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The 2004 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election took place on March 20,2004,in Toronto,Ontario,and resulted in the election of Stephen Harper as the first leader of the new Conservative Party of Canada. The Conservative Party was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada,in December 2003.
Deepak Obhrai was a Tanzania-born Canadian politician,representing the riding of Calgary East and Forest Lawn for the Reform Party of Canada and then the Conservative Party of Canada from 1997 until he died in 2019. He previously served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was the first and only Hindu to become an MP in Canada,and at the time of his death was the longest continuously serving Conservative MP. He ran in the 2017 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election,but was defeated in the first round of voting.
There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party,or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Party or Independent Labour Party name,backed by local labour councils made up of many union locals in a particular city,or individual trade unions. There was an attempt to create a national Canadian Labour Party in the late 1910s and in the 1920s,but these were only partly successful.
Calgary Southwest was a federal electoral district in Alberta,Canada,that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2015. The district was in the southwest part of the City of Calgary,south of Glenmore Trail and west of the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Railway line.
Douglas Scott Harkness was a Canadian politician.
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Calgary West was a federal electoral district in Alberta,Canada,that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1953,and from 1979 to 2015. It was in the western part of the City of Calgary.
Calgary Centre is a federal electoral district in Alberta,Canada,that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. The riding consists of many young adults who have a relatively high average household income and education level. As the riding encompasses the downtown core and large swaths of apartment blocks in the communities west and south of downtown,Calgary Centre has a low home ownership rate compared to the rest of Canada.
The Communist Party of Canada - Marxist-Leninist ran several candidates in the 2004 federal election,none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.
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William Charles Attewell was a Canadian politician.
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