The Tories had slipped behind Labour in the opinion polls during 1989 and the gap widened during 1990, but within two months of Major taking over as prime minister the Tories had returned to the top of the opinion polls, briefly enjoying a comfortable lead after the Gulf War.

Elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1911, Bennett returned to the provincial scene to again lead the Alberta Tories in the 1913 provincial election, but kept his federal seat in Ottawa when his Tories failed to take power in the province ; such practice was later forbidden.

In the post-war years, Grenville gradually moved back closer to the Tories, but never again returned to the cabinet.

When Macdonald's Tories returned to power in 1878, Tilley again became minister of finance and served until his retirement from politics in 1885 when he was appointed the seventh Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

The change proved to be a positive one for the Tories, who had trailed Labour in most opinion polls by a double-digit margin throughout 1990 but soon returned to the top of the polls and won the general election in April 1992.

After 33 years in Opposition, the Tories returned to power under James P. Whitney, who led a progressive administration in its development of the province.

Meighen attempted to make the " Unionist " party a permanent alliance of Tories and Liberals by renaming it the National Liberal and Conservative Party, but this name change failed, and most Unionist Liberals either returned to the Liberal fold or joined the new Progressive Party.

The Tories, under Edward Heath, returned to power in 1970 with policies even more unpopular with the British left, contributing to the largest number of strikes involving the greatest number of workers in British history.

When the Tories returned to power under Mulroney in the 1984 election, Mazankowski again became Minister of Transport.

After the 1929 provincial election returned a Liberal minority government, the Progressives joined with the Conservatives to defeat the Liberals and form a coalition government dominated by the Tories.

The Tories returned to the legislature in the 1975 election.

In the election the Tories were returned to power after 14 years, winning 34 of the province's 48 seats.

Like their federal counterparts, who returned to power in 1930, Tolmie's Tories ' commitment to applying " business principles to the business of government ," rebounded to their disadvantage when the Great Depression hit.

His efforts to revive the provincial Tories in BC were a failure, and he returned to the House of Commons in the 1965 election.

In 1834 the Tories returned to office under Sir Robert Peel, and Wynn was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but again was not a member of the cabinet.

The 1990 election, however, saw the Tories returned with a majority government and a resurgent NDP under Gary Doer regain official opposition status.

In 1951, however, Churchill and the Tories returned to power ; they would govern uninterrupted for the next 13 years.

Two years later the Tories ( or the Conservatives as they became known during the 1850s ) returned to office under Lord Derby.

Bénard was one of only five Tories returned to the legislature.

Edmonds returned as senior policy adviser to Defence Minister Robert Coates, when the Tories regained power in September 1984.

When the Tories returned to power in the 1995 election, Runciman became Solicitor General and Minister of Correctional Services in the government of Mike Harris, holding the position from June 26, 1995 to June 17, 1999.

However, as the Tories had denied responsibility for the recession at the turn of the decade, few voters were willing to give them credit for the economic recovery, and Labour returned to power after 18 years with a 179-seat majority that saw several leading Tory MP's ( most notably Michael Portillo, widely tipped to be the next Tory leader ) lose their seats and leave them without any MP's in Wales or Scotland.

After the Tories fell from power with the death of Queen Anne, Defoe continued doing intelligence work for the Whig government, writing " Tory " pamphlets that actually undermined the Tory point of view.

The Tories were in power for almost 50 years, except for a short Whig ministry from 1806 to 1807.

English Tories from the time of the Glorious Revolution up until the Reform Bill of 1832 were characterized by strong monarchist tendencies, support for the Church of England, and hostility to reform, while the Tory Party was an actual organization which held power intermittently throughout the same period.

The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s.

Sarah consistently counselled the Queen to appoint more Whigs and reduce the power of the Tories, whom she considered little better than Jacobites, and the Queen became increasingly discontented with Sarah.

Also, by the time he handed power to Campbell, there were only two-and-a-half months left in the Tories ' five-year mandate.

High churchmen and Tories, empowered late in Queen Anne's reign, sought to close this loophole with the passing of the Occasional Conformity Bill in 1711, however the Act was repealed after the Hanoverian Succession with the return to power of the Whigs, who were generally allied with non-conforming Protestants.

In the election, Lougheed and the Tories swept the Socreds from power, ending what was at one of the time the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial level in Canada.

The Melbourne administration was dismissed by the king in November the same year, and the Tories came to power under Sir Robert Peel.

In the end the Tories shot from third place to a landslide majority government, sweeping the NDP from power.

The Liberals came to power in the 1993 election, defeating Kim Campbell's Tories.

But when the Tories came into power in 1710 Prior's diplomatic abilities were again called into action, and until the death of Anne he held a prominent place in all negotiations with the French court, sometimes as secret agent, sometimes in an equivocal position as ambassador's companion, sometimes as fully accredited but very unpunctually paid ambassador.

It takes its name from the British Whigs, advocates of the power of Parliament, who opposed the Tories, advocates of the power of the king.

After Fenwick's confession in 1696 regarding the attempted assassination of William III, Godolphin, who was compromised, tendered his resignation ; but when the Tories came into power in 1700, he was again appointed lord treasurer and retained office for about a year.

The Tories were in power for all but five years from 1905 to 1934.

The Tories lost power to the United Farmers of Ontario in the 1919 election but were able to regain office in 1923 election due to the UFO's disintegration and divisions in the Ontario Liberal Party.

However, the Tories retained power as a minority government.

Hopes were high that the NDP was on the verge of taking power, but in the 1977 election, the Tories under Bill Davis again won a minority government.

However, this was largely due to tactical voting in which NDP supporters voted Liberal in hopes of removing Harris and the Tories from power.