List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

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    1992, 900 Years After
    2893-2897: Jena Oliwar Kwynedd/Miamuto Jaxon (Federal)
    2892: def. Braven Blumfontein/Dora Deneero (Reclaimationist), Edi Ling/Tagmont Wolkoff (Techno), Monra Pirucci/Mahmud Inviz-Biri (Republic)
    2897-2905: Sascha Paalking/Fatima Huddson (Techno)
    2896: def. Mielo Trang/Maxim Tchibuden (Pop), Ruby Roz/Elay Dixon (Reclaimationist), Henrik Harlemoff XXI/Stiboni Stone (Federal-Galactic Law alliance)
    2900: def. Cri March/Aloys Sunchase (Federal), Sheyd Gibson/Romano Malone (Pop)
    2905-2909: Rejayka McKee/Yvon Mukuza (Reclaimationist)
    2904: def. Borya Putin/Dasteen Skipper (Federal), Manfredi Quezole/Odet Figuamonte (Rio)
    2909-2917: Bakar O'Dunmer/Nina Inaba (Federal)
    2908: def. Ernst Carlsonn/Maya Kortezina (Technopop), Pidgin Trang/Ludwig O'Lennon (Reclaimationist), Islam Usbekoff/Eurasia Axelrod (Socialist)
    2912: def. Yulian Shanpolmarat/Mortimier Andrianjaka (Socialist), Lexy Novatsky/Noi Bush (Technopop)
    2917-present: Rolph Hanzel/Hululu Vyliams (Popular Republic)
    2916: def. Dik Quigbon/Rangiku Kykoa (Technopop), Safron Pichai/Ymmet Fox (Imperial)
     
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    Indicus said:
    The POD is that, instead of temporarily partitioning Bengal, which severely aggravated Hindu and Muslim tensions, Curzon partitions another part of India:

    Viceroys of India (1899-1920)
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    1899-1905: Lord Curzon of Kedleston [1]
    1905-1911: Lord Morley of Blackburn [2]
    1911-1920: Lord Harding of Penshurst [3]

    [1] Lord Curzon wasn't really the worst viceroy of India, but he is seen quite badly by most historians. In his term as viceroy, he quelled a rebellion by Pathan tribes in the North-West Frontier Province, and he was mistrustful of Russian interests in the Great Game. However, his worst failure was the famine suffered from 1899-1900, which killed millions of people, and he has suffered from accusations that he did not do everything to relieve this famine. This remains a vast dark mark on his record, and Indian historians especially loathe him. Yet, his final act as Viceroy wasn't really a bad act. He partitioned the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir into the smaller princely state of Jammu and the provinces of Kashmir and Ladakh. As it turned out, this has proved to be a good decision, as no feeling of unity existed between the three disparate peoples of the region, and Jammu was later absorbed into the Indian province of Punjab, fitting in seamlessly with Western Punjabis.

    [2] The importance of the Morley reforms, better known as the Indian Council Acts of 1910, cannot be underestimated. They brought millions of Indians into the governance of the Raj, and it was because of this that such men like Motilal Nehru were brought into government, to rule the nation. But otherwise, his viceregal term was fairly quiet, in stark contrast to that of his successor.

    [3] The dominating aspect of Harding's term was the Great War. Recommending that the Indian martial races be drafted en masse, with India having been fairly peaceful, this was accepted, and Indians from India, wearing their distinctive turbans, were a common sight across the trenches of western Europe. Passchendale was a dominating experience of the Indian efforts, and it has gone down in Indian legend as a symbol of a useless battle in a war of tyrannical empires, as a moment in which Indians fought for their occupiers nevertheless with valour. And as soldiers came home after a bitter-fought victory, they found that they gained no rights or benefits from fighting for the King-Emperor. They were left cynical and jaded, and many became fierce nationalists. Furthermore, the Spanish flu spread from these veterans, killing millions of Indians, and many found Harding's reaction to this plague insufficient. In reaction, as one of his last acts, Lord Harding recommended that India become a dominion with further native involvement. In 1920, this was accepted from the British authority albeit with Burma cut off from India, and the British Raj became the Dominion of India. Finally, India could govern itself. Furthermore, the post of Viceroy became the much weaker post of Governor-General, and naturally Harding left India after the creation of a Dominion.

