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Albert Nordengen

Albert Nordengen (2 May 1923 in Våler, Østfold in Norway – 18 December 2004 in Oslo) was a Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party who became perhaps the most prominent, and best loved mayor in the history of the Norwegian capital.

Alvington, Gloucestershire

The Forest of Dean is represented in Parliament by Mark Harper MP (Conservative Party).

Andries Treurnicht

The far-right Western Goals Institute organized his London visit, and the Conservative Monday Club held a dinner in his honour, at which at least one British Conservative Party MP, Tim Janman, was present.

Archibald Salvidge

Sir Archibald Tutton James Salvidge KBE PC (5 August 1863 – 11 December 1928) was an English politician, most notable for securing the political dominance of the Conservative Party in Liverpool through the use of the Working Men's Conservative Association (WMCA), earning him the nickname "the king of Liverpool" (by Warden Chilcott, MP for Liverpool Walton).

Bewal

In recent elections held in United Kingdom Sayeeda Warsi ak Baroness Warsi a British lawyer from Dewsbury Yorkshire and member of Conservative Party, became a cabinet minister who is also from Bewal.

Breakfast Time

One of Breakfast Times most notable episodes was on the morning of the Brighton bombing when Nick Ross in the studio presented continuous live coverage of the IRA's attack at the Conservative Party conference in 1984, including live pictures of the rescue of senior politicians such as Norman Tebbit.

Chris Pond

At the May 2005 general election, he lost his seat in Parliament to the Conservative Party candidate, Adam Holloway.

Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat

Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat (born 23 February 1937) is a British politician belonging to the Conservative Party, businessman, company director and chairman, journalist and author.

Clapham by-election, 1918

The by-election was triggered by the elevation to the peerage of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), George Faber.

Contempt of Parliament

On March 9, 2011, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons Peter Milliken made two Contempt of Parliament rulings: The first found that a Conservative Party cabinet minister, Bev Oda, could possibly be in contempt of Parliament.

Cranborne Money

In addition to the above funds, the salaries of the Leader of the Opposition and Opposition Chief Whip in the House of Lords (currently the Conservative Party), which

Dan Albas

In March 2011, after Stockwell Day, the MP for Okanagan—Coquihalla for the last 11 years, unexpectedly announced his retirement, a nomination election was held to seek his replacement as the Conservative Party nominee.

David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford

Two years later, in 1966, he was elected MP for the safe seat of Guildford in Surrey, for the Conservative Party, a position he retained until retiring at the 1997 general election, on 6 June 1997 he was made a life peer as Baron Howell of Guildford, of Penton Mewsey, in the County of Hampshire.

Diane Fletcher

In the BBC adaptation of House of Cards and its sequelsTo Play the King and The Final Cut, Fletcher played Elizabeth Urquhart, wife of the murderous Chief Whip of the Conservative Party and later Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (played by Ian Richardson).

Election petition

A recent example of an election being held void was when the 1997 election of Member of Parliament for Winchester, Mark Oaten, (Liberal Democrat) was contested by the Conservative Party candidate Gerry Malone.

Enid Bagnold

Their great-granddaughter is Samantha Cameron, wife of the United Kingdom's current Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron.

Esmond Birnie

He was an unsuccessful Conservative Party candidate in the elections to Belfast City Council for Balmoral in the 1993 Northern Ireland Local Election.

FF Dax

The typeface was adopted in the United Kingdom by David Cameron in 2005 as part of the branding for his campaign for leadership of the Conservative Party.

First-past-the-post voting

In the UK, entire campaigns have been organised with the aim of voting against the Conservative party by voting either Labour or Liberal Democrat.

Fred Eisenberger

In the 2004 federal election, Eisenberger ran for the Conservative Party in Hamilton East—Stoney Creek, finishing third behind Liberal Tony Valeri and New Democrat Tony DePaulo.

Guilden Sutton

The local MP is Stephen Mosley, Conservative, as Guilden Sutton is part of the City of Chester constituency.

Guto Harri

After leaving the BBC at the end of 2007, he was approached to work for Conservative Party leader David Cameron, but joined London public relations agency Fleishman-Hillard as a Senior Policy Advisor, spending four weeks as an adviser to Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Johan Christian Heuch

Politically, he belonged to the Conservative Party, strongly supporting High Church Lutheranism against the laity movement affiliated with the Liberal, and later, Moderate Liberal parties.

Joseph-Hormisdas Legris

The same year, Catholic Bishop Louis-François Richer Laflèche used his influence to help local candidates of the Conservative Party being elected.

Kevin Hurley

Hurley sought the nomination as Conservative Party candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner of Surrey Police in the 2012 Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

Legal status of animals in Canada

When the Conservative Party came to power in 2006, MP Mark Holland tabled a private member’s bill that was virtually identical to Bill C-50, the most recent incarnation of C-17.

Lewisham by-election, 1891

The by-election was triggered by the elevation to the peerage of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Viscount Lewisham on the death of his father.

Linda Gilroy

Linda Gilroy (born 19 July 1949) is a British Labour Co-operative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Plymouth Sutton from 1997 until her defeat at the 2010 general election by the Conservative Party candidate, Oliver Colvile.

