Liberal-Labour (Canada)
Liberal-Labour
The Liberal-Labour banner has also been used several times by candidates in Canadian elections:
Malcolm Lang, who was elected as a Labour Party of Canada Member of Parliament in 1926, was re-elected as Liberal-Labour in the north-eastern Ontario riding of Timiskaming South in the 1930 Canadian election.
From 1949 to 1968, William Moore Benidickson represented the north-western Ontario riding of Kenora-Rainy River as a Liberal-Labour Member of Parliament. He was succeeded in that riding by John Mercer Reid, who sat as a Liberal-Labour MP from 1968 to 1972 when he changed his desigation back to Liberal. Benidickson was elected as a result of an informal electoral pact between the Labour Progressive Party of Canada (ie the Communist Party of Canada) and the Liberal Party of Canada.
In the 1935 Canadian election, three candidates ran in Quebec ridings, placing last in each case, and drawing no more than 1.5% of the vote in each case. In all three ridings, at least one other candidate ran as a plain Liberal.
In the 1945 Canadian election, one candidate ran as a Liberal Labour candidate in the Quebec riding of Mercier, placing last in a field of seven, with 345 votes, 1.0% of the total.
In the 1949 Canadian election, one candidate ran as a Liberal Labour candidate in the Quebec riding of Stanstead, placing last in a field of four, with 433 votes, 2.6% of the total.
Liberal Labour Party
The Liberal Labour Party name was used twice in Canadian elections, although it is not known if it was an organized political party, or just a convenient label for these two candidates.
In the 1926 Canadian election, Alexander Jarvis McComber, a barrister, placed second in a field of three candidates in the north-western Ontario riding of Port Arthur ? Thunder Bay, winning 2,990 votes, 26% of the total. No candidate ran as a plain Liberal, but the third place candidate ran under the Labour banner.
In a 22 March 1954 by-election in Verdun, Quebec, Hervé Ferland, an advertising agent, placed fifth in a field of seven candidates, which included one Liberal and two Independent Liberals. He won 2,180 votes, 8.7% of the total.
Liberal Labour Progressive
In the 1926 Canadian election, the only opponent of the victorious Conservative candidate in the Algoma West riding in northern Ontario ran as a Liberal Labour Progressive candidate. Albert Ernest Whytall won 4,187 votes, or 37% of the total.
Ontario
In the 1943 Ontario provincial election, the Communist Party of Canada decided to run several candidates jointly with the Liberal Party of Ontario in an attempt to marginalise the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. One of the Liberal-Labour MPPs elected was a member of the Communist Party - the others were Liberals who enjoyed Communist support. One Liberal riding association continued to nominate Liberal-Labour candidates into the 1970s.
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