    Governor-General of India (1920-1967)​

    1920-1931: Earl of Reading
    1931-1940: Earl of Willingdon
    1940-1949: Lord Churchill
    1949-1963: Charles Lambe
    1963-1967: Enoch Powell

    Prime Ministers of the Dominion of India (1920-1967)​

    1920-1937: Motilal Nehru (Indian National Congress) [1]
    1920 def. H.N. Kunzru (Indian Liberal Party)
    1924 def. H.N Kunzru (Indian Liberal Party)
    1928 def. H.N. Kunzru (Indian Liberal Party)
    1932 def. Madhav Shrihary Aney (Indian Liberal Party)
    1936 def. Madhav Shrihary Aney (Indian Liberal Party)
    1937-1948: Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Indian National Congress) [2]
    1940 def. Madhav Shrihary Aney (Indian Liberal Party), M.N. Roy (Indian Communist Party)
    1944 def. Madhav Shrihary Aney (Indian Liberal Party), Govind Ballabh Pant (Republican Congress), M.N. Roy (Indian Communist Party), C.N. Annadurai (Federalist)
    1948-1950: Vallabhai Patel (Indian Liberal Party) [3]
    1948 def. Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Indian National Congress), Govind Ballabh Pant (Republican Congress), M.N. Roy (Indian Communist Party), C.N. Annadurai (Federalist)
    1950-1963: Morarji Desai (Indian Liberal Party) [4]
    1948 def. Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian National Congress), Govind Ballabh Pant (Republican Congress), C. Rajagopalachari (Azadi), M.N. Roy (Indian Communist Party), C.N. Annadurai (Federalist)
    1952 def. Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian National Congress), Govind Ballabh Pant (Republican Congress), C. Rajagopalachari (Azadi), M.N. Roy (Indian Communist Party)
    1956 def. Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian National Congress), Govind Ballabh Pant (Republican Congress), C. Rajagopalachari (Azadi)
    1960 def. Govind Ballabh Pant (Republican Congress), Jawaharlal Nehru (Indian National Congress), C. Rajagopalachari (Azadi)
    1963-1964: Charan Singh (Indian Liberal Party) [5]
    1964-1967: Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Republican Congress) [6]
    def. Charan Singh (Indian Liberal Party), Gulzaril Nanda (Indian National Congress), C. Rajagopalachari (Azadi)

    [1] Motilal Nehru, the "Father of Dominion", is today one of the most beloved Indian leaders. After creating an official constitution that notably instituted Hindustani, in both its Urdu and Hindi scripts as the main official language and English as a secondary official language, coming on the backs of the Indian experience in the Great War and the subsequent Spanish Flu, he was intent on improving Indian hospitals. Citing the long legacy of Indian public hospitals since the days of the Delhi Sultanate, he established a number of public hospitals and nationalized many more, promoting vaccination and a good healthcare system. These acts calmed down a population put on edge by a flu nicknamed the "Britisher Plague" by many bitter veterans. Over the next decade, Nehru worked towards crushing farm lords, and land reform made him an enemy to many of the upper class. However, as it turned out, crushing the Indian feudal system made him a very popular man among former tenants, who voted him into power until his death. Another prominent movement during Nehru's term was a movement supported by Hindus and Muslims alike known as the Khilafah movement, which supported the retaining of the Ottoman Caliph as the ruler of Turkey. As it turned out, though his domain was much reduced, losing control over Hejaz to the Hashemites and even Kurdistan to an independent republic, and though the Hashemite ruler proclaimed himself Caliph, ultimately the Ottoman Caliph still ruled over Turkey from his capital in Constantinople. Finally, Nehru promoted industrialization, creating coal mines in Bengal and Bihar and factories across the Ganges, and this cause was furthered when the Statute of Westminster gave him even more power. Despite the Great Panic causing a vast, massive, economic slowdown, some factories even came to exist in Punjab and Madras Province by the time he died in 1937, handing the keys to a trusted cabinet member.

