Manitoba Liberal Party
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:
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Party leader
Surname | Chair | premier |
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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
- Manitoba Liberal Party (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical summaries. (PDF, 1.5 MB) Elections Manitoba, 2007, accessed on April 25, 2014 .