Which candidate would you have voted for - Canadian version

[RogueBeaver]

This is all with hindsight. Without hindsight I'd probably vote Dief in '58 and Chretien 3 times.


1867: Conservative  (Sir John A. Macdonald)


1872: Liberal (Edward Blake)
1874: Liberal (Alexander Mackenzie)
1878: Liberal (Alexander Mackenzie)
1882: Liberal (Edward Blake)
1887: Liberal (Edward Blake)
1891: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier)
1896: Liberal (Wilfrid Laurier)
1900: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier)
1904: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier)
1908: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier)
1911: Liberal (Sir Wilfrid Laurier)

1917: Unionist (Sir Robert Borden)



1921: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1925: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1926: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1930: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1935: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1940: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1945: Liberal (Mackenzie King)
1949: Liberal (Louis St. Laurent)
1953: Liberal (Louis St. Laurent)
1957: Liberal (Louis St. Laurent)
1958: Liberal (Lester Pearson)
1962: Liberal (Lester Pearson)
1963: Liberal (Lester Pearson)
1965: Liberal (Lester Pearson)


1968: PC (Bob Stanfield)
1972: PC (Bob Stanfield)
1974: PC (Bob Stanfield)
1979: PC (Joe Clark)
1980: PC (Joe Clark)
1984: PC (Brian Mulroney)
1988: PC (Brian Mulroney)
1993: Reform (Preston Manning)
1997: Reform (Preston Manning)
2000: Canadian Alliance (Stockwell Day)
2004: Conservative (Stephen Harper)
2006: Conservative (Stephen Harper)
2008: Conservative (Stephen Harper)
2011: Conservative (Stephen Harper)


1872-1887: I'll trust Blake to keep the anti-clerical fanatics under control. As a modern-day Blue Tory I'd be a classical liberal in those days, hence a Liberal vote. I like Macdonald but not his policies.

1891-1911: Ideological reasons.

1917: I'm voting for national unity, thanks.

1921-1957: Welfare state not my cuppa, but foreign, trade and anti-non-WASP attitudes of the Tories, plus their horrible leaders ensure Liberal votes from me.

1958-68: See above. Definitely not voting for a paranoid, anti-Catholic, anti-American incompetent demagogue.

1968-84: Hell would freeze over before I would ever consider voting for PET.

1984/8: I like Mulroney and his policies. Liberals need to grow and not have a bunch of jumped-up JDs as the face of their party.

1993: No to squishiness (Liberals), incompetence (PCs), socialism and separatism.

1997/2000: See above.

2004-2011: I'm a Tory activist, therefore I vote Tory.