    [2] Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a widely respected man and a proud, loyal Indian, considered by almost everyone to be a valiant man who worked hard for his country, and he was closely allied with Mohandas Gandhi to the point that they were called the "Gujarati Brothers", for they both hailed from Gujarat. Under Jinnah, India industrialized further as every country in the world (save for Germany which saw unstable nationalist governments threaten its democracy) recovered from the Great Panic, and he turned India into both a major breadbasket for the world and a "branch plant economy", as despite controversy within the party, numerous companies invested in India. However, left-wing members of the INC bolted from their party and created the Republican Congress, a left-wing party defined in no small part by its staunch advocacy of an Indian republic, and its most hardline members even accused the remaining INC of being collaborators. This also spurred the emergence of the minor Federalist Party, which promoted decentralizing India in reaction to the two language solution (Hindustani and a local language) that emerged throughout the Dravidian south. And when it came time for the 1948 election, these fatal splits as well as rumours of Jinnah's bad health caused the Indian Liberal Party to finally win an election, under a trusted man. As it turned out, Jinnah's death soon after the election vindicated those rumours. Today, the INC's lack of effectiveness as an opposition party has led to its destruction.

    [3] Patel was a well-respected man, and held solid centre-right views emblematic of Indian liberalism. As such, he promoted further investment by foreign businesses, while keeping much of the Indian social safety net in place so as to keep money made in India. As it turned out, this resulted in right-wing members of the Liberal Party to form the Azadi Party, a hardline conservative party devoted to freedom as the name suggests, and they extended this philosophy of freedom to the economy. While it obviously held more seats than the Communists, what with Communism having failed to set up any revolutionary government anywhere, it proved to be fickle opposition to the popular Liberals. Patel died in 1950, having at least caused a few good reforms. It would ultimately come to his illustrious successor to hold up his legacy.

    [4] Desai largely continued his predecessor's policies. However, it was here they bore fruit. As foreign businesses continued to invest in India, and as India continued to get wealthier and more prosperous, India's population, long a source of consternation by those worried about overpopulation, finally began to level off, and India's greatest issue finally began to go away. In culture, Indian clout began to grow, and today, the Indian movie industry, largely consisting of movies in the Hindustani language, became prominent worldwide as the "Indian Economic Miracle" grew famous across the world. India became a quite prominent part of the British Empire, and the most optimistic estimates at the time make it the wealthiest part of the Empire, at least in terms of total GDP. But of course, the only real thing that India followed the British Empire in was foreign policy, and that would not be tested until a few years after Desai resigned. In any case, with no real challenges, and bearing the fruits of prosperity, a triumphant Desai proclaimed his resignation in 1963, leading a nation that looked like it would only ever improve.

    [5] At first Charan Singh had a prosperous and content country. However, then came the Malaya Crisis. Now, at this point, the British Empire looked increasingly moribund. India, its former crown jewel, was no longer toeing its line. But of course, many colonies, Malaya among them, remained under solid British rule. But then the Malay Independence Army proclaimed the independence of Malaya as a free republic, and Britain took to bombing the portions of Malaya under their control. This divided India massively, and Charan Singh's stuttering reply of weak support for the British was considered weak. And the Republican Congress, with its talk of an "Indian Century" and an "independent India", was increasingly appealing. So when election time came around, no one was surprised at the victor.

    [6] Having won on the basis of national rage, Bhutto's term as Prime Minister of India was struck by a total refusal to follow Britain's path in foreign affairs and seeking the creation of a republic. In this goal, the governor-general proved surprisingly amenable, despite his reputation as a conservative whacko. Ultimately, the Indian Constitution of 1967 was accepted by British Parliament, and with it, India broke off all remaining links to Britain. The Dominion, and the many petty monarchies inside it, was no more. Now came the Republic, to lead India in a new age of decolonization...
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    MOAR PLZ

    BUT MUH MONIES TEK THEM ALL

    Seriously, love shuffling the Nehru family tree a bit and Morarji Desai getting a decent shot when he was younger and fitter. Also I would *love* to be a fly in the archives ITTL looking at the fifty-year-rule stuff (not the thirties, too much won't be there) about the Powell-Bhutto relationship. You have a vignette to go write on *that* one....
     

