Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.

Apart from this, when no party has had a majority, minority governments normally have been formed with one or more opposition parties agreeing to vote for the legislation governments need to function, as the Labour government of James Callaghan formed a coalition with the Liberals in 1977 when it lost its narrow majority gained at the October 1974 election.

In the Khaki Election of 1900, nationalist concern with the Boer War meant that the Conservatives and their Liberal Unionist allies gained a majority of Scottish seats for the first time, although the Liberals regained their ascendancy in the next election.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

The Liberals have also gained support as the differences between the coalition partners on a federal level have become invisible.

Gilles Duceppe helped Pauline Marois campaign in the 2008 Quebec provincial election, she did not win and the Liberals gained a slight majority.

In part because of the memories of these eras, the Tory party gained a reputation as being anti-Catholic and anti-French and remained substantially weaker than the Liberals in Quebec from the 1890s to the 1980s, with the lone exception of 1958.

Following a general election defeat in 1900, Campbell-Bannerman went on to lead the Liberal Party to a landslide victory over the Conservative Party at the 1906 general election, also the last election in which the Liberals gained an overall majority in the House of Commons.

The patriarchal role Rasmussen had built for himself since the 11 September attacks had gained him and the Social Liberals their highest poll ratings in years, a lead that would be eroded in the buildup to the election.

The Swiss People's Party gained five seats to the become the second largest party, while the FDP. The Liberals retained 10 seats but dropped to the third largest.

The IPP evolved out of the Home Rule League founded by Isaac Butt after he defected from the Irish Conservative Party in 1873, to gain a limited form of freedom from Britain in order to protect and control Irish domestic affairs in the interest of the Protestant landlord class, after William Ewart Gladstone and his Liberal Party came to power in 1868 under his slogan Justice for Ireland, when Irish Liberals gained 65 of the 105 Irish seats at Westminster.

Many pundits expected losses in Edmonton, the traditional heartland of the provincial Liberals ; indeed, the Conservatives were cut down to three seats in Edmonton ( but subsequently gained a fourth on a recount ).

The Liberals had gained momentum, however, and the anti-CCF opposition coalesced around the party, particularly in the face of events such as the Saskatchewan Doctors ' Strike which hurt the CCF's popularity.

They were successful ; though they gained few seats in Quebec, they won 112 seats overall to the Liberals ' 105.

When the Liberals gained Federal power in 1935, they controlled eight of the nine provincial governments, all except Alberta.

As the issue gained resonance with the voters, the Liberals devoted more time to it, and St. Laurent devoted a major part of his final English television address to the question.

Their decline allowed the Progressive Conservatives to regain a majority government, while the Liberals neither gained nor lost seats.

But Bolte had correctly interpreted the populist appeal of his law-and-order stand, and at the 1967 elections the Liberals gained six seats.

From 1956 the Tories gained significant ground with Robert Stanfield's reformation of the " Progressive Conservatives ", and have successfully challenged the Liberals for control of the government.

He also worked in the party's war room in the 2000 federal election, where he gained national exposure by appearing on CTV's Canada AM brandishing a purple Barney dinosaur to mock Stockwell Day's creationist beliefs, which saw the Liberals win a third mandate.

In the 2008 election, the Conservatives gained this seat from the Liberals.

The third place Liberals gained slightly in the polls, due to great resentment against the ruling Socreds and skepticism towards the NDP.

Standing for the Liberals in Colne Valley in 1959, the 1963 byelection, and 1964, he increased his vote each time until he finally gained his seat in 1966.

By 2008, the Liberals had gained much of their support back in Alta Vista.

However, successive electoral redistributions after 1964 indicated that the Country Party was losing ground electorally to the Liberals as the rural population declined, and the nature of some parliamentary seats on the urban / rural fringe changed.

This backflip, while seen by many as an opportunity for the Liberals to make ground, saw the then leader of the Liberals, Robert Doyle, adopt a much-criticised policy of half tolls, which was later overturned by his successor, Ted Baillieu.

Finally, when Gladstone took up Home Rule for Ireland, Lord Granville, whose mind was similarly receptive to new ideas, adhered to his chief ( 1886 ), and gracefully gave way to Lord Rosebery when the latter was preferred to the foreign office ; the Liberals had now realized that they had lost ground in the country by Lord Granville's occupancy of the post.

