In the 199-1930 era, German Catholics generally voted for the Liberal ticket ( rather than the Provincial Rights and Conservative tickets ), seeing Liberals as more willing to protect religious minorities.

Jim Bradley, the current member for St. Catharines and Ontario's longest serving Member of Provincial Parliament, is the current Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services in the Liberal government of Dalton McGuinty, and served as Minister of Environment in the government of David Peterson.

He entered provincial politics in the 1981 election, and defeated the incumbent Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) in Nipissing, Mike Bolan.

Initially, he remained Liberal leader and appointed an ally, Gordon Daniel Conant as Premier of the province while Hepburn remained Provincial Treasurer leading many to think that Conant was Premier in name only.

Peterson was first elected as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for London Centre in the 1975 provincial election.

For the first 25 years of the province's existence, political power was split between the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in government, and the Conservatives ( initially the Provincial Rights Party ) in opposition.

The only opposition came from Sudbury Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament Elmer Sopha who was fervently opposed to the flag, arguing that it failed to reflect Ontario's diverse character and that it was " a flag of revenge " against the new national flag.

Harry Nixon remained a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP )< sup > 1 </ sup > until his death in 1961.

Thompson was first elected as a Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1959 Ontario election as a candidate of the Ontario Liberal Party in the Toronto riding of Dovercourt.

McLeod remained a prominent Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) under new leader Dalton McGuinty, serving as education critic from 1996 to 1999.

Haultain led the Provincial Rights Party in the 1905 Saskatchewan provincial election, which was won by the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan.

The Provincial Rights Party advocated greater provincial control over land, resources and development, and saw the Liberal Party as being too close to the Laurier federal government.

Entering the government of Premier William M. Martin ( another outsider brought in to " clean up " the reputation of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party ), Dunning became Provincial Treasurer, a post he held continuously for his ten years as an MLA.

The Provincial Rights group subsequently consolidated the non-government MLAs into the Manitoba Liberal Party — rather to the chagrin of some Winnipeg Liberals, who were suspicious of Greenway's rural base.

When Macdonald disallowed Norquay's half-hearted railway legislation in 1882, a coherent local opposition began to form around Thomas Greenway, whose " Provincial Rights " group would soon become the Manitoba Liberal Party.

* Murray Gaunt, elected Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament for Huron-Bruce ( 1962 – 81 )

A former supporter of the federal Conservatives he joined the Liberal Cabinet of New Brunswick Premier Andrew George Blair serving as Surveyor-General and Provincial Secretary in successive Liberal governments.

He was first elected to the legislature in the 1990 Ontario election as the New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) for Elgin, defeating incumbent Liberal Marietta Roberts by over 4, 000 votes.

Milliken has long been active in political matters, having served as president of the Frontenac Addington Provincial Liberal AssociationKingston in the 1980s.

His sister-in-law, Deb Matthews is a Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament.

From 1937 to 1943 he was an Ontario Liberal Party Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) for the Toronto riding of St. David.

The Recrear Federal Movement is a national alliance formed in 2003 between Recrear itself and the Federal Movement of various provincial parties-the Salta Renewal Party, the Democratic Progressive Party, the Democratic Party of Mendoza, the Federal Party, the Liberal Party of Corrientes, the Democratic Party of the City of Buenos Aires, the Democratic Liberal Party of Córdoba, the Catamarca Popular Movement, the Provincial Union of Entre Ríos, the Party of the Hope of the Province of Buenos Aires, the Independent Citizens of Tucumán and the Federal North of Jujuy.

Rae initially declined a request from a provincial delegation led by Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ) Dave Cooke, but reconsidered after further entreaties from former Ontario NDP leader Stephen Lewis and many others.

Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) Jim Renwick, Marion Bryden and Tony Grande all declined to relinquish their seats, before former party leader Donald C. MacDonald agreed to stand down in the York South constituency.

Senior cabinet ministers such as Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon resigned demanding a leadership convention and due to pressure from both provincial Liberals and the federal wing one was held in May 1943 at which Hepburn finally tendered his resignation as leader ( by telegram ) and Nixon was elected the new party leader, and was thus appointed as Premier.

It had its first breakthrough under its first leader, Donald C. MacDonald in the 1967 provincial election, when the party elected 20 Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) to the Ontario Legislative Assembly.

In 1978, a frustrated Lewis stepped down as party leader and as a Member of Provincial Parliament.

After Lethbridge lost his seat in the 1929 election Harry Nixon, who had served as Provincial Secretary in Drury's government, became the leader of the remaining Progressives.

The party emerged from the Provincial Rights Party after the retirement of that party's leader, Frederick W. A. G. Haultain.

John Howard Tory, ( born May 28, 1954 ) is a Canadian businessman, political activist, former leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, former Member of Provincial Parliament and broadcaster.

On February 4, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced that a by-election would be held on March 5, 2009 in Haliburton — Kawartha Lakes — Brock to fill the seat vacated by Progressive Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament Laurie Scott, who stepped aside so that PC leader John Tory could seek a seat in the legislature.

* Salvador Escudero Sr. – former Provincial Governor of Sorsogon and was a guerilla leader during the Japanese occupation.

African Lodge was so popular and Prince Hall was such an excellent leader that the Grand Lodge of England made him a Provincial Grand Master on January 27, 1791.

(*) Provincial organizer, may not have been an official party leader.

As at the federal level the most important Cabinet post after that of the leader is the Minister of Finance, which in Prince Edward Island is referred to as the Provincial Treasurer.

Provincial CCF leader Lloyd Stinson later referred to Jobin as Campbell's only " labour-oriented " minister.

In the race she was endorsed by Layton, who by the time of the election was the leader of the federal NDP, and the local NDP Member of Provincial Parliament Marilyn Churley.

Provincial ( SS ) and municipalities ( M ), as well as the party's political leadership: the fractievoorzitter, is the chair of the parliamentary party and the lijsttrekker is the party's top candidate in the general election, these posts are normally taken by the party's leader.

McDiarmid retained the Land and Natural Resources / Mines portfolios for the entirety of his time in cabinet, and was also Provincial Secretary from November 28, 1939 to February 14, 1946, Railway Commissioner and Minister of Industry and Commerce from November 4, 1940 to June 30, 1953, and ( briefly ) acting Labour Minister following the resignation of CCF leader Seymour J.

As a Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ), Pitman unsuccessfully ran to replace Donald C. MacDonald as leader of the provincial NDP.

Singer became deputy leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and, as an Member of Provincial Parliament ( MPP ), pushed for reforms to municipal law, automobile insurance and electoral laws as well as for the establishment of a provincial ombudsman.

Under deputy leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, they contested their first provincial elections in 2008, winning a majority in the Eastern Provincial Council.

Its current Member of Provincial Parliament is Sylvia Jones, former assistant to Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader, John Tory.