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    Augenis said:
    I Wrote This List in Like an Hour, It Sucks and I Hate It

    This is probably my first real US presidential list, so excuse me if I ended up using politicians that are too cliche or overused.

    1945-1949: Franklin Delano Roosevelt/Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
    def. Thomas E. Dewey/John E. Bricker (Republican)
    1949-1950: Douglas MacArthur/Fielding L. Wright (Republican)*
    def. Harry S. Truman/William O. Douglas (Democratic)
    1950-1953: Fielding L. Wright (Republican War Government)
    1953-1957: Fielding L. Wright/Richard Nixon (Republican)
    def. Jacob Arvey/Adlai Stevenson (Democratic), Joseph McCarthy/John E. Rankin (Patriotic)
    1957-1965: James Roosevelt/Dwight D. Eisenhower (Democratic)
    1956 def. Fielding L. Wright/Earl Warren (Republican), Richard Nixon/Ronald Reagan (Independent Republican), John E. Rankin/Joseph Kennedy Jr. (Patriotic)
    1960 1st round: James Roosevelt/Dwight D. Eisenhower (Democratic), John F. Kennedy/Christian Herter (Republican), Richard Nixon/Joseph Kennedy Jr. (Columbia)
    1960 2nd round def. John F. Kennedy/Christian Herter (Republican)
    1965-1967: Auss Tazookey (born Osamu Tezuka)/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)**
    1964 1st round: Auss Tazookey/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), Robert F. Wagner Jr./Curtis LeMay (Republican-Libertarian), Ronald Reagan/Chester W. Nimitz (Columbia), George Wallace/Bull Connor (Nativist), George McGovern/Martin Luther King Jr. (Social Democratic)
    1964 2nd round def. Ronald Reagan/Chester W. Nimitz (Columbia)
    1967-1969: Hubert Humphrey (Reform)
    1969-1973: Millard F. Caldwell/Jimmy Carter (Columbia)***
    1968 1st round: Hubert Humphrey/Walter Mondale (Reform), Millard F. Caldwell/Jimmy Carter (Columbia), Robert F. Wagner Jr./Richard L. Randolph (Liberal), George Wallace/Bull Connor (Nativist), George McGovern/Gus Hall (Social Democratic)
    1968 2nd round def.: Hubert Humphrey/Walter Mondale (Reform)
    1973-1978: Robert J. Dole/Elizabeth A. Ford (Liberal)****
    1972 1st round: Robert J. Dole/Elizabeth A. Ford (Liberal), Hubert Humphrey/Walter Mondale (Reform), George H.W. Bush/Henry M. Jackson (Nativist), Jerry Brown/Gus Hall (Social Democratic)
    1972 2nd round def.: Hubert Humphrey/Walter Mondale (Reform)
    1976 1st round: Robert J. Dole/Elizabeth A. Ford (Liberal), Frank Church/Henry Kissinger (New Democratic), George H.W. Bush/Henry M. Jackson (Nativist), Jerry Brown/Gus Hall (Social Democratic)
    1976 2nd round def.: Frank Church/Henry Kissinger (New Democratic)
    1978-1981: Elizabeth A. Ford (Liberal)
    1981-: Walt Damkey (born Valdas Adamkus)/Henry Kissinger (New Democratic)
    1980 1st round: Robert F. Kennedy/John B. Anderson (Liberal), Ronald Reagan/George H.W. Bush (New Columbia-Nativist), Jerry Brown/Gus Hall (Social Democratic)
    1980 2nd round def.: Robert F. Kennedy/John B. Anderson (Liberal)

    * Killed in action during World War III
    ** After releasing the Civil Rights Act and fighting for social equality, assassinated by a radical Southerner, named William Clinton
    *** A number of corruption scandals and protests by civil rights activists led to the collapse of the nativist, right-wing Columbia party. This isn't an assassination, I just like sticking a finger to collapsing parties
    **** After causing a major economic recession due to botched libertarian economic policies, assassinated in Vermont by a radicalized left-winger, Bernard Sanders

    You know, if I wanted to, I could do this all day. I could continue this to the present day if people want (but they likely do not)
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    Stand up for your ideas. People arent going to be bothered if you apologise and put it down straight away

    Some footnotes would be more useful though. Like the reform act you mentioned above.
     
