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True Grit

True Grit

A Minor Meighen Majority

Here's 1940:

Dunning's relentless work ethic earned him much praise and admiration, but ultimately resulted in his untimely retirement. In 1939, health issues resulted in Dunning announcing his retirement. Successors quickly emerged to replace him, including Norman McLeod Rogers, James Ralston, James Garfield Gardiner, and Charles Gavan Power. Rogers and Gardiner quickly emerged as the favourites to win, with Rogers seen as the overall frontrunner but Gardiner being seen by many as Dunning's preferred successor. This set up a close race, and following a heated convention Gardiner won the leadership.

While it was initially expected that an election wouldn't be held until 1942, this all changed at the onset of World War II. Gardiner, in a surprise, called for early elections the following May, hoping Canadians would "rally to the flag" and return the incumbent government in the midst of a World War. Gardiner further pledged that he would not introduce conscription, and in an attempt to make the Liberals appeal across the country convinced the party to rename itself the "National Liberal Party of Canada." Gardiner's gambit was a success, as he won his own large majority mandate. Donald Matheson Sutherland was defeated in his own riding, and promptly resigned as Conservative leader, while the poor CCF showing ensured that party leader William Irvine would be resigning as well. With the nation at the beginning of the war, Gardiner began his first full term as Prime Minister.

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Seat totals: 193 National Liberal, 35 Conservative, 12 CCF, 3 Liberal-Progressive, 1 Independent Liberal, 1 Independent

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Canadian Federal Election 1929
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lord caedus

Final presidential election in the "US with Canadian-style parties" series, 1988.

Owing to the OTL results, this one wasn't in any real doubt since Bush won so many northern states even without the vote-splitting between Dukakis & Jackson. With Jackson taking away some of Dukakis' votes here the only northern states the Massachusetts governor wins are Iowa & Rhode Island. Jackson pulls off a win in DC since he utterly curbstomped the other primary contestants there IOTL.

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Robertson won more votes than Bush in the Carolinas & Oklahoma and managed to win those states due to Dukakis' vote being split. The only southern state Dukakis won IOTL ended up going to Bush *here* but vote-splitting between Bush & Robertson as well as the poor Jackson performance in the OTL primaries means Dukakis captured Kentucky & Arkansas here instead.

US Canada-style Series
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True Grit

True Grit

A Minor Meighen Majority

Here's 1945:

The 1945 election would be the toughest election Gardiner would face as National Liberal leader. While not a total disaster, the war was not as successful and quick as some had initially hoped for. Gardiner was also hurt in some parts of English Canada because of his staunch refusal to implement conscription, which Gardiner personally opposed, and politically realized would hurt the Liberals in Quebec. Furthermore, both the Conservatives and the CCF had popular new leaders. For the former, well respected general George Pearkes had been named leader in 1941, and benefited from the fact that the Canadian public had no difficulty seeing him as a wartime leader. The CCF, meanwhile, had chosen Saskatchewan MP Major James Coldwell as party leader, and increasingly saw its support in the polls rise.

Gardiner ran his campaign on maintaining stable leadership during the war, and attacked the Conservatives as being relentlessly in favour of conscription. Gardiner warned voters that a vote for the Conservatives meant "another national unity crisis," as had happened following the 1917 election. Pearkes attempted to distance himself from the issue, saying that he would only introduce conscription "if absolutely necessary," but Gardiner had managed to shift the focus of the campaign to national unity and conscription, and resulted in him being returned to another, bare majority government.[FONT=&quot]
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Seat totals: 123 National Liberal, 79 Conservative, 20 CCF, 9 Independent Liberal, 6 Independent, 4 Bloc populaire, 3 Labor-Progressive, 1 Liberal-Progressive

A Minor Meighen Majority
Canadian Federal Election 1925
Canadian Federal Election 1929
Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940

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Nanwe

Let's try something more particular.

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EDIT: Umm, it's weird it's so big since I didn't resize it in Inkscape, oh well, whatever.

Nevermind the bad infobox,

The main parties in this first elections to the lower chamber of the Parliament of the European Community are as follows:

Nouvelles Equipes Internationales (NEI): Is the main centre-right party and it's Christian Democrat. And talking of Christian democracy, it's necessary to explain the weird and ambivalent name. The NEI pre-dates the European Community, as it was founded in 1947 as a framework for the Geneva Talks (all OTL) of the Christian Democratic parties in Europe. Now, the problem with the name is that the two most powerful members, the German CDU and the Italian DC would favour a change of name to one that actually says something, but the French MRP, an anti-traditional right-wing party technically secular but inspired by Catholic social teaching opposes picking such a 'clerical' name. This concern is also shared by the Belgian Social Christians.

Basically it's all you could expect from a 1950s Christian Democratic party: Highlighting the role of Christianity and Christian democracy as a bulkwark against liberal and especially Marxist conceptions of life that could undermine the European civilisation, defending economic dirigisme (with varying degrees, the Germans least keen on interventionism) and the implementation of a welfare state (not necessarily at the European level though) based on the breadwinner model and centred around the family.

European Socialist Movement: The main centre-left party, social democratic and less pro-European (by far) than the NEI. It's composed of a very curious bunch of parties, ranging from the considerably pro-European Belgian party to the SPD and PSI that are still moving from neutralism (and nationalism) to Atlanticism (and Europeanism) and especially in the case of the PSI, that is still not fully trusted by other members. The preferred Italian members is the smaller PDSI.

Other members include the French SFIO that doesn't trust the Germans too much and clearly make the party's right-wing. The party's candidate was Sicco Mansholt, Dutch Minister of the Drees Cabinet, and a pro-European PvdA member (unlike the PM), already quite famous for his pro-Europeanism. He had the strong support of Spaak, the Belgian Socialist leader, just recently returned to power at home after the electoral defeat of the van Zeeland government.

It's poor showing in the lower chamber is even worse in the Senate, where NEI does have a majority.

European Liberal League The ELL is probably the most right-wing party. They are liberal but perhaps in an older sense, its French member, and indeed the most important one, is CNIP, the party of Antoine Pinay, of the classical right. They defend economic liberalism, and well, they are representatives, basically, of the old European tradition of oligarchical liberalism. They are, like the socialists, divided on the integration, varying from the pro-Europeanism of the French and Italian sections to the more sceptic (if not nationalistic) approach of the Germans and the Belgian liberals.

Lastly, the European Republican Front, formed by the French PRRR (Radical Republican, Republican-Socialist Party), the UDSR, the RGR in France and the PRI in Italy is the social liberal party. With the exception of the RGR, it's the part of the Méndesian liberalism, a point in between the socialists (with similar goals but no Marxist nonsense) and the right-wing parties, if very very secular. It is also mixed on their europeanism, although the tête de liste as a former members of the Constituent Assembly of the ECSC-EDC, that drafted the Statute of the Community is known for his federalism.
 
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CanadianTory

CanadianTory

True Grit said:
Meh, they didn't get enough support and they aren't going to become major parties any time soon so I felt like leaving it with the "Big Three" so to speak.
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You know, more military men should occupy the PMO...just saying :p

1950 means the Liberals would have been in power for roughly 17 years.
 
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Turquoise Blue

The UK election of 2009 in Blazing Fire, my developing TL.

Liberals: 286, Radicals: 240, Populists: 71, Centrists: 62, Democrats: 18, Celestials: 15, Labour: 4, Scottish Alliance: 2, Pobl Cymru: 2, Independents: 2

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True Grit

True Grit

The first of a couple of rapid-fire updates...

A Minor Meighen Majority

Here's 1950:

Although Gardiner's majority government won in 1945 was slim, it was not as difficult to pass legislation once World War II met its end. Most of the nine Independent Liberals returned to the party, while many other Independents and Bloc populaire members voted with the government.

