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 13 seats to Labor, led by Steve Bracks, at the 1999 election, most of them in regional centres such as Ballarat and Bendigo.

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.

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.

After the 1928 election, however, the party was left in an advantageous position – the Reform Party and the new United Party ( a revival of the Liberals ) were tied on 27 seats each, and neither could govern without Labour support.

Jean-Jacques De Gucht, the son of former minister and current European Commissioner for Trade Policy Karel De Gucht, was placed at the top of the electoral list for the Flemish Liberals in the 2007 federal elections for the East Flanders region and subsequently appointed to the Senate at age 27.

In 1900, during the Boer War, army expenditure was £ 86. 8m, by 1910 ( a low point, after four years of cuts under the Liberals ) it had dropped to £ 27. 6m and by 1914 it had risen back to £ 29. 4m.

" The Nation, March 27, 2008 ( Adapted from Why We're Liberals )

* Eric Alterman speaking at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, on March 27, 2008, as part of his 2008 book tour for Why We're Liberals.

For this election, the Legislature had been expanded to 41 seats, and Scott's Liberals won 27 of these seats.

Graham's upward momentum continued when, in an opinion poll released on December 9, 2004, the Liberals expanded their lead over the Conservatives to 46 % to 36 %, but also, for the first time since Graham became leader, he was the preferred choice of New Brunswickers for premier beating the incumbent Bernard Lord 34 % to 27 %.

On 27 October 2001 Saskatchewan Liberals elected businessman David Karwacki as the new leader over Hillson, who had withdrawn from the coalition.

He served as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in the provincial legislature from 1921 to 1923 but resigned after the one election campaign he led the party through saw the Liberals drop in representation from 27 to 14 seats.

The 1919 election saw the Liberals and their allies drop from 30 seats to 27 with Proudfoot himself defeated in his riding of Huron Centre by the Labour candidate.

At the election the following year the Liberals were defeated after 27 years in power.

In 2002 the BC Liberals and Education Minister Christie Clark introduced Bills 27 & 28 forcing teachers back to work and banning collective bargaining.

* Lord Eliot Convention April 27 – 28, 1835-British-sponsored agreement between Carlists and Liberals regarding treatment of prisoners

Young Liberals was founded on 27 January 1909, with Anders Kirkhusmo as the first president.

* Liberals chase rail station upgrades http :// www. bendigoweekly. com / articles / 6732 / 1 / Liberals-chase-rail-station-upgrades / Page1. html ( Bendigo Weekly 27 June 2008

The 65 voting members included 27 Christian Democrats, 27 Social Democrats ( SPD ) led by Carlo Schmid, and five Liberals under Theodor Heuss.

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

Mike Harris was re-elected with a majority, despite a loss of 23 seats in the 1999 election, defeating Dalton McGuinty's Liberals, which gained 5 seats ( 27 seats were eliminated from legislature from the 1995 election ).

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

On September 27, 2010, Alward became the Premier-designate when his Conservatives picked up 16 seats from the Liberals and will have a 42 of 55 seat majority to form a new government.