Zone d'identification
Type d'entité
Collectivité
Forme autorisée du nom
British Columbia Liberal Party
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Forme(s) du nom normalisée(s) selon d'autres conventions
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
- BC Liberals
Numéro d'immatriculation des collectivités
Zone de description
Dates d’existence
1903-
Historique
The British Columbia Liberal Party (also referred to as the BC Liberals) is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election. It was returned to the legislature through the efforts of Gordon Wilson in a break-through in the 1991 election. At this time, the Social Credit Party collapsed, with the BC Liberals able to garner the centre vote traditionally split between left and right extremes in British Columbia politics. After Wilson lost a leadership challenge in the wake of a personal scandal in a bitter three-way race, the party was led by Gordon Campbell, who became Leader of the Opposition after Wilson's convention defeat. In the wake of the collapse of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) vote in the 2001 election, the Campbell-led BC Liberals won an overwhelming majority in 2001.
Previously affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada, the British Columbia Liberal Party has been independent of its federal counterpart since the late 1980s and subsequently displaced the British Columbia Social Credit Party as the province's de facto liberal-conservative coalition opposed to the social democratic, pro-union British Columbia New Democratic Party.
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Statut légal
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Textes de référence
Organisation interne/Généalogie
Contexte général
Zone des relations
Zone des points d'accès
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Identifiant du service d'archives
NBCA
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
Statut
Révisé
Niveau de détail
Moyen
Dates de production, de révision et de suppression
Revised on April 20, 2012 by KS.
Langue(s)
- anglais