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In the election, Lougheed and the Tories swept the Socreds from power, ending what was at one of the time the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial level in Canada.
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election and Lougheed
* August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.
While the Tories finished third, Lougheed viewed it as only a minor setback ; his real focus was building up momentum for a general election due a year later.
In 1965, Getty was approached by fellow Eskimos veteran and Progressive Conservative leader Peter Lougheed to run in the 1967 provincial election.
Four years later, in the 1971 election, Getty was re-elected by more than 3, 500 votes in the new riding of Edmonton-Whitemud and was appointed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs in the new Lougheed majority government.
With Getty and the government both re-elected by increasing margins in the 1975 election, Lougheed appointed him Minister of Energy.
From 1920 until the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1921 election, Lougheed also served as Minister of Mines, Minister of the Interior and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs in the government of Arthur Meighen.
Meanwhile, Lougheed had significant momentum going into the 1971 election, increasing his caucus from six members to ten after two floor crossings and two by-election wins.
Premier Peter Lougheed decided to call a snap election to catch fledgling new parties off guard, most notably the separatist Western Canada Concept which was capitalizing on anger over Lougheed's perceived weakness in dealings with the federal government, in particular his acceptance of the hugely unpopular National Energy Program.
" Lougheed would attract criticism from outside of Alberta for inviting candidates for interviews with the Alberta PC Caucus, which was referred to by candidates as an " inquisition " and seen as using government resources for an internal election.
In response, Premier Peter Lougheed called a snap election in which the party nominated 78 candidates in the province's 79 ridings ( electoral districts ).
election and Tories
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.
During this time, the Tories and Labour had exchanged places at the top of the opinion polls on numerous occasions, and by the time of the election most opinion polls were showing a slim Labour lead, which most observers predicted would translate into a hung parliament or a narrow Labour victory at the election.
The election defeat also meant that the Tories were left without any MPs in Scotland or Wales, failing to win a single seat outside England.
The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.
As a result, Labour had moved ahead of the Tories in the opinion polls, and in the aftermath of Foot's election as leader opinion polls showed a double-digit lead for Labour, boosting his hopes of becoming prime minister by the time of the next general election, which had to be held by May 1984.
The SDP won the support of large sections of the media, and for most of 1981 and early 1982 its opinion poll ratings suggested that it could at least overtake Labour and possibly win a general election, as the Tories were proving unpopular because of the economic policies of Margaret Thatcher, which had seen unemployment reach a postwar high.
Foot took a back seat in Labour politics after 1983 and retired from the House of Commons at the 1992 general election, when Labour lost to the Tories ( now led by John Major ) for the fourth election in succession, but remained politically active.
Kinnock also blamed his defeat on the other newspapers who had backed the Tories in the run-up to the election.
In the three years leading up to the 1992 election, Labour had consistently topped the opinion polls, with 1991 seeing the Tories ( rejuvenated by the arrival of a new leader in John Major the previous November ) snatch the lead off Labour more than once before Labour regained it.
The Tories ' wholesale conversion started when Pitt was confirmed as Prime Minister in the election of 1784.
Elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911, Bennett returned to the provincial scene to again lead the Alberta Tories in the 1913 provincial election, but kept his federal seat in Ottawa when his Tories failed to take power in the province ; such practice was later forbidden.
The Tories were decimated in the October 1935 general election, winning only 40 seats to 173 for Mackenzie King's Liberals.
* July 5 – August 28 – A general election in the United Kingdom brings victory for the Tories, led by Henry Addington.
The Tories won a majority in the election, but the party remained divided, and support for Prime Minister ( Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ) was weak.
Heath became the Tories ' youngest leader and retained office after the party's defeat in the general election of 1966.
The result of the election was inconclusive with no party gaining an overall majority in the House of Commons ; the Tories had the most votes but Labour had slightly more seats.
They had topped most of the pre-winter opinion polls by several points, but in February 1979 at least one opinion poll was showing the Tories 20 points ahead of Labour and it appeared certain that Labour would lose the forthcoming election.
As the campaign unfolded, the Tories, led by Brian Mulroney, who was fighting his first general election in any capacity, soon took the lead.
The consensus was that Mulroney would be heavily defeated by Jean Chrétien and the Liberals if he led the Tories into the next election — ironically, the same situation that led to Trudeau's departure from the scene nine years earlier.
The 1993 election was an unmitigated disaster for the Tories.
election and swept
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.
Today " majimboism " is code for certain areas of the country to be reserved for specific ethnic groups, fueling the kind of ethnic cleansing that has swept the country since the election.
At the 1996 election, the Keating Government was swept from power in a landslide, losing 29 seats and suffering a five percent two party preferred swing -- in terms of seats lost, the second-worst defeat of a sitting government at the federal level in Australia.
Similarly, John Turner replaced Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prime minister even though he did not hold a seat in the lower chamber of parliament ; Turner won a riding in the next election but the Liberal Party was swept from power.
After the election of George of Poděbrady to the Czech throne following the Hussite wars, a new cultural wave swept into Bohemia.
Aberhart mixed his own interpretation of scripture and prophecy with the monetary reform theories of social credit to create a movement that swept across Alberta, winning the provincial election of 1935 in a landslide.
Mulroney enthusiastically embraced political organization, and assisted the local PC candidate in his successful 1956 Nova Scotia provincial election campaign ; the PCs, led provincially by Robert Stanfield, swept to a surprise victory.
Trudeau's Liberals swept his party back into power in the February 1980 election with 146 seats, against 103 for the Progressive Conservatives.
Republicans took the Town Council for the first time in 14 years in 2010, as Camille Ferraro, Mike Hughes and James Wendell swept the three seats that were up for election.
However, when the election took place the coalition was swept out of office by Fianna Fáil which won an unprecedented twenty seat Dáil majority and over 50 % of the first preference votes.
With the onset of the depression and the implosion of the government of Simon Fraser Tolmie, the Liberals easily swept back to power in the 1933 election.
After failing to win a seat in the National Assembly in the 1970 election and the 1973 election, he and his party swept the 1976 election.
Later in 1834, the Parti Patriote swept the election with more than three-quarters of the popular vote.
In the ensuing 1886 general election the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists swept the board.
During the subsequent provincial election campaign, " Vandermania " swept BC, and the Socreds easily won another term over the opposition New Democratic Party ( NDP ).
In 1994 he helped Newt Gingrich effect the Republican Revolution, which gave the Republicans the victory in the 1994 midterm election and swept Democrats from power in both houses of Congress, putting Republicans in control of the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years.
After the UFA swept to victory, there was even speculation that Stewart, still a UFA member, would stay on as Premier of a new Farmer's government ( as part of its opposition to " old style politics ", the UFA had contested the election without designating a leader ), but he announced otherwise.
The election result was one of the biggest landslide victories in British history: the Liberals swept the Conservatives ( and their Liberal Unionist allies ) out of previously safe seats.
First elected to the New Brunswick Assembly as a Liberal in 1850, he sat in opposition until the 1854 election swept the reformers to power.
He attracted support from certain elements of the Fijian population who were angered by the results of the 1999 election, which had swept away a government dominated by ethnic Fijians and brought to power a multiracial government led by Mahendra Chaudhry, who became Fiji's first-ever Indo-Fijian Prime Minister.
Fianna Fáil swept to power at the 1977 general election, with a 20-seat Dáil majority, contrary to opinion polls and political commentators.
He was the son of John Dillon, the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party ( 1918 ), which had been swept away by Sinn Féin at the 1918 general election.
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