Manitoba Liberal Party

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Manitoba Liberal Party
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Party leader Dougald Lamont
founding 1883
Headquarters Winnipeg
Alignment liberalism
Parliament seats
3/57
Website www.manitobaliberals.ca

The Manitoba Liberal Party (French Parti libéral du Manitoba ) is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Manitoba . Although the party is ideologically similar to the Liberal Party of Canada at the federal level, the two parties are organizationally independent. It was the dominant party in the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, but has been in opposition since 1958. Since the elections in October 2011, it has had one representative in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly.

history

There were no official parties in Manitoba for the first few years after the province was established, but candidates were affiliated with the federal parties. During the 1870s, a liberal network began to form in Winnipeg . A leading figure at the time was William Luxton, editor of the Manitoba Free Press . In 1882, Thomas Greenway founded the Provincial Rights Party , which was anchored in the rural areas and soon established itself as the leading opposition to the Conservatives. In 1883, Greenway merged his party with the Winnipeg Liberals, resulting in the Manitoba Liberal Party. The new party won a majority in 1888. It ended the Canadian Pacific Railway's monopoly on transport, but it also harassed the francophone minority and provoked the Manitoba school question .

After the 1899 election defeat, the Liberals remained in the opposition for over a decade. Under Tobias Norris they made government again from 1915. They introduced alcohol prohibition and women's suffrage , as well as unemployment insurance and a minimum wage. Given the difficult economic situation after the end of World War I, they were pushed into the opposition by the United Farmers of Manitoba in 1922 . The United Farmers, led by John Bracken , transformed into the Progressive Party of Manitoba , which joined forces with the Liberals in 1932. The party now called itself the Liberal Progressive Party and was dominated by the progressives, but gradually the original name Liberal Party of Manitoba prevailed again (from 1961 also officially).

In 1940 Bracken formed a coalition government with other parties that lasted ten years. Under his successors, Stuart Garson and Douglas Lloyd Campbell , she gradually embarked on a socially conservative course and turned to government intervention of all kinds. Because of their unwillingness to reform, the Liberals lost the elections of 1958 significantly. In the following years, the party lost more and more support because it (contrary to its name) was ideologically further to the right than the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba . In 1981, not a single Liberal candidate succeeded in getting elected to the legislative assembly.

Sharon Carstairs brought the party back to the center of politics in the 1980s. In 1988 the Liberals almost tripled their share of the vote and won 20 seats. But this upswing did not last and a gradual decline followed. In the 21st century they have never won more than two seats.

Election results

Results of the legislative assembly elections:

choice seats
total 		candidates
data 		Weighted
seats 		be right proportion of
1883 30th 23 10 4,464 45.3%
1886 35 32 15th 10.305 47.7%
1888 38 36 33 9,598 56.5%
1892 40 32 24 15,603 50.2%
1896 40 39 32 12,734 49.7%
1899 40 40 17th 23,302 49.5%
1903 40 39 8th 23,740 44.6%
1907 41 41 13 29,426 47.9%
1910 41 39 13 33,157 44.2%
1914 49 45 20th 62,798 42.8%
1915 47 46 40 64,363 55.1%
1920 55 43 21st 50,422 35.1%
1922 55 30th 8th 35,225 23.2%
1927 55 28 7th 33,852 20.7%
1932 55 53 38 100,721 39.6%
1936 55 55 23 91,537 35.3%
1941 55 40 27 58,337 35.1%
1945 55 32 25th 70,475 32.2%
choice seats
total 		candidates
data 		Weighted
seats 		be right proportion of
1949 57 38 31 75.291 37.71%
1953 57 50 32 105,958 38.80%
1958 57 56 19th 101,763 34.74%
1959 57 57 11 95,452 30.06%
1962 57 57 13 108,270 36.10%
1966 57 56 14th 107,841 32.92%
1969 57 57 5 80.288 23.87%
1973 57 50 5 88.907 18.92%
1977 57 53 1 59,865 12.25%
1981 57 39 0 32,373 6.68%
1986 57 57 1 66,469 13.88%
1988 57 57 20th 190.913 35.44%
1990 57 57 7th 138,146 28.07%
1995 57 57 3 119,677 23.62%
1999 57 50 1 66.111 13.31%
2003 57 57 2 52.123 13.13%
2007 57 57 2 51,857 12.33%
2011 57 57 1 32,418 7.52%

Party leader

Surname Chair premier
Thomas Greenway 1883-1904 1888-1900
Charles Mickle 1904-1906
Edward Brown 1906-1908
Charles Mickle 1908-1910
Tobias Norris 1910-1927 1915-1922
Hugh Robson 1927-1930
James Breakey 1930-1931
Murdoch Mackay 1931-1932
John Bracken 1932-1943 1922-1943
Stuart Garson 1943-1948 1943-1948
Douglas Lloyd Campbell 1948-1961 1948-1958
Gildas Molgat 1961-1969
Robert Bend 1969-1970
Izzy Asper 1970-1975
Charles Huband 1975-1988
Unoccupied (Senator Gildas Molgat was party president) 1978-1980
Doug Lauchlan 1980-1982
Unoccupied (Senator Gildas Molgat was party president) 1982-1984
Sharon Carstairs 1984-1993
Paul Edwards 1993-1996
Ginny Hasselfield 1996-1998
Jon Gerrard 1998-2013
Rana Bokhari 2013-2016
Paul Hesse 2016 (interim)
Judy classes 2016–2017 (interim)
Paul Brault 2017 (interim)
Dougald Lamont 2017-

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical summaries. (PDF, 1.5 MB) Elections Manitoba, 2007, accessed on April 25, 2014 .