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3 unusual facts about Progressive Conservative Party of Canada


Canadian federal election results in the Côte-Nord and Saguenay

This is true except for the Chicoutimi area which has voted federalist with André Harvey running as a Progressive Conservative and winning in 1997, and running as a Liberal and winning in 2000.

Canadian federal election results in the Eastern Townships

By 1997, he was PC leader and local candidates running on his coattails did well, resulting in a split between the Progressive Conservatives (four seats) the Bloc Québécois (three seats) and the Liberals (two seats).

PC Party

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, a former federal party which merged into the Conservative Party of Canada in 2003


Agar Rodney Adamson

As a member of the historical Conservative Party of Canada then as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada he represented the riding of York West in the Canadian House of Commons.

Arnold Malone

Arnold John Malone (born 9 December 1937 in Rosalind, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Bill Attewell

A corporate executive, Attewell was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Don Valley East defeating Liberal cabinet minister David Smith in the 1984 federal election that brought Brian Mulroney to power.

Bonnie Hickey

Bonnie Hickey served in the 35th Canadian Parliament after which she was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Norman Doyle in the 1997 federal election.

Canadian federal election results in Eastern Montreal

Prior to the rise of the Bloc, the region was swept up in the Brian Mulroney tide, electing Quebec nationalists under the Progressive Conservative banner.

Canadian federal election results in Montérégie

The former have been a battleground between the Liberals and the Bloc Québécois because of the collapse of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1993.

Capitalist Piglet

Morning talk-show personality, and former Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament, John Gormley, called on listeners to file a complaint with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission.

Charlie Power

after=Loyola Hearn, Progressive Conservative|

Debby Carlson

In 2004, Carlson was unsuccessful in her campaign against Conservative incumbent Rahim Jaffer, where she placed second.

Edward Allan Miller

He was re-elected in 1980, but defeated in the 1984 election by Ted Schellenberg of the Progressive Conservative party.

Frank Follwell

Follwell was defeated by Lee Grills of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1957 election.

Gerald Caplan

Following the 1988 federal election, he co-authored Election : the issues, the strategies, the aftermath with Liberal strategiest Michael Kirby and Tory strategist Hugh Segal.

Glen McKinnon

He left Canadian politics after his defeat to Progressive Conservative candidate Rick Borotsik in the 1997 federal election.

Gomery Commission

Other allegations of bias concern the commission's chief counsel, Bernard Roy, a former chief of staff to former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Gurbax Singh Malhi

Progressive Conservative incumbent Harry Chadwick and Reformer Darlene Florence in Bramalea-Gore-Malton.

Howard Pawley

No longer in provincial politics, Pawley again ran as a candidate for the federal NDP in the 1988 federal election, but was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate David Bjornson.

Irvin Studer

In the 1958 election, Studer was defeated by Jack McIntosh of the Progressive Conservative party.

Jean Payne

after=Charlie Power, Progressive Conservative|

Jim Silye

He ran as a Progressive Conservative in the 2000 election in the riding of Calgary West and was defeated.

Jimmy Creighton

He received 8,456 votes, and finished second to Progressive Conservative Walter Dinsdale.

John Brewin

Brewin first ran for federal office in 1984 against veteran PC incumbent Allan McKinnon.

John Bucklaschuk

In the Canadian federal election of 1972, he ran as a New Democratic Party candidate in the riding of Lisgar, but finished a distant third against incumbent Progressive Conservative Jack Murta, and former Lieutenant-Governor and Liberal candidate Richard Spink Bowles.

Julian Reed

He returned to political life in the 1993 federal election, defeating Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Garth Turner by 3,991 votes in Halton—Peel.

Lament for a Nation

The essay examined the political fate of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative government in light of its refusal to allow nuclear arms on Canadian soil and the Liberal Party's political acceptance of the warheads.

Leonard Marchand

He defeated high-profile Progressive Conservative candidate E. Davie Fulton.

Marcel-Claude Roy

He was re-elected at Laval (subsequently Laval West) in the 1972, 1974, 1979 and 1980 federal elections but was defeated by Guy Ricard of the Progressive Conservative party.

Marjory LeBreton

She worked with four leaders of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - John Diefenbaker, Robert Stanfield, Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney - from 1962 to 1993 before being appointed to the Senate on the advice of Mulroney.

Michel Veillette

After serving in the 31st and 32nd Canadian Parliaments, he was defeated by Michel Champagne of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1984 election.

Murray Dorin

Murray Dorin (born 21 May 1953 in Viking, Alberta) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Murray McBride

McBride was defeated in the 1972 election by Paul Dick of the Progressive Conservative party at the riding which became Lanark—Renfrew—Carleton.

Paul Bonwick

In the subsequent 2004 general election, Bonwick, having benefitted in the past by vote-splitting between the Progressive Conservatives and the Reform Party, fell victim to the new Conservative Party of Canada, losing his seat to Conservative candidate Helena Guergis by 100 votes.

Paul H. Robinson, Jr.

With the election of Progressive Conservative Brian Mulroney in the 1984 Canadian federal election, these talks were expanded to discussions about a comprehensive free trade agreement.

Pauline Jewett

She lost by 758 votes to the Progressive Conservative candidate Harry Bradley.

Raymond Dupont

After one more victory in the 1980 election, he was defeated in 1984 by Richard Grisé of the Progressive Conservative party.

Reg Alcock

He won a convincing victory over incumbent Progressive Conservative incumbent Dorothy Dobbie in the 1993 federal election, and entered parliament as a government backbencher.

Roads to Resources Program

The Roads to Resources Program was initiated by the Progressive Conservative government of Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker from 1957 to 1963.

Robert Bockstael

After re-election in 1980 federal election, he was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Léo Duguay of the Progressive Conservatives and left federal politics after that.

Bockstael initially attempted to enter national politics in a 16 October 1978 by-election at Manitoba's Saint Boniface electoral district but was defeated by Jack Hare of the Progressive Conservative party.

Robert Layton

In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and was elected to the Federal Parliament in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.

Roger Simmons

Simmons was re-elected in the 1993 election, and defeated in the 1997 election by Progressive Conservative candidate Bill Matthews.

Ronald McLelland

Ronald David McLelland (born 27 March 1926 at Loreburn, Saskatchewan) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Sid Parker

His first campaign against Stan Graham of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1979 federal election was unsuccessful.

Thomas Suluk

He represented the electoral district of Nunatsiaq in the Canadian House of Commons from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the Progressive Conservatives.

Wong Foon Sien

He supported the Liberal Party of Canada throughout his life, but supported Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Jung in the Canadian federal elections of 1957 and 1958.


see also

PC Party

Progressive Canadian Party, a minor party formed 2004 after the dissolution of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada