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Originally Posted by Docere
Look at Ontario in 1919 when the United Farmers of Ontario won the election.
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A different world back then.
We actually used some party names that have come up relatively recently in Canada, which suggests to me they were likely names used in Canada before.
Our pre-Confederation national election winners were (italicized is our golden age, to the extent we had one):
1832: Conservative
1836: Liberal
1837: Liberal
1842: Liberal
1848: Liberal
1852: Liberal
1855: Liberal
1859: Liberal
1861: Conservative
1865: Conservative
1869: Anti-Confederation
1874: Conservative
1878: Conservative
1882: Conservative
1885: Reform
1889: Liberal
1893: Liberal
1897: Tory
1900: Liberal
1904: Liberal
1908: Liberal
1909: People's Party
1913: People's Party
1919: Liberal Reform
1923: Liberal Reform
1924: Liberal-Conservative-Progressive (one party; hilariously, opposition was Liberal-Progressive)
1928: Liberal
1932: United Newfoundland
(Then we voted away our independence, and Commission of Government ruled, half appointed by Britain, until Confederation).