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.

Two Canadian provincial governments, Ontario and Quebec, introduced measures in 2008 that would protect at least half of their northern boreal forest.

In the absence of official reports on the full cost of the monarchy, the Monarchist League of Canada regularly issues a survey based on various federal and provincial budgets, expenditures, and estimates ; the 2009 edition found that the institution cost Canadians roughly $ 50 million in 2008.

In May 2008, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7. 9 / 8. 0 hit just northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu.

Candidates of the 2008 elections of the National Assembly of People's Power | national and provincial parliaments in Santiago de Cuba

This was clarified further on March 26, 2008, following a funding commitment in the previous day's provincial budget ; the campus is to specialize in digital media and global business, and also has a funding commitment from Open Text corp.

As of June 2008, the provincial sheriffs department consists of 105 traffic sheriffs who are assigned to one of seven regions in the province.

With the route through the Hooigracht / Langegracht in Leiden decided ( 2008 ), and the decision of the provincial government on the western route, the future of the RGL is now a little clearer, but that does not mean that all obstacles have been overcome.

After him, no political party in Quebec elections at the provincial level had managed to win more than two terms of office in a row until the December 2008 victory of Jean Charest's Liberal party, its third consecutive win.

In December 2008, Blakie announced that he would seek the NDP nomination for the provincial division of Elmwood, which had been vacated by Jim Maloway, Blaikie's own successor in the federal riding of Elmwood-Transcona.

In September 2008, San Sebastián-based Spanish-language web portal Hispavista removed its pro-ana forums at the request of the provincial prosecutor for Guipúzcoa and the Children's Ombudsman of Madrid, who stated that " while not illegal, the harmful and false information in such forums being disseminated to minors will impair their proper development.

* On January 18, 2008, the U. S. government filed a second arbitration request regarding Canada's measures implementing the SLA, specifically the provincial implementation programs of Ontario and Québec.

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However, in the most recent provincial election, in 2008, the party collapsed to only 0. 2 percent of the vote, its worst showing ever.

Paul Mashatile, the former provincial minister of finance and economic affairs and the current provincial chairman of ANC in the Gauteng Province, was Premier from 7 October 2008 until Mokonyane's election.

* eHealth Ontario was created as an Ontario provincial government agency in September 2008.

On January 15, 2008, Edgemont's 51 % voting stake ( and 38. 5 % equity stake ) in the Alliance label was purchased by Société générale de financement du Québec, an investment agency of the provincial government.

However, the ADQ's popularity declined significantly soon afterward and in the 2008 provincial elections, the party failed to secure at least twenty percent of the popular vote or twelve Members of the National Assembly ( MNAs ) in the last election, and consequently lost official party status, though in early 2009 it was recognized as an official party by the PLQ and the PQ.

In its history, Brock athletic teams have won a combined 48 provincial championships and 26 national championships ( as of 2008 ).

In June 2008, he was named a provincial court judge.

In light of the 2004, 2006, and 2008 minority government elections and the success of Stephen Harper, many journalists, political advisors, and politicians argue that a new political paradigm is emerging, and it is based on Harper's drive for a right-wing political party capable of reconfiguring the role of the state – federal and provincial – in twenty-first-century.

The provincial election of March 3, 2008 proved to be another setback for the party.

At its 2008 provincial convention, the party overwhelmingly rejected a proposal by the Environment Caucus recommending a party task force be mandated to “ investigate a variety of options for political cooperation with the Alberta Liberals and / or Greens .” and “ to prepare a motion to be considered ” at the next Party Convention.

Although at one point the Evergreen Line was proposed to be a street-level LRT system that would not use Innovia Metro technology, in 2008 plans were changed back by the provincial government to facilitate higher ridership from increased capacity, shortened travel times and to integrate seamlessly with the existing SkyTrain network.