Though he initially stood for election, unsuccessfully, as a Radical, Disraeli was a Tory by the time he won a seat in the House of Commons in 1837 representing the constituency of Maidstone.

The Tories had only won the most seats in that province only once since 1896 -- the 1958 Tory landslide.

In this election, called when Tory MP John Dahmer died, Reform Party candidate Deborah Grey won by a hefty 4, 200 votes after finishing fourth in the general election just five months earlier.

Clark, who won the Tory leadership at age 36, remains the youngest-ever leader of a major federal party in the history of Canadian politics.

The harsh treatment of the Hanoverian demands was inspired by him, and won favour with the queen, while Oxford's influence declined ; and by his support of the Schism Bill in May 1714, a violent Tory measure forbidding all education by dissenters by making an episcopal licence obligatory for schoolmasters, he probably intended to compel Oxford to give up the game.

Mellor contested the 1997 general election, but was defeated by the Labour Party's Tony Colman as one of the most notable Tory casualties as Labour won by a landslide to end nearly 20 years of Tory rule.

The riding was ultimately won by Liberal George Smitherman ; Sewell finished third, behind Tory Durhane Wong-Rieger.

The paper continued in the same vein after Edward Heath won the 1970 general election, opposing his Tory government's trade union legislation between 1970 and 1974 and placing itself at the head of opposition to Heath's negotiations for Britain to join the EEC.

The province had been the bedrock of Liberal support for almost a century — in fact, the 1958 Tory landslide was the only time since the 1896 election that the Liberals had not won the most seats in Quebec.

Gray became the Tory leader in the assembly, but when the Liberals won a majority in 1854, he was once again relegated to the opposition.

With the remaining seats won by other parties, the PC party only had a plurality in the House of Commons, but the margin was sufficient to make John Diefenbaker Canada's first Tory Prime Minister since 1935.

The leadership vote was won by John Tory with approximately 54 % of the vote on the second ballot.

In 1979, Filmon won a by-election to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the riding of River Heights, held after the resignation of former Tory leader Sidney Spivak.

Tory leader Jean Charest suggested that if their party won power, MacKenzie would become Deputy Prime Minister.

He was eliminated from the contest after placing third on the first ballot ; Tory subsequently won on the second ballot.

Despite vehement opposition from the local Tory riding association, he won the nomination and was reelected in 1968.

Although Dufferin Roblin's Progressive Conservative ( PC ) Party won the general election, Roberts defeated his Tory opponent Stan Bisson by 1565 votes to 1395.

Tory won the contest, and, not having a seat in the legislature, named Runciman to the position of interim Leader of the Opposition in September 2004.

Croll handily won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons becoming Spadina's Member of Parliament ( MP ) and Tory Toronto's sole Liberal MP.

Evans faced a surprisingly strong challenge from Tory candidate Jim Armstrong in the provincial election of 1986, but won by about 1000 votes.

He faced a more serious challenge in the 1995 election, which was won by the Progressive Conservatives ; Tory candidate Sam Pasternak came within 3, 000 votes of upsetting him.

When Drew left provincial politics to take the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Porter ran to succeed him as provincial leader, but won only 65 votes in the 1949 provincial Tory leadership convention.

The Liberals won the 2003 provincial election, and Parsons was re-elected in Prince Edward — Hastings by over 10, 000 votes over Tory millionaire John Williams.

Conservatives also objected to Burke's support of the American Revolution, which the Tory Samuel Johnson, for example, attacked in " Taxation No Tyranny ".

When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.

Although occupying fewer seats than the Tory / Conservatives, the Whigs had a chance to draw support from the minor parties and independents who were also elected in July 1852.

His support cost him the nomination as Tory MP for County Carlow in 1852.

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.

Moreover, the Whig ministry that had lent its support to the war fell, and the new Tory government that replaced it sought peace.

MacDonald dropped off after the second ballot, encouraging her supporters to support Clark, who quickly became the compromise Red Tory candidate.

Despite being endorsed by Tory Democrats Lord Randolph Churchill and John Eldon Gorst, the Liberal government was unwilling to grant Chamberlain its full support and the Bill was withdrawn in July 1884.

However on October 17, Fish, a former provincial Tory cabinet minister who had only 19 % support, pulled out of the race, and many of her supporters moved to Rowlands.

St John made friends with the Whigs James Stanhope and Edward Hopkins and corresponded with the Tory Sir William Trumball, who advised him: " There appears indeed amongst us England a strong disposition to liberty, but neither honesty nor virtue enough to support it ".

Despite strong support in rural central Ontario, a very socially conservative area which had been the backbone of previous provincial Tory governments, vote splitting with the national Tories allowed the Liberals to win all but one seat in Ontario.

As a result, while the staunchly Tory lord will not support the Whig Finn, neither will he hamper him.

The merger of the Liberal Globe and the Tory Mail and Empire prefigured the paper's characteristically Red Tory editorial stance, as its support alternated between the two established national parties.

Eves immediately became the front-runner and most Tory MPPs and members of the party came to support him.

Bennett had only joined the Socreds in December, doing so with the tacit support of the federal Tory caucus.

Because the Tory opposition had been tainted, in the eyes of George I, by their support of the Jacobite pretenders, he did not trust them, and drew all his ministers and officials from the Whig faction.

They were immediately reprinted, the latter being dedicated to the lord mayor and the former to the author's kinsman, George Sacheverell, who was high sheriff of Derbyshire that year ; and, as the passions of the whole British population were at this period keenly exercised between the rival factions of Whig and Tory ; Sacheverell's arguments on behalf of the church which supplied the Tories with most of their support made him their idol.

The rise in Tory support was short-lived.

Though Tory out-polled McGuinty in the category of preferred premier, the Liberals held a lead over the Progressive Conservatives, while the NDP held around 20 % support.

In 1696 he refused in company with other Tory peers to sign an agreement to support William as their " rightful and lawful king " against Jacobite attempts, and was consequently dismissed from the privy council.

Despite being the front-runner at the campaign's start and garnering strong support from the city's ethnic press, Hall wound up a distant third behind the winner, Miller, and runner-up John Tory.

Alan suggests appointing Piers to run the campaign, which results in the total collapse of Tory support.