Lord George Manners

Lord George John Manners (London, 22 June 1820 – 8 September 1874, Cheveley) was a British nobleman and Conservative Party politician who represented Cambridgeshire for over two decades, from 1847 to 1857 and from 1863 to 1874, when he died.

Maastricht Treaty

In the United Kingdom, an opt-out from the treaty's social provisions was opposed in Parliament by the opposition Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs and the treaty itself by the Maastricht Rebels within the governing Conservative Party.

Nananu-i-Cake

Because of Harold's position of Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party under Sir Winston Churchill and his social and political standing, several high-profile dignitaries visited and stayed on the island.

Nation Alliance Party

He came in fifth place, with 397 votes (0.93%), losing to the Conservative Party's Alice Wong.

Ontario prohibition referendum, 1924

The cities of Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa and Windsor, areas where the ruling Conservative Party drew most of their support, voted overwhelmingly in favour of Question 2.

Paul Sauvé

Arthur Sauvé, his father, had been leader of the Conservative party during the Premiership of Liberal Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and left the provincial politics when elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1930 and became Postmaster General in the R. B. Bennett government.

Paul Thyness

Paul Thyness (born 10 April 1930 in Aker) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

Peter Smithers

Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (9 December 1913 in Yorkshire, England – 8 June 2006 in Vico Morcote, Switzerland) was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.

Plebs

In September 2012, UK Conservative Party Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell was reported using the word in a tirade directed at police officers in Downing Street.

Prague Declaration

The document was signed by the Conservative Party of the UK, the Czech Civic Democratic Party, the Polish Law and Justice, the Bulgarian Order, Law and Justice, the Belgian Lijst Dedecker and Latvia's For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK.

Radio 1212

This plan fell apart when Churchill's Conservative Party lost to the Labour Party in the postwar British General Election on July 5, 1945.

Registration of Political Parties Act 1998

In the 1994 European Elections, Richard Huggett stood as a Literal Democrat candidate for the Devon and East Plymouth seat, taking more votes than the Conservative Party margin over the Liberal Democrats.

Richard Crawshaw

Crawshaw became active in Liverpool politics in the early 1950s and then becoming a councillor in the 1955 landslide election in Liverpool Borough Council in the Dingle ward which is in Liverpool Toxteth and the council ward was very safe for the Labour party in a marginal seat for the Conservative Party from its creation in 1950.

Roy Galley

Roy Galley (born 8 December 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Halifax in the 1983 general election, defeating the sitting Labour MP Dr Shirley Summerskill.

Thatcher baronets

John Major told the Commons Public Administration Committee that he had been lobbied by 'influential figures' in the Conservative Party to make the recommendation, against his personal preference.

Trevor Ringland

On 24 February 2010 Ringland was adopted by the Ulster Unionist Party and Conservative Party as their joint candidate in East Belfast for the 2010 General Election.

Voter suppression

In litigation brought by The Council of Canadians, a federal court found that such fraud had occurred and had probably been perpetrated by someone with access to the Conservative Party's voter database, including its information about voter preferences.

Weymouth and Portland

The current MP for South Dorset is Richard Drax, a member of the Conservative Party, who was voted in during the 2010 General Election, beating the incumbent Labour MP Jim Knight.

William Hall, 2nd Viscount Hall

When the Conservative Party won the 1970 general election, Christopher Chataway, the new Minister for Posts and Telecommunications, dismissed him from his post.


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Amber Jones

She placed third out of seven candidates winning 1,228 votes losing to Conservative party nominee, Kelly Block.

Asheim

Henrik Asheim, Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Bossom

Clive Bossom FRSA, FRGS (born 1918), British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament

Cabinet of Deuntzer

The resulting cabinet, which replaced the Cabinet of Sehested consisting of member of the conservative party Højre, was formed on 24 July 1901 and was called the Cabinet of Deuntzer.

Canadian Alliance

On October 15, 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party (under its new leader Peter MacKay) announced that they would merge to form a new party, called the Conservative Party of Canada.

Carl Joachim Hambro

C. J. Hambro (1885–1964), Norwegian journalist, author and Conservative Party politician

Carl Wright

Carl P. Wright (1893–1961), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Charles M. O'Brien

O'Brien served in office for one term and was defeated in the 1913 Alberta general election by Robert Campbell from the Conservative Party.

Chris Harris

Chris Heaton-Harris (born 1967), British Conservative Party politician

Christopher Rowland

He beat Jonathan Aitken, then the youngest Conservative Party candidate.

Colombian Conservative Party

In 1863 the Liberal party created a new constitution in the city of Rionegro which was opposed by the Conservative Party.

David Stoddart, Baron Stoddart of Swindon

He was expelled from the Labour benches in the House of Lords in 2002 for backing a Socialist Alliance candidate in the 2001 general election, an action he took because he strongly opposed the parachuting of Shaun Woodward, a defector from the Conservative Party, into a safe Labour seat.

