p. S5.

In 2009, Levy was the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario's by-election candidate in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's, placing second with 28.33% of the vote behind the Liberal victor, Eric Hoskins.

John Edward Rigby (July 20, 1923 – September 8, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1967 to 1972 as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Lloyd Snelgrove (born March 27, 1956) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Vermilion-Lloydminster in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Mazankowski also played an important role in the merger between the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance party in 2003, and is a strong supporter of the new Conservative Party of Canada.

Gorrie was the mayor of Wawanesa at the time of the election. He finished second in Turtle Mountain with 883 votes (27.88%). The winner was Errick Willis, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.

George Edgar Horton (January 14, 1910 – February 15, 1992) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1962 to 1978 as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Donald Alfred Hansen was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party.

Charles Addy McIlveen (March 9, 1910 – July 26, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1960 to 1972 as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Harry Albert McMackin (February 10, 1880 – October 13, 1946) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to 1944.

Edwin Welmont Melville (October 11, 1870 – April 22, 1942) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1925 to 1942.

Gladstone William Perry (April 3, 1880 – October 2, 1967) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1931 to 1952.

William Malory Bird (February 2, 1889 – October 5, 1967) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

Douglas Bonar Pettigrew (December 16, 1917 – October 18, 1973) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

Arthur William Carton (November 16, 1886 – May 2, 1973) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

Vance Rupert Huntley (June 10, 1911 – September 15, 1996) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1956.

Alphonso Colby Smith (March 4, 1894 - June 2, 1945) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to 1945.

Edward Claude Seeley (May 25, 1884 – September 25, 1969) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1945 to 1948.

Laurance Thomas Dow (February 13, 1893 – March 29, 1956) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1944 to 1948.

William Grant Smith (January 11, 1893 – July 16, 1957) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to 1948.

James Starr Tait (December 5, 1885 - August 20, 1948) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to 1948.

Earl W. Rowe (born ) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Everett Evans Newcomb (November 16, 1895 – March 19, 1985) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1967.

Harry Nelson Jonah (March 19, 1896 – October 31, 1985) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1962.

Robert Murray Pendrigh (September 5, 1897 – January 18, 1978) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1960 to 1963.

Paul Freeman Fearon (July 4, 1904 – December 30, 1991) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

Joseph Robert Martin (August 1, 1926 – February 17, 2008) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1957 to 1960 as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

The London Centre riding was eliminated by redistribution in 1996. Boyd ran against fellow incumbent Dianne Cunningham of the Progressive Conservative Party in London North Centre, and lost by just over 1,700 votes.

While Critic for Children and Youth Services, she authored a well-regarded discussion paper, Paths to Prosperity: A Fresh Start for Children and Youth. McKenna was defeated by Liberal candidate Eleanor McMahon in the 2014 election on June 12, 2014. She supported Patrick Brown in his successful bid to become leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. In December 2016, McKenna won the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario nomination by a margin of 41 votes for Burlington, her old riding.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island selected a new leader on February 28, 2015,Progressive Conservative Party of PEI to replace Olive Crane who resigned on January 31, 2013. The Progressive Conservatives have been the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island since June 12, 2007, having lost the 2007 and 2011 provincial elections to the Liberals. The interim leader was Steven Myers. The party used a preferential ballot for its leadership convention for the first time.

He nonetheless remained active in the Progressive Conservative Party, and nominated Reginald Lissaman as the party's candidate for Brandon City in the 1953 provincial election. He died in Brandon at the age of 82.

He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1949. Miller resigned from the Progressive Conservative Party in 1951 and ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal in the federal riding of St. John's West in 1958.

Malcolm Earl McKellar (20 April 1918 – 18 April 1976) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1976, representing the Progressive Conservative Party.

In the 1958 election, he was defeated by Martial Asselin of the Progressive Conservative party. Maltais made one further attempt at a House of Commons seat in the 1962 election but was again unsuccessful.

See Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 federal election for biography. Received 713 votes, finishing fourth in a field of five candidates. The winner was Tim Hudak of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

See Green Party of Canada candidates, 2004 federal election for biography. Received 1,774 votes, finishing fourth in a field of seven candidates. The winner was Elizabeth Witmer of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

His replacement in Social Services was Brenda Elliott, who was from the more centrist wing of the Progressive Conservative Party."Premier Eves Sworn in as Ontario's 23rd Premier: New Cabinet Announced" , UDI/Ontario, 2003.

Donald Craig Stewart (1928–2009) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Marquette in the House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Reginald Percival (Percy) Vivian (16 October 1902 – 30 January 1986) was a Canadian politician, physician and professor of medicine. He served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

Bob Ridgley is a Canadian politician. He represented the district of St. John's North in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from 2003 to 2011.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba chose new leader Hugh McFadyen following the resignation of Stuart Murray on November 14, 2005. The Progressive Conservatives has been in opposition since losing the 1999 provincial election.

Richard L. Treleaven (born July 11, 1934) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Joseph Emile M. Ouellette (July 23, 1908 – January 15, 1992) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1970 to 1974 as member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Yanakis was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Robert de Cotret of the Progressive Conservative party. He made another unsuccessful bid to unseat de Cotret in the 1988 election as an independent candidate.

Tessier was re-elected in 1979 and 1980, but lost to François Gérin of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1984 election. Tessier served three successive terms from the 30th to 32nd Canadian Parliaments.

Herbert Mariner Wood (May 10, 1877 – 1966) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party representing Westmorland County from 1925 to 1935.

Ronald Keith McNeil (January 15, 1920 – March 18, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1958 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Roblin was declared elected to the second position on the first ballot. He became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1954, and Premier of Manitoba in 1958. See his biography page for more information.

Robert Douglas Kennedy (June 15, 1916 – May 27, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Party leader. See has biography page for further details. Received 3,161 votes, finishing third in a field of five candidates. The winner was outgoing Ontario Premier Ernie Eves of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

After his riding was renamed Sainte-Marie in 1952, he was re-elected for successive full terms in 1953 and 1957 then defeated by Georges Valade of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election.

Toby Barrett (born November 3, 1945) is a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the district of Haldimand—Norfolk for the Progressive Conservative Party. He has been a member since 1995.

The Progressive Conservative Party lost three of its four seats in the legislature, as its share of the popular vote fell from almost 17% to under 6%. One seat was won by a Labour candidate.

The Progressive Conservative Party benefited from Williams' personal popularity, and the ideological orientation of the party system, it has been argued, has given way to a new one based on leadership personality and Newfoundland nationalism.

Andrew Naismith (Andy) Watson (born April 1, 1937) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1978 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Progressive Conservative Party was virtually wiped out: it nominated only three candidates (down from 44 in the previous election), and its share of the popular vote fell from over 11% to a negligible amount.

In the 1945 election, he faced Progressive Conservative Party Osie Villeneuve and defeated him by 1,613 votes. He faced Villeneuve again in the 1948 election, and this time was defeated by MacGillivray by 1,788 votes.

McLean was a farmer in Kaledia, Manitoba. He finished in second place on the first count with 1,054 votes (30.84%), and was defeated on the second count by Hugh Morrison of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Lorenzo Morais (March 3, 1933 – August 30, 2013) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1972 to 1974 as member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.

Marie Joseph Lucien Wilfred Fortin (October 18, 1912 – December 28, 1984) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.

His son has served as minister responsible for ACOA, and for Prince Edward Island, positions previously held by his father. Peter had also served as the final leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Paul Joseph Yakabuski (October 29, 1922 – July 31, 1987) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Paul Dawson (born 1944) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987 as member of the Progressive Conservative party from the constituency of Miramichi-Newcastle.

Norman Kempton Atkins (June 27, 1934 - September 28, 2010) was a Canadian Senator and a political figure in Canada. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Atkins was a graduate of Appleby College in Oakville and of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, where he completed the Bachelor of Arts program in 1957. He subsequently received an Honorary Doctorate in Civil Law in 2000, from Acadia University. Atkins was a leading figure in advertising and a senior Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada strategist.

David Nathan Alward (born December 2, 1959) is a Canadian politician, who served as the 32nd Premier of New Brunswick, 2010 to 2014. Alward has been a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick since 1999 and has been the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. His party was defeated on September 22, 2014, and Alward resigned as Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick leader on September 23, 2014. On April 24, 2015 Alward was named Canadian consul general in Boston.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, founded in 1873, was a fully incorporated wing of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (and its antecedents) until the federal party was disbanded in 2003. It is not formally a part of the new Conservative Party of Canada, but the two organizations share members, and most senior provincial officials have openly stated support for the federal party. It has governed frequently, most recently from 1996–2007. The party is strongly of the Red Tory political tradition.

Jamie Ballem (born October 31, 1954) is a Canadian farmer and politician, who served as a cabinet minister, notably as Minister of the Environment and Minister of Health. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2007. He represented the electoral district of Stanhope-East Royalty and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. On August 4, 2010, Ballem announced his candidacy for the Leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of PEI but came in second to Olive Crane.

Lindsey Park is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the riding of Durham as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

William Walter Barlow (February 20, 1931 – July 5, 2020) was a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Following the 2015 election, the Progressive Conservative Party was reduced to only 7 seats after previously controlling the government since 2003. Davis continued as the party's leader until 2018 and served as Leader of the Opposition..

He was first elected to Parliament at the Perth riding in the 1949 general election. After one term in office he was defeated by Jay Monteith of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1953 federal election.

Before becoming Deputy Leader, Bachand served as the Deputy House Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, as well as its critic for the Intergovernmental Affairs, Industry, Science Research and Development, and the Deputy Prime Minister portfolios.

The 1984 Nova Scotia general election was held on November 6, 1984 to elect members of the 54th House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.

Terry David Jones (June 13, 1938 - March 21, 2014) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew. The Speaker was William Ross Macdonald. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1947-1952 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

The 42nd Manitoba Legislature was created following a general election in 2019. The Progressive Conservative Party led by Brian Pallister formed a majority government after winning a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

In September 2012, Osborne resigned from the Progressive Conservative party citing the leadership of Premier Kathy Dunderdale and began sitting as an Independent. On August 29, 2013, Osborne joined the Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Albert DeBurgo "Burke" McPhillips (18 January 1904 – 11 March 1971) was a Canadian politician. McPhillips was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a barrister and solicitor by career.

William Henry Dennis (31 March 1887 - 18 January 1954) was a Conservative and Progressive Conservative party member of the Senate of Canada. He was born in Colchester County, Nova Scotia and became a printer and publisher.

William Marshall Chamberlain Hodgson (March 18, 1912 – October 27, 1988) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

John McBeath Potter (November 11, 1911 – 1985) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1974 to 1978 as member of the Progressive Conservative party from the riding of Dalhousie.

James Tucker was chosen as speaker in 1983. Charles Gallagher became speaker in 1985 after Tucker was named to a cabinet post. Premier Richard Hatfield led the government. The Progressive Conservative Party was the ruling party.

Parker Dufferin Mitchell (December 21, 1900 - April 2, 1963) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to his death in 1963.

Marcus Lorne Jewett (January 19, 1888 – October 8, 1955) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party representing York County from 1931 to 1935.

James Mitchell Scott (October 2, 1860 – July 25, 1943) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party representing York County from 1925 to 1935.

Medley Godfrey Siddall (January 20, 1875 – August 31, 1964) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party representing Westmorland County from 1925 to 1935.

Although the term "entryism" was used little, if at all, opponents accused David Orchard and his supporters of attempting to win the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in the late 1990s and the early 2000s decade with the intention of dramatically changing its policies. Orchard had made his name as a leading opponent of free trade, which was perhaps the singular signature policy of the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. While opponents pointed to the remarkable distance, Orchard and his supporters argued that they represented "traditional" Conservative values and the economic nationalism of the older Conservative Party and the Progressive Conservative Party had espoused before Mulroney, namely under John Diefenbaker. Opponents of the 2003 merger between the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance also charged Alliance members with infiltration.

Keith Roy Brown (November 7, 1926 – July 7, 2015) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1959 to 1967 representing the riding of Peterborough.

Joseph Leroy Legere is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island is one of three major political parties on Prince Edward Island. The party and its rival, the Liberals, have alternated in power since responsible government was granted in 1851.

Deakon served only one term in office, the 28th Canadian Parliament, before being defeated in the 1972 election by Otto Jelinek of the Progressive Conservative party as the riding then became known as High Park—Humber Valley.

Armstrong is a volunteer on the Children's Aid Society Board and the Hospital Foundation Board. Armstrong is a former president and longstanding volunteer of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, and volunteer with the Conservative Party.

Joe Spina (born September 21, 1946) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2003, representing a Brampton-area riding for the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (previously known as the Conservative Party of Manitoba) has had several contested races to determine its leadership. These have all occurred by voting at delegated conventions. The results are listed below.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Brant riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in 1940. Wood was defeated by John A. Charlton of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Durham riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in 1940. Rickard was defeated by Charles Elwood Stephenson of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.

He was critical of the direction taken by the Progressive Conservative Party in this period, and did not seek re- election in 2003. He left politics and briefly coached the London Racers hockey team in London, UK.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan is a Conservative centre- right political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Prior to 1942, it was known as the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan. Members are commonly known as Tories.

Sylvia Jones (born ) is a politician from Ontario, Canada. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2007 provincial election, representing the riding of Dufferin—Caledon as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

He was called to be bar in 1953, became Queen's Counsel in 1962. In politics, Archer was active with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada on the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party and served as president of the national Progressive Conservative Youth Federation from 1947 to 1948. He was first elected to Toronto City Council for Ward 3 in 1958 and, as senior alderman for the ward, served on Metro Council as well. In 1963 he was appointed to the Toronto Board of Control to fill the vacancy created by Donald Summerville's death.

Michael Patrick "Mickey" Hennessy (August 8, 1915 — March 5, 1991) was a boxer and politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Marie P. Dechman is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Lunenburg West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 1993. She was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

Criticized PC leader Ernie Eves for attempting to regain support in the riding with financial grants. Received 769 votes (1.7%), finishing fifth in a field of six candidates. The winner was Bill Murdoch of the Progressive Conservative Party.

During this campaign, Emmanuel and other figures in the Progressive Conservative Party called for the abolition of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.Howlett, Karen (16 May 2009). "Hudak calls for abolition of Human Rights Tribunal". Globe and Mail, A9.

He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville in the 1965 federal election. He lost in the 1968 election.

Paul S. Creaghan (born March 27, 1937) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1974 to 1978 from the electoral district of Moncton West, a member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Former leader of the Ontario Libertarian Party. See her biography page for further details. Received 306 votes, finishing last in a field of seven candidates. The winning candidate was Ernie Hardeman of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

He was first elected at the Kent riding in the 1962 general election, defeating incumbent Harold Danforth of the Progressive Conservative party. After serving one term, the 25th Parliament, he was defeated by Danforth in the 1963 election.

Grummett was defeated in the 1955 general election by Ontario Progressive Conservative Party candidate Wilf Spooner, who was mayor of Timmins, Ontario, when the Liberals failed to field a candidate allowing "old party votes" to coalesce around Spooner.

William Benton North Evans (January 18, 1882 – July 21, 1967) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1925 to 1935 and 1939 to 1944.

Arthur Hiram Buck (born August 28, 1935) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1970 to 1974 from the electoral district of Moncton, a member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Jean-Paul LeBlanc (born August 16, 1923) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1970 to 1974 from the electoral district of Moncton, a member of the Progressive Conservative party.

James Kenneth Gordon (born March 10, 1949) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987 as member of the Progressive Conservative Party from the constituency of Miramichi Bay.

Flaherty's campaign featured scathing attacks on Eves, calling him a "serial waffler" and a "pale, pink imitation of Dalton McGuinty." Eves became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario on March 23, 2002, following a second-ballot victory.

Luc Bernard Guindon (born July 31, 1943) is a Justice of the peace and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

After completing his only full term in the 22nd Canadian Parliament, Leduc was defeated in the 1957 election by Robert John Pratt of the Progressive Conservative party. Leduc made another unsuccessful attempt to unseat Pratt in the 1958 election.

At the provincial level Whitchurch–Stouffville is in the Markham-Stouffville electoral district. Since 2018 this riding has been represented at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by Paul Calandra, a member of the governing Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The 1975 Newfoundland general election was held on 16 September 1975 to elect members of the 37th General Assembly of Newfoundland, the ninth general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.

The 1982 Newfoundland general election was held on 6 April 1982 to elect members of the 39th General Assembly of Newfoundland, the 11th general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.

The 1979 Newfoundland general election was held on June 18, 1979 to elect members of the 38th General Assembly of Newfoundland, the tenth general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.

Gingras entered federal politics when he won the Richmond—Wolfe riding in the 1949 general election. He was re-elected for successive terms in 1953 and 1957 then defeated in 1958 by Florent Dubois of the Progressive Conservative party.

His son, C. Hanson Dowell, a Nova Scotia lawyer, briefly made headlines in 2004 when he was nominated as interim leader of the "Progressive Conservative Party of Canada" following the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003.

Gary Albert Filmon (born August 24, 1942) is Canadian politician from Manitoba. He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as the 19th premier of Manitoba from 1988 to 1999.

Lawson retired from the House of Commons in 1940, but remained active in the party. He was the mover of the successful 1942 motion to change the name of the Conservative Party to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba won a majority government in the 1977 provincial election, winning thirty-three of fifty-seven seats. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

The winner was Ken Atkinson of the Progressive Conservative Party. As of 2005, West is a representative of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1.ON. He has spoken out against health-care cuts in the St. Catharines area.

Roland C. Boudreau (October 19, 1935 – June 14, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1974 to 1978 as member of the Progressive Conservative party from the riding of Nigadoo-Chaleur.

Robert C. Jackson (born March 13, 1936) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987 from the electoral district of St. Stephen-Milltown, a member of the Progressive Conservative party.

The Parti progressiste conservateur du Québec (Eng: Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec) was formed in 1982 with Denis Carignan as leader but was rebuffed by federal Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark who told them to keep their distance. The party was dormant until January 1985 when Carignan stepped aside to allow André Asselin, a lawyer, mayor of the small town of Ste-Émilie-de-l'Énergie, and president of the Quebec Union of Regional Municipal Councils, to become party leader. However, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney told the press following a meeting with Quebec Liberal Party leader Robert Bourassa that he did not support the creation of a provincial Progressive Conservative Party at the time. By the 1980s, the conservative Union Nationale was no longer a contender for office and in terminal decline - though it rebuffed an offer by Asselin for a merger with his Progressive Conservative Party.

Stan Cho (born on September 14, 1977) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Willowdale as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

William Bruce Harvey (June 2, 1907 – March 1, 1954) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Nipissing in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1948 to 1954. He was a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.

The riding was won by Progressive Conservative Party candidate Stu Briese. Following the 2008 electoral redistribution, Ste. Rose was dissolved into the riding of Interlake and the new ridings of Dauphin, and Agassiz. This change took effect for the 2011 election.

"FIRA: Instrument of Regulation or Vote-Maximization"; Pauwels, Jacques R. 23 Osgoode Hall L. J. 131 (1985) The business community and opposition Progressive Conservative Party criticized FIRA for its activism, saying it had stifled investment from the emerging global economy.

Robert McCready was chosen as speaker in 1979 even though he had been elected as a Liberal member. James Tucker succeeded McCready as speaker in 1981. Premier Richard Hatfield led the government. The Progressive Conservative Party was the ruling party.

When Stanfield left federal politics, Purdy won Colchester—Hants in the 1953 election. After serving his final House of Commons term, the 22nd Canadian Parliament, Purdy was defeated by Cyril Kennedy of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

Appendix B 5. Many of the Economic Group's policies were taken directly from the platform's of the Progressive Party of Saskatchewan and the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan during the 1929 electionKyba, Patrick. "The Saskatchewan General Election of 1929." PhD diss.

Sterling Wilson Hambrook (January 20, 1935 – July 8, 2017) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1974 to 1978, as a Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick member for the constituency of Southwest Miramichi.

Timbrell contested 1971 provincial election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, and won election in the Toronto constituency of Don Mills. He was re-elected without difficulty in the campaigns of 1975, 1977, 1981 and 1985.

George William Johnson (July 10, 1892 in Stratford, Ontario – April 26, 1973) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1962, representing the Winnipeg riding of Assiniboia for the Progressive Conservative Party.

John Alfred (Jack) Irvine (26 January 1912 – 20 July 1996) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a merchant by career. Irvine ran Irvine Appliances. Irvine was born at Wolfe Island, Ontario.

Crosbie won the seat of St. John's West in the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election on October 18, 1976 as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, which was in Opposition at the time.

Cheveldayoff ran in the 1993 Canadian federal election for the Progressive Conservative Party in the riding of The Battlefords—Meadow Lake. At the time the seat was held by Len Taylor of the New Democratic Party. Cheveldayoff finished a distant fourth.

Linda West is a Canadian administrator, activist and politician. She is perhaps best known for her support of people immigrating to Western Canada. She has been a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Josh Guenter (born 1994) is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, representing the electoral division of Borderland. He was elected in the 2019 Manitoba general election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

McLaughlin ran as the candidate in the electoral district of Western Arctic for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 2000 Canadian federal election. McLaughlin previously served as the Territories representative on the Conservative Party of Canada national council.

Joseph Lorne McGuigan (born February 23, 1936) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1967 to 1974 from the electoral district of Saint John Centre, a member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Gordon Malcolm Keith Dow (born July 1, 1937) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987 as member of the Progressive Conservative party from the constituency of Saint John West.

Roger Arthur "Butch" Wedge (born January 3, 1948) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987 as member of the Progressive Conservative party from the constituency of Saint John West.

Hal Perry is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2011 provincial election. He represents the district of Tignish-Palmer Road as a member of the Liberal Party. He was originally elected as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, but left the Progressive Conservative Party and joined the Liberal Party on October 3, 2013. He was chosen as Opposition Leader on January 30, 2013, following the resignation of Olive Crane, but resigned from that position on February 11 after losing the race for the interim leadership of the Progressive Conservatives to Steven Myers.

Ralph Wesley Stewart (30 December 1929 – 11 February 2004) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada, who briefly joined the Progressive Conservative party. He was born in Cochrane, Ontario and became a consultant, orchestra conductor and public servant by career. He was first elected at the Cochrane riding in the 1968 general election, and re-elected there in the 1972 and 1974 federal elections. On 7 March 1979, in the final days of the 30th Canadian Parliament, Stewart switched to the Progressive Conservative party citing objections to the Liberals' handling of bilingualism and economic policy.

Joseph Fred Hueglin (born February 7, 1937) is a former Canadian Member of Parliament and a founder of the Progressive Canadian Party. Born in Stratford, Ontario, Hueglin was elected to Parliament in 1972 in the riding of Niagara Falls as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC). In 1974 Hueglin was defeated by the Liberal candidate. Within the Progressive Conservative Party, Hueglin was, along with David Orchard, among the most vocal opponents of the 2003 merger of Canada's two prominent right-wing parties, the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance, into the Conservative Party of Canada.

