In the general election of 1880 Disraeli's Conservatives were defeated by Gladstone's Liberals, in large part owing to the uneven course of the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Ramsay MacDonald was forced into a snap election in 1924, and although his government was defeated, he achieved his objective of virtually wiping the Liberals out as many more radical voters now moved to Labour whilst moderate middle-class Liberal voters concerned about socialism moved to the Conservatives.

During the following year, three different men briefly held executive power before Galo Plaza Lasso, running under a coalition of independent Liberals and socialists, narrowly defeated his Conservative opponent in presidential elections.

When the Liberals were defeated at the 1972 election by the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam, he became a member of the opposition front bench under Billy Snedden's leadership.

He defeated several prominent and long-serving Liberals including Paul Martin Sr., Robert Winters and Paul Hellyer.

The consensus was that Mulroney would be heavily defeated by Jean Chrétien and the Liberals if he led the Tories into the next election — ironically, the same situation that led to Trudeau's departure from the scene nine years earlier.

In April 1982 Cain defeated the Liberals and formed the first Labor government in Victoria for 27 years since the one led by his father.

During its second reading on 8 June, the Home Rule Bill was defeated by 30 votes, with 93 Liberals, including Chamberlain and Hartington, voting against the government

The Conservatives were defeated by the Liberals at the general election the following January ( in terms of MPs, a Liberal landslide ), with Balfour himself losing his seat at Manchester East to Thomas Gardner Horridge, a prominent solicitor and king's counsel.

Even though Social Credit won a majority of seats in the legislature, their finance minister Einar Gunderson was defeated in Oak Bay by Archie Gibbs of the Liberals.

In the first few weeks after André Boisclair was elected leader of the PQ, polls showed that Charest and the Liberals would be roundly defeated in the next election.

Besides the two Conservative factions, the Labour Party were fighting as a major national party for the first time and indeed became the main Opposition after the election ; the Liberals were still split into Asquith and Lloyd George factions, with many Lloyd George Liberals still unopposed by Conservative candidates ( including Churchill, who was defeated at Dundee nonetheless ).

Having defeated Brett, Sifton was immediately one of the area's most prominent Liberals, and was named president of the District of Alberta Liberals shortly thereafter.

Despite winning six of Alberta's seven seats, the Liberals were defeated by Robert Borden's Conservatives.

Despite enjoying the support of twelve Liberals, including Cushing, the motion was defeated and the government upheld.

The Liberals were defeated, but the landslide win by the United Farmers of Alberta left the Conservatives with only one seat.

The Liberals were soundly defeated.

It was defeated, however, when twelve NDP MPPs ( including two junior ministers ) voted against it, while the opposition Liberals led by Lyn McLeod also withdrew their support.

McLellan turned out to be Canada's most recent deputy prime minister ; the Liberals were defeated in 2006 and she lost her seat, opting to retire from politics afterwards.

She defeated Davison by 2, 804 votes, and joined thirty-three other Liberals in forming the Official Opposition to Premier William Davis's Progressive Conservative government.

In 1871, the Liberals organized protests in favor of France-just defeated in the Franco-Prussian War-and implicitly against German Empire, the Conservatives, and Prince Carol himself.

The Liberals, led by Sir Wilfrid Laurier refused ; however, Borden was able to convince many individual Liberals to join what was called a Union Government, which defeated the Laurier Liberals in the fall 1917 election.

The proposal divided the Conservative Party while reuniting the Liberals under Gladstone's leadership.

As a result of these social reforms the Liberal-Labour MP Alexander Macdonald told his constituents in 1879, " The Conservative party have done more for the working classes in five years than the Liberals have in fifty.

In the 1920s, the Labour Party permanently replaced the Liberals as the largest opponent of the Conservative Party in British politics, and the Liberals went into decline, which culminated in their winning as few as 6 seats at general elections during the 1950s.

In 1841 the Liberals lost office to the Conservative Party under Sir Robert Peel, but their period in opposition was short, because the Conservatives split over the repeal of the Corn Laws, a free trade issue, and a faction known as the Peelites ( but not Peel himself, who died soon after ), defected to the Liberal side.

A reunion of the two warring factions took place in 1923 when the new Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin committed his party to protective tariffs, causing the Liberals to reunite in support of free trade.

Lloyd George offered a degree of support to the Labour government in the hope of winning concessions, including a degree of electoral reform to introduce the alternative vote, but this support was to prove bitterly divisive as the Liberals increasingly divided between those seeking to gain what Liberal goals they could achieve, those who preferred a Conservative government to a Labour one and vice-versa.

Under Grimond ( who retired in 1967 ) and his successor, Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberals regained the status of a serious third force in British politics, polling up to 20 % of the vote but unable to break the duopoly of Labour and Conservative and win more than fourteen seats in the Commons.

During the war there were at least three attempts by Panamanian Liberals to seize control of Panama and potentially achieve full autonomy, including one led by Liberal guerrillas like Belisario Porras and Victoriano Lorenzo, each of whom was suppressed by a collaboration of Conservative Colombian and U. S. forces under the Mallarino-Bidlack Treaty.

While Bennett supported the Conservatives, he opposed Prime Minister Robert Borden's proposal for a Union Government that would include both Conservatives and Liberals, fearing that this would ultimately hurt the Conservative Party.

The Liberals lost the election of 1930 to the Conservative Party, led by Richard Bedford Bennett.

The Liberals held an average of 60 % of the seats, the Social Democrats and the Conservative People's Party ( CVP today ), about 20 % each.

When Labour won more seats ( though fewer votes ) than the Conservative Party in February 1974 and Heath was unable to persuade the Liberals to form a coalition, Wilson returned to 10 Downing Street on 4 March 1974 as Prime Minister of a minority Labour Government.

On 26 March 2011, Bloc Québécois leader Duceppe stated that Conservative leader Stephen Harper had in 2004 tried to form a coalition government with the Bloc and NDP in response to Harper's allegations that the Liberals intended to form a coalition with the Bloc and the NDP.

Progressive Conservative Premier Bill Davis's criticism of the gas tax was used in the Liberals ' Ontario television ads, and the swing in support from the Tories to the Liberals in that province proved to be decisive in the campaign.

However, prior to that, Somoza worked out an agreement allowing him to stand for re-election in 1974 ; he would be replaced as president by a three-man junta consisting of two Liberals and one Conservative while retaining control of the National Guard.

In the 1979 election, Sauvé won the riding of Laval-des-Rapides, but the Liberals lost their majority in the commons to the Progressive Conservative Party, and Sauvé thus lost her cabinet position.

The Liberals lost the federal election, of May, 1979 to a minority Conservative government led by Joe Clark.

In the December 1910 election the Liberals again won, though their majority in the Commons was now dependent on MPs from Ireland, who had their own price ( at the election the Liberal and Conservative parties were exactly equal in size ; by 1914 the Conservative Party was actually larger owing to by-election victories ).

Chamberlain earned a reputation for provocative speeches during the period, especially during debate on the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which was opposed by the Whig Liberals Lord Hartington and George Goschen, as well as the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury, who argued that the Bill gave the Liberals an unfair electoral advantage and was prepared to block the Bill in the House of Lords unless it was accompanied by redistribution of seats into the suburbs.

One of these concessions was amnesty to captured Conservative guerrillas who were still resisting the Juárez government, even though these same guerrillas were executing captured Liberals, which included Melchor Ocampo.