From 1942, the party was known as the Progressive Conservatives, until 2003, when the national party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the Conservative Party of Canada.

From 1957 until 1993 Fredericton returned Progressive Conservatives.

In the 1957 election, the Liberals won 200, 000 more votes nationwide than the Progressive Conservatives ( 40. 75 % Liberals to 38. 81 % PC ).

* 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.

In the election of 1979, Trudeau's Liberal government was defeated by the Progressive Conservatives, led by Joe Clark, who formed a minority government.

The Conservatives won 49, the newly-formed Progressive Party won 58 ( but declined to form the official Opposition ), and the remaining ten seats went to fringe parties and Independents ; most of these ten supported the Progressives.

* August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta.

The federal Progressive Conservatives under Joe Clark refused to participate in these talks, but there was strong support from many provincial Tories, especially in Ontario and Alberta.

Under the leadership of Reform / CA activist Randy Thorsteinson, the new party never sought a formal link with the CA, and if it had done so the overture would likely have been rebuffed since many Albertan CA members continued to support the Alberta Progressive Conservatives.

The new party was dubbed " the Alliance Conservatives " by critics who considered the new party a " hostile takeover " of the old Progressive Conservatives by the newer Alliance.

The Christian left ( along with the secular and anti-religious left ) became supporters of the New Democratic Party while the right moved the Social Credit Party, especially in Western Canada, and to a lesser extent the Progressive Conservatives.

In 2003 the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives merged to create the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Stephen Harper, a member of the Alliance Church, who went on to become prime minister in 2006.

The Liberals had won the 1974 election by attacking Robert Stanfield's Progressive Conservatives over their platform involving wage and price controls.

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

By late 1982, Joe Clark's leadership of the Progressive Conservatives was being questioned in many party circles and among many Tory members of Parliament, despite his solid national lead over Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in opinion polls, which stretched to 19 percent in summer 1982.

The Progressive Conservatives were no longer recognized as a political party in the House of Commons, since the required minimum number of seats for official party status is 12.

In her memoirs, Time and Chance, and in her response in the National Post to The Secret Mulroney Tapes, Campbell stated that Mulroney left her with almost no time to salvage the Progressive Conservatives ' tattered reputation once the bounce from the leadership convention wore off.

Mulroney joined the Conservative Party of Canada following its creation in 2003 by the merger of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

He made a political comeback in 1998 to lead the Progressive Conservatives before its dissolution, serving his final term in Parliament from 2000 to 2004.

He served as President of the University of Alberta Young Progressive Conservatives, and eventually served as national president for the young PCs group.

He was unsuccessful in his first foray into politics as an official constituency candidate for the provincial Progressive Conservatives in the 1967 provincial election.

It also did not help that the Progressive Conservatives lost a string of by-elections on May 24, 1977.

Nonetheless, Clark's Progressive Conservatives won 136 seats to end sixteen continuous years of Liberal rule, falling just short of a majority, as they could only get two seats in Quebec.

The Progressive Conservatives had also won the popular vote in seven provinces.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1995 – 96 escalated tensions between both sides when the PRC tested a series of missiles not far from Taiwan although, arguably, Beijing ran the test to shift the vote in favor of the KMT, already facing a challenge from the opposition Democratic Progressive Party which did not agree with the " One China Policy " shared by the CPC and KMT.

Brazil's largest party, the centrist Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement ( PMDB ), joined Cardoso's governing coalition after the election, as did the right-wing PPB, the Brazilian Progressive Party, in 1996.

After the 2000 Taiwan election, the incoming change of administration of the Democratic Progressive Party ( DDP ) did not fully support the aims or goals of the study tour.

However, Fine Gael, the Labour Party, the Green Party, the Socialist Party and Ahern's coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, all opposed the idea, as did some Oireachtas members from Fianna Fáil.

Progressive Party nominee Henry A. Wallace drew off a nearly equal number of popular votes ( 1, 157, 172 ) from the Democrats ' left wing, although he did not carry any states.

Despite espousing liberal social policies and having in its ranks the openly gay Colm O ' Gorman, the Progressive Democrats did not support same-sex marriage.

In 1920, however, he did not attempt to revive the Progressive Party, but ran for President as a Republican.

Prior to entering provincial politics, Klein considered himself a Liberal Party supporter, although he did support the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney in the 1988 federal election .< ref >

Though he brought him into his cabinet in 1921 in part at the urging of Progressive leader Thomas Crerar, King found Stewart to be an inadequate protector of western interests — especially in his advocacy of tariff reduction, which King found lacklustre — and did not trust his political advice on the west.

Ultimately, his candidacy was helped by the absence of so called " dream candidates " such as provincial Progressive Conservative Premiers Bernard Lord, Mike Harris and Ralph Klein who did not to run for the leadership.

Some PC caucus members refused to accept the merger: long-time Tory MP and former Prime Minister Joe Clark continued to sit as a " Progressive Conservative " for the remainder of the Parliament, as did MPs John Herron and André Bachand, while Scott Brison left the new party to join the Liberal Party in December 2003.

La Follette's troubles in the Senate worsened when fellow Progressive Theodore Roosevelt did not seek another term and William Howard Taft became President.

In this case the Liberals did not even have a plurality of seats: they had 48 and the NDP had 25, but the Progressive Conservatives were the largest party with 52.

However, this momentum did not last, and the Progressive Conservatives suffered the most lopsided defeat for a governing party at the federal level, and among the worst ever suffered by a governing party in the Western world.

The other parties in Parliament also attacked the idea as did three Progressive Conservative Members of Parliament, David Kilgour, Pat Nowlan, and Alex Kindy, who ended up leaving the Progressive Conservative caucus as a result.

In October and November, during the course of the PC party's process of ratifying the merger, four sitting Progressive Conservative MPs — André Bachand, John Herron, former Tory leadership candidate Scott Brison, and former Prime Minister Joe Clark — announced their intention not to join the new Conservative Party caucus, as did retiring PC Party president Bruck Easton.

Outgoing Progressive Conservative leader Peter MacKay also announced he would not seek the leadership, as did former Democratic Representative Caucus leader Chuck Strahl.

The CPNZ never had mass influence or real political power, but it did politically influence several generations of radicals and stimulated several important social movements, including Halt All Racist Tours ( HART ) and the Progressive Youth Movement ( PYM ).

Nonetheless, in the wake of the controversy surrounding passage of the GST the Progressive Conservative government did not wish to provoke a contest of wills with the Senate and announced it would not re-introduce the legislation.

The Progressive Party did not run candidates in that election.

The party traditionally did not stand at local government level but instead supported and assisted the Progressive Party in its campaigns against the British Labour Party.

The Progressive Conservatives did well in the Atlantic provinces, and in the West, but Liberal support in Ontario and Quebec ensured a majority Liberal government, mostly at the expense of Lewis's NDP rather than Stanfield's Tories.