Dennis Walters

In the late 1950s, Walters was employed as personal assistant to the Conservative peer Lord Hailsham throughout his chairmanship of the Conservative Party.

Diane Colley-Urquhart

Colley-Urquhart was the candidate of the province of Alberta's ruling Progressive Conservative party in a by-election called in the riding of Calgary-Glenmore for September 14, 2009, to become that riding's Member of the provincial Legislative Assembly.

Edward Fielden

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden (1857–1942), British businessman and Conservative Party politician

Esioff-Léon Patenaude

He was given almost exclusive authority over the Conservative Party's campaign in Quebec during the 1925 federal election as Meighen's Quebec lieutenant.

Francis Lowe

Sir Francis Lowe, 1st Baronet (1852–1929), British Conservative Party politician

Frankby

Sir Thomas Royden was an English shipowner and Conservative Party politician.

Friends of Israel Initiative

They include Republican Party former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Forza Italia's former President of the Italian Senate Marcello Pera, former President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, and billionaire financier, Robert Agostinelli and British Conservative Party peer, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble.

George Allsopp

George Higginson Allsopp (1846–1907), English brewer and Conservative Party politician

George Watt

George Harvie-Watt (1903–1989), British Conservative Party politician

Graham Bright

In September 2012 Bright was selected by the Conservative party to be their candidate in the election for Cambridgeshire's Police and Crime Commissioner.

Henning Matzen

He was member of the Landsting from 1879 to 1910, representing the conservative party Højre, and its speaker from 1894 to 1902.

Henry Wickham

Henry Wickham Wickham (1800–1876), British Conservative party politician

Ibrahim Mousawi

The British Conservative Party tried to have Mousawi banned from Britain like Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Moshe Feiglin in February 2008, but failed.

J. Daniel Mahoney

The Conservative Party was established as a counterweigbht to the Liberal Party of New York, which endorsed Democrats on the political left.

James Aikins

James Albert Manning Aikins (1851–1929), the son, leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

John Devereux

John Devereux Ward (1925–2010), British Conservative Party politician

John Lockwood

John Cutts Lockwood (1890–1983), English Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament 1931–1935, 1950–1955

José María Urrutia Manzano

He was elected alternate deputy for Concepción in 1831, but served instead as Senator for Biobío and Arauco from 1831 to 1846, as member of the Conservative Party.

Kerrison

Sir Edward Kerrison, 2nd Baronet (1821–1886), British Conservative Party politician

Knut Hauge

Knut Haug (born 1934), Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party

Lloyd Lewis

Lewis Vivian Loyd (1852–1908), British Conservative Party politician

Michael Bates

Michael Bates, Baron Bates (born 1961), British Conservative Party politician and Paymaster General from 1996 to 1997

National Employer Service

In a speech on the subject, the then Conservative party leader David Cameron incorrectly identified the National Employer Service as a Quango in its own right.

Nigel Hastilow

It was reported in 2008 that he had been approached to stand as a candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) at the European elections but turned down the opportunity arguing that he had always said he would remain loyal to the Conservative Party.

Noel Skelton

The group lobbied to make sure that Stanley Baldwin, the prime minister, resisted the influence of reactionary elements in the Conservative Party and instead implemented progressive legislation.

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2005

In June the leader of the Progress Party, Carl I. Hagen, said his party would not support a new coalition if Bondevik re-emerges as the prime minister after the election, implicitly pointing at Erna Solberg, leader of the conservative party as a better candidate.

Norwegian parliamentary election, 2017

The Conservative Party, led by Erna Solberg, and the right-wing Progress Party formed a two-party minority government, with Solberg as Prime Minister.

Norwich North by-election, 2009

The winner of the by-election was Chloe Smith of the Conservative Party, who at 27 became the youngest member of the House of Commons, known as the Baby of the House.

Plugge

Leonard Plugge (1889–1981), a British businessman and Conservative Party politician

Ralph Assheton

His son Ralph Assheton, 1st Baron Clitheroe (1901–1984), Conservative Party politician and MP

Rex Barnes

In February 2011, he announced plans to challenge incumbent MHA Ray Hunter for the Progressive Conservative party nomination in Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South for the 2011 provincial election.

Robert Bird

Sir Robert Bird, 2nd Baronet (1876–1960), British Conservative Party politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Wolverhampton West 1922–1929 and 1931–1945

Roger Conant

Sir Roger Conant, 1st Baronet (1899–1973), British Conservative Party politician

Speir

Rupert Speir (1910-1998), British Conservative Party politician

Toby Barrett

Barrett supported Jim Flaherty's unsuccessful bid to succeed Ernie Eves as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 2004.

Ulster Popular Unionist Party

George Green had defected to the Conservative Party before 1989 but the party compensated by gaining a seat in the Dundonald area of Castlereagh.

Warwick Collins

Collins's political views were liberal and libertarian, but (in 1979) he was asked by Keith Joseph to join a Conservative party think tank chaired by John Hoskyns (who became Chief Political Adviser to Margaret Thatcher) to work on issues such as privatisation.

William Hicks-Beach

William Whitehead Hicks-Beach (1907–1975), Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Cheltenham 1950–1964