On January 9, 2004, a group claiming to be loyal to the Progressive Conservative Party and opposed to the merger, which they characterized as an Alliance takeover, filed application with the Chief Electoral Officer to register a party called the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The application was refused on the grounds that the name could no longer be utilized. The group resubmitted with the name Progressive Canadian Party, and a new "PC Party" was recognized by Elections Canada on March 26. It secured sufficient backing to be registered as an official party on May 29.

She was first elected in the 1974 federal election at the South Western Nova electoral district for the Liberal party. After her first term in Parliament, she was defeated by Charles E. Haliburton of the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1979 federal election in what was now called the South West Nova riding. Following the short-lived Progressive Conservative minority government of Joe Clark, she was re-elected at South West Nova in the 1980 federal election. But she lost the seat again in the 1984 federal election to Gerald Comeau of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The party adopted the last policy platform of the Progressive Conservative party, but has begun to create new policies for Canada to meet new situations and challenges. These platforms include (but are not limited to), support of the Canadian Wheat Board, support for small business, belief in a single tier health-care system, the promise of eliminating student debt, and a foreign policy that emphasizes Canada's dual role of peace-keepers and diplomats. The new party's official logo and initials are an homage to the Progressive Conservative Party, from where the party claims to draw its history, policy, and constitution.

The provincial riding of King—Vaughan is represented by Stephen Lecce, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. It was created as part of Ontario's re- districting to match provincial electoral districts with their federal equivalents. King was part of the Oak Ridges—Markham electoral district from 2007 to 2018, the Vaughan—King—Aurora electoral district from 1999 to 2007, York—MacKenzie from 1995 to 1999, and York North from Confederation to 1995. The portion of King north of Highway 9 is part of the York—Simcoe electoral district, represented by Caroline Mulroney of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

A Blue Tory in Canadian politics is a conservative who advocates free-market or economically liberal policies. The term has been applied to members of the modern Conservative Party of Canada and provincial Progressive Conservative parties, as well as the historical Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Reform Party of Canada and Canadian Alliance. Prior to the 1960s, these conservatives were most identified with the Montreal and Toronto commercial elite who took positions of influence within the Progressive Conservative Party. Since the mid-1970s, they have been heavily influenced by the libertarian movement and the more individualist nature of American conservatism.

The 2014 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election was prompted by Kathy Dunderdale's announcement on January 22, 2014, that she was resigning as premier and party leader. On January 24, 2014, Tom Marshall was sworn in as the 11th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. Prior to the nomination deadline, three accredited candidates entered the race; Frank Coleman, Bill Barry, and Wayne Bennett. On April 3, Bennett was removed from the race while on April 17, Barry voluntarily withdrew his nomination, resulting in Frank Coleman becoming leader-designate.

Politically, Lyons was a fundraiser for both Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as well as numerous politicians and was friends with Paul Godfrey when he was both Chairman of Metropolitan Toronto and later publisher of the Toronto Sun. As a lawyer, Lyons was a pioneer in Canada of the use of class action lawsuits, successfully arguing a case in the 1970s against Ford Motor Company which led to a 5-year anti-rust guarantee for consumers. His niece, Sue Anne Levy, led a massive defense of her uncle in the pages of the Toronto Sun.

In the 1985 Ontario election, she was a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in Waterloo North, and was defeated. She also stood as the candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 1993 federal election in the riding of Waterloo, and in the 1997 federal election in the riding of Kitchener—Waterloo; she was defeated both times. Woolstencroft served as a trustee on Waterloo County Board of Education (1970–1972, 1974–1985), including being elected chair from 1979 to 1982. She also served as President of the Association of Large School Boards in Ontario in 1984 and 1985.

David James McFadden, QC (born December 7, 1945) is a lawyer and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987 who represented the midtown Toronto riding of Eglinton.

She was also a candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the riding of Mississauga South during the 2014 Ontario provincial election, finishing second to Charles Sousa. In addition, she has been chief of staff for several federal Conservative ministers.

31st, 32nd and 33rd Canadian Parliaments. Gurbin resigned from the Progressive Conservative party on 17 December 1981, citing concerns over party leader Joe Clark. He remained in the House of Commons as an independent member until rejoining the party on 28 January 1982.

The 1985 Newfoundland general election was held on 2 April 1985 to elect members of the 40th General Assembly of Newfoundland, the 12th general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative party under Premier Brian Peckford.

He served on the Board of Directors of St. Joseph's Healthcare and the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton, Ontario. He remained an active member of the Progressive Conservative Party, the McMaster Alumni Association, and the United Church of Canada until his death.

John A. "Jack" MacIsaac (born June 23, 1939) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Pictou Centre in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1977 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

The 1981 Nova Scotia general election was held on October 6, 1981, to elect members of the 53rd House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada.Nova Scotia General Election, 1981 Elections Nova Scotia It was won by the Progressive Conservative party.

Cardy did not rule out returning to political activity in the future. He said that he had great respect for Opposition Leader Blaine Higgs and might consider joining the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick before the next provincial election, expected in 2018.

Barry Hynes (born c. 1945) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Trinity North in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 1991. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Solomon finished in first place on the first count, and defeated Casper on the second count. Solomon seems to have rejoined the Liberal-Progressive caucus after the election, while Casper later joined the Progressive Conservative Party. See Solomon's biography page for more information.

Was 28 years old at the time of the election. Sells and installs winds and solar-power generating units. Received 983 votes, finishing last in a field of five candidates. The winner was Gerry Martiniuk of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The Twenty-First Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Joe Clark. It governed Canada from 4 June 1979 to 3 March 1980, including all of the 31st Canadian Parliament. The government was formed by the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Jackson Alexander "Jack" Hardy (November 1, 1924 – August 22, 2006) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was the mayor of St. Vital, and served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1971 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

She was not named to cabinet after the 2020 election. She represents the electoral district of Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. She was re-elected in the 2020 provincial election.

In 1959, Polak was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador and grew up in Barrie, Ontario. When Polak was in school, she joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's youth group. Polak attended the University of Waterloo in the environmental studies program.

J. Nicholas Mandziuk (December 13, 1902 - September 7, 1969) was a Canadian politician in Manitoba. He represented the electoral district of Marquette in the House of Commons of Canada from 1957 to 1968. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Davy left the New Democratic Party to run the Green Party's local campaign in 1997. She later joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to support David Orchard's candidacy for the party leadership.Shirley Davy, letter, Toronto Star, 21 July 1998, p. 1.

Reginald "Reg" Francis Stackhouse (April 30, 1925 – December 14, 2016) was a Canadian educator and politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1972 to 1974 and from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The 58th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia from 1999 to 2003, its membership being set in the 1999 Nova Scotia election. The Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, under John Hamm, held the most seats and thus formed the government.

Murray K. Scott (born January 18, 1953) is a politician in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented the electoral district of Cumberland South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 2010. He served as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

See also Moraru, p. 282 Originally used by the Progressive Conservative Party, and then, briefly, by Mihalache's PȚ,Radu, pp. 575, 577 it was imposed on the PNR by its allies during the formation of the National–Peasant Bloc in 1926.Nicolaescu, pp.

Everett Keith Potter (September 27, 1911 – February 20, 1980) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Digby in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

Arthur James McEvoy (May 6, 1882 - October 11, 1941) was a Canadian politician. Long time town councillor and then mayor, he served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1939 to his death in 1941.

The Manitoba Liberal Party dominated until that party lost most of its rural base in 1969; after this, it was effectively safe for the Progressive Conservative Party. MLA William Morton was re-elected by acclamation in every provincial election from 1941 to 1953.

Joseph Marcelin Wilfred Bourgeois (February 20, 1901 – November 25, 1977) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960. Bourgeois died a hospital in Moncton in 1977.

Born in Saint-Victor, Quebec, Lapointe won Quebec's Beauce electoral district in the 1980 federal election and served in the 32nd Canadian Parliament. He left national politics after his defeat in the 1984 election by Gilles Bernier of the Progressive Conservative party.

In 1990, after the Meech Lake Accord had failed, several Quebec representatives of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party and some members of the Liberal Party of Canada formed the Bloc Québécois, a federal political party intent on defending Quebecers' interests while pursuing independence.

Heather Stefanson (born May 11, 1970) is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Tuxedo, currently serving as the Deputy Premier of Manitoba and Minister of Families. She is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

He then opened a corner store in Kilbride. He married Rose-Marie Power. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative party in 1970. He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly as a Progressive Conservative in 1971.

The leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, John Diefenbaker, was especially passionate in his defence of the Red Ensign. In protest of the federal government's decision, Progressive Conservative governments in Ontario and Manitoba adopted red ensigns as their provincial flags in 1965 and 1966 respectively.

Lawrence I. O'Neil (born 14 November 1954) is the Associate Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Family Division. He was a lawyer by profession. Between 1984 and 1988, he was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ran a full slate of 295 candidates in the 1988 federal election, and won 169 seats for a second consecutive majority governments. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada elected twelve candidates in the 2000 federal election, and emerged as the fifth-largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Gerald Earle Sheehy (June 24, 1924 – June 1, 2009) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Annapolis East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1970 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

After Rae had lost the 1995 provincial elections to the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario under Mike Harris, the plans for renovation were scrapped. Among them were plans for a re- orientation of the auditorium (which would face east, not south), and an orchestra pit.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba () is a centre-right political party in Manitoba, Canada. It is currently the governing party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, after winning a substantial majority in the 2016 election and maintaining a majority in the 2019 election.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island held a leadership election on February 9, 2019, following the resignation of leader James Aylward. Five candidates were registered at the close of nominations on November 30, 2018. Dennis King was elected leader, on the second ballot.

Rochefort ran as a Liberal candidate in the federal district of Champlain in 1949 and won. He was re-elected in 1953 and 1957. He did not run for re-election in 1958 and was succeeded by Paul Lahaye of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Dudley became a member of Caledonian Lodge 249, the local Masonic lodge in 1915. He married Lulu Gidley in 1921. The couple never had children. He served 49 years on the Simcoe East riding association, and was affiliated with the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario fielded a full slate of 103 candidates in the 2003 Ontario general election. The party, which had been in power since 1995, won twenty-four seats to become the official opposition in the sitting of the legislature that followed.

She was the only Progressive Conservative MLA to hold a seat in the north of Winnipeg. She was a supporter of Hugh McFadyen's campaign to succeed Stuart Murray as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, and was narrowly re-elected in the 2007 provincial election.

Was present at the GPO's education policy 2003 announcement. Argued that accredited private schools should receive funding under the local school administration. Received 1,183 votes, finishing fourth in a field of five candidates. The winner was John O'Toole of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The Eighteenth Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. It governed Canada from 21 June 1957 to 22 April 1963, including all of the 23rd, 24th, and 25th Canadian Parliaments. The government was formed by the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

He was the candidate for the Progressive Conservative party in the 1985 Ontario provincial election in the St. David riding, the same riding formerly represented by his father in the Ontario Legislature. Porter ran against his personal friend Ian Scott who won for the Liberals. .

The Premier of Prince Edward Island is the first minister for the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive. The current Premier of Prince Edward Island is Dennis King, from the Progressive Conservative Party.

This a list of leaders of the Conservative Party of Canada (historical) (1867–1942), Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (1942–2003), and Conservative Party of Canada (2003–present) ("the Tory parties"), and of prime ministers of Canada after Confederation who were members of those parties.

Terry Loder (born February 3, 1953) is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of Bay of Islands in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

On 23 April 1964, Ouellet left the Social Credit party and joined the Progressive Conservative party for the remainder of his term in the 26th Canadian Parliament. In the 1965 federal election, Ouellet was defeated at Rimouski by Louis Guy Leblanc of the Liberal party.

After completing his final term, the 23rd Canadian Parliament, Cannon was defeated by James Russell Keays of the Progressive Conservative party. Some of Cannon's relatives have also been Members of Parliament, namely his grandfather Charles Fitzpatrick, his uncle Lucien Cannon and his nephew Lawrence Cannon.

Stuart Gordon Briese (May 6, 1946 – March 12, 2019) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2007 provincial election, for the electoral division of Ste. Rose. Briese was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba fielded a full slate of 57 candidates in the 1988 provincial election, and won 25 seats to form a minority government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Kory Teneycke (born 1974) is the former vice-president of Sun News Network. He was also the former Director of Communications to the Prime Minister's Office under Stephen Harper. He was the campaign manager for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 2018 Ontario election.

Margaret-Ann (née O'Rourke) Blaney, (born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland) is a Canadian journalist and politician. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1999 until May 2012, representing Rothesay (formerly Saint John-Kings) as member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The 1967 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held to choose a leader for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The convention was held at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 4 and 9, 1967. Robert Stanfield was elected the new leader.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1999 provincial election, and elected 59 members in 103 constituencies to win a majority government. Many of these candidates have their own biography pages; information on others may be found here.

Helen Fallding, "Plight of the right", Winnipeg Free Press, 8 November 2000, A10. Nestibo also opposed capital punishment. He received 11,678 votes (31.87%), finishing second against Progressive Conservative Party of Canada incumbent Rick Borotsik. Nestibo was appointed to the Turtle Mountain Conservation District in 2004.

Businessman and blogger, who attempted to run for the Progressive Conservative Party leadership earlier in the year. :Support from caucus members: :Support from outside caucus: :Date campaign launched: August 10, 2011. :Policies:Get rid of the Muskrat Falls deal and get the province's debt under control.

Benoit Robichaud is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1967 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Robichaud is an optometrist in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

David Rotenberg (born July 24, 1930) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1981 provincial election, and won a majority government with 70 out of 125 seats. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Jamie Muir (born February 2, 1941) is a Canadian educator and politician. He represented the electoral district of Truro-Bible Hill in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1998 to 2009. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

Maynard ran unsuccessfully for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1979. He was defeated when he ran for reelection later that year. From 1979 to 1989, he served as chair of the Workmen's Compensation Board. Maynard later worked as a management consultant.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1975 provincial election, and won 51 of 125 seats to form a minority government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Elected in 1984 and re-elected in 1988 as a member of Parliament with the progressive-conservative party, he worked actively as Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, to the Minister of Finances and to the Minister of Justice and Solicitor General of Canada.

Steven Myers is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2011 provincial election. He represents the district of Georgetown-Pownal as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island and was Leader of the Opposition in the legislature, from 2013 to 2015. He was chosen interim leader of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party on January 31, 2013, following party leader Olive Crane's resignation, and became Opposition leader on February 11, 2013, when Hal Perry relinquished the role. Myers' tenure as PC interim leader came to an end on February 28, 2015, upon the election of Rob Lantz as leader.

Patricia Janet Mella (born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian politician and former teacher. Mella was Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party (PC) leader from 1990 to 1996 and an elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1993 to 2003. She was born Patricia McDougall in Port Hill, Prince Edward Island and was educated at Saint Dunstan's University and the University of Prince Edward Island. A teacher and lecturer, she married Angelo Mella while teaching at St. Patrick's College in Ottawa. Mella entered political life, having been an unsuccessful candidate in the 1989 provincial election as a member of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party.

Young was elected for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to the provincial legislature in the 1995 election, defeating incumbent Liberal Barbara Sullivan by 16,644 votes in Halton Centre amid a PC Party of Ontario sweep of the region. He served as a backbench supporter of the Mike Harris government. He served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Education for three years with responsibility for Colleges and Universities, and then as Parliamentary Assistant to Finance Minister. Young was part of a "family values caucus" in the Progressive Conservative Party, a group of right-wing members which included Jim Brown, Jack Carroll and Frank Klees.

Alan Ronald Nordling (born May 25, 1952) is a Canadian former politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Porter Creek West from 1986 to 1992, and Porter Creek South from 1992 to 1996, in the Yukon Legislative Assembly. He was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. Nordling was first elected to the legislature in a by-election on February 10, 1986. He sat as a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party until 1991, when he was one of two MLAs, along with Bea Firth, who quit the caucus in protest against the party's change of name to the Yukon Party.

However, the Alberta Alliance used the same blue-and-green colours used by the CA, and its logo bears a striking resemblance to that of the federal party. The Alberta Alliance continued to grow following the Canadian Alliance's merger with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. The Alliance gained its first Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (MLA) on June 29, 2004, when Gary Masyk crossed the floor, quitting the Progressive Conservative Party to protest Ralph Klein's handling of health care issues during the 2004 federal election. Masyk had represented the electoral district of Edmonton-Norwood since 2001.

Daisy Wai is a Canadian politician who represents the riding of Richmond Hill in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, she was first elected in the 2018 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Reza Moridi by more than 10,000 votes.

Matheson was first elected with Angus MacLean at the Queen's electoral district in the 1953 general election, when that riding elected two members to Parliament. In the 1957 election, he was defeated when MacLean and fellow Progressive Conservative party candidate Heath MacQuarrie received the two highest votes.

John Wendele Shields (December 25, 1929 – November 29, 2004) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a businessman and teacher by career. Shields was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta. He died aged 74 of heart failure following bladder surgery.

55th General Assembly of Nova Scotia represented Nova Scotia between September 6, 1988, and April 16, 1993, its membership being set in the 1988 Nova Scotia general election. Roger Bacon replaced John Buchanan as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia and Premier in 1990.

Groom was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 1930 New Brunswick general election as a Progressive Conservative Party candidate in the multi-member riding of Charlotte County. Harry Groom died in 1964 in St. Stephen, New Brunswick and is buried in the St. Stephen Rural Cemetery.

98 In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been part of the Red tory tradition, with Canada's former major conservative party being named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.Hugh Segal. The Right Balance. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. pp.

Between 1932 and 1948 he was mayor of Manitou, Manitoba. He was first elected to Parliament at the Lisgar riding in the 1953 general election. After serving in the 22nd Canadian Parliament, he was defeated in the 1957 election by George Muir of the Progressive Conservative party.

After completing his final House of Commons term, the 28th Canadian Parliament, McNulty was defeated at St. Catharines in the 1972 election by J. Trevor Morgan of the Progressive Conservative party. From 1968 to 1970, he was Parliamentary Secretary to Bryce Mackasey, then the Minister of Labour.

Lorne Henderson (October 31, 1920 – February 7, 2002) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis. Henderson was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

This idea was later promoted by provincial party leader Frank de Jong. In 2003, Heath received 1,865 votes (4.25%). The winner was Bob Runciman of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Heath originally intended to contest the 2004 federal election, but withdrew out of concern for exhaustion.

The Twenty-Fourth Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. It governed Canada from 17 September 1984 to 25 June 1993, including the 33rd Canadian Parliament and most of the 34th. The government was formed by the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Stewart did not seek another term in Yorkton, allowing Castleden to unseat the new Liberal candidate Patrick Sheehan O'Dwyer in the 1953 election. Castleden won a consecutive re-election in 1957, but was defeated by Gordon Drummond Clancy of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election.

The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick held a leadership election on October 22, 2016 as a result of the resignation of David Alward on September 23, 2014, following his government's defeat in the 2014 provincial election. The Conservatives last had a leadership election in 2008.

Jean-Jacques Martel (3 January 1927 – 3 February 2005) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an insurance broker by career. Martel was born at Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec. In 1954, he helped establish Northern Mining Explorations Ltd.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba fielded a full slate of 57 candidates in the 1995 provincial election. Thirty-one of these candidates were elected, giving the party its second consecutive majority government. Many candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1984 federal election, and won 211 out of 282 seats to form a majority government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages. Information on others may be found here.

The term was especially popular in Canada during the 1990s when the Progressive Conservative Party was centre-right with the Reform Party (later, the Canadian Alliance) further to the right. Members and supporters of the Reform Party/Canadian Alliance would thus describe themselves as small-c conservatives.

The 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held on June 11, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). At the convention, Brian Mulroney was elected leader on the fourth ballot, defeating former Prime Minister Joe Clark.

Robert Clifford Levy (October 19, 1905 – March 4, 1971) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Lunenburg County and Lunenburg East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1953 to 1959. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1979 federal election, and won 136 out of 282 seats to form a minority government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

In the 1980 election, Caouette was defeated by René Gingras of the Liberal party. Caouette made further attempts to return to Parliament, first as a Progressive Conservative Party candidate in the 1997 election at Abitibi riding, then as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2006 election.

Diefenbaker tried twice unsuccessfully to be elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, being defeated in 1942 and 1948, before winning the leadership in 1956. He was challenged for the leadership eleven years later, in 1967 and was defeated. Robert Stanfield was elected the party leader.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1977 Ontario provincial election, and won a minority government under the leadership of William Davis. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information on others may be found here.

Alan M. Robinson (October 21, 1948 – December 6, 2013) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller. Robinson was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

"Metro executive backs AIDS policy for workers". The Globe and Mail, June 17, 1987. During her second council term, both the Ontario Liberal Party and the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party courted Campbell as a candidate, but she refused because her ideological affiliations remained with the New Democrats.

The 30th Legislative Assembly of Ontario was in session from September 18, 1975, until April 29, 1977, just prior to the 1977 general election. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party led by Bill Davis formed a minority government. Russell Daniel Rowe served as speaker for the assembly.

Klein gained unfavourable national attention by blaming eastern "creeps and bums" for straining the city's social services and police. Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter. He supported the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election.

He served in the provincial cabinet as Attorney General, Minister of Education and Minister of Tourism. Lantz did not reoffer in the 2003 election. After leaving politics, he was named a provincial court judge. His brother Rob Lantz later served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.

George William Taylor, (born November 5, 1937) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis. Taylor was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1995 Ontario provincial election, and won a majority government with 82 out of 130 seats. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Russell Harold Ramsay (August 5, 1928 — February 9, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1978 to 1985, and was a cabinet minister in the government of William Davis. Ramsay was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Claude Frederick Bennett (September 19, 1936 – March 20, 2020) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1987, and as cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. He was a Progressive Conservative Party member.

He was instrumental behind the "pay as you go" budget-balancing strategy. During this time, Weadick participated in Provincial Task Forces on police funding and air transportation. In 1997, Weadick ran unsuccessfully for the former federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the Lethbridge electoral district.

James Charles Morgan (October 31, 1939 – August 4, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Bonavista South in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1972 to 1989. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

He is also a director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is a long-time political fundraiser for the Progressive Conservative Party and now the Conservative Party of Canada. Gerstein received his BSc. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

In the 1979 election, Watson campaigned and won in the Châteauguay riding and was re-elected there in 1980. He was defeated in the 1984 election by Ricardo Lopez of the Progressive Conservative party. Watson served seven successive terms from the 26th to the 32nd Canadian Parliaments.

Vijay Thanigasalam is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Scarborough—Rouge Park as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Thanigasalam was educated at Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School until 2007.

Robert C. Mitchell (July 4, 1931 – June 16, 2007) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1980 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller. Mitchell was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

After the Progressive Conservative Party merged with the Canadian Alliance in 2003, she joined the resultant Conservative Party of Canada."Brant Tories pick new board, executive," Brant News, 20 April 2009, accessed 7 October 2010. In the 2008 federal election, she was an organizer for Conservative candidate Phil McColeman.

Rob Lantz is a Canadian politician. He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island for seven months in 2015, having been elected during the party's leadership election on February 28, 2015.Rob Lantz celebrates Progressive Conservative leadership victory. CBC News, February 28, 2015.

