At the same time reaction among anti-organization Democratic leaders and in the Liberal party to the Mayor's reported plan was generally favorable.

The policy built up support for the Liberal party in rural North Island electorates.

The party competes against the Liberal / National Coalition for political office at the federal and state ( and sometimes local ) level.

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.

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.

The Liberal Democrats could point to steady progress under Charles Kennedy, gaining more seats than the main two parties – albeit only six overall – and maintaining the performance of a pleasing 1997 election, where the party doubled its number of seats from 20 to 46.

If there be any party which is more pledged than another to resist a policy of restrictive legislation, having for its object social coercion, that party is the Liberal party.

It has been the tradition of the Liberal party consistently to maintain the doctrine of individual liberty.

It is because they have done so that England is the place where people can do more what they please than in any other country in the world ... It is this practice of allowing one set of people to dictate to another set of people what they shall do, what they shall think, what they shall drink, when they shall go to bed, what they shall buy, and where they shall buy it, what wages they shall get and how they shall spend them, against which the Liberal party have always protested.

As early as 1839 Russell had adopted the name Liberal Party, but in reality the party was a loose coalition of Whigs in the House of Lords and Radicals in the Commons.

The Whig-Radical amalgam could not become a true modern political party, however, while it was dominated by aristocrats, and it was not until the departure of the " Two Terrible Old Men ", Russell and Palmerston, that Gladstone could become the first leader of the modern Liberal Party.

The establishment of the party as a national membership organisation came with the foundation of the National Liberal Federation in 1877.

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents ( including Queen Victoria ), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

Harcourt's resignation briefly muted the turmoil in the party, but the beginning of the Second Boer War soon nearly broke the party apart, with Rosebery and a circle of supporters including important future Liberal leaders H. H.

Campbell-Bannerman tried to keep these forces together at the head of a moderate Liberal rump, but in 1901 he delivered a speech on the government's " methods of barbarism " in South Africa that pulled him further to the left and nearly tore the party in two.

Lloyd George still claimed to be leading a Liberal government, but he was increasingly under the influence of the rejuvenated Conservative party.

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

The one significant reunification came in 1946 when the Liberal and Liberal National party organisations in London merged.

With many traditional domestic Liberal policies now regarded as irrelevant, he focused the party on opposition to both the rise of Fascism in Europe and the appeasement foreign policy of the British government, arguing that intervention was needed, in contrast to the Labour calls for pacifism.

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

The Liberals were reduced to a mere forty seats in Parliament, only seven of which had been won against candidates from both parties and none of these formed a coherent area of Liberal survival.

Under his leadership a Liberal revival began, marked by the Orpington by-election of March 1962 which was won by Eric Lubbock.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

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.

Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales of the Liberal Party of Honduras won the 27 November 2005 presidential elections with less than a 4 % margin of victory, the smallest margin ever in Honduran electoral history.

The Liberal Party won 62 of the 128 congressional seats, just short of an absolute majority.

The seat was created as a safe Liberal seat, and Holt won it easily.

The alternation between left and right was broken in the October 2000 elections when the Liberal Union and New Union parties won the most votes and were able to form a centrist ruling coalition with minor partners.

Liberal Julio César Franco won the August 2000 election to fill the vacant vice presidential position.

An election was called for 13 December, which the Liberal Party won in its own right ( although the Liberals governed in a coalition with the Country Party ).

Similarly, John Turner replaced Pierre Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party in 1984 and subsequently was appointed prime minister even though he did not hold a seat in the lower chamber of parliament ; Turner won a riding in the next election but the Liberal Party was swept from power.

In 1906, the Liberal party, led by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, won an overwhelming victory on a platform that promised social reforms for the working class.

In the federal election of 1972, the Trudeau-led Liberal Party won with a minority government, with the New Democratic Party holding the balance of power.

The Liberal victory in 1980 highlighted a sharp geographical divide in the country: the party had won no seats west of Manitoba.

Running against representatives of the re-established pre-war National Peasants ' Party and National Liberal Party, and taking advantage of FSN's tight control of the national radio and television, Iliescu won 85 % of the vote.

With the lower house enlarged from 74 to 121 seats, the Menzies Liberal / Country Coalition won the 1949 election with 74 of 121 seats and 51. 0 percent of the two-party vote but remained in minority in the Senate.

Daniel Ortega and Enrique Bolaños of the Constitutional Liberal Party ( PLC ) ran neck-and-neck in the polls for much of the campaign, but in the end the PLC won a clear victory.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra October 20, 1996 ' Lost as 669. 443 A total valid votes equivalent to 37. 75 %, well below that obtained by his main opponent on Arnoldo Aleman Lacayo candidate of the Liberal Alliance ( AL ) who won 904. 908 to obtain valid votes equivalent to 51. 03 %.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 4, 2001 ' Lost as 915. 417 A total valid votes equivalent to 42. 30 %, well below that obtained by the main opposition Enrique Bolaños Geyer candidate Liberal Constitutionalist Party ( PLC ) who won by getting 1, 216, 863 valid votes equivalent to 56. 30 %.

* Daniel Ortega Saavedra November 5, 2006 ' won getting the 37. 99 % of the valid votes cast 930. 802 votes equivalent to relatively higher than the two forces princiapl opisitora presented at election they were the party of the Second Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance ( ALN ) with the degree candidate Eduardo Montealegre Rivas who won 693. 391 votes recorded corresponding to a 28. 30 % and third place went to the Constitutionalist Liberal Party with Dr. José Rizo Castellón who earned a total 664. 225 of valid votes corresponding to 27. 11 %.