Parti conservateur du Quebec
| Parti conservateur du Quebec | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1867 |
| fusion | 1936 (incorporated in: Union nationale ) |
| Alignment |
Conservatism Ultramontanism |
The Parti conservateur du Québec was a conservative political party in the Canadian province of Québec that existed from 1867 to 1936. With two brief interruptions (1878–79, 1887–91) it was the provincial government until 1897, but remained in the opposition for the next four decades until it finally became part of the Union nationale .
history
The predecessor of the Parti conservateur in the province of Canada was the Parti bleu , which was founded in 1850 by moderate reformers around Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine . She turned against the anti-clericalism and radicalism of the rival Parti rouge to Louis-Joseph Papineau and supported the role of the clergy in Quebec society. After Québec had become a province of the new Canadian state in 1867, the Parti bleu became the Parti conservateur du Québec, the provincial branch of the Conservative Party at the federal level.
With two exceptions (1878–79, 1887–1891), the Parti conservateur always formed the government in the following three decades and provided eight of the first ten prime ministers. However, over the years there has been an increasingly clear split between a moderate wing and an ultramontane wing of Catholic fundamentalists. The party’s close ties to conservatives at the federal level hurt the party as the Anglophone Tories increasingly had a reputation for being hostile to the French Canadians and Québec. This became particularly clear in 1885 with the execution of Louis Riel , who enjoyed a great deal of sympathy among the Francophones. The dispute over the Manitoba school question resulted in the support of the conservative federal party in Québec in the general election in 1896 being completely lost. The Parti conservateur du Québec also suffered from this: The provincial government of Edmund James Flynn suffered a definite defeat in 1897. The Conservatives never regained their old strength and the Parti libéral du Québec remained in power without interruption for the next four decades.
In 1933 Maurice Duplessis took over the party chairmanship. A year later, several MPs left the Parti libéral and founded the Action libérale nationale (ALN). Duplessis courted the new party and entered into an electoral alliance with it. In 1935, the alliance just failed to win a majority. In 1936, almost all ALN MPs defected to the Conservatives. From the merger of the two parties, the Union nationale emerged , which won the early elections and dominated politics in Québec until 1960.
The Parti conservateur du Québec has been re-established since 2009, but it has not been able to celebrate any significant electoral successes.
Election results
Results of the National Assembly elections:
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Party leader
| Surname | Chair | premier |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau | 1867-1873 | 1867-1873 |
| Gédéon Ouimet | 1873-1874 | 1873-1874 |
| Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville | 1874-1878 | 1874-1878, 1891-1892 |
| Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau | 1878-1882 | 1879-1882 |
| Joseph-Alfred Mousseau | 1882-1884 | 1882-1884 |
| John Jones Ross | 1884-1887 | 1884-1887 |
| Louis-Olivier Taillon | 1887-1896 | 1887, 1892-1896 |
| Edmund James Flynn | 1896-1904 | 1896-1897 |
| Pierre-Évariste Leblanc | 1905-1908 | |
| Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 1909-1915 | |
| Philémon cousineau | 1915-1916 | |
| Arthur Sauvé | 1916-1929 | |
| Camillien Houde | 1929-1932 | |
| Maurice Duplessis | 1933-1936 |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Élections générales. Le directeur général des élections du Québec, 7 April 2014, accessed on 10 April 2014 (French).