Lea then sat as a member of the short-lived United Party of British Columbia. In 1986, he became a Progressive Conservative party member. Lea did not run for reelection in 1986. Following his political career Lea served as Executive Director of the Truck Loggers Association for 11 years.

Al Falle (born 1943) is a Canadian former politician, who represented the electoral district of Hootalinqua in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1985."'A vote for him just causes more divide'". Whitehorse Star, July 29, 2011. He sat as a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.

Lee Elgy Grills (20 April 1904 - 3 November 1982) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a dairy farmer and proprietor by career. He was born in Belleville, Ontario. Grills was a member of Sidney Township council starting in 1946.

George Archibald is a Canadian politician. He represented the constituency of Kings North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1999. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Archibald was first elected in 1984, was re-elected in 1988, 1993 and 1998.

Harry Oliver Bradley (November 24, 1929 – March 16, 1990) was a Canadian politician and teacher. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1962 election as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party for the riding of Northumberland. He was defeated in the 1963 election.

After serving his only term, the 28th Canadian Parliament, Howard was defeated in the 1972 election by George Whittaker of the Progressive Conservative party. From October 1970 to September 1972, Howard was Parliamentary Secretary to Jean-Luc Pépin, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce of that time.

Alexander Joseph McIntosh (born March 19, 1934) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. McIntosh was born in Glace Bay in 1934.

Kluane is currently represented by Wade Istchenko of the Yukon Party, who was first elected on October 11, 2011, and re-elected on November 7, 2016. He is the grandson of Hilda Watson, former leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party and the first MLA to represent the riding.

The Progressive Conservative Party governed Ontario during this period, and Ruston was an opposition member for his legislative career. He was primarily a defender of farmer's interests. Ruston announced that he would retire from the legislature in mid-1985, and was not a candidate in that year's provincial election.

In 1988 he was appointed Chief of Protocol for the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary. In 1998, Smith founded the Calgary Homeless Foundation, a registered charity committed to end homelessness in Calgary. In 2006 he endorsed Mark Norris for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party.

He challenged Reform Party leader Preston Manning for leadership when Manning proposed merging the party with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He later campaigned for Stockwell Day to become leader. The most prominent position he held with his party was Chief Opposition Whip from 2001 to 2002.

She was born on March 27, 1948 in Saint-Célestin, Centre-du- Québec and made career in education. Before he ran for office, he was a political activist with the Progressive Conservative Party, the Bloc Québécois and the Parti Québécois. He was the protégé of politician Louis Plamondon.

He was also involved with Smiths Falls Malleable Castings Ltd. He was first elected to Parliament at the Lanark riding in the 1940 general election after unsuccessful campaigns there in 1930 and 1935. Soper was defeated in the 1945 election by William Gourlay Blair of the Progressive Conservative party.

He was defeated in the 1958 election by Jean-Noël Tremblay of the Progressive Conservative party. Villeneuve made two further unsuccessful attempts to win back Roberval in 1962 and 1965. From 1961 to 1968, Villeneuve was mayor of Mistassini. He continued his notary practice until his retirement in 1985.

Bill Casey conducting an interview, 2018. Casey was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia. He was a businessman and stockbroker before going into politics. He was first elected, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, to represent the riding of Cumberland—Colchester in the 1988 election.

Although he was defeated during 1978 election in a Saskatoon seat, he was elected leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party in 1979. He lost a 1980 by-election in Estevan in a three-way split in which each party received more than 27 percent of the vote.

Tracey Perry is a Canadian politician, who served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2007 to 2019, representing the district of Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She previously served as the Parliamentary Assistant to Premier Paul Davis.

The federal Progressive Conservative Party rebuffed the initiative to "unite the right" in the late fall of 1998 when it elected Joe Clark as its leader. In December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to disband and merge into the Conservative Party of Canada.

The Chief Government Whip of Ontario is the member of the government responsible for ensuring that members of the governing party attend and vote in the provincial Legislature as the party leadership desires. The current Chief Government Whip is Lorne Coe of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Charles "Tod" Daley, (July 27, 1890 – August 10, 1976) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1963 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of George Drew, Thomas, and Leslie Frost.

Wilbur Bernard MacDonald (13 September 1933 – 20 May 2020) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a farmer by career. The son of Leo R. MacDonald and Helen MacDonald, MacDonald was educated in Orwell. He married Pauline Murphy in 1958.

He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1979, defeating Liberal Hubert Kitchen. Barrett was reelected in 1982 and 1985. He ran unsuccessfully for the Progressive Conservative party leadership in 1989. Barrett served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Development and Tourism and as Minister of Finance.

"No, Mr Dion, it's not paranoia, people really do hate you!" (cartoon by Serge Chapleau, 1997) The Clarity Act was supported by the Liberals and Reform Party in Parliament. Most in the New Democratic Party (NDP) supported it. The Progressive Conservative Party, led by Joe Clark, opposed the Act.

On August 30, 2007, Binns resigned as the PEI Progressive Conservative Party leader and Opposition leader, upon being named Ambassador of Canada to Ireland by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In 2010 Binns accepted an appointment in Boston, Massachusetts as Canadian Consul General to New England, replacing Neil LeBlanc.

Maurice Louis Zinck (December 30, 1911 - 1988) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1959 to 1974. He is a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. Zinck was born in Chester, Nova Scotia.

Jean Chrétien, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, succeeded her as prime minister. Jean Charest became leader of the Progressive Conservative party. Campbell stood for election to the House of Commons twice. She was elected in the general election of 1988, but defeated in the 1993 election.

Oliver announced in October 2016 that he was seeking the nomination of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in York Centre for the 2018 election. On January 15, 2017, Oliver lost the nomination to 36 year-old lawyer Roman Baber by a margin of 711 to 465 votes.

On March 20, 2018, it was announced to Teneycke was assigned to be the campaign manager for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party during the 2018 Ontario election. After the party won the election, sources says that Teneycke is returning to the private sector. Teneycke runs a lobbying firm Rubicon.

", '"Winnipeg Free Press, 3 October 2005, D1; "Manitoba community faces fall flooding emergency", Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 17 November 2006, 11:46 am, accessed 19 November 2008. Holowachuk received 1,857 votes (15.05%) as a New Democratic Party candidate in 1995, finishing third against Progressive Conservative Party incumbent Rosemary Vodrey.

Shannon Martin is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in a by-election on January 28, 2014."Progressive Conservatives sweep Manitoba byelections". Winnipeg Free Press, January 28, 2014. He represents the electoral district of McPhillips as a member of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party.

This page shows the results of leadership elections in the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, Canada, (known as the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan until the mid-1940s). The 1994 convention was determined by a "one member, one vote" system of balloting; all previous conventions were determined by delegated conventions.

She was also involved in various capacities with the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. She returned to British Columbia in 1988 as the director of the Federal Ministers’ Regional Offices at Canada Place in Vancouver. Huntington received an award from the Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust for exceptional service.

Parent lost to J.-Wilfrid Dufresne of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1953 election. His father, Simon-Napoléon Parent, was a Premier of Quebec and a mayor of Quebec City. Charles Parent's brother, Georges Parent, was a Senator and also a member of the House of Commons.

He married Kathreen Jean Arnold. They had three children: daughter Virginia, and fraternal twin sons John A. Tory and James Marshall Tory. Both sons later joined his firm. His grandson is Toronto Mayor John Tory, former Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader and member of his grandfather's firm.

He was first elected at the Saskatoon City riding in the 1945 general election, then re-elected at Saskatoon in 1949 and again in 1953. Knight was defeated by Henry Frank Jones of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election. Knight was again unsuccessful there in 1958.

Aurèle Gervais (born February 1, 1933) is a Canadian former politician, who represented the electoral district of Timmins—Chapleau in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Gervais was defeated in the 1988 election by Cid Samson.

David Hendsbee (born April 9, 1960) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Preston in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Today he sits on the Halifax Regional Council.

The winner was Liberal-Progressive incumbent Ivan Schultz. Lafreniere later campaigned for the Social Credit Party of Canada in the 1957 federal election, in the St. Boniface riding. He finished fourth out of five candidates with 3,872 votes. The winner was Louis Deniset of the Progressive Conservative Party.

In 2010, Konynenbelt announced that he was seeking the provincial nomination as candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party in the Ontario electoral district of Mississauga South (Konynenbelt lost the nomination to Geoff Janoscik, who lost the 2011 election to incumbent Charles Sousa). Mediwake and Konynenbelt reside in Oakville, Ontario.

LeMessurier was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1979 general election. She won the electoral district of Edmonton-Centre to hold it for the Progressive Conservative party. After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed her Minister of Culture. LeMessurier was re-elected in the 1982 election.

After finishing his term in the 28th Canadian Parliament, he was defeated by Allan McKinnon of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1972 federal election. In 1964, Groos purchased what is today maintained as Emily Carr House. The Emily Carr Foundation was formed in 1967 to preserve the building.

Chris Speyer (born 24 March 1941) is a former Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a criminal lawyer by career. Speyer was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He represented the Ontario riding of Cambridge where he was first elected in 1979.

About one year after he assumed office, polling showed that Ontario Premier Doug Ford of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario was deeply unpopular—in some cases even less popular than previous Ontario Liberal Party Premier Kathleen Wynne when she lost power, which could have deterred voters from voting for Scheer. This worried CPC insiders and prompted the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to call an extended recess of the provincial legislature to reduce negative news coverage, in order to help the federal Tories. However, if they lose the election, Scheer pledged to blame it on Ford during his leadership review. Therefore, leading up to the campaign, Andrew Scheer distanced himself from Ford and later campaigned without him.

MacLean returned to Prince Edward Island after the war, and ran for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate, but was defeated in the 1945 and 1949 federal elections. He was first elected to Parliament in a 1951 by-election and held his seat continuously until he left federal politics in 1976. MacLean served in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as Minister of Fisheries from 1957 until the government's defeat in the 1963 election. In 1976, MacLean was persuaded to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island which had languished in opposition for a decade.

He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 2000 to 2004, and was active in representing the party during its merger discussions with the Canadian Alliance. Those discussions culminated in the merger of the two parties in December 2003, to the Conservative Party of Canada. Hearn served as the first House Leader of the newly created party until it had its first leadership convention. He has served (either before or after the merger) as the Progressive Conservative Party House Leader, Conservative Party House Leader, Opposition House Leader, Canadian Heritage Critic, Public Works and Government Services Critic, and Critic of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons.

McDougall as Progressive Conservative Party of Canada politician One of his tasks as president was to secure a Major League Baseball franchise for the brewery and the city of Toronto. He had to overcome a failed attempt to bring the San Francisco Giants to the city,As President of Labatt's Brewing and also had to fend off a rival group of businessmen with the same goal of bringing baseball north. He was part of the team that eventually brought the Toronto Blue Jays into existence in 1976, and was the club's founding director. McDougall is a brother of Pat Mella, who served as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island from 1990 to 1996.

Herron was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1997 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party). He was reelected in the 2000 election. Herron was one of a handful of new Progressive Conservative "young Turk" parliamentarians - along with Scott Brison, André Bachand, and Peter MacKay - considered the youthful leadership material that would restore the ailing Tories to their glory days. After Progressive Conservative leader Jean Charest resigned in April 1998 to lead Quebec Federalists as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, Herron and fellow MP Jim Jones met with Stephen Harper to explore Harper's interest in the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Dave Smith is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election."Peterborough’s Dave Smith joins Ford Nation at Queen’s Park". Peterborough Examiner, June 8, 2018. He represents the riding of Peterborough—Kawartha as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba fielded fifty-six candidates in the 2007 Manitoba provincial election, and won 19 seats to remain as the Official Opposition party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Walter Leland Rutherford "Lee" Clark (16 December 1936 – 10 August 2008) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Davidson, Saskatchewan and was a professor by career. Clark attended the University of Saskatchewan. There, he met and, in 1959, married Barbara Woods.

Doug Ford is the 26th and current premier of Ontario (), Canada. He won a majority in the June 7, 2018 Ontario general election, as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, (CPC) caucus in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario and was sworn in as premier on June 29, 2018.

Ford won the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election on March 10, 2018. He represented Etobicoke North. In the 2018 Ontario general election held on June 7, 2018, Ford won a majority government with 76 of the 124 seats in the legislature with approximately 56.67% of potential voters voting.

Richard Ciano is the former president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario"Richard Ciano elected party president of Ontario Progressive Conservatives". Toronto Star, February 12, 2012. and a Canadian market researcher. Ciano is a principal at Campaign Research, a full-service marketing research agency that he founded in 2003.

"Steve Black seeks Timmins mayoralty". Timmins Daily Press, August 5, 2014. He ran as a Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario candidate in Timmins—James Bay in the 2014 provincial election,"Timmins city councilor Steve Black ready to carry the Progressive Conservative banner to unseat Gilles Bisson". Timmins Times, April 24, 2013.

Nérée Arsenault (28 August 1911 - 18 January 1982) was a Canadian politician and forest engineer. In the 1957 federal election, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the riding of Bonaventure representing the Progressive Conservative Party. He did not stand for the next election in 1958.

Hudak announced he would resign as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party after losing to Kathleen Wynne's Liberals, which secured a majority government, but said he will continue as an MPP. Hudak did not take a position in the Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet named by his interim successor, Jim Wilson.

The 1948 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held to choose a leader for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The convention was held at the Ottawa Coliseum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Voting occurred on October 2, 1948. Premier of Ontario George A. Drew was elected as the party's new leader.

Ross Romano (born 1979) is a Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament representing the electoral district of Sault Ste. Marie. He was elected in a by-election on June 1, 2017."Tories’ Ross Romano wins provincial byelection in Sault Ste. Marie". The Globe and Mail, June 1, 2017.

She also held a position in communications for the Jean Charest leadership campaign for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Paine was Publicity Director on the West Island Women's Centre Board of Directors, and serves on the Board of Directors for both the West Island Community Resource Centre and Kuper Academy.

The Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party were merged in 2003, and Lauzon ran as a Conservative in the 2004 election and garnered almost 4,000 votes more than his nearest rival, incumbent Bob Kilger. Lauzon was appointed as the Conservative Party critic for the Treasury Board and Official Languages Committee.

The PCs did not target this riding as winnable, and Guergis agreed to be a "sacrificial lamb" candidate in order to gain experience. She finished a distant third against New Democratic Party incumbent Rosario Marchese. In 2004, Guergis endorsed Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.

The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party led by Vic Fedeli, and the third party was the New Democratic Party, led by Andrea Horwath. At dissolution the Trillium Party had one MPP, Jack MacLaren, but lacked official party status so MacLaren was officially considered an independent by the legislature.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba fielded a full slate of 57 candidates in the 1986 provincial election, and won 26 seats to remain as the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information on others may be found here.

André Gillet (3 November 1916 – 29 June 1993) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Gillet was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an administrator, builder and contractor by career. He was first elected at the Mercier riding in the 1958 general election.

Walker ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1975 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent Leighton Buckwell in a closely contested race to pick up the Macleod electoral district for the governing Progressive Conservative party. He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the assembly in 1979.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1999 provincial election, and won 24 out of 57 seats to become the Official Opposition after eleven years in government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Albert James Bradshaw (December 18, 1882 – January 6, 1956) was a Canadian politician, businessman and farmer. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1945 election to represent the riding of Perth. He was defeated in the 1949 election.

Emmanuel resurfaced in 2009 as campaign manager for Randy Hillier, in the latter's bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.Talaga, Tanya (31 March 2009). "Maverick MPP joins PC leadership race; Rural representative known for far-right views says Ontario party cannot be 'a Liberal look-alike'". Toronto Star, A6.

Philip Hoffman (March 31, 1901 – December 22, 1980) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1960 to 1963. He represented the riding of Timiskaming for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Lount Township, Ontario, he was a forest ranger.

Don MacKinnon is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Winsloe-West Royalty in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2003."District Profiles: WINSLOE - WEST ROYALTY (15)". CBC News, September 29, 2003. He was a member of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party.

In the 1945 federal election, he ran as an Independent Progressive Conservative for the Mount Royal seat in the House of Commons of Canada, but was defeated. He placed fourth behind the Liberal victor, the official Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) candidate.

Robert Stanley Kemp Welch, (July 13, 1928 – July 29, 2000) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1985 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Robarts, Bill Davis and Frank Miller.

Jon Carey (born February 19, 1946) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Kings West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2003. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Carey was born in 1946 at Aylesford, Nova Scotia.

Edward Alexander Manson (October 6, 1906 – February 17, 1989) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1970. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. Manson was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

James Albert Ettinger (April 18, 1919 - April 23, 2013) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hants East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1962 to 1970. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. Ettinger was born in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.

Joe Clark in 1979. This article is the Electoral history of Joe Clark, the sixteenth Prime Minister of Canada. A conservative, he served one term as Prime Minister (1979-1980). He led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in three general elections, winning one (1979) and losing two (1980 and 2000).

Brian Mulroney in 1984. This article is the Electoral history of Brian Mulroney, the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada. A conservative, he served one term as Prime Minister (1984-1993). He led the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in two general elections, winning back to back majority governments (1984) and (1988).

Matthew MacKay is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2015 provincial election."Tories take two seats in East Prince". Journal Pioneer, May 4, 2015. He represents the electoral district of Kensington-Malpeque as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Sidney MacEwen is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2015 provincial election."Few options for PC leader following loss". The Guardian, May 6, 2015. He represents the electoral district of Morell-Donagh as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Brad Trivers is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2015 provincial election."Few options for PC leader following loss" . The Guardian, May 6, 2015. He represents the electoral district of Rustico-Emerald as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Doyle Piwniuk is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Manitoba Legislative Assembly in a by-election on January 28, 2014."Progressive Conservatives sweep Manitoba byelections". Winnipeg Free Press, January 28, 2014. He represents the electoral district of Turtle Mountain as a member of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party.

Buffie was born on 30 January 1960. He was a sale manager at the time of the election, and had served as president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. He was the chair of Paul Murphy's campaign in the 1995 provincial election.Winnipeg—Transcona, Canada Votes '97, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, a political party in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island chooses its leadership by an open vote of party members at a convention called by the party executive when there is a vacancy in the leadership (or there is an interim leader).

John Dinn , is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of Kilbride in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2007 to 2015 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. From 1992 until 2005 Dinn represented Ward 5 on the St. John's City Council.

Klein officially handed in his resignation as party leader on September 20, 2006, officially kicking off the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party leadership race. However, Klein remained premier until the new PC Leader, Ed Stelmach, assumed office on December 14, 2006. Klein resigned his seat in the legislature on January 15, 2007.

In Ambrose, Stephen E.; Bischof, Günter, eds. (1995). Eisenhower: A Centenary Assessment. Louisiana State University Press. p. 98. In Canada, a variety of conservative governments have been part of the red Tory tradition, with Canada's former major conservative party being named the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1942 to 2003.

P. Mitchell Murphy (born October 28, 1962O'Handley, K Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 2000 ) is a Canadian educator and former politician in the province of Prince Edward Island. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1996 to 2007. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Josh Cooper was the Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Member of Parliament in 2004 representing Thornhill, Ontario. He had won the nomination for the Canadian Alliance. After the merger of the Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he was renominated. Cooper is the Executive Director of the CJPAC.

Tremblay was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1958 election representing the Quebec riding of Roberval and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He lost re-election in 1962, when for the first time the Social Credit Party made a significant breakthrough in Quebec.

Salci ran in the 1981 provincial election and the 1985 provincial election, as a candidate for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. In both elections he was defeated by Vince Kerrio. Salci was a real estate agent and businessman before entering politics. He was appointed as a Citizenship Judge in December 2011.

He served the latter part of the 32nd Canadian Parliament until he was defeated in 1984 federal election by Gabriel Fontaine of the Progressive Conservative party. Gourde attempted a political comeback in the 2011 federal election unsuccessfully running for the Bloc Québécois in the riding of Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière.

Party President Robert Stanfield won this convention handily defeating C. Fred Fraser 246-76 on November 10, 1948. Stanfield would go on to become premier from 1956 to 1967. In 1967, he won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and led that party for another nine years.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1990 provincial election, and won 20 out of 130 seats to become the third-largest party in the legislature. Some of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1987 Ontario provincial election, and elected 16 out of 130 candidates to become the third-largest party in the legislature. Some of these candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Herbert Thomas (Bert) Hargrave (30 March 1917 – 24 September 1996) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and became a rancher by career. He held a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan in agricultural engineering.

In the 1979 Canadian federal election, Pichette was the unsuccessful Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's candidate in the federal riding of Restigouche. Roger Pichette died in Moncton, New Brunswick in 2002 at age eighty-one. His wife died less than two months later. They are buried in Campbellton, New Brunswick.

William Lawrence "Larry" Harrison is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, he represents the electoral district of Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley. He was re-elected in the 2017 provincial election.

The 1988 Manitoba general election was held on April 26, 1988 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a minority government. The Progressive Conservative Party won 25 seats, against 20 for the Liberal Party and 12 for the New Democratic Party.

Douglas Charles Neil (3 February 1924 - 21 February 1994) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Neil served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Lipton, Saskatchewan. He represented Saskatchewan's Moose Jaw electoral district at which he was elected in 1972.

He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1975. Doyle served as president of the Newfoundland Alcohol and Drug Addiction Foundation. In 1981, he was named finance director for the provincial Progressive Conservative Party. He died in a palliative care centre in St. John's at the age of 75.

Vincent Ke is a Chinese Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Don Valley North as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Ke was born in Quanzhou, Fujian, China, and immigrated to Canada in 1998.

Michael Parsa () is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 2018 general election. He represents the riding of Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill, and is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Parsa has been living in his riding he represents since 2002.

He represents the riding of Mississauga—Malton as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. He is currently the Vice-Chair of the Social Policy Committee and is a Special Advisor to the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, Honourable Vic Fedeli for the Indian- Ontario trade file .

She was elected at the Roberval electoral district in the 1980 federal election and served in the 32nd Canadian Parliament. Following defeat in the 1984 federal election to Benoît Bouchard of the Progressive Conservative party, she left federal politics. Beauchamp-Niquet also served as mayor of Dolbeau, Quebec from 1977 to 1981.

Nina Tangri is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election."PCs sweep neighbouring ridings of Mississauga-Streetsville and Mississauga-Malton". Toronto Star, June 7, 2018. She represents the riding of Mississauga—Streetsville as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Douglas Ross Belsher (19 January 1933 - 12 December 2003) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. His career included managing Eaton's stores at various British Columbia locations. Belsher was born in Kincaid, Saskatchewan. He died aged 70 at Abbotsford, British Columbia's MSA General Hospital due to cancer.

Taras Sokolyk is a former political organizer. He played a prominent role in the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba's 1995 election campaign, in which the party won a majority government. Once a political organizer in Manitoba, Canada, he served as chief of staff to Progressive Conservative premier Gary Filmon in the 1990s.

In June 2017, Crowder announced that he was seeking the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario nomination in the provincial riding of Sudbury for the 2018 Ontario general elections. He was acclaimed as the candidate on June 29, 2017."Former NHL tough guy Crowder puts up dukes for PCs". Sudbury Star, June 28, 2017.

