When an election was held at the conclusion of Mackenzie's five-year term, the Conservatives were swept back into office in a landslide victory.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

Staying at what they considered rock-bottom however showed that the Conservatives had failed to improve their negative public image, had remained somewhat disunited over Europe and had not regained the trust that they had lost in the 1990s.

Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.

This coalition fell apart at the end of 1916, when the Conservatives withdrew their support from Asquith and gave it to Lloyd George instead, who became Prime Minister at the head of a coalition government largely made up of Conservatives.

The Liberals gained ground, but once again it was at the Conservatives ' expense whilst also losing seats to Labour.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

This was the first time that the Conservatives and Lib Dems had made a power-sharing deal at Westminster.

This was considered essential for the Conservatives, as the EPP was generally seen as quite favourable to European integration, a stance at odds with their core ideology.

Major joined the Young Conservatives in Brixton at this time.

The newspapers which traditionally supported the Conservatives and had championed Major at the election were now being critical of him on an almost daily basis.

Although Tim Smith stepped down from the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election, both Neil Hamilton and Jonathan Aitken sought re-election for their seats, and were both defeated, in Hamilton's case by the former BBC Reporter Martin Bell, who stood as an anti-sleaze candidate, both the Labour and LibDem candidates withdrawing in his favour, amidst further publicity unfavourable to the Conservatives.

Opinion polls showed that voters favoured retaining Britain's nuclear weapons and believed that the Conservatives would be better than Labour at defending the country.

The Liberal party, at this time the opposition party in Parliament, accused the Conservatives of having made a tacit agreement to give the contract to Hugh Allan in exchange for money.

Most Irish people elected as their MPs Liberals and Conservatives who belonged to the main British political parties ( note: the poor didn't have a vote at that time ).

A poll at the time suggested that 74 % of the UK population agreed with the Powell's opinions and his supporters claim that this large public following that Powell attracted may have helped the Conservatives to win the 1970 general election, and perhaps cost them the February 1974 general election, at which Powell turned his back on the Conservatives by endorsing a vote for Labour, who returned as a minority government in early March following a hung parliament.

The Conservatives had promised at the 1970 election in relation to the Common Market.

The popularity of the South Park cartoon program led to the creation of the term South Park Republican by Andrew Sullivan, and later the book South Park Conservatives by Brian C. Anderson.

Comparisons could be drawn with the reformists within the Sarkozy government in France, the moderate wing of the US Republican Party or David Cameron's Conservatives in the United Kingdom.

In this latest book, Dean, who has repeatedly described himself as a Goldwater conservative, built on Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience to argue that the Republican Party has gravely damaged all three of the branches of the federal government in the service of ideological rigidity and with no attention to the public interest or the general good.

Legislators ran and caucused as " Liberals " or " Conservatives " roughly equivalent in most years to Democratic or Farmer Labor ( later Democratic-Farmer-Labor ) and Republican, respectively.

Common examples of swing voters include " Reagan Democrats " ( Democrats who voted for Republican Ronald Reagan in the 1980s ) and " Clinton Conservatives " ( Republicans who voted for Bill Clinton ).

Conservatives, based in the towns and cities, fought back, and Republican primaries were the scene of intense political battles.

In the south, the Democrats and Conservatives continued their systematic destruction of the Republican coalition.

* Battle of Liberty Place-battle between Democratic Conservatives and Republican Reconstructionists in 1874.

Conservatives finally found a new champion in Ronald Reagan, whose 8 years as governor of California had just ended in 1976, and supported his campaign for the Republican nomination.

The name South Park Conservatives derives from Andrew Sullivan's term, South Park Republican.

In 1860 he took advantage of an amnesty for the Conservatives decreed by Congress and offered his services to the Liberals fighting against Maximilian of Habsburg and the French invasion.

After 1860, Gray drifted away from his fellow Conservatives and became supportive of Samuel Leonard Tilley's Liberal government but was defeated in the 1861 election for his efforts.

From the 1997 " landslide year " until 2010, David Borrow's vote total and majority consistently shrunk with a swing back to the Conservatives at every election: despite in 2005, UKIP nominating a candidate for the first time, and taking just over 1, 200 votes.

In her memoirs, Time and Chance, and in her response in the National Post to The Secret Mulroney Tapes, Campbell stated that Mulroney left her with almost no time to salvage the Progressive Conservatives ' tattered reputation once the bounce from the leadership convention wore off.

Contrary to British constitutional convention, the Conservatives used their large majority in the Lords to vote down the Budget.

Thomas Road Baptist Church was initially affiliated with the Baptist Bible Fellowship International, but is now dually aligned with that Fellowship as well as with the Southern Baptist Convention, having entered the convention by way of the Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia.

The convention provided the public with an opportunity to see the Conservative Party in a new light, appearing to have reduced the focus on its controversial social conservative agenda ( although most Conservatives continue to oppose same-sex marriage ).

Similarly, after the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives merged in 2003, Senator John Lynch-Staunton was named interim leader of the new Conservative Party until the first leadership convention selected Stephen Harper.

In 1920 he ran for the leadership of the provincial Conservatives at that party's first ever leadership convention but lost to Howard Ferguson who led the party to victory in the subsequent general election.

A Catholic, he was defeated at the party's leadership convention when Protestant delegates formed a united front against a Catholic leader, a move that caused a severe religious split within the party that contributed to its defeat two years later at the hands of Robert Stanfield's Progressive Conservatives.

Three cabinet ministers urged Stevens to challenge Bennett for the leadership of the party within the Conservative caucus and a total of 72 of the 137 Conservative MPs pledged to support Stevens, but he declined to challenge Bennett for the party leadership without a leadership convention and, instead, quit the Conservatives to form the Reconstruction Party of Canada to run in the 1935 Canadian election.

Both Conservatives and Liberal Democrats stated generally in 2005 that they no longer feel bound to abide by the convention, while in this specific case several Lords have stated that it would not apply as the manifesto commitment was for implementation on a " voluntary basis " as passports are renewed, rather than being compulsory as passports are renewed.

Shortly after the bill first passed the Commons, Baird acknowledged that the Conservatives may have unintentionally broken political financing laws by failing to report convention fees collected in 2005.

The Conservatives quietly tabled an amendment to the Accountability Act in November 2006, stipulating that convention fees will not be counted as political contributions.

It was actually Betty Boothroyd's election as Speaker in 1992 ( while the Conservatives were in office ) that broke this convention, and the election of Martin merely reverted to previous tradition by selecting the Speaker from the government benches.

At a party convention in October, the Progressive Conservatives voted 215 to 17 to leave the coalition.

Although many Conservatives privately preferred an election, Meighen believed he was bound by honour and convention to accept Byng's invitation.

It was tradition for the Liberals and Conservatives not to run against the other party's leader in by-elections, but the CCF did not accept this convention.

On October 19, 2010, Bill Tieleman wrote about John Cummins convention speech where Tieleman writes that " the BC Conservatives are going to target not only disgruntled BC Liberal voters but also the NDP's traditional support bases ".