However, he ran in the federal election held a year later, and was elected to Parliament as the MP for Rocky Mountain, a largely rural riding in southwestern Alberta.

The entire island is part of the Montmorency — Charlevoix — Haute-Côte-Nord federal electoral riding, and the Montmorency provincial electoral riding.

It was the Liberal Party that wooed Sauvé into politics, asking her to run as a candidate in the Montreal riding of Ahuntsic during the 1972 federal election.

She remained MP for her riding after the federal election of 1980, which saw the Liberals returned to power and Trudeau reappointed as prime minister, and he pointed to her as the candidate for the Speaker of the House of Commons.

In a federal by-election in the riding of Mission — Port Moody the same year, Betty Nickerson was the Green Party of Canada's first federal candidate, but the party's official status was not yet recognized by Elections Canada.

As predicted by those familiar with Carr's long-standing relationship with the newly-elected Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May, Carr accepted the paid position of Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada and is a federal candidate in the riding of Vancouver Centre.

He expressed some interest in running in the 2004 federal election but announced he would not do so because of the lack of an available riding in the Moncton, New Brunswick, area.

Instead, he waited until the 2004 federal election to contest the riding of Toronto — Danforth against Liberal Dennis Mills.

In the 2006 federal election, he unsuccessfully sought a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

Garneau went on to win the riding by over 9, 000 votes in the 2008 federal election.

The entire borough is located within the federal riding of Mount Royal, and within the smaller provincial electoral district of Mount Royal.

Jean Lesage was elected as a federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Montmagny-L ' Islet as a Liberal for the first time in the 1945 general election.

Mulock entered politics in 1881, unsuccessfully seeking the Liberal nomination in the then strongly Conservative federal riding of York North.

Re-elected as MP for that riding in the 1963 and 1965 elections, Douglas lost the redistricted seat of Burnaby — Seymour in the 1968 federal election.

The hamlet is located in census division No. 15 and in the federal riding of Wild Rose.

At the invitation of the new federal NDP leader, Jack Layton, he returned to politics in 2004, with the aid of a humorous and popular video clip, to successfully run for Parliament in the riding of Ottawa Centre, where he now lives.

In the 1972 federal election he was the Social Credit candidate running against New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas in the riding of Nanaimo — Cowichan — The Islands.

In the 1974 federal election, Roblin ran for the House of Commons in the Ontario riding of Peterborough.

Schreyer ran in the 2006 federal election as the NDP candidate for the riding of Selkirk — Interlake.

It was desired that Massey, as a minister, hold a seat in the House of Commons, yet he failed to win his riding of Durham in the 1925 federal election, held on October 29.

MacKay was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the June 2, 1997 federal election for Pictou — Antigonish — Guysborough, a riding in northeastern Nova Scotia.

He was easily re-elected in the June 28, 2004 federal election in the newly redistributed riding of Central Nova.

Henri Bourassa Blvd., Henri-Bourassa metro station, and the federal riding of Bourassa, all in Montreal, are named for him.

The present issue in Atlantica -- whether to transform an alliance of sovereign nations into a federal union of sovereign citizens -- resembles the American one of 1787-89 rather than the one that was resolved by Civil War.

This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

In 1913 an abortive provision was made for the stay of federal injunction proceedings upon institution of state court test cases.

Its enforcement was enjoined by a federal trial court.

To avoid these constitutional difficulties, Mr. Justice Frankfurter was prepared to read the Taft-Hartley provision as concerned with diversity, rather than federal question, jurisdiction.

Here, as in the Byrd case, another element of state procedure was subsumed to federal judge-made law.

During the Brown trial, however, the state's most powerful Democratic newspaper, the Providence Daily Post, stated that Brown was a murderer, a man of blood, and that he and his associates, with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists, had plotted not only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal governments.

The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.

State and federal legislation against racial discrimination in employment was called for yesterday in a report of a `` blue ribbon '' citizens committee on the aid to dependent children program.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

A check for $4,177.37 representing the last payment of a $50,000 federal grant to Rhode Island Hospital was presented to the hospital administrator, Oliver G. Pratt, yesterday by Governor Notte.

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

As the war drew to a close, Lincoln's presidential Reconstruction for the South was in flux ; having believed the federal government had limited responsibility to the millions of freedmen.

The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

The NAE felt that the regulation of the internal employment of churches was "... an improper intrusion the federal government ".

It was renamed in honor of Lyndon Johnson by federal law, soon after his death in 1973.

The ALP was founded as a federal party prior to the first sitting of the Australian Parliament in 1901, but is descended from Labour parties founded in the various Australian colonies by the emerging labour movement in Australia, formally beginning in 1891.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.