Although most South African parties announced their candidate list for provincial premierships in the 2009 election, the ANC did not.

In the 2009 provincial election the NDP formed a majority government, the first in the region.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

A general election in June 1999 produced the first freely elected national, provincial, and regional parliaments in over forty years.

Almost three months later, in the election of September 18, 1867, the Anti-Confederation Party, won 18 out of 19 federal seats, and 36 out of 38 seats in the provincial legislature.

A regional peace-monitoring force and a UN observer mission monitors the government and provincial leaders who have established an interim administration and are working toward complete surrender of weapons, the election of a provincial government and an eventual referendum on independence.

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.

Just prior to the election, King carelessly remarked that he " would not give a five-cent piece " to Tory provincial governments for unemployment relief.

King's promise not to impose conscription contributed to the defeat of Maurice Duplessis's Union Nationale Quebec provincial government in 1939 and Liberals're-election in the 1940 election.

In the following figure one can see the election results of the provincial election of 2003, 2007 and 2011 per province.

The Alberta Alliance continued to grow following the federal party's merger, and the provincial party fielded a full slate of candidates for the 2004 provincial election, on November 22, 2004, and won one seat in the Legislature.

Opposition parties boycotted provincial elections in 2000, and the 2001 presidential election produced more controversy.

In conjunction with the provincial election in 2007, the province of Ontario voted on a mixed-member proportional representation electoral system and British Columbia held two consecutive referendums on BC-STV in 2005 and 2009.

Gilles Duceppe announced on 11 May 2007 that he would run in the Parti Québécois leadership race to replace André Boisclair, who resigned on 8 May 2007, after the poor performance in the March 2007 Quebec provincial election and internal dissent forced him to step down.

From then to the subsequent election, the Bloc continued to denounce the federal government's interventions in what the Bloc saw as exclusively provincial jurisdictions.

Gilles Duceppe helped Pauline Marois campaign in the 2008 Quebec provincial election, she did not win and the Liberals gained a slight majority.

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.

He was unsuccessful in his first foray into politics as an official constituency candidate for the provincial Progressive Conservatives in the 1967 provincial election.

Clark missed being elected to the Alberta Legislative Assembly in the 1971 provincial election.

Elections for the national, provincial, and sub-provincial parliaments were held on 7 June 1999.

Falun Gong's response to the suppression in China began in July 1999 with appeals to local, provincial and central petitioning offices in Beijing.

It started in 1994 and had its peak in the early hours of 2 August 1999 when CLA launched an attack in Katima Mulilo, the provincial capital of the Caprivi Region.

On November 1, 1999, the provincial court of appeal ruled that nothing in the law prevented a person who was legally male from legally adopting a woman's name.

The provincial population was recorded at 347, 423 in January 1999, giving a population density of 318 inhabitants / km²

The paper endorsed the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in many of the provincial elections from the 1940s to the 1980s, and endorsed strategic voting to try to defeat Mike Harris in 1999 which they failed to do.

On June 7, 1999, Lord's PC party overcame an early deficit in the polls to pull out a landslide victory in the provincial general election, winning 44 of 55 seats in the legislature.

Thus, in 1999, the federal government and all provincial governments except Quebec's agreed to the Social Union Framework Agreement, which promoted common standards for social programs across Canada.

Hamm's Tories defeated the Liberal minority government on a budget vote on June 17, 1999, and in the subsequent election on July 27, 1999, Hamm was elected Premier, winning 30 of the 52 seats in the provincial legislature.

His second cousin, Rick Chiarelli, unsuccessfully attempted to succeed him in the 1999 provincial election.

A campaign group with the slogan Teruel existe (" Teruel exists ") was founded in 1999 to press for greater recognition and investment in the town and the province ( the campaign was successful, but Teruel remains the only provincial capital in Spain without a direct railway link to the capital, Madrid ).

Matters were made worse for the federal NDP after Saskatchewan's NDP Premier Roy Romanow resigned in 2000 after the party lost seats in the 1999 Saskatchewan provincial election, and afterwards suggested that the federal NDP should merge with the Liberal Party.

In Nova Scotia, the provincial NDP lost seats in its 1999 election while the NDP government of the Yukon had been recently defeated.

Tuguegarao City ( as of December 18, 1999 ) is the provincial capital, regional seat, and center of business, trade, and education.

Even with a strong economy the Ontario provincial debt increased by an additional $ 20 Billion between 1995 and 1999 due to the lost revenue and borrowing required to fund Harris ' massive tax cuts.

McGuinty's performance in the early weeks of the 1999 provincial election was also widely criticized, and he was generally regarded as having performed poorly in the election's only leaders ' debate.

In the 1999 provincial election, his son Lawrie Cherniack ran for the NDP in Fort Garry against Joy Smith, and lost by only 30 votes.

The current municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1999, when the Ontario provincial government expanded the boundaries of the township of Rutherford and George Island, the former governing body of the community of Killarney.

Shortly after taking the leadership, Hermanson led the party into the 1999 provincial election.

TransLink was created in 1998 ( then called the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority, or GVTA ) and fully implemented in April 1999 by the Government of British Columbia to replace BC Transit in the Greater Vancouver Regional District and assume many transportation responsibilities previously held by the provincial government.

He represented the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1999 to 2010, when he resigned to contest the mayoralty of Toronto in the 2010 municipal election.

In the 1999 provincial election Smitherman was nominated as the Liberal Party candidate for Toronto Centre-Rosedale.