    Gonzo - Claude Wagner Leads The ProgCons
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    Gonzo

    1968-1979: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal)
    1968: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Real Caouette (Ralliement creditiste), A.B. Patterson* (Social Credit)
    1972 (Minority): Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), David Lewis (New Democratic), Rea; Caouette (Social Credit)
    1974: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), David Lewis* (New Democratic), Rea; Caouette (Social Credit)
    1979: Claude Wagner (Progressive Conservative)
    1979: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal), Rosemary Brown* (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1979-1988: Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative)
    1983: Allan MacEachen (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1987 (Minority): Allan MacEachen (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1988-1996: Allan MacEachen (Liberal)
    1988 (Minority): Brian Mulroney* (Progressive Conservative), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1993: John Crosbie (Progressive Conservative), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Reform), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1996-1998: Paul Martin (Liberal)
    1998-2005: Elwin Hermanson (Progressive Conservative)
    1998: Paul Martin (Liberal), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Reform), Tom Wappel (Social Credit)
    2002: Paul Martin (Liberal), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Preston Manning (Reform)
    2005-2010: Jan Brown (Progressive Conservative)
    2006: John McKay (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Deborah Grey (Reform)
    2010-????: John McKay (Liberal)
    2010 (Minority): Jan Brown (Progressive Conservative), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Deborah Grey (Reform)
    2014: Tom Mulcair (Progressive Conservative), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Danielle Smith (Reform), Lorne Calvert (New Democratic)

    * = Defeated in riding

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    This is a little quick list I wrote the basis of while waiting for a delayed train earlier. Basically this an attempt to make something somewhat realistic concerning Canadian politics (ironic considering I made a mini series where the nation became a Socred-NDP duopoly...) The POD, so to speak can be found during the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election where the revelation that Claude Wagner, the OTL runner up, had a slush fund, is not made ITTL. Wagner is thus able to leapfrog over Joe Clark to become leader of the Tories. The Socred and NDP leadership elections during this period have some slight variations compared to OTL, with Brown and Fortin winning - in this TL Fortin avoids his fatal car crash in early 1977, thus enabling the party to have a charismatic, popular, and youthful leader, though this in turn sees the party gradually drawn into the orbit of Quebec nationalism, to the consternation of some in the party. In the 1979 federal election the ProgCons and Socreds perform better in Quebec (the latter winning 10 seats, up one notionally before dissolution), enabling Wagner to win a slender majority, though this is larger when the votes of the Socred MPs are factored in. The election sees leadership changes for the NDP and the Liberals, for the former this is due to the party's untested leader coming third in her riding (which she had won narrowly in a by-election during the parliamentary term.) Allan MacEachen narrowly defeats Jean Chretien in a third ballot run off; meanwhile Lorne Nystrom, a former baby of the house. Wagner's Premiership is sadly cut short with his death from cancer less than two months after becoming Prime Minister. In the ensuing leadership election, third placed candidate in 1976 Brian Mulroney pulled off a surprise victory over Clark. Mulroney would maintain the Wagner majority at the 1983 election, though only just - this would falter by 1987 after a series of scandals, leading to a 'victory' for Mulroney, though leaving him several seats short of a majority. This is reversed a year later when MacEachen manages to form a minority government and also to scalp Mulroney in his Quebec riding. The subsequent election of the Red Tory John Crosbie would see an increase in support for the hitherto unheard of Reform Party, which would see its first parliamentarian Deborah Grey elected not long into the new Parliament. The strength of Reform is seen at the 1993 federal election when it wins upwards of a dozen seats in the west of the country, mostly in Alberta, where it's party leader Preston Manning is easily elected. MacEahen retires on his own accord in 1996, and is replaced by Paul Martin, who defeats Chretien in yet another close race for the leadership of the Liberal Party. Crosbie's replacement is Saskatchewan PC leader Edwin Hermanson who subsequently defeats Martin in two federal elections. By the mid 2000s the PCs have gone marginally further to the right in a bid to try and undercut the Reformists. By this time the NDP and Socreds have gone through their own leadership changes, with Nystrom standing down in favour of Alexander McDonough, only to stand once again and win when she opted to stand down. The Socreds surprisingly elected pro-life Liberal defector Tom Wappel, who stand aside not long after to be replaced by Mario Dumont, who injects a populist flare into the still small Socreds. Under Dumont's leadership the party will grow exponentially to around 40 seats by the present day ITTL. Hermanson will be replaced by fellow party moderate conservative Jan Brewer who is defeated in the 2010 federal election by Liberal John McKay. By the present day the Liberals, Socreds and the Reform Party, now led by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are on the up, especially after weak performances by the PCs and NDP at the 2015 federal election.
     
