Despite gaining 9 seats the Tories lost 8 behind them to the Liberals Democrats and one even to Labour.

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.

Following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals.

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.

While the Liberals lost several seats, they still had 111 more seats than the Tories, enabling them to dominate the Canadian House of Commons.

Many Liberals criticised the Fraser years as " a decade of lost opportunity ," on deregulation of the Australian economy and other issues.

He lost his seat in the 1911 general election, which saw the Conservatives defeat his Liberals.

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

The Liberals lost 118 seats ( leaving them with only 40 ) and their vote count fell by over a million.

( The independent Liberal parliamentary leadership was briefly taken over by the unknown Donald Maclean until Asquith, who had lost his seat like other leading Liberals, returned to the House at a by-election ).

With the emergence of new parties, the Liberals lost its dominant position.

The Liberals increased their large majority mostly at the expense of the NDP, and the Tories under Joe Clark lost many seats and remained in fifth place, but Clark was elected in Calgary Centre in the middle of Alliance country, so the overall political landscape was not significantly changed.

The Stanfield-led Progressive Conservatives lost the 1974 election to the Pierre Trudeau-led Liberals.

Clark's reputation as a leader had taken a beating when, as Prime Minister, he carelessly lost a non-confidence motion over his minority government's budget in December 1979, leading to the fall of his government ; the PCs subsequently lost the federal election held two months later when Trudeau rescinded his announced retirement, and returned to lead the Liberals to a majority.

The Liberals lost 27 seats, including several high-profile cabinet ministers, and Trudeau announced his intention to step down as party leader.

The Liberals won re-election and Labor lost its slim majority.

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.

The Liberals lost power in the 1895 general election and for ten years were in opposition.

By this time, Asquith had become very unpopular with the public ( as Lloyd George was perceived to have " won the war " by displacing him ) and, along with most leading Liberals, lost his seat in the 1918 elections, at which the Liberals split into Asquith and Lloyd George factions.

Asquith again lost his seat in the 1924 election held after the fall of the Labour government — at which the Liberals were reduced to the status of a minor party with only 40 or so MPs.

Over the 13 years that the Liberals then spent in opposition until 1996, they tended to blame the " wasted opportunities " of the Fraser years for their problems.

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 ).

Among the general public, McKenna beat former New Democratic Party Ontario Premier Bob Rae by a margin of 23 to 11 while among self-identified Liberals, McKenna beat former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada John Manley by a margin of 28 to 13.

At the February 2001 state election, Gallop led the Labor Party to victory, taking 13 seats from the Liberals on a seven-percent swing -- the largest swing against a sitting government in the state since 1911.

Due to competition with the Liberals for left-leaning voters, the New Democrats had mixed successes in the next several elections, winning 21 in 1997 but dropping back to 13 in 2000, unable to approach their high water mark showing until 2006.

However, the Liberals lost power in the campaign, falling from 21 to 13 seats in Quebec, and even being surpassed by the Conservatives in the popular vote.

In the 1951 Ontario provincial election, he failed to win election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and the Liberals lost six of the 13 seats they had previously held.

The Liberals remained at the 14 seats they had in 1926, and dropped to 13 seats in the 1929 election.

Recently, the Liberals have faltered in the province, and are currently the second-largest party in the Assembly with 13 seats to 31 for the New Democrats and 8 for the Progressive Conservatives.

In a move that startled political observers, Liberal leader Stéphane Dion announced on April 13, 2007, that his party would not contest the seat in order to give May a better chance of winning, a move that marked the first time in decades that the Liberals did not field a full slate of candidates in a general election.

The town council's political groups are Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue ( The Social Democratic Party of Finland ) ( 14 councils ), Kokoomus ( The National Coalition Party ) ( 13 ), Järvenpää 2000 Plus ( 7 ), Keskusta ( The Centre Party ) ( 7 ), Vihreä liitto ( The Green League )( 4 ), Vasemmistoliitto ( The Left Alliance ) ( 3 ), Kristillisdemokraatit ( Christian Democrats ) ( 1 ), Suomen kommunistinen puolue ( Communist Party of Finland ) ( 1 ) ja Liberaalit ( Liberals ) ( 1 ).

The group was known as the " Continuing Liberals ", and ran candidates in 13 seats.

The Liberals won 13 seats in 1962, and 14 in 1966 ( out of 57 ).

** Alberta: Conservatives 62 %, Liberals 23 %, NDP 13 %, Green 2 %

The current City Council, elected in 2009, consists of 40 members: 13 Christian Democrats, 13 Social Democrats, 6 Liberals, 4 Greens, 4 Civic Action and 4 Independents.

He was a Federal Director and campaign manager for John Howard in the 1996 federal election campaign, which defeated the Keating government and brought the Liberals to power after 13 years in Opposition.

In the 1973 election, Labour won 69 seats, the Conservatives 23, the Liberals 13.

The McGuinty-lead Liberals formed government following this election after having been in Opposition for 13 years.

On a two party preferred basis with the Liberals, Labor finished with 72. 27, an increase of 1. 13 percentage points.

Sophia Helena (" Sophie ") in't Veld ( born 13 September 1963 ) is a Dutch Member of the European Parliament for the social liberal party Democrats 66 as part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Wolf Klinz ( born on 13 September 1941 in Vienna ) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany ( FDP ), part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe ( ALDE ).

Labor's lower house parliamentary position was much better than it had been in 1943, since the 1945 state elections had given Labor 31 seats to the Country Party's 18 and the Liberals ' 13, with three independents.

The 1950 election, however, gave Labor 24 seats to the Liberals ' 27 and the Country Party's 13.