Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party (French Parti libéral de l' Ontario) is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Ontario. Although it is ideologically oriented similarly as the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent. It is however often the case that politicians are members of both the provincial and the federal party. Chairman is Dalton McGuinty, the incumbent Prime Minister of the province. Since the elections in October 2011 put the Liberals 53 of 107 deputies in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

History

The Liberal Party of Ontario has its origins in the Reform Party of Robert Baldwin and William Lyon Mackenzie, which began in the 1830 and 1840 years for self-government and spoke out against the conservative clique rule of the Family Compact. The modern liberals emerged in 1857, when George Brown united the reformers and the radical Clear Grits from Südostontario. After the accession of Ontario to Canadian Confederation in 1867, the Liberals were initially in the opposition, but won in 1871 under Edward Blake in the majority. The following year was Oliver Mowat Prime Minister, who held this office until 1896, as long as no one else

After more than 30 years in power, the Liberals were defeated in 1905 by the Conservatives. It began a slow decline and was briefly forced out of the United Farmers of Ontario even in the role of the only third strongest party. In the 1920s, the party of fighting wing was torn. Many reform-oriented forces that supported the Federal Party under William Lyon Mackenzie King, the provincial party turned their backs because it was considered too narrow-minded and conservative. In 1930 the Liberals were a small, rural and Protestant dominated party that had support only in the southwest of the province.

After a series of weak party leader Mitchell Hepburn was elected to the party leadership. He was able to make an election coalition with the Liberal - Progressive reformers and integrate urban voters, Catholic and francophone. Hepburn led the Liberals to victory in 1934, where he benefited from the fact that the Conservatives had to contend with the consequences of the world economic crisis. William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to resolution of strikes by workers in the automotive industry, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police use, which led to a deep rift between the federal and the provincial party. Hepburn was deposed as party leader in 1942 and 1943, had the Liberals again in the opposition.

During the next four decades, the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario ruled the province of politics. The Liberals were often more conservative than the actual conservatives and their electoral base was limited again to the southwest. In Greater Toronto they were temporarily no longer represented. Only in 1987 succeeded David Peterson to lead the Liberals back to an election victory. Peterson had modernized the party and led her back more into the center of the political spectrum to appeal to urban voters and immigrants. But only three years later he suffered a defeat and for the first time ever presented the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP ) in the majority. 1996 Dalton McGuinty was elected party chairman, who in 2003 led the Liberals to victory. In 2007, the party is a similar result, in 2011 they narrowly missed the absolute majority representation and has since formed a minority government.

Election results

Party chairman

P = Prime Minister

  • George Brown (1857-1867)
  • Archibald McKellar (1867-1868)
  • Edward Blake (1868-1872) P
  • Oliver Mowat (1872-1896) P
  • Arthur Sturgis Hardy (1896-1899) P
  • George William Ross (1899-1907) P
  • Perry George Graham ( 1907)
  • Newton Rowell (1911-1917)
  • William Proudfoot (1918-1919)
  • Hartley Dewart (1919-1921)
  • Wellington Hay (1922-1923)
  • W. E. N. Sinclair (1923-1930)
  • Mitchell Hepburn (1930-1942) P
  • Gordon Daniel Conant (1942-1943) P
  • Harry Nixon (1943-1944) P
  • Mitchell Hepburn (1944-1945)
  • Farquhar Oliver (1945-1950)
  • Walter Thomson (1950-1954)
  • Farquhar Oliver (1954-1958)
  • John Winter Meyer (1958-1964)
  • Andy Thompson (1964-1967)
  • Robert Nixon (1967-1976)
  • Stuart Smith (1976-1982)
  • David Peterson (1982-1990) P
  • Robert Nixon (1990-1991)
  • Murray Elston (1991 )
  • James J. Bradley (1991-1992)
  • Lyn McLeod (1992-1996)
  • Dalton McGuinty (1996-2013) P
  • Kathleen Wynne (since 2013) P
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