The Liberals pushed through parts of their programme, but the Conservatives vetoed or modified others.

It was only because the party was in minority that Sweden was able to grant the right to vote for all, pushed through by the Liberals and the Social Democrats ( the left ), against the objections of the right.

The Liberal Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, George Bulyea, determined that for the sake of the Liberal Party of Alberta Rutherford had to be pushed aside in favour of a new Premier ; when other prominent Liberals declined it, the position was offered to Sifton.

Although the Coalition Liberals who had formerly held the seat were pushed into third place, Simon came second ; in the view of Maurice Cowling his defeat by Labour marked the point at which Labour began to be seen as a serious threat by the older parties.

By the 1910s, the splitting off of the Social Liberals and the appearance of the Social Democrats had pushed Venstre toward the centre, and it often relied on its former Conservative adversaries for parliamentary support.

When their party came to power in 1930, anticlerical Liberals pushed for legislation to end Church influence in public schools.

In late 1944 or early 1945, she pushed for creating a more broad-based coalition with the National Peasants ' Party and the National Liberal Party, but was overruled by Joseph Stalin ; hence, the Communist-led government created in March 1945 comprised a more restrictive coalition with a faction of the National Liberals led by Gheorghe Tătărescu.

In the 2005 election, however, the Liberals were pushed into third place by the Liberal Democrats.

During World War I, the Liberals governed Britain through a coalition with the Conservatives, which ended in 1922.

Because the Liberals were still mostly classically liberal, Diefenbaker promised to outspend the incumbent Liberals, who campaigned on plans to stay the course of fiscal conservatism they had followed through St-Laurent's term in the 1940s and 1950s.

Perhaps even more damaging to Macdonald was when the Liberals discovered a telegram, through a former employee of Sir Hugh Allan, which had been stolen from the safe of Allan's lawyer, Sir John Abbott.

With 379 seats compared to the Conservatives ' 132, the Liberals could confidently expect to pass their legislative programme through the Commons.

The Liberals were now better placed to voice their complaints, since they were participating more fully through a variety of voluntary organizations.

Rapidly rising through the party ranks, Askin soon became President of the Liberals ' Manly branch and supported William Wentworth's successful bid for the new seat of Mackellar at the 1949 election.

Liberals try to persuade through reason and facts while conservatives used metaphorical stories and that is why, Lakoff argues, conservative politicians are more successful at motivating voters than liberals are.

The leadership election was decided on a one member, one vote system through which Liberals voted for their choices by telephone.

Mulock remained in Opposition through two subsequent elections until 1896 when the Liberals under Wilfrid Laurier took power.

Assured of support, the emperor, through Rouher, a supporter of the absolutist régime, refused all fresh claims on the part of the Liberals.

The Liberals formed a temporary coalition government with the Irish Parliamentary Party, and the budget passed through the House of Commons a second time without significant problems.

He commanded the loyalty of many Liberals who had supported his government through the Alberta and Great Waterways issue, though this faction began increasingly to see Cross as its real leader.

It survived through alliances with the National Liberals or with Averescu, while Argetoianu left it to establish an equally small agrarian group.

Following the 2008 – 2009 Canadian parliamentary dispute, Stéphane Dion's continued leadership of the federal Liberals was felt to be an impediment to the party's popular support, but with a situation where the party had to be almost immediately prepared to either take over the government or face an election, many party members felt that the party did not have the time to go through a conventional leadership race.

He grew close to the Liberals through subsequent elections until he ran and was re-elected as a Laurier Liberal in the 1917 federal election.

Oliver became Liberal leader in 1945 and led the party through the 1948 election that again reduced the Liberals to third place behind the Tories and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

The Liberal government went through a series of crises during World War II due to Hepburn's feud with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and the federal Liberals.

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 Liberals under Smallwood promoted the diversification of the province's economy through various megaprojects.

But this never happened, and Davies was in fact to remain party leader for the next 11 years, taking the Liberals through three General Elections.

The Liberals supported land reform through were state acquisition of large landed estates.

Conversely, these arguments were disputed by those who claimed Dominion was widely misunderstood, and conservatively inclined commenters saw the change as part of a much larger attempt by Liberals to " re-brand " or re-define Canadian history.

Since the disastrous election result in 1924 the Liberals were now very much the third party in British politics, but still Lloyd George was able to release money from his fund to finance candidates and ideas for public works to reduce unemployment ( as detailed in pamphlets such as the " Yellow Book " and the " Green Book ").

Clark was bilingual but the PC party was also unable to make much headway in Quebec, which continued to be federally dominated by the Liberals.

Liberals and conservatives have different worldviews and sematics are very much influenced by the worldview of the speaker.

At the time of Boisclair's election, the PQ was as much as 20 percent ahead of the Liberals in opinion polls, suggesting that Boisclair would lead them to a landslide majority government in the next election.

Hargrove allied with the Liberals and publicly stated that he " did not like the campaign that Jack Layton was running ", criticizing Layton for " spending too much time attacking the Liberals ".

In the 1987 general election, the share of the vote for each party fell slightly ; the Liberals won 17 seats ( the same as in 1983 ), while the SDP won five ( one fewer than four years previously ), while Labour were firmly established as Britain's second political party with a much stronger showing than in 1983, although the Conservatives still achieved a third successive election win with Mrs Thatcher still at the helm.

Although unable to accomplish much due to his lack of a parliamentary majority, the split of the Liberals over Irish Home Rule in 1886 enabled him to return to power with a majority, and, excepting a Liberal minority government ( 1892 – 95 ), to serve as Prime Minister from 1886 to 1902.

The Liberals swept Ontario, a divided Bloc managed a reduced majority in Quebec, and much of the west was won by Reform, particularly its Alberta base, enabling the Reform to overtake the Bloc as the second largest party.

However, much to the Socreds ' own surprise, the party garnered enough second preference votes to become the largest party in the legislature with 19 seats, one more than the CCF, while the Liberals and Conservatives were practically wiped out.

He was re-elected in Ottawa South in the 1995 provincial election without much difficulty, which saw the Liberals maintain their status as the official opposition amid a provincial swing from the NDP to the Progressive Conservatives.

King's Liberals won a majority government of just one seat: they won almost all of Quebec, much of the Maritimes, and a good portion of Ontario.

The Liberals had won a majority in their own right in the 1996 election, leaving the Nationals in a much weaker position compared to previous Coalition governments.

In June 1975 Smith was appointed as the Liberals ' Chief Whip and faced much pressure from the press in the wake of a sexual scandal involving party leader Jeremy Thorpe.

He became renowned as a gentlemanly and civil man, but after three election defeats, he faced much criticism from inside the party, from members that felt he had continually failed to provide strong leadership against the Liberals.

He resigned in 1976 and was succeeded by Joe Clark, who had a much more aggressive approach in his attacks on the Liberals.

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.

Goldhagen makes much of the radical antisemitism of the Conservative Party in Germany ; but in 1893 it obtained less than 10 percent of the votes, whereas the National Liberals, among whom there were a number of former Jews, were much more numerous.

Turner rehired much of Trudeau's staff during the final weeks in an attempt to turn the tide, but this did nothing to reverse the Liberals ' sliding poll numbers.

Under Broadbent, the party had seen greater support in opinion polling than ever before, and had actually replaced the Liberals as the second party in much of the west.

This was too much for many Ontario Liberals, who were either King loyalists or feared a rift between the federal and provincial parties.

While the Liberals had traditionally been the party for radical change and free trade, in the 1896 election, they embraced a much more conservative platform.