As World War II came to its end, the Cold War was just beginning. In Canada, it came to a head with the revelation that the three Labor-Progressive members of parliament had been spying for the Soviet Union. The Labor-Progressives quickly lost support, as one would expect, but as the "Red Scare" swept over Canada, the CCF began to lose support as well, and struggled to purge supposed communists from the party. However, the race was still between the National Liberals and the Conservatives. With the war over, the government soon focued on introducing social programs to help veterans, families, and prevent another depression - essentially, establishing the social safety net. With strong leadership less important of an issue as it was in 1945, George Pearkes' personal popularity was unable to bring voters over to the Conservatives, and the National Liberals managed to win another majority government.

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While Pearkes would resign as Conservative leader, and Gardiner would soon after retire as Prime Minister, the National Liberals, after being in office since 1933, would soon discover that all good things must come to an end...

A Minor Meighen Majority
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Canadian Federal Election 1929
Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940
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True Grit

True Grit

A Minor Meighen Majority

Here's 1955:

At the peak of his popularity, James Garfield Gardiner announced his retirement in 1953, hoping to leave at the top of his game. Indeed, the economy was doing well, and Gardiner had already been leading Canada for an impressive 14 years. Under these circumstances, the National Liberal leadership was expected to be quite the prize, attracting a large number of candidates to run, including Brooke Claxton, Paul Joseph James Martin, Douglas Abbott, Lionel Chevrier, Donald Hugh Mackay, and Jean Lesage. Martin and Claxton quickly emerged as the frontrunners, with Martin representing a shift to the left and Claxton representing a continuation of Gardiner's government. After a tough fight, Claxton ultimately emerged victorious, but his victory would result in divisions emerging within the National Liberals. Though competent and liked, Claxton's government suffered due to voter fatigue from over twenty years of National Liberal governments. By the time of the 1955 election, the National Liberals had been in power for 22 years. The Tories, meanwhile, were given a breath of fresh air under new leader Howard Charles Green, and looked set to show their best performance since being kicked out of office in 1933. Ultimately, though, the National Liberal machine was too strong to be defeated - at least right away. The National Liberals managed to hang on with a minority government, but were set to face their strongest opposition in decades, and an election soon looked imminent.

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A Minor Meighen Majority
Canadian Federal Election 1925
Canadian Federal Election 1929
Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940
Canadian Federal Election 1945
Canadian Federal Election 1950


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True Grit

True Grit

A Minor Meighen Majority

Here's 1957 (my last update for the day):

By 1957, Brooke Claxton's time soon ran out, and Canadians were looking for a change. The National Liberals had been in power for 24 years, and it was only natural that they'd soon be kicked out of office. However, even with all this stacked against them, the National Liberal machine was so strong that they almost won re-election. The party managed to win the popular vote, and came just four seats behind Howard Charles Green's Conservatives. With such a narrow loss, Claxton attempted to form a coalition government with the CCF, but to no avail. While kicked out of power, Claxton made the surprising announcement that he would stay on as National Liberal leader, citing the narrow loss as a "victory." The CCF, meanwhile, would see long-time leader Major James Coldwell step down after leading his party since the 40s, citing health. With the CCF in the midst of a leadership race, it looked like Green's government would stay afloat for at least a few months. After that, though, it was anybody's guess...

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Canadian Federal Election 1933
Canadian Federal Election 1937
Canadian Federal Election 1940
Canadian Federal Election 1945
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True Grit

True Grit

CanadianTory said:
I'm starting to think that you might be a Liberal, Grit :p

I'm interested to see how the next election goes.
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And I have a sneaking suspicion you might be a Conservative...:p
But don't worry, I don't intend on giving the Liberals as long a run of power ever again. And fear not! Turns out that I'll be giving the country more Conservative PMs than IRL.
 
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