Colin LaVie is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2011 provincial election."Five Tories to join 22 Liberals at legislature" . Charlottetown Guardian, October 3, 2011. He represents the district of Souris-Elmira as a member of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party.

Jennifer Cossitt (née Birchall; born 22 June 1948) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. She was a business executive by career. Her husband was Thomas Cossitt, member of Parliament for the Leeds—Grenville electoral district. Cossitt served as her husband’s executive assistant for nine years.

Sidney Arthur Fraleigh (born 5 February 1931) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Forest, Ontario, Fraleigh was a farmer by career. He was the son of Sidney Anderson Fraleigh and was educated at the University of Guelph. In 1953, Fraleigh married Velma Eloise Minielly.

In June 2014, Davis along with Marshall announced a company had been hired to evaluate the best plan for providing radiation therapy at the Corner Brook hospital. Davis resigned as Minister of Health and Community Services on July 2, 2014, to seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.

A Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island leadership election was held on October 20, 2017 choosing MLA James Aylward as the new leader. Previous party leader Rob Lantz resigned on September 23, 2015 after serving only seven months. The interim party leader was MLA Jamie Fox, from Lantz's resignation to Aylward's election.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba fielded a full slate of 57 candidates in the 2003 provincial election, and won 20 seats to remain as the Official Opposition party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

The 1956 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held to choose a leader for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. The convention was held at the Ottawa Coliseum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The convention began on December 13, 1956 with voting occurring on December 14 when John Diefenbaker was elected the new leader.

Milton L. Peach (born December 5, 1943) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Carbonear in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1982 to 1989. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador He was born at Carbonear.

Cambridge is represented in Ottawa by Bryan May (Liberal), the federal member of Parliament who defeated the previous incumbent MP (Gary Goodyear, Conservative – 2004 to 2015) in the October 2015 election. The MPP for Cambridge is Belinda Karahalios of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, who was first elected to this position in 2018.

Charles Keith Taylor (born 23 June 1931) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a barrister and solicitor and lawyer by career. Keith Taylor was born at Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. He was first elected at the Churchill riding in the 1972 general election.

The 20th Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in April 1982. The assembly sat from June 17, 1982, to September 19, 1986. The Progressive Conservative Party led by Grant Devine formed the government. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Allan Blakeney formed the official opposition.

The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick held a leadership election in 1995 to replace its outgoing leader Dennis Cochrane. The winner was former federal cabinet minister Bernard Valcourt, who went on to win the riding of Edmundston in the 1995 general election.Canadian Press Newswire. "Valcourt's political star rises again," May 13, 1995.

The unexpected fall of Germany was registered as a triumph for the Ententists. Mariu, entering Marghiloman's Progressive Conservative Party, contested the November 1919 election and lost his Senate seat.Theodorian-Carada II, pp. 88–94 Caton and his family left Switzerland with a Yugoslav sanitary train, stopping in Zemun, then crossing over to Craiova.

He was elected to the provincial legislature in the 1951 election,"Ontario Election Results by Ridings". The Globe and Mail, November 23, 1951. representing the district of St. David as a member of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He served until 1955, and did not stand for re-election in the 1955 election.

He lost to Reform Party incumbent Jake Hoeppner by 1,449 votes. There were rumours that Pallister would campaign to succeed Gary Filmon as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 2000, but he declined.Scott Edmonds, "Only one contender left for Manitoba Tory leadership", Canadian Press, 19 May 2000, 10:02 report.

The city is a corporate power-centre, a high percentage of the workforce is employed in white-collar jobs. The high concentration of oil and gas corporations led to the rise of Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservative Party in 1971. However, as Calgary's population has increased, so has the diversity of its politics.

Blaine Pedersen is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 2007 provincial election, for the electoral division of Carman. Pederson is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Pedersen was re-elected in the new Midland riding in the 2011, and 2016 elections.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded a full slate of candidates in the 1972 federal election, and won 107 of 264 seats to remain as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

Toews joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 1989, winning a seat in the 1995 election, by narrowly defeating NDP incumbent Harry Schellenberg in the north Winnipeg riding of Rossmere. In 1999, the Progressive Conservatives were defeated in the 1999 provincial election and Toews himself lost to Schellenberg in a rematch.

Clark ran in three leadership conventions and two leadership reviews. He was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party twice (1976, 1997), and defeated once (1983). After his victory in 1976, he succeeded Robert L. Stanfield as party leader. At the 1983 leadership convention, Clark was defeated by Brian Mulroney, who became leader.

George VanderBurg (born February 15, 1957) is a Canadian politician, who formerly represented the electoral district of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. VanderBurg won his third term in office by defeating Link Byfield in the 2008 Alberta general election.

The Conservative Party of Canada is legally distinct in name and structure from the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. There is considerable overlap between students involved in both political parties. A number of campus organizations recognized by the Ontario PC Party are also affiliated with the Conservative Party of Canada, creating an indirect connection.

In 1984, a Liberal backbencher, J. Earl McEwen crossed the floor to join the Tories. Polling in late 1984 showed Peterson's Liberals consistently trailing behind the Progressive Conservatives. Premier Davis still polled as the most popular leader. Peterson's fortunes improved when Davis retired as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in early 1985.

In Ontario, John Tory, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran in a 2009 by-election in Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, after he convinced one of his caucus members to step down, in hopes of re-entering the Ontario legislature. His by-election defeat resulted in his resignation as party leader.

The Saskatchewan Liberal Party is a Centre-right political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It was originally the provincial affiliate of the Liberal Party of Canada and one of the two largest parties in the province, before being eclipsed by the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and, later, the Saskatchewan Party.

He was also the political minister for BC at this time. After his riding's boundaries were changed to create the new riding of Mission-Coquitlam, St. Germain was defeated in the 1988 general election by Joy Langan. From 1989 to 1995, he was the President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The 21st Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the Saskatchewan general election held in October 1986. The assembly sat from December 3, 1986, to September 2, 1991. The Progressive Conservative Party led by Grant Devine formed the government. The New Democratic Party (NDP) led by Allan Blakeney formed the official opposition.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario won a narrow minority government in this election under Frank Miller's leadership, and was soon defeated in the legislature. In opposition, O'Connor served as his party's critic for Justice and the Attorney General. He was defeated in the 1987 election, losing to Doug Carrothers by 1,291 votes.

Collins is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party and won his seat in a by- election on November 26, 2009 for the district of Terra Nova."Conservatives win Terra Nova byelection". CBC News, November 26, 2009. In the 2011 provincial election Collins was easily elected, winning over 63% of the popular vote.

Twenty-two days after the 1985 Ontario provincial election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario government resigned after a vote of no confidence, and the Ontario Liberal Party formed a government with the support of the Ontario New Democratic Party. The agreement between the two parties was referred to as "The Accord".

William Heartz Brown (February 25, 1883 – May 24, 1967) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1956. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Brown was born in 1883 at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

Ernest Milton Ettinger was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hants East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953, and 1956 to 1962. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1888 at Portland, Maine, Ettinger was a funeral director.

Ferguson worked as a farmer, approximately six miles north of Boissevain. His nomination was arranged by leaders of the Social Credit Party, rather than by a local convention. He received 507 votes (16.01%), finishing third out of three candidates. The winner was Errick Willis, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Harry Colby Smith (August 21, 1869 – May 14, 1953) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1926 to 1939. His father, Albert Colby Smith, along with his son, Alphonso C. Smith also served in the Legislative Assembly.

In the June 10, 1957 Canadian federal election, Groom ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the riding of New Brunswick Southwest, he lost to incumbent Wesley Stuart. Lorne Groom died in 1994 and is buried in the St. Stephen Rural Cemetery.

Timothy Jerome Houston (born April 10, 1970) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, he represents the electoral district of Pictou East. Houston serves as the Leader of the Opposition.

Merryl Lawton is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Digby in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Lawton entered provincial politics in the 1984 election, winning the Digby riding by almost 1,800 votes.

Charles Eusibius Janes (March 29, 1888 – June 21, 1983) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1963. He represented the riding of Lambton East for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Watford, Ontario, he was a telephone company executive.

This campaign strategy failed, as the Bloc lost seats to the Liberal Party due to the collapse of Quebec support for the Progressive Conservative Party, whose voters shifted to the Liberal Party.Dornan, Christopher; Pammett, Jon H. Pp. 140, 145. The Bloc won in 38 ridings, six ridings fewer than in the 1997 election.

Cambridge is represented in Ottawa by Bryan May (Liberal), the federal member of Parliament who defeated the previous incumbent MP (Gary Goodyear, Conservative – 2004 to 2015) in the October 2015 election. The MPP for Cambridge is Belinda Karahalios of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, who was first elected to this position in 2018.

In such cases, paper candidates will usually run in districts which ideologically- like-minded parties are seen to have little chance of winning, so as to minimize the risk of any nominal support they might receive proving to be the decisive margin in a close local election under the country's first past the post electoral system. An example of this scenario in action was found in Saskatchewan, where the Progressive Conservative Party withdrew from public presence in the late 1990s but continued to run at least ten candidates, all in urban ridings where the then-governing Saskatchewan New Democratic Party was dominant at the time, in the province's general elections until the relevant law was amended so as to keep its registration with Elections Saskatchewan, largely to avoid losing control of what at the time was believed to be a substantial amount of money. The Progressive Conservative Party has since attempted to "revive" itself and no longer considers its nominees to be paper candidates. However, they have only achieved modest levels of support with candidates affiliated with the national Conservative Party typically running under the banner of the Progressive Conservative Party in provincial elections.

Prior to his election to public office, Van Loan was a partner and Chair of the Planning and Development Law Group at the law firm of Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Toronto, Ontario. Van Loan was also an Adjunct Professor of Planning at the University of Toronto. He served as president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario during Mike Harris' term of office and then of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada for a brief period. He resigned from the latter post in 2000 after a series of disagreements with its leader, Joe Clark. Van Loan was a key figure in the unsuccessful attempt to convince Premier of New Brunswick Bernard Lord to run for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives in late 2002.

The Globe and Mail, November 13, 2009. Most such figures, however, have been Red Tories, a moderate or even progressive faction within Canadian conservatism, rather than conventionally conservative "Blue" Tories; Brison, in fact, quit the Progressive Conservative Party to join the Liberals after the PCs merged with the more right-wing Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party. In 2015, a contingent of federal Conservative MPs and provincial Ontario Progressive Conservative Party MPPs participated in Toronto's annual Pride Week parade for the first time in its history. Organized by LGBTory, the marching contingent included federal MPs Kellie Leitch and Bernard Trottier, Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown and MPPs Lisa MacLeod and Jack MacLaren,"Tory MPP Lisa MacLeod rejects anti-Pride comments from Ottawa radio host".

Dennis "Denny" King (born November 1, 1971) is the 33rd and current premier of Prince Edward Island, and current leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island. Born in Georgetown, Prince Edward Island, King worked in many Prince Edward Island media outlets for years, including the Eastern Graphic, The Guardian and CFCY-FM. In 1997 he started work as a public relations coordinator for the Ministry of Transportation, then became director of communications for the Department of Development and Technology, and finally director of communications and executive assistant to the 30th premier of Prince Edward Island, Pat Binns. On February 9, 2019, King was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island, at the party's leadership convention in Charlottetown.

George Drew (right) in the offices of the Ontario Department of Transportation the day after his party's election victory The 1948 Ontario general election was held on June 7, 1948, to elect the 90 members of the 23rd Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by George Drew, won a third consecutive term in office, winning a solid majority of seats in the legislature—53, down from 66 in the previous election. Despite winning a majority, Drew lost his own seat to temperance crusader Bill Temple. Instead of seeking a seat in a by-election, Drew left provincial politics to run for, and win, the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.

Higgs represents the electoral district of Quispamsis as a member,New Brunswick Votes 2010: Quispamsis. cbc.ca, September 27, 2010. and, since October 22, 2016, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. On that date the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick leadership election was held and on the third ballot he defeated former Saint John Mayor Mel Norton, 1,563 to 1,169. In the 2018 provincial election, Higgs and his party won the largest share of seats in the legislature, 22, compared to 21 for the governing Liberal Party of New Brunswick, which opted to attempt to remain in power as a minority government by presenting a Throne Speech in hopes of retaining the confidence of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.

Late in the 1930s and early in the 1940s, the Conservatives re-organized and developed new policies. Rather than continue to oppose government spending and intervention, a policy which hurt the party politically in the time of the Great Depression, the Conservatives changed their policies to support government action where it would lead to economic growth. The party changed its name to the "Progressive Conservative" party after its federal counterpart changed its name to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in December 1942 on the insistence of its new leader, John Bracken, whose roots were in the populist Progressive Party. The Progressive Conservatives took advantage of Liberal infighting to win a minority government in the 1943 provincial election, reducing the Liberals to third-party status.

Kaleed Rasheed is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election.Ben Rayner, "Two cabinet ministers felled in Mississauga East—Cooksville and Mississauga-Lakeshore". Toronto Star, June 7, 2018. He represents the riding of Mississauga East—Cooksville as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

He did not seek re-election in 1990. He returned to municipal politics, and served as mayor of Tecumseth from 1992 to 1994. McCague is considered a mentor to his successor in the legislature, former cabinet minister Jim Wilson. He continued to support the federal Progressive Conservative Party over the Reform Party in the 1990s.

Stephen Crawford is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election.Peter Edwards, "PCs Crawford and Gill defeat Liberal cabinet ministers in Oakville and Milton". Toronto Star, June 7, 2018. He represents the riding of Oakville as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

After one more victory in the 1980 election, he was defeated in 1984 by Richard Grisé of the Progressive Conservative party. He made another unsuccessful attempt to re-enter federal politics in the 1988 election at Saint-Hubert riding. Dupont served four consecutive terms of office from the 29th to the 32nd Canadian Parliaments.

He won the riding of Portneuf in the 1979 federal election and was re-elected there in 1980. Dion was defeated in 1984 by Marc Ferland of the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments. He served again as mayor of Saint- Raymond from 2006 until his death in 2011.

He was first elected to Parliament at the St. Hyacinthe—Bagot riding in the 1945 general election. With a minor spelling change to the riding in 1947, he was re-elected at Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot in 1949 and 1953. He was defeated by Théogène Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

William Lesick (10 June 1923 - 9 September 2011) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a pharmacist by career. Lesick was born in Spedden, Alberta. He was elected at the Edmonton East electoral district in the 1984 federal election, thus he served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

Anne Blouin (born 14 September 1946) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. She was an executive assistant by career. Blouin was elected at the Montmorency—Orléans electoral district in the 1984 federal election. She left federal politics after her only term in office, the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

François Gérin (3 August 1944 – 3 April 2005) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a lawyer by career. Gérin was born in Coaticook, Quebec. He represented the Quebec riding of Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead where he was first elected in the 1984 federal election under the Progressive Conservative party.

Merrill Edwin Barrington (February 25, 1920 – December 18, 1965) was a Canadian politician, accountant and insurance broker. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1958 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party for the riding of Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie. He was defeated in the elections of 1953, 1957 and 1962.

Allan Marshall Mosher is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg Centre in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. A broadcaster by career, Mosher entered provincial politics in the 1988 election, winning the Lunenburg Centre riding.

Victor Newcombe Thorpe was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada for the constituency of Kings North. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia from 1967 to 1974. Thorpe was born in Centreville, Nova Scotia. He was elected in 1967, and was re-elected in 1970.

In 2006, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. She is married to Andy Pringle, previously chairman of Upper Canada College's Board of Governors and chief of staff to then Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader John Tory, currently mayor of Toronto. They have a daughter named Catherine.

For purposes of electing representatives both provincially and federally, the city is within the riding of Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock. Its Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) is Laurie Scott of the Progressive Conservative Party, elected in 2018. Its federal Member of Parliament (MP) is Jamie Schmale of the Conservative Party, who was elected in 2015.

She won election by just 75 votes. She represented Western Townships Ward, which covered Goulbourn, Rideau and West Carleton Townships. She was re-elected by acclamation in 1997. In 1997, Hill ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in Nepean-Carleton, but disagreed with party leader Jean Charest over calling Quebec a 'distinct society'.

From 1985 to 1986, he was the leader of the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party. In 2011, the Hallmark Society, an association dedicated to heritage preservation in Victoria, presented Pollen with a merit award for "his contributions to the heritage fabric of Victoria". He died on January 3, 2017, at the age of 89.

The town hall for Twillingate is located on Main Street South, in the same building as a volunteer fire department. The current mayor of Twillingate is Gordon Noseworthy. Twillingate has historically been Liberal. The only exception to this was in 1982, when the Progressive Conservative Party won the majority of votes in the district.

Smith was long active in the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan."Arthur Leslie (Bud) Smith" obituary, Moose Jaw Times-Herald, 2002. He stood for election four times, in the general elections of 1975, 1978, 1982 and 1986. He was defeated in the 1975 and 1978 elections, but elected in the Progressive Conservative landslide of 1982.

Boyd left the Progressive Conservative party in 1997 and to help form the Saskatchewan Party. He was re-elected to his third term in the 1999 Saskatchewan general election winning his largest plurality to date. He stepped down in 2002 vacating his seat. Boyd returned to the Saskatchewan Legislature in the 2007 Saskatchewan general election.

The 1995 Manitoba general election was held on April 25, 1995 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party, which won 31 seats out of 57. The New Democratic Party formed the official opposition with 23 seats; the Liberal Party won 3.

William George Brewster (October 24, 1924 – November 13, 2014) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Kluane in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1996. He was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party until 1992, and the Yukon Party thereafter.Pierre G. Normandin, The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. Gale Canada, 1995.

Paul Dinn is a Canadian politician. He represents the electoral district of Topsail-Paradise in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly, for the Progressive Conservative Party. He was first elected in a by-election in 2019. Before entering provincial politics Dinn was a director within the Department of Advanced Education, Skills and Labour.

Mike Holland is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2018 election."Moncton region keeps Liberal, PC mix as Sackville goes Green". CBC News New Brunswick, September 25, 2018. He represents the electoral district of Albert as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.

Sir William Howard Hearst, (February 15, 1864 - September 29, 1941) was the seventh Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario from 1914 to 1919. Hearst was born in Bruce County, Ontario. He practiced law in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario before being voted to provincial parliament as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

The winner was David Young of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. In 2003, received 227 votes and finished last in a field of six candidates. The winner was David Zimmer of the Ontario Liberal Party. The party also planned to run Gordon Mood in Algoma—Manitoulin, but he did not appear on the ballot.

The Progressive Conservative Party collapsed in the 1993 election, with Western conservatives voting Reform, Quebec conservatives voting for the Bloc Québécois, and Ontario and Western Montreal voters putting the Liberal Party led by Jean Chrétien into power. Jean Charest in Sherbrooke, Quebec, was one of two Progressive Conservatives left in Parliament, and became party leader.

Natalie Jameson is a Canadian politician, who serves in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island."PEI Progressive Conservative candidate Natalie Jameson wins Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park riding". The Globe and Mail, July 15, 2019. She represents the district of Charlottetown-Hillsborough Park as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island.

The 2003 Manitoba general election was held on June 3, 2003 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the New Democratic Party, which won 35 seats out of 57. The Progressive Conservative Party finished second with twenty seats. The Liberal Party won two seats.

The district will remain relatively unchanged following the 2013 electoral redistribution, losing only some of its eastern polls to Hampton. Blaine Higgs who is the current Premier and Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick, is the incumbent member from Quispamsis. Higgs was re-elected in this district in 2014, 2018, and 2020.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ran a full slate of candidates in the 1974 federal election, and won 95 out of 264 seats to remain as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

In the 1979 federal election, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the electoral district of Guelph as a Progressive Conservative Party candidate. He was defeated in the 1980 election. In 1986, he became President of the International Real Estate Federation. He died in 2006 of complications following a heart attack.

David Conrad Coutts Encyclopedia.com is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Livingstone-Macleod in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was first elected in the 1993 election and was re-elected three times before declining to seek re-election in the 2008 vote.

He is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. Trivers was defeated for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party, in 2017 by James Aylward. On May 9, 2019, Trivers was appointed to the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island as Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning and Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Change.

Domo Gasoline Corporation is a private Western Canadian gas retailer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It operates 80 retail outlets from Winnipeg to Vancouver. Its president and CEO during the 1990s was Stuart Murray, who later became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba. The company is owned by the Everett family of Winnipeg.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada ran a full slate of candidates in the 1997 federal election, and won 20 seats out of 301 to emerge as the fifth largest party in the House of Commons of Canada. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

John Hickey (c. 1955 - December 14, 2017) was a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of Lake Melville in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2003 to 2011. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party and served in the Cabinets of Danny Williams and Kathy Dunderdale.

Ed Buckingham was a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Buckingham represented the district of St. John's East in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. He was elected in the 2007 provincial election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He lost his seat in the 2011 provincial election to the NDP.

Felton Fenwick Legere (18 September 1913 – 15 August 1963) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Stoney Island, Nova Scotia, the son of Aldric Legere and Evangeline Amirault.Le Petit Courrier du Sud-ouest de la Nouvelle-Écosse 22 August 1963 Vol. 27 No. 20.

In 1991, he was promoted to Minister of Employment and Immigration, and held the position until the government of Mulroney's successor as Progressive Conservative Party leader and prime minister, Kim Campbell, was defeated in the 1993 election. Valcourt was defeated in that election, along with every Tory MP in Atlantic Canada except Elsie Wayne.

Jim Bagnall is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 1996 provincial election. Bagnall is married to Eileen (Craig) Bagnall. They have four kids, Douglas, Craig, Tara and Tanya. He represented the electoral district of Montague-Kilmuir as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

The Liberals were defeated by the New Democratic Party in the 1990 provincial election. Wilson lost her seat by 572 votes to David Tilson of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. She attempted to regain the seat in the 1995 provincial election, but lost by almost 15,000 votes amid a Progressive Conservative majority government victory.

Nelson Edward Gaetz (March 1, 1907 – April 26, 1988) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Halifax East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1967. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1907 at Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia, Gaetz was a farmer.

Thomas MacQueen (1910 – April 9, 2003) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Pictou East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1967 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1910 at Kings Head, Nova Scotia, MacQueen was a farmer and fisherman.

Long supported the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1995 provincial election.Paula Schuck, "Hundreds come out to meet top Tory," Kitchener Record, 5 June 1995, A1. This article indicates that he had previously supported the New Democratic Party of Ontario. See Christian Aagaard, "Cambridge riding one to watch," Kitchener Record, 6 May 1997, A4.

Margaret Mary Burgoyne-Howse Scrivener (c. 1922 – September 11, 1997) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a Progressive Conservative Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1985 who represented the downtown Toronto riding of St. David. She served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bill Davis.

Desire Joseph Comeau (July 23, 1906 – October 6, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Clare in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1949 to 1953. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Comeau was born at Meteghan, Digby County, Nova Scotia in 1906.

He did not seek a return to politics after this time. Cosens served as president of the Interlake Teachers’ Association and on the provincial executive of the Manitoba Teachers’ Society. After leaving politics, he was president of Northern Goose Processors in Teulon. He also served as executive director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Harold Robinson Scott (October 14, 1894 – October 9, 1961) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1959. He represented the riding of Peterborough for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He was born in Shawbridge, Quebec and was a lumberman. He died in 1961.