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    Gonzo said:
    1968-1979: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal)
    1968: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), Tommy Douglas (New Democratic), Real Caouette (Ralliement creditiste), A.B. Patterson* (Social Credit)
    1972 (Minority): Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), David Lewis (New Democratic), Rea; Caouette (Social Credit)
    1974: Robert Stanfield (Progressive Conservative), David Lewis* (New Democratic), Rea; Caouette (Social Credit)
    1979: Claude Wagner (Progressive Conservative)
    1979: Pierre Trudeau (Liberal), Rosemary Brown* (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1979-1988: Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative)
    1983: Allan MacEachen (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1987 (Minority): Allan MacEachen (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1988-1996: Allan MacEachen (Liberal)
    1988 (Minority): Brian Mulroney* (Progressive Conservative), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1993: John Crosbie (Progressive Conservative), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Reform), Andre-Gilles Fortin (Social Credit)
    1996-1998: Paul Martin (Liberal)
    1998-2005: Elwin Hermanson (Progressive Conservative)
    1998: Paul Martin (Liberal), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Preston Manning (Reform), Tom Wappel (Social Credit)
    2002: Paul Martin (Liberal), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Preston Manning (Reform)
    2005-2010: Jan Brown (Progressive Conservative)
    2006: John McKay (Liberal), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Deborah Grey (Reform)
    2010-????: John McKay (Liberal)
    2010 (Minority): Jan Brown (Progressive Conservative), Lorne Nystrom (New Democratic), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Deborah Grey (Reform)
    2014: Tom Mulcair (Progressive Conservative), Mario Dumont (Social Credit), Danielle Smith (Reform), Lorne Calvert (New Democratic)