Known for decades as competent managers with a left-leaning tendency towards building up Ontario social programs ( such as health care and education ), they found themselves losing this ground to the Liberals and their youthful leader, Peterson.

The Tories lost modest ground in Calgary, winning 18 seats to the Liberals ' five.

The riding has long been a battle ground between the NDP and the Liberals, with the NDP recently winning both federally and provincially.

She argued the Liberals have become preoccupied with " dominating the rational low ground ," abandoning the high moral ground to the left.

On May 11, 2006, before the House of Commons, she said " We would have to pull every truck and car off the street, shut down every train and ground every plane to reach the Kyoto target negotiated by the Liberals.

Atkinson lost ground in the election of December 1890, although it was unclear if the Liberals under Ballance would get enough support to form an administration.

Despite making up some ground against the official opposition Liberals in the summer before the 1993 election call, few had felt that the Progressive Conservatives had any hope of remaining in government once the writ was dropped.

In 2001, Bondevik once again became Prime Minister in 2001, this time as head of a minority coalition of the Conservatives, Christian Democrats and Liberals.

Widely respected as well as trusted, he ensured that by the time he left the leadership in 1967, the Liberals had once again become a notable political force.

However the Liberals lost the 1895 general election and Salisbury once again became Prime Minister, leading Britain to war against the Boers and the Unionists to another electoral victory in 1900 before relinquishing the premiership to his nephew Arthur Balfour.

In the meantime, Sifton announced a new railway policy that would see eight new lines constructed by private companies with the assistance of provincial loan guarantees, including several pioneer lines ; this policy, in its resemblance to the Rutherford policy, met with the approval of the Cross faction, and the Liberals were once more united.

In 1931, when the Liberals split once again, Simon became leader of the Liberal Nationals ( later to become the National Liberals ) who continued to support protectionism and Ramsay MacDonald's National Government after the departure of the mainstream Liberals under Herbert Samuel.

With the party now clearly marginalised as the third party on the fringe, with few distinct domestic policies, with a parliamentary party that was primarily a collection of individuals elected as much for themselves as for their party, and with the separate Liberal Nationals offering competition amongst Liberal inclined voters, Sinclair fought to make the Liberals once more a relevant force in British politics, taking up the issues of opposition to the continental dictatorships and working closely with Winston Churchill who was a backbencher at that time and generally shunned by his Conservative Party.

He took the first opportunity of returning to aid the Orléanist Liberals in France ( 1820 ), sat in the Chamber of deputies from 1827 to 1830, and after the July Revolution of 1830 was at once given a military command.

Despite being included in the leaders debate, along with Premier Dosanjh and Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell the unpopularity of the NDP government was so great that most conservative-minded voters chose to vote for the BC Liberals, rather than split the right-of-centre vote once again.

Gray became the Tory leader in the assembly, but when the Liberals won a majority in 1854, he was once again relegated to the opposition.

The riding had once been considered a bellwether, but the Liberals have dominated it since their landslide in 1993.

After the Liberals won a huge majority in 1993, Boudria became a backbencher once again for a time.

Promoted by the Liberals after the arrival of Pierre E. Trudeau, this view of Canada is at once readily embraced by a great number of Canadians and is enshrined in Section Twenty-seven of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Liberals were returned to power once again in 1845 to formed a cabinet, and managed to enact several programs: a protectionist tariff ( 1844 ), electoral reforms that extended suffrage and reduced the number of electors ( 1846 ), and the creation of a new office, president of the Council of Ministers ( 1847 ).

In the 2009 election, the Liberals moved out of third-party status and formed the official opposition once again.

In 1927 Forbes joined with Bill Veitch ( who led another faction of the Liberals, but who had once been involved with the labour movement ) and with Albert Davy ( a well-known and highly successful organiser for the Reform Party, the traditional opponent of the Liberals ).

On October 3, 2009, Thibault was once again nominated to contest the West Nova seat for the Liberals in the 2011 federal election.

Sorbara's victory indicated that the Liberals were once again positioned to win seats in the region, and to threaten the Conservative hold on government accordingly.

On 22 April 2010 he once again offered his resignation to King Albert II after a key Flemish party, the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, withdrew its support for the coalition government.

" Or instead we could shut down every individual Canadian household, not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR times over to meet the Kyoto target the Liberals negotiated for Canada.