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 power in the 1928 election under Simon Fraser Tolmie.

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.

Hamm's Tories defeated the Liberal minority government on a budget vote on June 17, 1999, and in the subsequent election on July 27, 1999, Hamm was elected Premier, winning 30 of the 52 seats in the provincial legislature.

The 1985 election resulted in a minority legislature: the Tories under Premier Frank Miller won 52 seats, the Liberals won 48, and the NDP 25.

The official opposition Liberals under Lyn McLeod were initially the beneficiaries of the NDP's unpopularity, but their poor campaign saw the momentum swung to the resurgent Tories under Mike Harris, who vaulted from third in the legislature to win a large majority.

The Liberals dominated the province, and the Tories did not have a single seat in the legislature.

Lougheed's successor, Don Getty was unable to match the Lougheed Tories ' dominance in the provincial legislature, but he enjoyed large majorities nevertheless.

But with 11 seats in the legislature with 29. 9 % of the vote, it edged out the Liberals and were able to retain " Official Opposition " status when the Tories formed a majority government under John Hamm.

Although the policy was supported by all parties in the legislature, it was unpopular with some in the Tories ' traditional rural Protestant base.

He ran as an Independent Conservative in Wellington South during the 1937 provincial election but was defeated along with the Tories with Rowe failing to win a seat in the legislature and consequently resiging as party leader.

While the Tories won a majority in the legislature in the 1948 election, Drew himself was defeated in his High Park electoral district, in west-end Toronto, by CCFer and temperance crusader William " Temperance Willie " Temple who had targeted Drew over his softening of Ontario's liquor laws by legalizing cocktail bars in Ontario.

The Tories won 75 of the 111 seats in the legislature.

The Tories won the election with a reduced majority, and McLeod swapped shadow cabinet portfolios with Gerard Kennedy to serve as her party's health critic in the legislature that followed.

These efforts were insufficient ; and in the 1934 elections, the Tories lost every seat in the legislature, and remained a minor party for forty years.

The Tories dropped to 25 seats, but nevertheless emerged as the largest party in the legislature and formed a minority government.

Despite the Tories ' opposition, the bill was passed by the Reform-dominated legislature and submitted to Lord Elgin for assent.

Following the 1943 election that brought the George Drew's Tories to power, Stewart became Speaker of the legislature, a difficult task as the Progressive Conservatives ( as they were known by then ) had only a minority government.

Munro was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election, easily defeating incumbent New Democrat Larry O ' Connor in the former Durham — York riding, as many surrounding ridings also shifted from the NDP to the Tories in this cycle.

The Tories also had to contend with the effects of the Great Depression and the Prairie dust bowl, however – and although they won about a quarter of the popular vote, they won no seats in the legislature.

The Tories ' allies in the previous legislature – the Progressives – did not nominate candidates in this election, and were replaced by Farmer-Labour candidates as the voice of the Left in the province.

The Tories, led by Martin Pederson, a 38-year-old farmer, won considerable support in the cities ( Regina and Saskatoon ), but were not able to win any seats in the legislature.

The winner was Hugh McFadyen, meaning that the Tories retained their seat in the Manitoba legislature.

The Tories and Liberals each won only one seat in the legislature while the Alberta CCF was shut out of the legislature for the first time in seventeen years.

The Liberals fell to third place behind a new force, the socialist Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ), led by Ted Jolliffe, went from obscurity to form the Official Opposition, winning 32 % of the vote and 34 seats in the legislature, just four short of Drew's Tories.