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bobloblaw
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« Reply #25 on: January 18, 2015, 04:49:24 PM »

I'll do Canada.

1896: Tories lose their dominance in Quebec over the French schools question.

1921: The Progressive party places 2nd in response to Western alienation over tarrifs, government aid etc.. Two-party system is gone forever.

1935: Social Credit and the CCF emerge as socon and socialist responses to the Great Depression.

1958, 1962: Social Credit begins winning seats in Quebec. The Western/Anglo Socreds replaced by the Tories. The NDP contests their first election in 1962.

1984: Mulroney wins a landslide with a broad base including Western populists, Eastern establishment types and Quebec nationalists

1993: Mulroney coalition implodes as populist and French nationalist wings become Reform and Bloc Quebecois respectively.

2004: Progressive Conservatives and Reform merge. NDP shut out of Sasketchewan indicating that their prairie roots are waning.

2011: NDP sweeps Quebec. Liberal coalition cut down to trendy urban areas, English Montreal, and parts of Atlantic Canada.

I consider Canadian politics to be the most interesting in the Anglosphere.



The most important election in Canadian history was 1968. That was the point Canada went from being a major world player to an appeaser of communists and terrorists. From a english/scots/french nation to a multicultural tower of babbel. From an economic powerhouse to an economic basketcase. In 1968, Canadians decided they didnt want to be a worldpower anymore.

1993 was important because the Liberals, free from fear of losing an election, began to roll back disasterous Trudeau-nomics. Cutting spending, cutting taxes and taking a more free market approach.
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« Reply #26 on: January 18, 2015, 06:41:55 PM »
« Edited: January 18, 2015, 06:45:03 PM by beatrice »

I'm pretty skeptical of realigning elections - most of the time, people seem to vote according to immediate political issues, and most changes in alignment occur over a period of time, rather than in a snap realignment. I also find the borderline supernatural qualities people ascribe to them ("we have to have an alignment every thirty years!") a bit bizarre.

But, just for fun, I'll do them since the New Deal:

1932 - New Deal coalition established.

1964 - New Deal coalition begins to unravel as Democrats lose the Deep South for the first time.

2000 - Establishes a significant group of states that seemingly always go Democratic and another group that seemingly always goes Republican. States become considerably less elastic. Democrats have lost the South entirely while the North-east and the West Coast are lost to Republicans on the Presidential level. The Obama coalition builds on this base, adding more states to the Democratic side.
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