Oldford resigned his seat in the assembly in January 1972, which gave the Progressive Conservative party a majority of seats. He was named a magistrate in March 1972 and served in Grand Falls and Wabush-Labrador City. He was a named a provincial court judge in Springdale in 1977, retiring from the bench in 1990.

The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party. It was initially led by John Tory but the leadership changed in 2009 when the PCs elected Tim Hudak as their new leader. The third party was the New Democrats led by Howard Hampton until they chose Andrea Horwath as their leader in 2009. The speaker was Steve Peters.

Amy Fee (born 1981/1982) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the riding of Kitchener South—Hespeler as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Fee was previously an elected trustee for Kitchener-Wilmot with the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.

Murray William Dorin (May 21, 1954 – April 11, 2020) was a Canadian politician and businessman, who served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He was a chartered accountant and controller by career.Norm Ovenden, "Defeated Tory MPs coping with life after politics". Edmonton Journal, December 18, 1993.

Robert Perron (18 August 1915 - 11 October 1982) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada and a lawyer. He was educated at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere College, then at Université Laval where he graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Law (LL.L) degree. Perron was appointed Queen's Counsel on 19 October 1955.

He also served on the Select Special Committee on Foreign Investment. He was defeated in the 1975 election by Progressive Conservative candidate Andrew Little. He ran for Parliament in the 1980 Canadian Federal Election in Calgary Centre as a member of the Liberal Party. He was defeated by incumbent Harvie Andre of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Brooke Taylor (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 2009. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in Musquodoboit Valley, Nova Scotia, Taylor was elected to Halifax County Council in 1991.

Fort Whyte is an ethnically diverse constituency, with an immigrant population of 21%. Eight per cent of the riding's residents are Chinese, 5% are German and 4% are East Indian. The constituency has been held by the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (PCs) for its entire existence, and has always been comfortably safe for that party.

Dennis Smook is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, representing the electoral district of La Verendrye as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba."Clash of colours". Winnipeg Free Press, October 5, 2011. He was first elected in the 2011 provincial election, and re-elected in 2016 and 2019.

He lost to Rob Lantz on the second ballot, at the PC leadership convention on February 28, 2015. Aylward won the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2017, defeating fellow MLA Brad Trivers. On September 17, 2018 Aylward announced his pending resignation as party leader, effective upon the selection of his successor at the 2019 party leadership convention.

Frederick John King (11 June 1923 – 30 August 2016) was a Canadian politician. He was a Progressive Conservative Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a farmer, orchardist, and public servant by career. King was born in Kaleden, British Columbia where he attended public school, then graduated to secondary school in Penticton.

Stanley Kenneth Schellenberger (born 7 January 1948 in Edmonton, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an agrologist by career. He represented the Wetaskiwin electoral district since he won the seat in the 1972 federal election. Schellenberger won successive terms in the 1974, 1979, 1980 and 1984 federal elections.

William Andrew Gottselig (1 December 1934 - 4 January 2000) was a Canadian businessman, farmer and politician. Gottselig served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Balgonie, Saskatchewan. He was first elected at the Moose Jaw riding 1984 federal election thus serving in the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

Joseph Price (born 5 May 1945, Brunette Island) is a Canadian politician who was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an educational administrator and teacher by career. He was elected at Newfoundland's Burin—St. George's electoral district in the 1984 federal election, thus he served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

He was named Queen's Counsel in 1961. Cavers served as a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve from 1942 to 1945. He was first elected at the Lincoln riding in the 1949 general election then re- elected in 1953. Cavers was defeated at Lincoln in the 1957 election by John Smith of the Progressive Conservative party.

Reinke was first elected to Parliament at the Hamilton South riding in the 1953 general election then defeated there in 1957 Bob McDonald of the Progressive Conservative party. Reinke made an attempt to unseat McDonald in the 1958 election but was unsuccessful. Reinke went on to be the Reeve of Saltfleet twp. and sat on the Hamilton Hydro Commission.

Dr. Chalmers became involved in politics in 1948 when he supported former Ontario premier George Drew at the leadership convention in his successful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada; Drew having defeated his opponent John Diefenbaker on the first ballot.Charlotte Gray. "Profile - Everett Chalmers". Canadian Medical Association Journal. Vol. 126, June 15, 1982. p.

From the 1930s to the 1970s, Ste. Rose was a safe seat for the Manitoba Liberal Party (formerly known as the Liberal-Progressive Party). The New Democratic Party held the seat from 1971 to 1986, at which time it was won by Glen Cummings of the Progressive Conservative Party. He held the seat until 2007 when he retired.

Albert Earl Catherwood (23 May 1900 – 25 March 1988) was a Canadian politician and farmer. Catherwood served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Hagersville, Ontario, he was a farmer by career. He was also reeve of Walpole Township, Ontario in 1947 after being a councillor there from 1935 to 1943.

Town Crier: Beach - Riverdale edition. March 17, 2003. In a 1978 federal by-election in the riding of Broadview, Clifford ran as the candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada but lost by 420 votes to NDP candidate Bob Rae. He retired from municipal politics in 1991 but attempted to make a comeback in 2003.

Dan Crummell is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, who represented the district of St. John's West in Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2011 to 2015, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In a 1995 by-election and the 1996 provincial election, Crummell was the Progressive Conservative candidate in the district of Gander.

The NDP chose Brian Masse, a municipal politician in Windsor's city council. The Progressive Conservative Party chose Ian West, who had run against Gray in the previous election. The Canadian Alliance chose Rick Fuschi, an employee in the auto industry. Chris Holt represented the Green Party and the Christian Heritage Party chose Allan James, a chemical engineer.

Orangeville is located in provincial electoral district of Dufferin—Caledon. This was changed from Dufferin—Peel—Wellington—Grey when the Province instituted the 107 electoral districts revision in 2006. Its current Member of Provincial Parliament is Sylvia Jones, former assistant to Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader, John Tory. Federally, Orangeville is located in the Dufferin—Caledon electoral district.

The 22nd Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan was elected in the 1991 Saskatchewan election. It was controlled by the New Democratic Party under Premier Roy Romanow. With 66 representatives elected, the 22nd Assembly had the largest number of MLAs in Saskatchewan history. In the fall of 1992 former premier Grant Devine resigned as leader of the opposition Progressive Conservative party.

In the 50 years to 1972, the Star endorsed the Liberal Party in each federal general election.Kathy English, Why do newspapers endorse?, Toronto Star (October 11, 2008). In the fifteen federal elections between 1968 and 2019, the Star has endorsed the Liberal Party eleven times, the New Democratic Party twice, and the Progressive Conservative Party twice.

Kinsella speaks French, and uses it in parliament. He resigned as Speaker on November 26, 2014, in anticipation of his mandatory retirement from the Senate, upon reaching the age of 75, two days later. Kinsella is considered a Red Tory and supported Peter MacKay in his bid to become leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2003.

The group later changed its name to Concerned Residents of Winnipeg (CROW). During the 2005 by-election, Pizey-Allen described herself as left-of-centre on social issues.Nick Martin, "We're not left wing, new leader insists", Winnipeg Free Press, 21 November 2005, A6. She received 120 votes (1.77%), finishing fourth against Progressive Conservative Party leader Hugh McFadyen.

On April 17, 2014, Barry announced he was abandoning his bid to be leader because he did not feel he had the support to defeat Coleman. With Barry's exit Coleman was acclaimed as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. He announced his withdrawal from the leadership citing personal family matters, less than three weeks before his scheduled swearing in.

The Liberal-Progressives were defeated in the 1958 election, and Thompson lost his seat to George Johnson of the Progressive Conservative Party by 614 votes. Thompson was of Icelandic background. After leaving politics, he wrote a work of local history entitled "Riverton and the Icelandic River Settlement". The work is over 400 pages long, and is available online.

Robert James Henderson (15 August 1877 - 24 April 1953) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Brooke Township, Ontario and became a municipal clerk, farmer and teacher by career. Henderson attended high school in Watford, Ontario and then the London Normal School. He taught school from 1899 to 1940.

James Matthew Lee, (born March 26, 1937) was the 26th premier of Prince Edward Island (1981–86). He was the leader of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party from 1981 to 1987. Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the son of James Matthew Lee and Catherine Blanchard, Lee was educated at Saint Dunstan's University. He married Patricia Laurie in 1960.

Edward Twohig is a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, Canada for the constituency of Kings North. He sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia from 1978 to 1984. Twohig was first elected in 1978, and was re-elected in 1981. He did not re-offer in 1984.

Upon retirement, he worked as an insurance executive and writer. He died in Winnipeg in 1987. He was first elected in the 1968 general election at the Winnipeg South Centre riding and served one term, the 28th Canadian Parliament. Osler left Parliament after his defeat in the 1972 election to A. Daniel McKenzie of the Progressive Conservative party.

He was first elected at the Burnaby—Richmond riding in the 1968 general election. After serving his only term, the 28th Canadian Parliament, Goode was defeated in the 1972 election by John Reynolds of the Progressive Conservative party. Goode then became Mayor of Delta, British Columbia from 1973 to 1979. He died on 28 May 1994 due to cancer.

Gérard Bruchési (born March 30, 1931) is a Canadian former politician and insurance broker. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1958 election to represent the riding of Beauharnois—Salaberry. He was defeated in the 1962 election. Bruchési was born in Montreal, Quebec.

Kevin Richard Parsons (May 9, 1930 - March 10, 2013) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape St. Francis in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1986 to 1993. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador He was born at Flatrock, Newfoundland.

William Frederick Purdy (born June 5, 1940) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1986. During his time in office he sat with the governing Progressive Conservative party. Purdy also served as the mayor for the village of Wabamun for many years.

Trépanier supported Liberal Party of Canada parliamentarian Marcel Prud'homme in his successful bid for re-election in the 1988 federal election.Robert McKenzie, "Bourassa-Mulroney compact is alive and well," Toronto Star, 10 July 1988, B1. The provincial and federal Liberal parties are not formally aligned, and many Quebec Liberals in this period supported the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

The result of the 2008 election resulted in the Progressive Conservative party strengthening their ranks and picking up many districts. The results had fooled most of the pundits who were predicting quite the opposite. Premier Ed Stelmach shuffled the Cabinet on March 13, 2008. The more notable members of his cabinet included Ron Liepert, Lindsay Blackett and Mel Knight.

Results listed as George Hahn. In 1958, Hahn was defeated by William McLennan of the Progressive Conservative party. Hahn ran to succeed Solon Low at the 1961 Social Credit leadership convention but came in third. A few weeks prior to the convention, he unsuccessfully campaigned for another Parliament seat in a 29 May 1961 by-election at Esquimalt—Saanich.

He made another unsuccessful attempt to gain the riding in the 1972 federal election, this time switching to the Progressive Conservative Party. In the 1974 federal election, he won Okanagan—Kootenay and served one term as a Progressive Conservative in the 30th Canadian Parliament before retiring at the 1979 federal election. Johnston took up painting after retiring from politics.

He was defeated in the 1958 election by Benjamin Allmark of the Progressive Conservative party. In 1965, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Ontario. He is also considered a founder of Amherstview, a suburban community near Kingston. He was also named to the Kingston and District Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.

Angus Ronald Macdonald (1901 - 2 May 1970) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Macdonald was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Frasers Mills, Nova Scotia and became a retail merchant by career. He was first elected at the Antigonish—Guysborough riding in the 1957 general election.

John Douglas Campbell MacLean (born 24 March 1929 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a barrister by career. After an initial unsuccessful attempt in the 1957 federal election, MacLean was elected at the Winnipeg North Centre riding in the 1958 election.Charles Lynch, "He Defeated Mr Knowles".

Gordon Wayne Walker , (born September 10, 1941) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1975, and again from 1977 to 1985. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller.

Heron ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1986 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Stony Plain to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative party. Heron ran for a second term in the 1989 Alberta general election he was defeated by New Democrat candidate Stan Woloshyn in a hotly contested race.

Under Harper, Harris remained the assistant critic on finance and he served on the 'Standing Committee on Finance' which he was a vice-chair in the 2nd session and a member in the 3rd session. Harper led the merger of the Canadian Alliance with Progressive Conservative Party to form the Conservative Party of Canada which Harris joined.

Henry Woo (March 18, 1929 – November 24, 2014) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta and he served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986. During his time in the legislature he sat in the back benches as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative party.

Cory Deagle is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election."Prince Edward Island election results, riding by riding". Global News, April 23, 2019. He represents the district of Montague-Kilmuir as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island.

Bloyce Thompson is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election."Prince Edward Island election results, riding by riding". Global News, April 23, 2019. He represents the district of Stanhope-Marshfield as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island.

Ernie Hudson is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election."Prince Edward Island election results, riding by riding". Global News, April 23, 2019. He represents the district of Alberton-Bloomfield as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island.

The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick held a leadership election in 1991 to replace its outgoing leader Barbara Baird Filliter. The winner was former Moncton mayor and member of parliament Dennis Cochrane who would go on to win the riding of Petitcodiac in the 1991 general election.Toronto Star. "N.B. Tories pick new leader," June 15, 1991, page A18.

On January 13, 2007, he was arrested in Milton, Ontario for the possession of an unregistered handgun. He was granted an absolute discharge in April 2008, though the judge noted that he had made a serious error in judgement. In 2012, Snobelen ran for the Presidency of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, finishing second to Richard Ciano.

James Collus McCrae (born September 19, 1948) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1999, in the Progressive Conservative Party caucus. From 1988 to 1999, McCrae was a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Gary Filmon. McCrae was born in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Sue-Ann Levy (born 1956) is a Canadian writer and political columnist, focusing on municipal and social issues in Ontario. She has been described as ‘unapologetically conservative’, and has written Underdog: Confessions of a Right-Wing Gay Jewish Muckraker. Levy placed second in the 2009 Ontario by- election as Progressive Conservative Party candidate for Toronto, St. Paul's.

After fighting with the Army in World War II, Bassett ran unsuccessfully for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, in the 1945 Canadian election in the riding of Sherbrooke, losing to Liberal incumbent, Maurice Gingues. He also ran in the 1962 election in the riding of Spadina losing to Liberal candidate Perry Ryan by less than 2,000 votes.

From 1924 to 1927, he was a member of the Sarnia Board of Education. He was first elected to Parliament at the Lambton West riding in a by-election on 14 January 1929 then re-elected there in 1930, 1935 and 1940. Gray was defeated by Joseph Warner Murphy of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.

The Twenty-Fifth Canadian Ministry was the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Kim Campbell. It governed Canada from 25 June 1993 to 4 November 1993, including only the last two months of the 34th Canadian Parliament. The government was formed by the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and was the last ministry to be led by that party.

After electoral district changes, Studer became the Liberal candidate in the merged Swift Current—Maple Creek riding where he was returned to Parliament in 1953 and 1957. In the 1958 election, Studer was defeated by Jack McIntosh of the Progressive Conservative party. Studer made two further unsuccessful attempts to unseat McIntosh in the 1962 and 1963 elections.

J.-Eugène Bissonnette (March 4, 1892 – September 13, 1980) was a Quebec-born politician and physician. He was born in St. Claire, Quebec, Canada. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1958 to represent the riding of Quebec West. He was defeated in the 1962 election.

For the only time in the show's run, Mr Gribble's primary concern is not with removing the Twists from the lighthouse. Rather, he spends the series campaigning for a senate seat with the fictional Progressive Conservative Party. Disagreeing with his policies, Nell runs against him in a party similar to the Australian Greens and ultimately wins in a landslide.

Thorkelson was elected to Parliament in the 1988 federal election at the Edmonton—Strathcona electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Hugh Hanrahan of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election. Thorkelson died unexpectedly in Edmonton at his parent's residence due to a heart attack at age 49.

He supported Bob Rae for the party leadership in 1982. Samis announced his retirement from the legislature in early 1985. He remains the only New Democrat to have represented the city of Cornwall at either the provincial or federal level. At the time of Samis's retirement, the Progressive Conservative party had governed Ontario without interruption for forty-two years.

Charles-Édouard Campeau (24 April 1916 – 20 March 1992) was an engineer and a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was first elected at the Saint-Jacques riding in the 1958 general election. After serving his only term, the 24th Canadian Parliament, Campeau left federal politics and did not seek further re-election.

Robert Gauvin is a Canadian politician, the Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou. He was first elected in the 2018 election"Liberals hang on to most of north, but lose a minister". CBC News New Brunswick, September 25, 2018. as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.

Beatrice Ann Firth (January 27, 1946 – June 20, 2008) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Riverdale South in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1996. She was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan in 1946,Pierre G. Normandin, The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. P.G. Normandin, 1996.

The electoral district was created in the 1993 boundary redistribution. The election held that year saw incumbent Camrose MLA Ken Rostad run in the new electoral district. He picked up the new seat for the Progressive Conservative party facing a strong challenge from Liberal candidate Bob Prestage. Rostad retired at dissolution of the assembly in 1997.

Harold Anthony Collins (May 21, 1925 - November 10, 2015) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Gander in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1967 to 1979. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Collins was born at Indian Islands, Newfoundland.

James Wilfred Snow (July 12, 1929 - September 13, 2008) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1985 who represented the GTA ridings of Halton East and Oakville. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Davis and Frank Miller.

First elected to the territorial council in 1974, during his term he served on the executive committee as minister of consumer and corporate affairs and natural resources."Yukon highway opening, giving access to arctic". Lawrence Journal- World, March 19, 1979. When territorial political parties were created for the 1978 election he joined the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.

He tried to merge the UN with the fledgling Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec, but negotiations came to nothing. In September, after a group of veteran party members demanded his immediate resignation, Beliveau stepped down as leader. The party appointed André Léveillé, a minister in the Johnson government, as interim party leader on October 28, 1985.

Brown was the only person to run in all three of Canada's elected senatorial elections. In 1989 and 2004 he ran under the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. In 1998, he ran under the Reform Party of Alberta, losing to Stan Waters. He was elected as a senator-in- waiting in 1998 and re-elected in 2004.

She also became involved in politics and served years as secretary to the riding associations of the local Progressive Conservative Party. Sharp was a member of the Penticton Board of Trade, an honorary member of the Business and Professional Women's Club, the Conservative Party, and the Anglican Church of Canada. She died in British Columbia in 1974.

Hilgenga lived in Charleswood, and also owned a farm in Dominion City. He placed third out of four candidates on the first count with 665 votes (17.41%), and was eliminated. The winner was John McDowell of the Progressive Conservative Party. Hilgenga later campaigned for the CCF's successor party, the New Democratic Party, in the 1969 provincial election.

Ryan ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1968 federal election as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Considered one of the party's most prominent Quebec candidates, he was defeated by Liberal Jacques Trudel."Strong candidates in Quebec offer hope of real decision" [editorial], Globe and Mail, 28 May 1968, p. 3.

Norman James (Jim) MacLean (September 21, 1920 – July 3, 2000) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Inverness in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1974, and Inverness North from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party. MacLean was born in Port Hawkesbury.

The Premier of Manitoba is Brian Pallister and the current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba is Myrna Driedger; both of whom belong to the Progressive Conservative Party. Historically, the Legislature of Manitoba had another chamber, the Legislative Council of Manitoba, but this was abolished in 1876, just six years after the province was formed.

The Speaker is usually a member of the governing party. The only recent exceptions have been Robert McCready and Michael Malley. McCready was appointed by motion of Premier Richard Hatfield following the close election of 1978. Hatfield's Progressive Conservative Party had won only 30 seats compared to the 28 seats won by the opposition Liberal Party.

At one stage, Baird described Curling's job performance as an "absolute disgrace".Rob Ferguson, "New premium won't be listed separately on pay", Toronto Star, May 19, 2004, pg. A9; "'Dysfunctional' legislature shocks Tory", CanWest News Service, December 17, 2004, pg. A11. Baird co-chaired Jim Flaherty's second campaign to lead the Progressive Conservative party in 2004.

The former village lies within the federal riding of Dauphin—Swan River—Neepawa, which is represented by MP Robert Sopuck, a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Provincially, it lies within the riding of Agassiz, which is represented in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly by MLA Stu Briese, a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

In 2012, it was revealed that Athabasca University was one of the institutions of higher education involved in illegal donations to the provincial Progressive Conservative party of Alberta. The university spent $10,675 on Conservative fundraising events, including golf tournaments and dinners. The university president retired early and an interim president, Peter MacKinnon, was appointed by the university governing council.

Elizabeth Witmer (née Gosar; born October 16, 1946) is a former Deputy Premier of Ontario, Canada. She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 until 2012, representing Waterloo North and later Kitchener—Waterloo as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 2012, she was appointed as chair of the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board.

David Bruce Daubney (born July 23, 1947) is a Canadian former politician, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1988.Tony Hill, Canadian Politics: Riding by Riding. Prospect Park Press, 2002. . pp. 193-194. He represented the electoral district of Ottawa West as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada caucus.

In 2005, LeBlanc announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Originally considered a front-runner, LeBlanc finished last on the first ballot, 59 votes behind the leader, Rodney MacDonald, and 12 behind second place finisher, Bill Black. Dropped from the second ballot, LeBlanc endorsed MacDonald, who defeated Black on the decisive ballot.

The election marked the debut of Bernard Valcourt as a provincial politician, and as leader of a reinvigorated Progressive Conservative Party. Frank McKenna sought a third term for his Liberal government, while the Confederation of Regions (CoR) party struggled to survive after considerable internal strife. Elizabeth Weir tried to expand her New Democratic Party's foothold in the legislature.

Richard Dale “Rick” Folk (born March 5, 1950 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, where he represented the Progressive Conservative Party for one term from 1982 until 1986. He is a two-time world curling champion, representing Canada. When curling in Canada, Folk represented both Saskatchewan and British Columbia.

Wade Verge is a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Verge represents the district of Lewisporte in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. He was elected in the 2007 provincial election as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Verge was formerly an educator and served as the principal at New World Island Academy of New World Island.

The Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park. The building serves as the meeting place for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Ontario has numerous political parties which run for election. The three main parties are the centre-right Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, the social democratic Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP), the centre-left Ontario Liberal Party.

Johnson established a public policy and communications firm, Janis Johnson & Associates, in Winnipeg. Johnson was the first woman to serve as the national director of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in September 1983. She returned to Manitoba in 1985 and established JJ & Associates, a government relations and communications firm. In 1989 she joined Peat Marwick Public Affairs.

John Melville Turner (born September 24, 1922 – January 20, 2013) was a Canadian politician in the province of Ontario. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1975, and again from 1977 to 1987, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was the Speaker of the Ontario Legislature from 1981 to 1985.

Alfred Henry Bence (October 18, 1908 – May 27, 1977) was a Canadian politician and barrister. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1940 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Saskatoon City. He was defeated in 1945 and 1949. He was an alderman for Saskatoon between 1939 and 1940.