    * = Defeated in riding

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    This is a little quick list I wrote the basis of while waiting for a delayed train earlier. Basically this an attempt to make something somewhat realistic concerning Canadian politics (ironic considering I made a mini series where the nation became a Socred-NDP duopoly...) The POD, so to speak can be found during the 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election where the revelation that Claude Wagner, the OTL runner up, had a slush fund, is not made ITTL. Wagner is thus able to leapfrog over Joe Clark to become leader of the Tories. The Socred and NDP leadership elections during this period have some slight variations compared to OTL, with Brown and Fortin winning - in this TL Fortin avoids his fatal car crash in early 1977, thus enabling the party to have a charismatic, popular, and youthful leader, though this in turn sees the party gradually drawn into the orbit of Quebec nationalism, to the consternation of some in the party. In the 1979 federal election the ProgCons and Socreds perform better in Quebec (the latter winning 10 seats, up one notionally before dissolution), enabling Wagner to win a slender majority, though this is larger when the votes of the Socred MPs are factored in. The election sees leadership changes for the NDP and the Liberals, for the former this is due to the party's untested leader coming third in her riding (which she had won narrowly in a by-election during the parliamentary term.) Allan MacEachen narrowly defeats Jean Chretien in a third ballot run off; meanwhile Lorne Nystrom, a former baby of the house. Wagner's Premiership is sadly cut short with his death from cancer less than two months after becoming Prime Minister. In the ensuing leadership election, third placed candidate in 1976 Brian Mulroney pulled off a surprise victory over Clark. Mulroney would maintain the Wagner majority at the 1983 election, though only just - this would falter by 1987 after a series of scandals, leading to a 'victory' for Mulroney, though leaving him several seats short of a majority. This is reversed a year later when MacEachen manages to form a minority government and also to scalp Mulroney in his Quebec riding. The subsequent election of the Red Tory John Crosbie would see an increase in support for the hitherto unheard of Reform Party, which would see its first parliamentarian Deborah Grey elected not long into the new Parliament. The strength of Reform is seen at the 1993 federal election when it wins upwards of a dozen seats in the west of the country, mostly in Alberta, where it's party leader Preston Manning is easily elected. MacEahen retires on his own accord in 1996, and is replaced by Paul Martin, who defeats Chretien in yet another close race for the leadership of the Liberal Party. Crosbie's replacement is Saskatchewan PC leader Edwin Hermanson who subsequently defeats Martin in two federal elections. By the mid 2000s the PCs have gone marginally further to the right in a bid to try and undercut the Reformists. By this time the NDP and Socreds have gone through their own leadership changes, with Nystrom standing down in favour of Alexander McDonough, only to stand once again and win when she opted to stand down. The Socreds surprisingly elected pro-life Liberal defector Tom Wappel, who stand aside not long after to be replaced by Mario Dumont, who injects a populist flare into the still small Socreds. Under Dumont's leadership the party will grow exponentially to around 40 seats by the present day ITTL. Hermanson will be replaced by fellow party moderate conservative Jan Brewer who is defeated in the 2010 federal election by Liberal John McKay. By the present day the Liberals, Socreds and the Reform Party, now led by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are on the up, especially after weak performances by the PCs and NDP at the 2015 federal election.
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    Ooh I like. McKay's a bit socially right-wing for my taste, but I could get behind this.
     
    BlackentheBorg - President Wallace...no, the other one
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    BlackentheBorg

    Banned
    Trying out a different format

    President Wallace...no, the other one

    33. Henry Agard Wallace [former V.P.]*
    1945: Henry Wallace/Carey Estes Kefauver defeated Thomas Edmund Dewey/William Chapman Revercomb
    34. Earl Warren [CA]
    1948: Earl Warren/William Knowland defeated Estes Kefauver/William Averell Harriman
    35. Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower [former Allied Commander]
    1952: Dwight Eisenhower/Rexford Guy Tugwell defeated (incumbents)
    1956: defeated William Knowland/Robert Alphonso Taft
    36: Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. [MN]
    1960: Hubert Humphrey/Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston defeated Barry Morris Goldwater/James Allen "Jim" Rhodes
    37: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller [NY]
    1964: Nelson Rockefeller/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. defeated (incumbents)
    1968: defeated George Stanley McGovern/Daniel Baugh Brewster
    38: Philip Aloysius Hart [MI]**
    1972: Phillip Hart/Stewart Lee Udall defeated Henry Cabot Lodge Jr./Kenneth Barnard Keating
    39: Raymond Philip "Ray" Shafer [PA]
    1976: Ray Shafer/George Herbert Walker Bush defeated Stewart Udall/Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson
    40: Augustus Freeman "Gus" Hawkins [CA]
    1980: Gus Hawkins/Ralph Webster Yarborough defeated (incumbents)
    1984: defeated James Eubert Holshouser Jr./Robert Dolph Ray
    41: Richard Milhous Nixon [NY]***
    1988: Richard Nixon/Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker defeated Eugene Joseph McCarthy/William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
    42: Lawrence Douglas Wilder [VA]
    1992: Doug Wilder/Daniel Robert Graham defeated Nancy Kassebaum/Thomas Howard "Tom" Kean Sr.

    * President Franklin Roosevelt died in the month of March, 1944 from congestive heart failure. Despite keeping the nomination, Wallace was voted out during the primaries.
    ** Stepped down in 1975 due to metastatic melanoma. Nasty stuff.
    *** Suffered a stroke in 1990.
     
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