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Liberals and regained
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.
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 Liberals regained power in the 2003 election.
Following the 1993 election in which the Liberals regained power from the Progressive Conservatives after almost a decade in opposition, Tobin was appointed Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
Following the 1979 election, Fälldin regained the post of Prime Minister, despite his party suffering major losses and losing its leading role in the centre-right camp, primarily due to public disenchantment with the Centre Party over its compromise on nuclear power with the nuclear-friendly Moderates, and he again formed a coalition government with the Liberals and the Moderates.
However, polling two days later showed the Liberals had regained an 8-point lead.
Progressive and Liberals regained control at the 1925 election, holding power until 1934.
The Liberals finally regained office under John Howard in 1996.
The media and, seemingly the public, largely blamed Graham and the Liberals for this and, for the first time in over 2 years, in June 2006 the PCs regained the lead in opinion polls and Lord took a double-digit lead in preference for Premier.
Although Turner was not required to call an election until 1985, internal polls showed that the Liberals had regained the lead in opinion polls.
At mid-campaign, polls predicted a Conservative lead, but the Liberals regained enough support to win a plurality of seats to remain the governing party.
After the Liberals regained power under Bourassa in the 1985 election, Ryan served as Minister of Education.
The Liberals made little progress in the 1981 election, returning again with 34 seats while the Tories regained a majority government.
In the 1928 provincial election, the Liberals regained some of their lost popularity in one of the closest votes in Nova Scotia history.
Tobin had been elected when the Liberals regained power in the 1980 election ; the others had been among the few bright spots for the Liberals in the 1984 blowout.
On his departure from the Commons, the Conservative candidate Barry Field was elected and held onto the seat for two terms until 1997 when the seat was temporarily regained for one term by the successors to the Liberals, the Liberal Democrats.
After the death of Zumalacárregui in 1835, the Liberals slowly regained the initiative but were not able to win the war until 1839.
The Liberals consolidated their hold on the seat at the 2004 election ; however Labor regained the seat at the 2007 election when Craig Thomson easily defeated Ken Ticehurst.
Lost when the Liberals won in 1975, Labor picked it up again when Labor regained government in 1983.
Blais retained his seat when the Liberal Party was defeated by the Progressive Conservative government of Joe Clark, and returned to cabinet when the Liberals regained power in 1980.
He lost his seat in October 1924 but regained it in the 1929 General Election, when the Liberals took all five Cornish seats.
In 1918 the hold on the constituency was briefly broken by Charles Frederick White standing for the Liberals, but the seat was regained in 1923.

Liberals and power
Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.
The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.
While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.
The Liberals languished in opposition for a decade, while the coalition of Salisbury and Chamberlain held power.
The Liberals now found themselves with 59 members holding the balance of power in a Parliament where Labour was the largest party but lacked an overall majority.
The Liberals now held the balance of power in the Commons.
It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.
The agricultural export interests, centered in the coastal region near Guayaquil, became closely associated with the Liberals, whose political power also grew steadily during the interval.
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.
The 1956 Pipeline Debate led to the widespread impression that the Liberals had grown arrogant in power when the government invoked closure on numerous occasions in order to curtail debate and ensure that its Pipeline Bill passed by a specific deadline.
The party aimed to hold the balance of power in the state " as an independent conservative party " ready to negotiate with the Liberals or Labor to form a minority government.
While the Colorados reinforced their monopoly on power and spoils, Liberals called for reform.
Egusquiza startled Colorado stalwarts by sharing power with the Liberals, a move that split both parties.
After four months of fighting, Ezcurra signed the Pact of Pilcomayo aboard an Argentine gunboat on December 12, 1904, and handed power to the Liberals.
The Liberals had disbanded Caballero's army when they came to power and organized a completely new one.
When Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.
In 1939 the Liberals, recognizing that they would have to choose someone with national stature to be president if they wanted to hold onto power, picked General Estigarribia, the hero of the Chaco War who had since served as special envoy to the United States.
The result was the constitution of 1940, which returned to the executive the power that the Liberals had stripped away.
While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.
The Liberals were in power with a progressive alliance of Labour and, off and on, Irish Nationalists.
On May 31, the British general election returned a hung parliament yet again, with the Liberals in position to determine who would have power.
A week after the vote, on June 7 the Conservatives conceded power rather than ally with the Liberals.
* May 31 – The British general election returns a hung parliament yet again ; the Liberals will determine who has power.
In the 1992 state election, the Liberals came to power under Premier Jeff Kennett, who planned to cut the costs of Melbourne's public transport network and remove conductors.
When the National Liberals came to power in Denmark, in 1848, it provoked an uprising of ethnic Germans who supported Schleswig's ties with Holstein.

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