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.

The Conservatives came back to power under Bonar Law and then Stanley Baldwin.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

Few then were surprised when Major's Conservatives lost the 1 May 1997 general election to Tony Blair's " New Labour ", although the immense scale of the defeat was not as widely predicted: in 1987 and 1992 the Conservatives had polled better than had been suggested by the opinion polls, but in 1997 this was no longer the case.

He became Prime Minister because in 1994 he was elected Labour Party leader and then led the party to victory in the 1997 general election, winning 418 seats compared to 165 for the Conservatives and gaining a majority in the House of Commons.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

From then until he lost his seat to the Conservatives in the 2010 General Election, Hendon was represented in the House of Commons by the Labour MP, Andrew Dismore.

Even then, the former MP for Hastings Jacqui Lait managed to hold on to the seat for the Conservatives by just over 1, 000 votes.

In the 2010 general election, the FT was receptive towards Liberal Democrat positions on civil liberties and political reform and praised the then Labour leader, Gordon Brown, for his response to the global financial crisis but on balance, backed the Conservatives, though questioning their Euroscepticism.

The first was an effort on May 6th, 1991, by Mike Harris, later premier but then leader of the opposition Progressive Conservatives, to derail the implementation of the budget tabled by the NDP government under premier Bob Rae.

A second high-profile and uniquely implemented filibuster in the Ontario Legislature occurred in April, 1997, where the New Democratic Party, then in opposition, tried to prevent the governing Progressive Conservatives ' Bill 103 from taking effect.

Labour politician Jack Straw has speculated: " I say to the Conservatives that if they start to take a mechanical approach, this so-called ' English votes for English laws ' approach, then they will break the Union.

Russell, as the leader of the Whigs, then brought the Whigs into a new coalition government with the Peelite Conservatives, headed by the Peelite Lord Aberdeen.

In October 2009 he wrote an article in the Times predicting that the Conservatives, then well ahead in the opinion polls, were unlikely to win an outright majority.

Andrew Lansley, then a vice-chairman of the Conservatives called them " a party of the disgruntled and disaffected ".

From then on all were referred to as " Unionists " until the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922, after which they became Conservatives again.

A motion of no confidence was then tabled by the Conservatives and supported by the SNP, the Liberals and Ulster Unionists.

Further discussions then led to the formation of a coalition government, which was also a majority government, between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, as it was thought this would be more stable.

As such it was held by the Conservatives from 1983 until 1992 ( until 1987 by the former Runcorn MP Mark Carlisle, then by Chris Butler ), when it was taken by Labour's Mike Hall.

On 15 October 2003, after closed-door meetings were held by the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party, Stephen Harper ( then the leader of the Canadian Alliance ) and Peter MacKay ( then the leader of the Progressive Conservatives ) announced the "' Conservative Party Agreement-in-Principle ", thereby merging their parties to create the new Conservative Party of Canada.

Bachand and Clark sat as independent Progressive Conservatives until an election was called in the spring of 2004, and then retired from Parliament.

Since the 1911 election, the country had been governed by the Conservatives, first under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Borden, and then under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen.

An alliance of pro free-trade Conservatives ( the " Peelites "), Radicals, and Whigs carried repeal, and the Conservative Party split: the Peelites moved towards the Whigs, while a " new " Conservative Party formed around the protectionists, led by Disraeli, Bentinck, and Lord Stanley ( later Lord Derby ).

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

In the election of 1979, Trudeau's Liberal government was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.

Stevens left the Conservatives and formed the Reconstruction Party of Canada, after Bennett refused to implement Stevens ' plan for drastic economic reform to deal with the economic crisis.

The Liberal Party was one of the two dominant parties ( along with the Conservatives ) from its founding until the 1920s, when it rapidly declined and was supplanted on the left by the Labour Party, which was founded in 1900 and formed its first government in 1924.

The 2009 elections again saw a victory for the European People's Party, despite losing the British Conservatives who formed a smaller eurosceptic grouping with other anti-federalist right wing parties.

After the Conservatives formed a government with Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister, a cabinet committee investigated the letter and concluded that it was genuine.

In it he pledged that the Conservatives would endorse modest reform, but the Whigs instead formed a compact with Daniel O ' Connell's Irish Radical members to repeatedly defeat the government on various bills.

However, the six seats would have been just enough to give Clark's government a majority had the Progressive Conservatives formed a coalition government with Social Credit, or had the two parties otherwise agreed to work together.

Having agreed to a set of policies, the Conservatives and Liberal Unionists formed a government on 24 June 1895.

This production, while following the spirit and tone of the original series in many respects, was set contemporaneously at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence, with BlackBerrys frequently in evidence, and even included a topical reference to a coalition agreement which Sir Humphrey had drafted ( the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats having formed a coalition government in Britain in May 2010 ).

In 1968 the Conservatives formed a majority for the first and last time to date until they lost control to Labour in 1971.

Outside Scotland and the English city of Birmingham, many local Liberal Unionists and Conservatives had already formed joint constituency associations in the previous decade.

Deborah Grey's 1989 by-election victory in Beaver River was seen as evidence that the newly formed Reform Party of Canada would be a serious political contender and that it posed a serious political threat for the ruling Progressive Conservatives.

This attempt to undermine and outflank the Conservatives, which would prove to be successful, formed what became known as the " Gladstone – MacDonald pact ".

The conflict was won by Britain on 14 June, and subsequent opinion polls showed the Conservatives firmly in the lead, and with a general election due by May 1984, it seemed that the most anticipated outcome would be whether the Alliance or Labour formed the next opposition.

The crisis was resolved when Borden formed a Union government composed of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals.

Luís's domestic reign was a tedious and ineffective series of transitional governments called Rotativism formed at various times by the Progressistas ( Liberals ) and the Regeneradores ( Conservatives – the party generally favoured by King Luís, who secured their long term in office after 1881 ).

During the Great Depression a coalition termed a National Government was formed in 1931 between Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and the Conservatives and Liberals.

The Conservatives only formed government six times in this period.

In 1997, the Saskatchewan Party was formed by a coalition of four former Progressive Conservatives ( PC leader Bill Boyd, Dan D ' Autremont, Ben Heppner, Don Toth ) and five Liberal Party members of the Legislature ( Bob Bjornerud, June Draude, Rod Gantefoer, Arlene Julé, Ken Krawetz ).

He was unwilling to form a coalition government with the Conservatives, so his Liberal Party removed him as leader and formed such a coalition despite his objections.