Saskatchewan Liberal Party

The Saskatchewan Liberal Party (French Parti libéral de la Saskatchewan ) is a liberal political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. She dominated the provincial politics in the first half of the 20th century and turned several times the government, but was then with the exception of the 1960s, never to build on earlier successes. Since the 2003 elections, it is not represented in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.

History

The party was founded in the same year as the province. From the start, they dominated the political process. Until the mid- 1940s she put five of six prime ministers and has always been the strongest party voters. She was located in the center of the political spectrum, and said also targeted voters not of British origin, among them immigrants from Eastern Europe, Catholic and francophone. The Liberals refused to nativist tendencies, as the late 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan briefly exerted a great influence in Saskatchewan.

1944 ended the dominance, as in Saskatchewan with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF ), Tommy Douglas, the first social democratic government in North America came to power. The Liberals moved politically to the right and remained until 1964, in opposition, when Ross Thatcher won the election. After the electoral defeat of 1971 against the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party ( the successor party of the CCF), the Liberals remained until 1978, the main opposition party, when they lost all the seats and the Progressive Conservatives took their place.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Liberals could only partially benefit from the expenses scandal, the progressive- conservative government, but rose again in 1995 temporarily the strongest opposition force. In the 1999 elections the Social Democrats missed almost an absolute majority and persuaded three Liberal Party to change. This was followed by internal party disputes that caused a significant weakening of the Liberal Party. Since 2003 it is no longer managed to collect in the provincial legislature, in 2011 it fell into the utter meaninglessness.

Election results

Party chairman

P = Prime Minister

Nativism (politics) W. Ross Thatcher Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan List of political parties in Canada
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