Robert E. (Bob) Lane (born ) was a Canadian insurance executive and politician. Lane served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada."Mercier, Keeper out to bar Lane", Winnipeg Free Press, Wednesday, 13 February 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada He represented Manitoba's Winnipeg—St. James electoral district which he won in the 1979 federal election.

Edward Russell Lockyer (25 December 1899 – 5 October 1958) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Lockyer served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in rural Manitoulin Island, Ontario. In 1918, he moved to Toronto and entered the clothing business, but switched industries by 1929, creating a fuel company.

National Post, 17 August 2015. She was defeated in the 2019 election. The Progressive Conservative Party also had a number of paper candidates who won election in the party's historic landslide victory in the 1984 election, such as Thomas Suluk. An extreme version of a paper candidate, is a "Name on Ballot", often referred to by the acronym "NoB".

In 1983, he was Councillor-at-Large of Moncton. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada representing the riding of Moncton in the 1984 as a Progressive Conservative (PC). He was defeated in 1988. He next entered provincial politics and was elected in 1991 as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.

He was defeated, but ran against Low again in the 1958 election and was successful. From 1962 to 1963, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. From 1968 to 1973 and again from 1974 to 1976, he was the Official Opposition House Leader and Progressive Conservative Party House Leader. He retired from Parliament in 1980.

His B.A. degree was in politics and economics. He was a researcher for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in the mid-1990s, and was appointed principal secretary to Premier Gary Filmon following Taras Sokolyk's resignation in September 1998 following the Aboriginal vote splitting scandal."Introduction to Safeway Select field", Winnipeg Free Press, 4 February 1996, p.

Donald Alex Blenkarn (June 17, 1930 – January 30, 2012) was a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament. Blenkarn was born in Toronto. A lawyer and businessman by profession, he was elected in 1972 to represent the riding of Peel South. He held on the riding until the 1974 election when he was defeated by Liberal Anthony Abbott.

John Inglis Marshall (April 10, 1899 – September 9, 1976) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Annapolis East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1899 at Middleton, Nova Scotia, Marshall was educated at Maritime Business College.

Norman Tremaine Spence (November 3, 1911 – August 15, 2004) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hants West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1911 at Ellershouse, Nova Scotia, Spence was a farmer and lumberman by career.

George Oliver Lohnes (August 8, 1898 – September 6, 1982) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Lunenburg Centre in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1898 at Upper Northfield, Nova Scotia, Lohnes was a farmer by career.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ran a full slate of candidates in the 1985 provincial election, and won 52 seats out of 130 to win a minority government. They were defeated in the legislature shortly after the election. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here.

William Arthur MacLeod (October 31, 1883 – April 12, 1961) was physician and a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Pictou East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1960. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1883 at Lansdowne, Nova Scotia, MacLeod was a physician by career.

James Arnold Langille (February 18, 1909 – April 10, 1979) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cumberland East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1953 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1909 at Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, Langille was a graduate of Dalhousie University.

Both Wright and Koziak increased their share of the popular vote. Koziak was then appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs. Koziak ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative party in 1985 and was defeated by Don Getty on the second ballot. In the 1986 general election he faced Gordon Wright once again; this time he was defeated.

Hiram Thomas (March 31, 1889 – March 24, 1974) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Kings West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1960. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1889 at Rockland, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Thomas was a fruit grower by career.

William Francis MacKinnon (December 19, 1919 – March 13, 1990) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Antigonish in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1919 at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, MacKinnon was a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University.

From 1992 to 1998, he was the Speaker pro tempore. He died of cancer while in office in 1998. He was married to Alma and had four daughters, Geraldine, Suzanne, Bernadette and Ann Marie. His half-brother is former MHA John Ottenheimer and he was the father-in-law of former Progressive Conservative Party leader Ed Byrne.

Tesolin ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1975 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Lac La Biche-McMurray defeating four other candidates by a comfortable margin to pick up the district for the governing Progressive Conservative party. He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the legislature in 1979.

Mirosh was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1986 Alberta general election. She won the electoral district of Calgary-Glenmore, defeating three other candidates to hold it for the Progressive Conservative Party. The race saw a strong challenge by Independent candidate Lois Cummings, who finished a strong second. Mirosh was re-elected in the 1989 Alberta general election.

Kelvin Goertzen (born June 12, 1969) is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Steinbach, currently serving as the Manitoba Minister of Education. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he was first elected in the 2003 provincial election, and was re- elected in 2007, 2011, 2016, and most recently in 2019.

John (Jack) Allen Coupar is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Colchester North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Coupar entered provincial politics in the 1984 election, defeating Liberal incumbent Ed Lorraine by 160 votes in Colchester North.

Bryan Lewis Cathcart (November 4, 1896 – September 18, 1979) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1963. He represented the riding of Lambton West for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Spokane, Washington, he was a merchant. He died at a Sarnia hospital in 1979.

A St. Stephen town councilor for two years, Ganong was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate in the 1949 Canadian federal election for the riding of New Brunswick Southwest. Of the 12,336 ballots cast, he lost by 58 votes to the Liberal incumbent, A. Wesley Stuart. He ran unsuccessfully against Stuart a second time in 1953.

James Henry Vaughan (May 9, 1934 – June 8, 1996) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Halifax North and Halifax Chebucto in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Vaughan was born in 1934 at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Robert Nelson David Hicks (4 June 1933 – 25 November 2014) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He became a teacher and school principal by career. Hicks studied at McMaster University and the University of Ottawa. He was an educator and served as principal of Joseph Howe Senior Public School in Toronto.

Thomas Pryde (October 26, 1888 – January 5, 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1958. He represented the riding of Huron for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He was born in Largoward, Fife, Scotland and was a businessman. He died in office in 1958.

Stanley Joseph Hunt (July 28, 1894 – November 23, 1965) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1943 to 1958. He represented the riding of Renfrew North for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. He was born in Renfrew County, Ontario and was a farmer.[] He died in 1965.

The 1977 Manitoba general election was held on October 11, 1977 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It was won by the Progressive Conservative Party, which took 33 seats out of 57. The governing New Democratic Party fell to 23 seats, while the Liberal Party won only one seat.

Joseph Lloyd Reid (24 September 1917 - 14 August 2015) was a Canadian politician. He was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a lawyer by career. Reid was president of the St. Catharines Chamber of Commerce in the mid-1960s and was the city's mayor from 1973 to 1976.

Melvin James McQuaid (6 September 1911 – 16 January 2001) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Souris, Prince Edward Island and became a lawyer and clerk by career. McQuaid attended Saint Dunstan's University, St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie Law School. In 1957, he became town clerk for Souris.

Elaine McCoy and Nancy Ruth were later appointed to the Senate by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin, and chose to designate themselves as Progressive Conservatives. Doody has since died, and Ruth joined the Conservative Party caucus in 2006. Despite the union, some former Progressive Conservative members still identify themselves as Red Tory, including high-profile political strategist turned Senator Hugh Segal, who in 2013 continued to describe himself as a Red Tory, which has put him at increasing odds with the government on several occasions. A 'grassroots' movement of dissenting Red Tories, who opposed the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's merger with the Canadian Alliance, gathered signatures on Elections Canada forms from over 200 Progressive Conservative members and applied to re-register as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Herron, often described as a Red Tory for his progressive leanings on social issues, was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party until December 2003; he did not support its merger with the Canadian Alliance into the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003, and he refused to join the new party. On February 6, 2004, he announced that he would sit for the remainder of the Parliamentary session as an "independent Progressive Conservative", and that he would run in the 2004 election as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada. One of Herron's last official acts as a sitting MP was his deliverance of the "Progressive Conservative party caucus" tribute to retiring party leader Joe Clark in May 2004. Herron lost his seat in the 2004 election to Conservative Party candidate Rob Moore.

Alberta has had occasional surges in separatist sentiment. There are several currently active groups promoting the independence of Alberta. In the 2008 provincial election, held on March 3, 2008, the Progressive Conservative Party was re-elected as a majority government with 72 of 83 seats, the Alberta Liberal Party was elected as the Official Opposition with nine members, and two Alberta New Democratic Party members were elected. April 23, 2012 election returned the Progressive Conservative Party to government, making leader Alison Redford Alberta's first female premier. In the 2012 provincial election, held on April 23, 2012, the Progressive Conservative Party was re-elected as a majority government and party leader Alison Redford retained as premier with 43.9% of the vote and 61 of 87 seats (The Legislative Assembly had added 4 seats, increasing the total to 87), the Wildrose Party led by Danielle Smith was elected as the Official Opposition with 34.3% of the vote and 17 members (replacing the Liberal Party), five Liberals were elected with 9.9% of the vote and four NDP members were elected with 9.8% of the vote.Provincial General Election April 23, 2012 The May 5, 2015 election saw the Alberta New Democrats elected to government, making leader Rachel Notley Alberta's second female premier and its first leftist premier since 1935.

Peter Bethlenfalvy is a Canadian businessman and politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Pickering—Uxbridge as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Pickering-Uxbridge was a new provincial riding for 2018. It was created out of parts of Pickering—Scarborough East, Ajax—Pickering and Durham.

Andrea Khanjin (born December 27, 1987 in Moscow) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 2018 general election. She represents the riding of Barrie—Innisfil, and is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. She is also the current Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of the Environment, Conservation and Parks.

Lambeth exists within the federal electoral district of Elgin—Middlesex—London. It is currently represented by Karen Vecchio of the Conservative Party of Canada, first elected in 2015. Provincially, the area is within the constituency of Elgin—Middlesex—London. It is currently represented by Jeff Yurek of the Progressive Conservative Party, first elected in 2003 and re-elected in 2011 and 2014.

William Hillary Clarke (born 5 July 1933 in Toronto, Ontario) was a chartered Accountant, businessman and politician. Clarke served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He entered national politics following his victory at Vancouver Quadra riding in the 1972 federal election. Clarke was re-elected at the riding in the 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections.

Kenneth Ross Stevenson (born October 1, 1942) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987, and was briefly a cabinet minister in the government of Frank Miller. He later served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. Stevenson was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Mike Harris Jr. is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election.Jeff Outhit and Catherine Thompson, "Mike Harris Jr. wins in Kitchener-Conestoga, taking riding previously held by Michael Harris". Waterloo Region Record, June 7, 2018. He represents the riding of Kitchener—Conestoga as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Willem Bouma is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Brantford—Brant as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Bouma has five children and lives in St. George, Ontario. Before becoming an MPP, Bouma practised optometry in the town of St. George.

Eldon Mattison Woolliams, (12 April 1916 - 24 September 2001) was a Canadian politician and lawyer. Wooliams served as a Progressive Conservative Party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Rosetown, Saskatchewan, and his career included law and education. He was shadow Justice Minister and Chairman of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs.

He was elected as a Progressive Conservative, supporting the coalition government led by Liberal-Progressive Premier Douglas Campbell. The Progressive Conservative Party left the coalition government in the summer of 1950. Donaldson disagreed with this decision, and chose to sit as an independent. He resigned his seat on April 18, 1951, and did not seek a return to the legislature thereafter.

McCreery was a Winnipeg city councillor at the time of the election. Serving as a member of the Civic Election Committee. Shortly before the election, she was one of five councillors to oppose a bill outlawing racial discrimination in the workplace. McCreery was the first woman to run for provincial office in Manitoba as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Leo Edward Bernier (1928 – June 28, 2010) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1966 to 1987, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Bernier was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Bernier presided over a time in Northern Ontario when the economy was booming.

He served as chair of the Boreal West Round Table in the 1990s, and remained active in the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party until his death. In 2004, he supported John Tory's successful bid to become party leader. Bernier died on June 28, 2010 in Sioux Lookout hospital at the age of 81. In 2012, Highway 664 was renamed in his honour.

René John Soetens (born 7 September 1948) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. His background was in business and sales. Rene was elected to Town of Ajax Council in 1980 and re-elected 1982 and 1985. He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Ontario electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party.

It was here that he founded and served as president of the Wadsworth Coal Company. He was long active in politics, and was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was elected to city council in 1927, representing the Junction area. He remained on city council for seven years before being elected to the Toronto Board of Control in the 1935 election.

The Liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one seat to twenty in this election, and Mandrake sat as a member of the official opposition. Liberal support trailed off in the provincial election of 1990, and he was defeated by PC candidate Linda McIntosh. He did not seek a return to political office. Mandrake later joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Lusby was the Prosecuting Officer for Cumberland County, Nova Scotia between 1939 and 1953. Lusby was first elected to Parliament at the Cumberland riding in the 1953 general election. After serving his only federal term, the 22nd Canadian Parliament, he was defeated by Robert Coates of the Progressive Conservative party. Lusby then unsuccessfully tried to unseat Coates in the 1958 election.

Robert Lorne McCuish (25 May 1923 – 4 May 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. McCuish was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and became a claims manager by career. He represented British Columbia's Prince George—Bulkley Valley after winning this seat in the 1979 federal election. He won re-election in the 1980 and 1984 federal elections.

Léo Duguay (born 13 March 1944) is a Canadian politician, educator and school administrator prior to getting elected. Duguay served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Duguay was born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba. Duguay was elected at the riding of Saint Boniface in the 1984 federal election and served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

William (Bill) Tupper (born 7 October 1933) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a businessman, geologist and professor of geology by career. He was the mayor of Rideau Township from 1974 to 1978. He was elected at Nepean—Carleton electoral district in the 1984 federal election, thus he served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament.

Frederick Morrissey Johnson (21 October 1932 – 14 July 2003) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Little Catalina, Newfoundland and became a business manager, businessman and master mariner by career. Johnson studied at the Newfoundland College of Marine Navigation and the Newfoundland College of Fisheries. He served as president of Claymorr Shipping Ltd.

He was re-elected in 1988, therefore becoming a member in the 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliaments. However, he left the Progressive Conservative party on 5 May 1990 and became independent until he formally became a founding member of the Bloc Québécois in September 1991. In 1993, Gérin left federal politics and did not seek a third term in the House of Commons.

There were rumours that Paradis would run for the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1984 Canadian federal election, although these ultimately came to nothing.Lawrence Martin, "Quebec seat for Mulroney in next election, Tories say", The Globe and Mail, 13 January 1984, p. 8; "'French power' in PM's Cabinet is Quebec aim", The Globe and Mail, 6 July 1984, p. 8.

Glenn Littlejohn is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Littlejohn was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 2011 provincial election until his defeat in the 2015 election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party, he represented the electoral district of Port de Grave. Littlejohn had previously contested the district unsuccessfully in the 2007 provincial election.

Mark Cecil Senn (1 June 1878 – 10 January 1951) was a Canadian farmer, merchant, teacher and politician. Senn served as a Conservative and Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Oneida, Ontario. He was first elected to Parliament at the Haldimand riding in the 1921 general election, initially under the Conservative party.

George Robert Webb (10 July 1886 - 20 July 1958) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Gananoque, Ontario and became an insurance agent by career. Webb was mayor of Gananoque, Ontario at one time. He owned and operated George R. Webb Insurance Agencies, and also the automotive retail firm Webb Motor Sales.

Robert Earle Drope (14 October 1898 - 7 October 1969) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Harwood, Ontario and became a farmer and manager by career. Drope served in the military during World War I, attaining the rank of major. Later, he was a municipal councillor for Hamilton Township for five years.

Desmond Morton Code (16 November 1912 – 19 January 1980) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a construction superintendent and contractor by career. He was first elected at the Lanark riding in the 1965 general election. His second term in Parliament was served at Leeds riding which he won in the 1968 election.

While officially open to all LGBT supporters of conservative parties across Canada, the group was founded in Toronto, Ontario by people associated with the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario who wanted to be represented in the Toronto Pride Parade. The name was inspired by the similar British conservative group LGBTory, now called LGBT+ Conservatives, which gave permission to use the name.

Marcel Bourbonnais (February 27, 1918 October 14, 1996) was a Canadian politician, draftsman, engineer, foreman and technician. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1958 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Vaudreuil—Soulanges. He was re-elected in 1962 and defeated in the elections of 1957, 1963 and 1965.

He has also consistently advocated for the creation of the World Indigenous Games, which provides competitive events for Indigenous athletes from around the world. Littlechild was the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin from 1988 to 1993. Littlechild did not stand for re-election in the 1993 general election. After leaving Parliament, Littlechild continued to be involved in politics.

Helmut Pankratz (born October 10, 1937) is a Canadian retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. Pankratz served as mayor of Steinbach from 1981 to 1986."City of Steinbach" (21 November 2010). Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 12/18/2010. From 1986 to 1990, he represented the electoral district of La Verendrye for the Progressive Conservative Party in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

William Anderson (August 31, 1905 – June 6, 1961) was a Canadian politician and businessman. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party representing the riding of Waterloo South in 1957 and re-elected in 1958. The son of David Anderson, he was educated in Galt. In 1928, Anderson married Jean Elizabeth Wickens.

William L. Campbell (July 1919 – April 9, 2003) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Colchester North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1978 to 1981. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1919 at Norfolk County, Ontario, Campbell served in the Canadian Armed Forces from 1939 to 1968.

Paul Lahaye (19 April 1902 – 22 April 1983) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Batiscan, Quebec, he was a farmer and life insurance agent by career. From 1922 to 1949 he was secretary-treasurer of his regional school board. Between 1945 and 1948 he was secretary-treasurer of the municipality of Batiscan.

The Liberal Party was re-elected with its fourth consecutive government, winning just under 50% of the vote. This victory was the largest majority in Canadian history to that point. As of , it remains the third largest majority government in Canadian history. The Progressive Conservative Party, led by former Premier of Ontario George Drew, gained little ground in this election.

Minnan-Wong is the son of Denzil Minnan-Wong, Sr., a Chinese immigrant who became a prominent member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. His father died in 1988 at age 53. He was educated at Osgoode Hall Law School and became a lawyer specializing in immigration issues. He lives in Toronto with his wife Colleen and their three children.

From 1953 to 1957, he served as Speaker of the Assembly. He was first elected at the Burnaby—Richmond riding in the 1957 general election as a Social Credit party member of Parliament. He served only one term there, the 23rd Canadian Parliament, after which he was defeated by John Drysdale of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election.

Fletcher was a farmer in McCreary, Manitoba. He finished second on the first count in the 1953 election, receiving 1,083 votes (32.40%). Official Liberal-Progressive candidate Gildas Molgat was declared elected over Fletcher on the second count. Fletcher later joined the Progressive Conservative Party, and lost to Molgat under this party's banner in the provincial elections of 1959 and 1962.

Greenway was able to win large majorities in 1892 and 1896, based largely on single-issue populism relating to the schools question. After this was resolved in 1897, his government became increasingly directionless. The Liberals were defeated by the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party in 1899. The Liberals were unable to regain their previous support base in the decade that followed.

Dalton Kingsley Camp, (September 11, 1920 - March 18, 2002) was a Canadian journalist, politician, political strategist and commentator and supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Despite having never been elected to a seat in the House of Commons, he was a prominent and influential politician and a popular commentator for decades. He is a central figure in Red Toryism.

MUN's four main campuses are today served by more than 900 faculty and 2,300 staff members.See MUM website Smallwood's style was autocratic and highly personalized, as he totally controlled his party. Meanwhile, the demoralized anti-confederates became the provincial wing of the Progressive Conservative Party. An extension of the Trans-Canada Highway became the first paved road across the island in 1966.

The 2015 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election was held on May 9, 2015, as a result of the resignation of Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak following the provincial election on June 12, 2014, his second loss in a row as party leader. Patrick Brown won the leadership with 61.8% of votes allocated, defeating Christine Elliott who had 38.2%.

Tweedie was president and manager of the Miramichi Foundry Machine Works. He served two years as mayor of Chatham. In 1925, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the New Brunswick general election. That year he was also a candidate in the Northumberland riding in the 1925 federal election, losing to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate, Charles Elijah Fish.

Peter James Peterson (born February 22, 1953) is a Canadian businessman and politician. Peterson was a Member of Parliament for the riding of Hamilton West, representing the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. A stockbroker by profession, Peterson was elected in the 1984 Canadian federal election, and served as a backbencher. He was defeated by Liberal Stan Keyes in the 1988 election.

The 66th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island is the 66th sitting of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island and the 40th since confederation in 1873. The membership of the assembly was determined by the 2019 Prince Edward Island general election, where the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island led by Dennis King won a plurality of seats.

The 1975 Ontario general election was held on September 18, 1975, to elect the 125 members of the 30th Legislative Assembly of Ontario (Members of Provincial Parliament, or "MPPs") of the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, led by Bill Davis and campaigning under the slogan, "Your Future. Your choice.", won a tenth consecutive term in office.

George Henry Wilson (December 12, 1893 – October 17, 1988) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Hants West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1950 to 1963. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1893 at Upper Falmouth, Nova Scotia, Wilson was educated at the Maritime Business College.

Harley James Spence (November 27, 1904 – April 27, 1993) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Lunenburg County and Lunenburg West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1953 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1904 at Ellershouse, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Spence was a businessman by career.

Bonnie Mitchelson (born November 28, 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. She has been a Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba legislature since 1986, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Gary Filmon from 1988 to 1999. She also served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2000, following Filmon's resignation.

He also served on the General Committee of Adjustment for Canadian Pacific Railway. He was an active supporter of labour unions, particularly the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. O'Neill was first elected to Parliament at the Kamloops riding in the 1935 general election then re-elected in 1940. He was defeated by Davie Fulton of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1945 election.

Fred Frise Stenson (26 July 1914 – 5 June 1990) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a farmer by career. He was first elected at the Peterborough riding in the 1962 general election, then re-elected there in 1963. Stenson was defeated in the 1965 election by Hugh Faulkner of the Liberal party.

The Senate of Canada Bazin was active in the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and initially supported Joe Clark. However, after becoming disenchanted with Clark's leadership, he joined in the group which was pushing for Mulroney to replace Clark as party leader.John C. Courtney, Do Conventions Matter?: Choosing National Party Leaders in Canada, (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1995) p. 192.

John Cox Wickwire (December 21, 1899 – August 20, 1994) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Queens in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1978. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1899 at Milford, Nova Scotia, Wickwire was a graduate of Dalhousie University, and Harvard Medical School.

Aristide Stanislas Joseph Rompré (1 August 1912 - 29 September 1976) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Rompré served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Saint- Ubalde, Quebec, he was a furniture merchant by career. Rompré served as mayor of Saint-Ubalde from 1949 to 1951, and again from 1953 to 1960.

Charles Wesley Lamb (1891 – 12 July 1965) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Prince Albert, Ontario and became an auctioneer and businessman by career. He was first elected at the Victoria riding in the 1963 general election, but died in office before completing his term in the 26th Parliament.

Stuart A. Fleming (9 June 1920 – 24 February 1993) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a wholesaler by career. He was first elected at the Okanagan—Revelstoke riding in the 1958 general election after an unsuccessful attempt to win that riding in 1957. Fleming was re-elected in 1962 and 1963.

Keays did not seek any further re-election after that, but remained active within the Progressive Conservative party. He was part of a campaign team for Charles-Eugène Marin for the 1984 federal election. However, he and three other campaigners were fined for Canada Elections Act infractions in April 1986 for hiring scrutineers outside the purview of Marin's official agent.

