* 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.

The New Zealand Liberal Party aggressively promoted agrarianism in its heyday, 1891-1912.

The Liberal Party set out to change that by a policy it called " populism.

When the Macdonald government fell due to the Pacific scandal in 1873, the Governor General, Lord Dufferin, called upon Mackenzie, who had been chosen as the leader of the Liberal Party a few months earlier, to form a new government.

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* 1971 – A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.

In order to eliminate one of the problems of the reign of Elizabeth, the single party and its destabilizing consequences, the Liberal Party was allowed to incorporate and participate in National Politics, and the ' turnism ' or alternanation was to become the new system.

* 1945 – The Liberal Party of Australia is founded by Robert Menzies.

It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, after having secured former Liberal minister Don Chipp as a high-profile leader .< ref >

* 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

From 1852 onwards, Disraeli's career would also be marked by his often intense rivalry with William Ewart Gladstone, who eventually rose to become leader of the Liberal Party.

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

During the 19th century the Liberal Party was broadly in favour of what would today be called classical liberalism: supporting laissez-faire economic policies such as free trade and minimal government interference in the economy ( this doctrine was usually termed ' Gladstonian Liberalism ' after the Victorian era Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ).

The Liberal Party favoured social reform, personal liberty, reducing the powers of the Crown and the Church of England ( many of them were Nonconformists ) and an extension of the electoral franchise.

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the United Kingdom general election, 1880 | 1880 general elections.

The political terms of " modern ", " progressive " or " new " Liberalism began to appear in the mid to late 1880s and became increasingly common to denote the tendency in the Liberal Party to favour an increased role for the state as more important than the classical liberal stress on self-help and freedom of choice.

After nearly becoming extinct in the 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party revived its fortunes somewhat under the leadership of Jo Grimond in the 1960s, by positioning itself as a radical centrist non-socialist alternative to the Conservative and Labour Party governments of the time.

The Liberal Party grew out of the Whigs, which had its origins as an aristocratic faction in the reign of Charles II.

Such speculation increased after Labour lost the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, in which Peter Tatchell was its candidate, standing against a Tory, a Liberal ( eventual winner Simon Hughes ) and the right wing John O ' Grady, who had declared himself the " real " Labour candidate and fought an openly homophobic campaign against Tatchell.

Beginning in 1904, foreign investment increased as a succession of Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal ) administrations in Paraguay maintained a staunch laissez-faire policy.

In the East Sussex County Council elections of 2009 the town returned an Independent in the Lewes Division with an increased majority over the Liberal Democrats.

The Liberal Democrats ' parliamentary candidate, Norman Baker, won the Lewes constituency in the 1997 general election narrowly, and then again in 2001 with a much increased majority and share of the vote.

The only neighbourhood where the Liberal Democrats increased their majority was Surbiton, where they took control of Berrylands ward, ousting Kevin Davis the leader of the Conservative Group on the Council.

In the 2010 local elections the Liberal Democrats increased their majority from two to six seats, and retained control of the Council for a third term.

While rates of homelessness and homeless deaths increased during the eleven years of Liberal government, the link to Martin's decisions was indirect as affordable housing is a mainly provincial jurisdiction.

The Liberal party was returned to power with an increased majority in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and within six months, René Lévesque, Minister of Natural Resources, enacted his plans for Hydro-Québec.

The Liberal Party entered the election with a record of having ended the fiscal deficit, made major reductions in federal spending ( such as by cuts to the civil service, privatization of crown corporations ), creating new environmental regulations, and increased spending beginning on social programs beginning in 1998 after the budget deficit had ended and a surplus had been achieved.

Lord George Hamilton recorded that when the government introduced the Criminal Law Amendment ( Ireland ) Bill in March 1887, which increased the authorities ' coercive powers, the Liberal Party opposed it.

The Liberal Party also increased its seat total in the Legislature from 30 to 36.

In Australia the " New Right " refers to a late 1970s / 1980s onward movement both within and outside of the Liberal / National Coalition which advocates economically liberal and increased socially conservative policies ( as opposed to the " old right " which advocated economically conservative policies and small-l liberals with more socially liberal views ).

In the British general election of 1900, the Conservative Party government of Lord Salisbury was returned to office with an increased majority over the Liberal Party.

He was re-elected in 2001 with a slightly increased majority, but in 2005 his majority slumped to 741, following an increase in support for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency.

In the General Election of May 2010 the Labour vote fell by 1500 and the Liberal Democrats vote increased by 2000 reducing the Labour majority to 505.

In the 2005 general election, he increased his majority to 4, 947, a significant increase over his narrow victory of only 269 votes in 2001 over Liberal Democrat Chris Maines.

Whilst agreeing that the government could not make policy in response to the blockades, William Hague, Leader of the Opposition criticised the government for having increased taxes, whilst the Liberal Democrats argued that the government should have responded to the protest much earlier.

In the 2006 election, the NDP managed to capitalise on its position as the Official Opposition to squeeze the Liberal vote, and the party increased its number of seats from 15 to 20, an all time high, and won 34. 63 % of the vote.

Maccagno was elected, the first Liberal leader since 1955 and the last until 1986 to achieve the feat and the party increased its representation from two to three seats.

The Tories were hurt in the late 1990s by increased unemployment, a vote-manipulation scandal from the 1995 election ( see Independent Native Voice ), and the decline of the Manitoba Liberal Party.

One of Smith's few successes was in the city of Toronto, where popular support for the Liberal Party increased under his leadership.

The Liberal Party campaigned largely on a platform of border security and increased its support at the federal election that November despite being the incumbent.