Barbara Greene (born 1 September 1945) is a former Canadian politician. She served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She was previously a municipal politician in North York, and campaigned for mayor of the city in 1985. She is a Red Tory, and holds progressive views on most social issues.

He is a past executive member of the Durham Chiropractic Society and former Chair of Spinal Health Week in Durham Region, and has been Financial Secretary of the Oshawa Knights of Columbus. Carrie also served as a Director of the Oshawa Progressive Conservative Party Association, before the party's 2004 merger with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

He then moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where he practiced until he retired in 1979. After retiring, he focused on politics. He was the chief fund raiser for the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan and helped form the government in Saskatchewan in 1982. In 1984, he was one of the first three appointments made Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to the Senate.

She was a regional organizer for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1984 to 1986, and an executive director of the party from 1987 to 1989. Dacquay served on the Winnipeg City Council from 1986 to 1989, representing the Langevin Ward. She won the seat from veteran councillor Evelyne Reese in 1986, but lost it to Reese three years later.

Wieler campaigned ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1995 provincial election, and finished second against Progressive Conservative incumbent Eric Stefanson. He campaigned against Stefanson again in the 1999 election, and finished third. In 2000, he was nominated as that Liberal candidate for a by-election in Kirkfield Park against new Progressive Conservative Party Stuart Murray. He finished second with 2,158 votes (26.64%).

Perrault LaRue (31 March 1925, Amqui, Quebec - 8 November 1987) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a dentist by career. He was elected at the Saguenay riding in the 1958 general election and served only one term, the 24th Canadian Parliament. LaRue did not seek re-election to Parliament after this.

Richard was also a president of the Aboriginal Council of Winnipeg, and a former executive director of the Indian and Métis Friendship Centre of Winnipeg. She also owned the Teepee Restaurant in Winnipeg. In 2000, she was admitted to the Order of Manitoba. She campaigned for the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in the 1999 provincial election, in the constituency of Point Douglas.

Mary E. Wilson is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2018 election."Fredericton area awash in colours as 4 parties send MLAs to legislature". CBC News New Brunswick, September 24, 2018. She represents the electoral district of Oromocto-Lincoln- Fredericton as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick.

Alexander Robert Herbert (March 28, 1914 – June 18, 1960) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1960. He represented the riding of Simcoe Centre for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Haileybury, Ontario, he was a businessman. Herbert died in office in 1960 of a heart attack.

Another Flaherty donor, Carol Hansell, was appointed to the board of directors of the Bank of Canada in October 2006. Toronto family law lawyer Sara Beth Mintz, an Ontario Progressive Conservative Party vice- president, received $24,900 for budget "analysis, assessment and advice". MacPhie & Company also got another contract for $24,645 for work done on Advantage Canada, a long-term, national economic plan.

Margaret "Meg" Sutherland McCall was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Klondike in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1978 to 1982. She was a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. She defeated Yukon New Democratic Party leader Fred Berger and independent candidate Eleanor Millard in the 1978 territorial election."Fred Berger, pioneering NDPer, dies at 76".

John Ellwood Madill (15 January 1915 - 5 December 1999) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Melancthon, Ontario. From 1952 to 1957, he was a municipal councillor for Mono Township, subsequently its deputy reeve to 1959, then reeve from that point until 1963. In 1962, he was warden of Dufferin County.

Brian William Pallister (born July 6, 1954) is a Canadian politician, currently serving as the 22nd Premier of Manitoba since 2016. He has been the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba since 2012. He was previously a cabinet minister in the provincial government of Gary Filmon and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 2000 to 2008.

Despite the unpopularity of the Progressive Conservative party in other northern ridings, Evans's personal popularity was such that he was almost able to defeat the riding's incumbent MLA, New Democrat Oscar Lathlin (who is also aboriginal). Lathlin received 2952 votes, Evans 2737. For the federal election of 2000, Evans switched parties and sought the Liberal nomination in the riding of Churchill.

Under the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, the government adopted a discovery/inquiry based curriculum for the 2008-2009 school year, which has been heavily criticized since then by people citing declining PISA scores. On June 15, 2016, the NDP government announced that "Alberta Education would begin to develop new curriculum... unlike any seen in Alberta" from K–12 within six years.

Leslie O'Shaughnessy is a Canadian politician, who was elected mayor of Cornwall, Ontario in the 2014 municipal election."Cornwall chooses change" . Cornwall Standard Freeholder, October 27, 2014. Born in Cornwall, O'Shaughnessy previously served as reeve of the nearby township of Charlottenburg in the 1990s, and ran as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Stormont—Dundas in the 1997 federal election.

He sat on the Property & Planning Committee of City Council and recently served as chair for the City of Winnipeg's Economic Opportunity Commission. The commission looked at ways to reduce wasteful spending and proposed ideas on how to eliminate the business tax. In the spring of 2012, he considered running for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

The Progressive Conservative party held leadership reviews of Clark's leadership at the conventions of 1981 and 1983. At the 1981 convention, 66.5% of the delegates voted in favour of Clark, with 33.5% voting against him. Clark continued on as leader, but at the 1983 convention, a similar review was held. Clark won 66.9% of the delegates, with 33.1% voting against him.

Gardner Payne "Bud" Hurley (born June 28, 1932) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cumberland West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. A resident of Maccan, Nova Scotia, Hurley served as Warden of Cumberland County in the early 1980s.

The Progressive Conservative Party formed a minority government. Despite the change in government, they decided to keep Jerome as Speaker. After the Clark government was defeated in a Motion of No Confidence in December 1979, Jerome decided not to run in the ensuing general election. In January 1980, Clark appointed him Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court in Ottawa.

John (Jack) McIntosh (18 May 1909 - 14 April 1988) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Wick, Caithness, Scotland and became a merchant by career. The son of John McIntosh and Jessie Swanson, both natives of Scotland, McIntosh was educated in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. In 1935, he married Helen May Burroughs.

Campbell initially tried to form an alliance with the CCF (Stinson would have served as Minister of Welfare), but these plans came to nothing. The CCF allowed the Tories under Dufferin Roblin to form government. Roblin's government placed the CCF in a paradoxical situation. His Progressive Conservative party was actually to the left of Campbell's Liberals, and introduced many significant reforms.

Nectarios "Nick" Kouvalis (born 1975) is a Canadian political consultant and strategist. He is a principal strategist of Campaign Research, a firm which he co-founded in 2008 with Richard Ciano (a former executive of the Conservative Party of Canada and Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario). Kouvalis has worked for clients at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels of government.

Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999. It is represented by John Yakabuski of the Progressive Conservative Party. The population of the riding in 2006 was 98,803. Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke includes all of Renfrew County and a small section of Nipissing District around Algonquin Provincial Park.

Raymond Zacharie Bourque (September 11, 1917 – May 31, 1998) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Yarmouth in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1953 to 1956. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Bourque was born in Sluice Point, Nova Scotia, the son of Antoine and Marie Rose (Muise) Bourque.

Source: Poll-by-poll results Change from 2000 is based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals. From 1996 until 2003, Haldimand—Norfolk did not exist as a federal riding, and was mostly represented by Haldimand—Norfolk—Brant. Results for 1997 and 2000 can be found on that page.

The 1966 Manitoba general election was held on June 23, 1966 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. It resulted in a third consecutive majority win for the Progressive Conservative Party led by Dufferin Roblin. Roblin's Tories won 31 seats, against 14 for the Liberal Party, 11 for the New Democratic Party and one for Social Credit.

The 1999 Manitoba general election was held on September 21, 1999 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The New Democratic Party (NDP) was returned to government after sitting in opposition since the 1988 election. The NDP won 32 seats, against 24 for the Progressive Conservative Party. The Manitoba Liberal Party won one seat.

Wallace "Wally" Young MHA, is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represented the district of St. Barbe in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from 2001 until 2011. Young served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development from November 27, 2009 until 2011.

He has sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC) since being first elected in the 1999 provincial election, he has since been re-elected in the 2003 and 2007 elections. In June 2011, former Conservative Member of Parliament Rex Barnes challenged him for the PC nomination but Hunter easily defeated him and was re-elected in the October election.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Mount Royal riding in the 1940 general election then re-elected there in 1945. For the 1949 election, Whitman sought re- election at the new Notre-Dame-de-Grâce riding and won the seat there, but was defeated in the next election in 1953 by William McLean Hamilton of the Progressive Conservative party.

Weiss ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a candidate for the governing Progressive Conservative party in the 1979 Alberta general election. He won the election to hold the Lac La Biche-McMurray electoral district for his party. He won over half the popular vote, easily defeating three other candidates. Weiss stood for re- election in the 1982 Alberta general election.

Gregory "Greg" J. Deighan was the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, representing the Wilmot-Summerside electoral district. In May 2000, Deighan was appointed to the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island as Minister of Tourism. In August 2002, Deighan was moved to Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture.

Tom Osborne (born 1964), is a politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He represents the district of Waterford Valley in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly. He is a member of the Liberal Party, a former member of the Progressive Conservative Party, and a former Minister in Danny Williams' first cabinet. He is currently Minister of Education in the Furey government.

Tkachuk graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 and earned a teaching certificate in 1966. Tkachuk joined the Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party in 1974. He helped build the then- moribund organization into an electoral force that was able to form government in Saskatchewan under Grant Devine. Tkachuk served in the Premier's Office as Devine's principal secretary.

Guy Joseph LeBlanc (born May 2, 1950) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Clare in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1950 at Saulnierville, Nova Scotia, LeBlanc was first elected in the 1984 provincial election, and re-elected in 1988.

He finished third at the party's 1976 leadership convention, behind Stuart Smith and David Peterson. He was re-elected in 1977, and 1981. He continued to serve in the legislature until he resigned to run in the 1984 federal election. Roy contested Ottawa—Carleton for the Liberal Party of Canada, and lost to Barry Turner of the Progressive Conservative Party by 3,946 votes.

Joseph Léonce Vincent Brassard (10 December 1919 – 7 April 1974) was a Canadian politician, manufacturer and meat packer. He was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1958 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party to represent the riding of Chicoutimi. He was defeated in the elections of 1962 and 1965.

Arthur Edward Martin Maloney QC (26 November 1919 – 20 September 1984) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada and first Ontario Ombudsman from 1975 to 1979. Maloney was born in Eganville, Ontario. He became a noted defence lawyer following his 1943 graduation from Osgoode Hall. In 1952 he unsuccessfully defended notorious bank robbers of The Boyd Gang.

Clarence Adam Milligan (12 February 1904 – 25 May 1993) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a farmer by career. Milligan was born at Tamworth, Ontario. He was first elected at the Prince Edward—Lennox riding in the 1957 general election, after defeating incumbent parliamentarian George Tustin for the Progressive Conservative nomination.

Robert Toupin (born January 20, 1949) is a Canadian former politician. Toupin served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons. Toupin had been a worker for the Quebec Liberal Party when he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada following Brian Mulroney's election as party leader. Toupin was a successful Tory candidate in Terrebonne riding in the 1984 federal election.

A Liberal, he was defeated in the 1972 federal election by Walter Baker of the Progressive Conservative party. In 1976, he was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario where he served until 1994. From 1994 to 1998, he was the grand president of the Royal Canadian Legion. In 1998, he was made a member of the Order of Canada.

The proposed contracts were finalized by June, when then new Progressive Conservative Party of Canada formed a minority government. A lengthy review of the contracts followed, and was completed in early December. These were tabled to be signed off on December 14, however, on the 13th the Progressive Conservative government failed a vote of non-confidence and the NFA project was set aside.

He served there until 1967 when he was defeated by Patrick Lawlor of the Ontario New Democratic Party. He was a major PC fundraiser and, in the late 1960s and early 1970s and president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 1968 to 1976 and part of the Big Blue Machine that dominated Ontario politics for much of the 1970s and 1980s.

In the provincial election of 1999, she was re-elected by a comfortable margin in the redistributed riding of Pickering—Ajax—Uxbridge. After the election, she was named to the senior portfolio of Minister of Education. Ecker also served as Government House Leader after February 8, 2001. In 1998, she supported Hugh Segal's bid for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservative Party.

She supported Christine Elliott (spouse of Jim Flaherty) during the 2009 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election and served as her campaign chair. In December 2016, Ecker was named a Member of the Order of Canada for being a leader in the financial industry."Order of Canada's newest appointees include Paralympian, Supreme Court judge and astrophysicist". CBC News, December 30, 2016.

Archie Barney Smith (July 1, 1896 – October 2, 1951) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cumberland County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1937 to 1945. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1896 at Rodney, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Smith was a lumber dealer, farmer and contractor by career.

Ernest George Irish (November 27, 1894 – June 27, 1955) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1941 to 1945. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1894 at Afton, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, Irish was a hotel owner and manager.

He unsuccessfully tried to start a $4.5 million hog operation in Deloraine in 1998, as a director of Southwest Stock Farms Ltd.Bradley Bird, "Hog operation pursues Melita site", Winnipeg Free Press, 10 February 1998, A6. Nestibo sought and won the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba nomination for Arthur-Virden in April 1999, defeating rival candidate Dale Smeltz on the third ballot.

Robert Baden Powell (May 24, 1901 – September 2, 1976) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Digby in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1963 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1901 at Westport, Nova Scotia, Powell was a graduate of the Nova Scotia Teachers College.

Donald Ross MacLeod (December 30, 1902 – October 20, 1976) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Pictou Centre in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1970. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1902 at Trenton, Nova Scotia, MacLeod graduated from Dalhousie University and was a druggist by career.

Terrance Patrick O'Connor, QC (born March 24, 1940) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1972 to 1974, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1987. O'Connor was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. From 1993 to 2015 he was a judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Thomas Leonard "Tom" Wells (May 2, 1930 – October 11, 2000) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1963 to 1985 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of John Robarts and William Davis. There is also a school in Scarborough,Ontario named after him.

He was moved to Minister of Community Services in November 1987. Following his re-election in the 1988 election, McInnis was named Attorney General. In September 1990, John Buchanan resigned as premier, and a leadership convention was scheduled for February 1991. On November 7, 1990, McInnis announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

George Arthur Boggs (August 9, 1891 – November 9, 1968) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Kings County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1953 to 1956. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1891 at Chicago, Illinois, Boggs was educated at Dartmouth College, and Magdalen College, Oxford.

As premier, he won three straight elections. His government was credited with modernizing the way the province delivered education and medical services. In 1967, he resigned as premier and became the leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party. He was the leader of the Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and fought three general elections, losing each time to the Liberals under Pierre Trudeau.

Pitt had served in the legislature since 1935. Unusually for an incumbent, Pitt faced three challengers for the Liberal-Progressive nomination in 1953, defeating K. Williams of Melita, F.C. Ramsey of Waskada, and C.S. Murray of Lyleton. In the general election, Pitt lost to J. Arthur Ross of the Progressive Conservative Party in a straight two-way contest, receiving 1,440 votes (42.86%).

Lloyd George Folkins (February 24, 1913 – September 7, 1994) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1974 to 1982 as member of the Progressive Conservative party from the constituency of Tantramar. In 1996, Squires St. in Sackville, NB was renamed Folkins Drive in honour of Lloyd G. Folkins, former mayor and MLA for Tantramar.

The 2016 Manitoba general election was held on April 19, 2016 to elect members to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, Canada.Voting in a Manitoba Provincial Election . Retrieved June 24, 2012. The New Democratic Party of Manitoba, led by Greg Selinger, were defeated by the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba led by Brian Pallister, ending nearly 17 years of NDP government.

He also lobbied for the creation of the Queensway Carleton Hospital and sat on its first board of directors. Moodie was a well known supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. By 2005, Moodie lived in a Richmond, Ontario nursing home, but remained in good health. His autobiography, The Spirit of Nepean (), was published in 2003 with the assistance of Andrea McCormick.

She was re-elected in the 2017 provincial election. MacFarlane was appointed interim leader of the Progressive Conservative party and Leader of the Opposition on January 24, 2018, when her predecessor, Jamie Baillie, was forced to resign due to allegations of inappropriate behaviour. She was succeeded by Tim Houston on October 27, 2018. MacFarlane is mother to Chloe and Jack.

Harry Marshall Allen (January 26, 1889 – September 13, 1963) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1945 to 1963. He represented the riding of Middlesex South for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Born in Lambeth, Ontario, he was a farmer and lumberman. He died in office in 1963 of a heart attack.

Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid (born April 29, 1933) is a former provincial level politician and international trade businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986. During his time in office he served numerous ministerial portfolio's in the Executive Council of Alberta.

Donald Wallace Munro (8 April 1916 – 28 July 1998) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Regina, Saskatchewan and became a diplomat by career. He represented British Columbia's Esquimalt—Saanich electoral district at which he won election in 1972. He was re-elected in the 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections.

Charles Wyndham MacNeil (born December 2, 1944) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Guysborough in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 1993. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1944 at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, he is the son of Edgar William MacNeil and Elizabeth Adelaide (Weir).

He attended and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. Mack ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1979 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Edmonton-Belmont by a wide margin to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative party Mack retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the assembly in 1982. He died on February 17, 2009.

Arthur George Philip Frost (May 16, 1888 – May 7, 1965) was a Canadian politician who was a Member of Provincial Parliament in Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1951 to 1959. He represented the riding of Bracondale for the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Frost was born in Toronto and was a florist. He also served as an alderman on the Toronto City Council.

New Brunswick has had 36 individuals serve as first minister. The province had five individuals as leaders while a colony, and 31 individuals after Canadian Confederation, of which two were from the Confederation Party, 11 from the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick, 15 from the New Brunswick Liberal Association, one from the Anti-Confederation Party, and seven with unofficial party affiliations.

Douglas Haig Young (April 13, 1928 – March 14, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Harbour Grace in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1972 to 1989. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador He was a former Minister of Public Works of Newfoundland and Labrador.

The provincial Social Credit governments of British Columbia and Alberta would abandon Social Credit economic policies and followed staunchly conservative policies while maintaining ties with the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as opposed to the federal Social Credit Party of Canada. In British Columbia, the BC Social Credit Party was replaced as the party of the centre-right by the British Columbia Liberal Party, and in Alberta the Alberta Social Credit Party were completely annihilated by the more moderate Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, leaving both parties as marginal political forces. In the 1980 federal election, the Social Credit Party of Canada lost all of its remaining seats and was forced to disband in 1989. Most of its Western members moved onto the ideologically similar Reform Party of Canada, founded by Preston Manning, the son of Alberta's former Social Credit premier, Ernest Manning.

On January 22, 2014, Kathy Dunderdale announced she was resigning as Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) later that week. Dunderdale asked her Minister of Finance Tom Marshall to replace her as premier and PC Party leader until the party could select a new leader. Marshall accepted the offer and on January 24, 2014, he was sworn in as the province's 11th Premier. Marshall had previously indicated that he would not be seeking re-election as the member of the House of Assembly for Humber East and therefore would not contest the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party. The party announced on February 5, 2014, that Sheila Kelly-Blackmore and Tommy Williams would serve as co-chairs of the leadership convention committee, and that the convention would be held on July 4–5, 2014.

Under Premier Jim Prentice's Progressive Conservative Party, Hon. Stephen Mendel, made the announcement that the Royal Alexandra Hospital would receive the funding needed to rebuild; however, the Progressive Conservative Party lost the provincial election months after this announcement and the allocation of this funding to the Royal Alexandra Hospital was temporarily removed by Premier Rachel Notley's New Democratic Party in 2015 in order to reassess all capital region hospitals as a whole despite campaigning on the inadequacies of the facility. In 2017, the Government of Alberta announced that more than $520 Million had been allocated to the Royal Alexandra Hospital campus as part of a $1 Billion investment in Alberta hospitals. The two major projects funded at the Royal Alexandra include $155-Million for a brand new child and youth mental health building; and $364-Million for an overhaul of CapitalCare Norwood.

Many of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's leaders have been labelled 'Red Tories', including Sir John A. Macdonald, Sir Robert Borden, John Diefenbaker, Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark. Many others have been influential as cabinet ministers and thinkers, such as E. Davie Fulton, Dalton Camp, Roy McMurtry and John Farthing.Christian, William Edward and C. Campbell, Parties, Leaders and Ideologies in Canada The main bastions of Red Toryism were Ontario, the Atlantic provinces and urban Manitoba, areas where the Red Tories dominated provincial politics, and in some federal elections Quebec, where the federal PC party operated largely separately from provincial politics. The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, which has held power in that province for most of the time since Confederation, was often labelled as Red Tory, especially under the leadership of Bill Davis from 1971 to 1985.

Sheref Sabawy is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in the 2018 provincial election. He represents the riding of Mississauga—Erin Mills as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Sabawy is a member of the Standing Committee on General Government. He serves as the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Heritage, Sport, Tourism, and Culture Industries.

Arnold John Malone (born 9 December 1937) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a public servant by career. He initially represented the Alberta riding of Battle River where he was first elected in the 1974 federal election. Battle River was abolished before the 1979 election, and most of its territory was merged into neighboring Crowfoot.

Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria is a Canadian lawyer and politician who is currently serving as the Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction for the Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario during the 2018 general election. He represents the riding of Brampton South and is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

He was first elected at Frontenac electoral district in a 16 November 1970 by- election. He was re-elected in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections. In the 1984 federal election, he was defeated by Marcel Masse of the Progressive Conservative party. Corriveau served for the latter part of the 29th Canadian Parliament, and for full terms in the 30th through 32nd Canadian Parliaments.

MacDonald was a strong supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party at the federal level. He supported Paul Hellyer's bid for the party leadership in 1976,Hamilton Spectator, May 24, 2000. although he also became an admirer of Joe Clark's abilities during the same campaign. During his tenure as mayor, he once presented Clark with a novelty "Trudeau pencil", mocking Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Tangri previously ran as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Mississauga Centre in the 2002 federal election, as the Conservative Party of Canada candidate for Mississauga—Streetsville in the 2004 federal election, as an Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate for Mississauga West in the 2003 provincial election, and as an Ontario Progressive Conservative candidate for Mississauga—Streetsville in the 2007 and 2014 provincial elections.

Samuel Wakim (born 13 February 1937) is a Canadian lawyer and former Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. A member of the Queen's Counsel, he practices law in Toronto, Ontario.Weir Foulds profile Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Wakim earned his undergraduate degree at St. Francis Xavier University (B. Sc., 1959) where he met future prime minister Brian Mulroney.

In Kildonan—Transcona, the local Progressive Conservative association endorsed independent candidate Steve Melnyk. In St. George, the association endorsed Liberal-Progressive incumbent Chris Halldorson. Harry Shewman, an Independent candidate in Morris, also seems to have been at least tacitly endorsed by the Progressive Conservative Party. The party also did not field candidates in Carillon, Emerson, Fisher, Gimli, Gladstone, La Verendrye, Mountain or The Pas.

Louis R. Desmarais (16 February 1923 – 25 March 2017) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a Chartered Accountant by career. He represented the riding of Dollard since his victory there in the 1979 federal election and his re-election in 1980. Desmarais was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Gerry Weiner of the Progressive Conservative party.

Pierre Deniger (16 October 1947 - 13 April 1992) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Longueuil, Quebec and became a businessman and lawyer by career. He won the Laprairie electoral district in the 1979 federal election and was re-elected there in 1980. In the 1984 election, Deniger was defeated by Fernand Jourdenais of the Progressive Conservative party.

The service industry accounts for 15% of Riel's economy, followed by health and social services at 12.5%. Riel has more often been represented by candidates of the Progressive Conservative Party than the NDP (NDP).The current MLA is Progressive Conservative Rochelle Squires. The previous MLA was Christine Melnick of the NDP who won with 53% of votes cast in 2003 and 60% in the 2007 Manitoba election.

Arthur Harry Brightwell (born 4 August 1932) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1993. He was a veterinarian by career. Born in Matheson, Ontario, he attended the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ontario where he graduated in 1956. He campaigned in the 1984 federal election where he won the Perth electoral district for the Progressive Conservative party.

Cameron Friesen, MLA is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Morden-Winkler, currently serving as the Minister of Health, Seniors and Active Living. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, he was first elected in the 2011 provincial election,Manitoba Votes 2011: Morden-Winkler. CBC News, October 4, 2011. and re-elected in 2016 and 2019.

Robert Weld Mitchell MBE (10 August 1915 - 13 December 1994) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada and a lawyer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Toronto, the son of Percy Dawson Mitchell and Olive Weld, and was educated at Ridley College and Osgoode Hall. Mitchell was called to the Ontario bar in 1958.

He was first elected at the Middlesex West riding in the 1940 general election and re-elected there in 1945, 1949 and 1953. McCubbin was defeated by William Howell Arthur Thomas of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election. Robert McCubbin was inducted into the Middlesex County Hall of Fame in 2008, which was accepted by his 3 nephews: Bruce, Paul and Ronald McCubbin.

Eventually, his jobs included farming and teaching and became a school principal. Between 1934 and 1938, Mang was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the Lumsden riding. He was first elected to Parliament at the Qu'Appelle riding in the 1953 general election then after one term was defeated by Alvin Hamilton of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

Henry Baird (Hank) Scott (December 21, 1898 - September 21, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1958, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Scott was born in Winnipeg, the son of Thomas A. Scott and Lydia Baird. He owned a bakery business, and was a city councillor in Winnipeg before entering provincial politics.

J. Roger Clinch (born 8 January 1947 in Bathurst, New Brunswick) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a school administrator and principal by career. Clinch was first elected at the Gloucester electoral district in the 1984 federal election. He left federal politics after serving in the 33rd Canadian Parliament and did not campaign in the 1988 federal election.

Norman Melvin Warner (23 December 1943 – 1 April 2014) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Warner was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was an insurance broker by career. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was elected in the Stormont—Dundas electoral district during the 1984 federal election, after defeating the incumbent Minister of State for Science and Technology, Ed Lumley.

Frank Sidney Follwell (6 May 1906 - 3 December 1992) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada, merchant and realtor. He was born in London, England. He was first elected to Parliament at the Hastings South riding in the 1949 general election then re-elected in 1953. Follwell was defeated by Lee Grills of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

Vincent Della Noce (born 18 November 1943 in Italy) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a businessman by career. He represented the Quebec riding of Duvernay where he was first elected in the 1984 federal election and re-elected in 1988, therefore becoming a member in the 33rd and 34th Canadian Parliaments. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative party.

Kenney was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta on March 18, 2017, with more than 75% of the delegate votes on the first ballot. He pledged to unite the party with the rival Wildrose Party in a provincial analogue of the federal Unite the Right movement. The PC and Wildrose party announced a merger deal which was completed on July 24, 2017.

Theobald Butler Barrett (July 24, 1894 – March 26, 1969) was a Canadian politician. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1945 as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to represent the riding of Norfolk. He was defeated in the 1949 election. Prior to his federal political experience, he was a Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Artillery between 1942 and 1943.

Donaldson, p. 327. During the 1993 election, the Progressive Conservative Party was reduced to just two seats, which was seen as partially due to a backlash against Mulroney, as well as due to the fracturing of his "Grand Coalition". Social conservatives found fault with Mulroney's government in a variety of areas. These include Mulroney's opposition to capital punishment and an attempted compromise on abortion.Donaldson, p. 356.

Five independent "Conservative" or "Progressive Conservative" candidates were also elected, with all but one opposing the coalition government. These results provoked serious debate in the Progressive Conservative Party about the wisdom of staying with the coalition. The CCF under Edwin Hansford fell to seven seats, down from nine in the previous election. Bill Kardash of the LPP retained his seat in north-end Winnipeg.

The last MLA was Len Derkach of the Progressive Conservative Party, who held the riding of Roblin-Russell from 1986 to 1999. The New Democratic Party made serious inroads in the riding before its dissolution. Following the 2008 electoral redistribution, the riding was renamed Riding Mountain and expanded to include parts of the riding of Minnedosa. This change took effect for the 2011 election.

In 2018, Smith briefly considered running to succeed Patrick Brown as leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. Citing family and financial reasons, he decided not to seek the position. As the PCs formed the government during the 42nd Parliament of Ontario in 2018, Smith was appointed to cabinet as Minister of Government and Consumer Services while serving concurrently as Government House Leader. On Nov.

The health and service sector accounts for 18% of the riding's industry, followed by agriculture at 13%. Thirteen per cent of Portage la Prairie's residents are aboriginal, while a further 6% are German. Portage la Prairie has been held since by the Progressive Conservative Party for most of its history, although the New Democratic Party has increased its standing in the riding in recent years.

Felix Holtmann (born December 5, 1944) is a Canadian former politician. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Holtmann was born in Rosser, Manitoba, and educated at the University of Manitoba, Warren College and Jessups School of Advanced Dairy Science. He received a diploma of agriculture, and worked as a farmer.

Donald Archie "Big Donnie" MacLeod (December 11, 1928 – January 3, 2003) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1981 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1928 at Marion Bridge, Nova Scotia, MacLeod served 23 years as a municipal councillor for Cape Breton County.

Eli Cross , is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in the 2011 provincial election. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, he represented the electoral district of Bonavista North. In the 2015 election, Cross was defeated by Liberal Derrick Bragg in the new Fogo Island-Cape Freels riding.

Donald Gardner "Donnie" MacLeod (September 10, 1938 – June 22, 2015) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1980 to 1988. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Born in 1938 at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, MacLeod was first elected in a byelection on December 2, 1980.

He was a Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada. He represented the riding of St. John's East, from 1997 to 2008. He has also been a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1997 till the party's merger in 2003 with the Canadian Alliance. He was formerly chair of the Commons standing committee on Citizenship and Immigration.

Outside of wrestling, Watson considered playing football for the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1950s. Watson tested the waters of politics as the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate in York East in the 1965 federal election. Watson placed second with 32% of the vote, falling about 2,500 votes behind Liberal Party of Canada candidate Steve Otto. Watson also promoted his own soft drink brand.

The Progressive Conservatives were reduced to a minority government, however, and soon lost a vote of confidence in the legislature. In opposition, Brandt served as his party's critic for Environment and Industry. The 1987 provincial election proved disastrous for the Progressive Conservative Party, which was reduced to only sixteen seats out of 130 in the legislature. Brandt defeated Liberal Joan Link-Mellon by 2,601 votes.

George Henry Stokes (22 June 1876 - 19 April 1959) was a Canadian politician, breeder of Ayrshire cattle and a farmer by career. Stokes served as a National Government and Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Rawdon Township, Ontario. He became the clerk for Hungerford Township from 1901 to 1915, then became the township's reeve from 1927 to 1931.

He served as a backbench supporter of Douglas Campbell's government during his time in the legislature. In the 1958 election, he lost to Keith Alexander of the Progressive Conservative Party by 198 votes in the redistributed constituency of Roblin. He attempted a political comeback in the 1959 election, but finished third in the riding. Mitchell served as mayor for Grandview from 1972 to 1974.

In 1923, he married Helen Fleming Paterson. Ferg was named a King's Counsel in 1949. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1953 provincial election, defeating opponents from the Progressive Conservative Party and Social Credit League in the rural constituency of Cypress. At his nomination speech, Ferg spoke out in favour of the Canadian wheat board and against the liberalization of Manitoba's liquor laws.

Kenneth Roy Daniel (31 August 1892 – 23 September 1965) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Ingersoll, Ontario, and became a farmer by career. Daniel attended school at Ingersoll Collegiate Institute and Woodstock Business College. He was a town councillor for Ingersoll from 1940 to 1942, then the community's mayor in 1943 and 1944.

All of the Bloc's other Members of Parliament had crossed the floor from either the Progressive Conservative Party or the Liberal Party earlier that year. Duceppe's victory demonstrated — for the first time — that the party had electoral support in Quebec and could win elections. Previously, many pundits (and members of other parties) predicted that the Bloc would not gain traction with ordinary voters in Quebec.

The 36th Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada's most-populous province, was in session from June 8, 1995, until May 5, 1999, just prior to the Ontario general election. Majority was held by the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario led by Mike Harris. Allan K. McLean served as speaker for the assembly until September 26, 1996. Edward A. Doyle replaced McLean as speaker until October 3, 1996.

After Stanfield left provincial politics to become leader of the federal Progressive Conservative Party in 1967, G. I. Smith served as premier until 1970. After being elected party leader in 1971, John Buchanan was elected premier in 1978. He was re-elected in 1981, 1984 and 1988. In the 1984 election, voters served his largest majority, capturing 42 of the 52 seats in the legislature.

The 1990 Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership election was a leadership convention held in May 1990 to elect a new leader for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Two candidates vied for the leadership - Mike Harris and Dianne Cunningham. Using a novel voting system used due to party funding constraints, Harris was elected over Cunningham in a single ballot by a margin of 7,175 points to 5,825 points.

In 1930 and 1935 and 1940, he was a Conservative candidate (with the Conservatives known as the "National Government" party in 1940). He ran as an independent at Gloucester in 1945. Robichaud was elected to Parliament for the Progressive Conservative party in a by-election on 26 May 1952. He was defeated in the 1953 federal election by Hédard Robichaud of the Liberal party.

William Harold Hicks (12 November 1888 – 14 May 1974) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Lauder, Manitoba and became an agrologist by career. He was first elected at the Fraser Valley riding in the 1958 general election, but defeated in the 1962 and 1963 general elections. He served only one term, the 24th Parliament.

Rodrigue Bourdages (born October 22, 1923 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-died October 12, 1997) was a Canadian politician and contractor. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Member of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1958 to represent the riding of Laval. He was defeated in the 1957 election as an independent candidate and as a PC candidate in 1962.

Yvon L'Heureux (20 March 1914 - 29 May 1984) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a manufacturer and merchant by career. He was first elected at the Chambly—Rouville riding in the 1957 general election. After serving his term in the 23rd Canadian Parliament, L'Heureux was defeated in the 1958 election by Maurice Johnson of the Progressive Conservative Party.

William Alexander McLennan (10 April 1903 - 28 December 1980) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Paisley, Ontario, he was a lumber merchant by career. He was first elected at the New Westminster riding in the 1958 general election. He served one term, the 24th Canadian Parliament, until his defeat at New Westminster in the 1962 federal election.

Robert Dugald Caldwell Stewart (2 December 1907 – 25 August 1967) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Dalhousie, New Brunswick and became a lawyer by career. He was first elected at the Charlotte riding in the 1958 general election. Stewart served for one term, the 24th Canadian Parliament, then was defeated at Charlotte in the 1962 election.

Fulford was then defeated in the following election in 1945 by George Robert Webb of the Progressive Conservative party. Fulford returned to Parliament by winning the riding in the 1949 election over a new Progressive Conservative candidate, John Lionel Carroll. After that term, Fulford was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives' Hayden Stanton in 1953. Fulford was further unsuccessful in unseating Stanton in the 1957 and 1958 elections.

Don C. C. Ferguson previously ran in the 1988 Canadian federal election as a candidate for the New Democratic Party, and finished third with 4,489 votes behind Blaine Thacker of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. In the 2000 Canadian federal election he ran for the Greens and finished fifth with 944 votes behind Rick Casson of the Canadian Alliance. Mr. Ferguson is a professor.

Alfred Dryden Hales (22 November 1909 - 22 February 1998) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Hales was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Guelph, Ontario and became a butcher, meat cutter, farmer, manufacturer and merchant by career. Hales graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture from the University of Toronto's Ontario Agricultural College in 1934.

Kwong's public stature from sports helped him move on to politics and government. In 1971 he ran for the Alberta Progressive Conservative party in Calgary-Millican. In this election, the PCs ended Social Credit's 36-year hold on power, winning all but five seats in Calgary. However, Kwong himself was defeated by longtime incumbent Arthur J. Dixon who won by a 1,600 vote plurality.

Ghitter re-entered politics in 1985 to run for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party but came in third losing to Don Getty. He was appointed to the Senate in 1993 representing the senatorial division of Alberta. From 1996 to 1999, he was the Chair of the Senate Standing Committee of Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources. Sitting as a Progressive Conservative, he resigned in 2000.

Following a period of intense media speculation, McDiarmid was appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba on August 1 of the same year. He served in this largely ceremonial position until January 15, 1960, when he was replaced by former Progressive Conservative party leader Errick Willis. During his time in cabinet, McDiarmid was responsible for legislation opening northern Manitoba's mine fields to development. He died in 1965.

Oda was for many years a volunteer with the Progressive Conservative Party. She ran as a Conservative in Clarington—Scugog—Uxbridge in the 2004 federal election, and won a narrow victory over Liberal Tim Lang. Following her election, Oda was named as the Conservative Party critic for the Ministry of Heritage. She has argued in favour of allowing more Canadian and foreign programming options in the country.

This group did not constitute a rival to the official Conservative Party, however. In 1946, the party changed its name to the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba to reflect the change in name of the federal Progressive Conservatives. Relations between the Tories and Liberal-Progressives deteriorated after Douglas Campbell became Premier in 1948, and the Tories voted 215–7 to leave the coalition in 1950.

The 2011 Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador leadership election was prompted by Danny Williams' announcement that he was resigning as premier and party leader on December 3, 2010.N.L. Premier Danny Williams leaving politics. CTV News, November 25, 2010. Premier Kathy Dunderdale, who was sworn in after Williams' resignation, was the only eligible candidate for leadership election and therefore became the leader- designate.

McLure won Queen's in the 1945 election as a Progressive Conservative party candidate and returned to Parliament, and was re-elected in 1949. McLure was defeated in the 1953 election as the riding was won by Neil Matheson of the Liberals and Angus MacLean of the Progressive Conservatives who retained his seat. McLure was also an Honorary Lieutenant- Colonel in 1930 for the 2nd Medium Light Artillery.

Lewis Elston Cardiff (22 January 1889 – 16 April 1969) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Brussels, Ontario and initially chose farming as his career. From 1932 to 1940, Elston Cardiff was Reeve of Ontario's Morris Township. After this he entered federal politics with his election at the Huron North riding in the 1940 general election.

The Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba ran a full slate of fifty-seven candidates in the 1966 provincial election, and elected thirty-six members to form their third consecutive majority government. Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here. This page also includes information about Progressive Conservative candidates in by-elections between 1966 and 1969.

Kevin Parsons, Jr. MHA, (born 1961) is a Canadian politician from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He currently serves as the Caucus Chair for the Progressive Conservative Party. Parsons has represented the electoral district of Cape St. Francis in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly since 2008. He has previously served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Business, Tourism, Culture and Rural Development.

A member of the Progressive Conservative Party, Parsons was elected in a by- election on August 27, 2008, following the death of longtime Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly and former cabinet minister Jack Byrne. His father Kevin Sr. represented the district from 1986 and 1993. He was re-elected in the 2011 and 2015 provincial elections. He was re-elected in the 2019 provincial election.

Once again, he experienced no difficulties in the 1995 provincial election. He supported Jean Charest's bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1993 (Winnipeg Free Press, 12 June 1993). Driedger was dropped from cabinet on January 6, 1997, and did not seek re-election in 1999. After leaving politics, he was chairman of the board for the Menno Home for the Aged in Grunthal.

Jean Charest had also left federal politics, where he had been leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Charest was initially seen as a bad fit for the Quebec Liberal Party, and for provincial politics. He later overcame this perception. In terms of the number of seats won by each of the two parties, the result was almost identical to the previous 1994 general election.

The Virden riding was eliminated by redistribution in the 1990 election and Findlay ran in the riding of Springfield, where he defeated NDP candidate Deborah Barron-McNabb by almost 2,000 votes. He endorsed Jean Charest's bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in June 1993. On September 10, 1993, he was named Minister of Highways and Transportation, retaining responsibility for the provincial telephone system.

Charles James McNeil Willoughby (30 March 1894 – 5 September 1995) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Cookstown, Ontario and became a physician and surgeon by career. He was first elected at the Kamloops riding in the 1963 general election and served one term, the 26th Canadian Parliament. Willoughby did not seek re- election after this.

Reynold Rapp (26 December 1901 – 17 June 1972) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Crimea, Russian Empire and became a farmer by career. He was first elected at the Humboldt—Melfort riding in the 1958 general election. After the riding became known as Humboldt—Melfort—Tisdale, Rapp was re-elected there in 1962, 1963 and 1965.

He was a member of Paul Hellyer's short-lived Action Canada Party in 1971, and followed Hellyer into the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada when Action Canada dissolved prior to the 1972 federal election. In that election, Oostrom was the Progressive Conservative (PC) candidate in the working-class Toronto riding of York South. He placed third behind New Democratic Party leader David Lewis and the Liberal candidate.

Before joining the Green Party, he worked on election campaigns for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the Liberal Party of Canada.Harold Carmichael, "Green candidate opens office, website", Sudbury Star, 17 September 2008, A3. He aligned with the Greens in the 2003 provincial election,Laura Stradiotto, "Green Party readies for federal vote", Sudbury Star, 8 February 2008, A3. and has served on the party's provincial executive.

The 1979 Alberta general election was the nineteenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on March 14, 1979, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which had been expanded to 79 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in government. During the campaign, some Progressive Conservatives spoke of winning "79 in '79", i.e.

The series presented Canada's political history between 1957 and 1967, or the tenth decade since the nation's Confederation. John Diefenbaker of the Progressive Conservative party became Prime Minister in the 1957 election. He was defeated by Lester B. Pearson and his Liberal party in 1963. The series concentrated on the lives and careers of both Diefenbaker and Pearson, supported by interview and archival footage.

Blakeney joined Alberta Progressive Conservative Premier Peter Lougheed in a fight for provincial rights over minerals, oil and gas.Blakeney, An Honourable Calling: Political Memoirs p. 5 Nationalization was the central issue in the 1978 elections; the NDP held its own but the Liberals were wiped out and the Progressive Conservative party grew. Prosperity was at hand, with good prices for wheat and expansion of oil and uranium.

He was first elected at the Labelle riding in the 1963 general election as a Social Credit party candidate. On 23 April 1964, he left that party and joined the Progressive Conservative party caucus. After completing his term in the 26th Canadian Parliament, Girouard was defeated in the 1965 federal election at the Hull riding by Alexis Caron. In 1955, he married Shirley Morgan.

She served as advocate from Ontario's clothing and apparel industry during her time in office. Prior to the 1990 provincial election, LeBourdais was challenged for the Liberal nomination by a representative of a local Sikh group, which claimed the Peterson government was insufficiently responsive to minority communities. She won the nomination, but was defeated in the general election by Chris Stockwell of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Henry Frank Jones (21 August 1920 – 4 March 1964) was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Jones served as a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan and became a barrister by career. He was first elected at the Saskatoon riding in the 1957 general election, then re-elected there for successive terms in 1958, 1962 and 1963.

Herbert Junior Swan (January 20, 1927 – May 28, 2013) was the 18th Speaker for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in Canada. He held this post from 1982 to 1986. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, Swan represented the riding of Rosetown-Elrose. The son of Herbert Swan, he was educated in Demaine, at the Saskatoon Technical Institute and Success Business College.

Donald William Cameron (born May 20, 1946) was the 22nd Premier of Nova Scotia, Canada, from February 1991 to June 1993. He represented the electoral district of Pictou East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1993, as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. Following his political career, he was appointed as the Canadian Consul General to New England.

On November 2, 1990, Cameron announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. At the leadership convention, on February 9, 1991, Cameron led through the first two ballots and defeated Roland J. Thornhill by 143 votes on the third ballot to win the leadership. He was sworn-in as the 22nd Premier of Nova Scotia on February 26.

Andrew A. Philipsen (1939 – September 13, 1985) was a Canadian politician, who served in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon from 1982 to 1985."Andy Philipsen fonds". Library and Archives Canada. He represented the electoral district of Whitehorse Porter Creek West as a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party. Born in Oxfordshire, England in 1939, Philipsen moved to Canada with his family in 1940.

Christopher "Chris" William Pearson (April 29, 1931 – February 14, 2014) was the second leader of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party and the first Government Leader in the Yukon. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta,Pierre G. Normandin and A. Léopold Normandin, Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1984. P.G. Normandin, 1984. Pearson moved to the Yukon in 1957 and worked for the government from 1960 until 1973 when he entered private business.

Incumbent Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, had signed the agreement. The Liberal Party, led by John Turner, was opposed to the agreement, as was the New Democratic Party led by Ed Broadbent. The Progressive Conservatives went into the election suffering from a number of scandals. Despite winning a large majority only four years before, they looked vulnerable at the outset.

He then served as a policy advisor in the office of mayor John Sewell. After Sewell's defeat in the 1980 election, Leckie ran as an Ontario New Democratic Party candidate for St. George in the 1981 provincial election,"Party lines in St. George vanish, candidates rush to fill vacuum". The Globe and Mail, March 10, 1981. but lost to Susan Fish of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.

It was abolished into Don Valley East, Don Valley West and Beaches—East York. The riding was a bastion of strength for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario for most of its history, and was represented by moderate Tory cabinet ministers Dennis Timbrell and David Johnson at different times. The Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party both represented the riding between 1987 and 1993.

Madawaska-la-Vallée was a provincial electoral district which elected one member to the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created in the 1994 redrawing of electoral boundaries and dissolved in 2006. It was used in the 1995, 1999 and 2003 elections. Its only MLA was Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick representation Percy Mockler, now a member of the Senate of Canada.

Clarke was re-elected mayor in the 2016 municipal election. Clarke was criticized in early 2018 for a trip to China which cost taxpayers over $30,000 and included first-class tickets for himself. In 2018, Clarke came out as gay, revealing that someone had threatened to out him. On February 3, 2018, Clarke announced his candidacy for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

He served as president of the United Nations World Food Council from 1983 to 1985. Whelan was appointed as Canadian ambassador to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leader Brian Mulroney promised to rescind the appointment if he became Prime Minister. Mulroney won the 1984 election, and recalled Whelan as one of his first acts of office.

Bruinooge's father originated from Wemeldinge, Netherlands. After moving to Canada, he married an Indigenous women. Bruinooge himself was born in Thompson, Manitoba, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Manitoba.Canada Votes 2004, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Winnipeg South riding profile He attended the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's 1993 leadership convention as a youth delegate, supporting Kim Campbell.