Event class: leadership, leader, party, election, liberal party, liberal, premier, announced, became, resigned

Events with high posterior probability

Gordon Campbell	Campbell resigned as premier on March 14, 2011, he was succeeded by Christy Clark but remained in party circles as'' senior advisor''.
Sophia Aggelonitis	In September 2012, Aggelonitis was named as president of the Ontario Liberal Fund, a body that will co-ordinate fundraising activities for the party on the province.
John Reesor Williams	Williams supported Frank Miller to succeed Davis as Premier of Ontario in January 1985, and was appointed as Solicitor-General when Miller became premier on February 8, 1985.
Bob Hawke	Hawke also maintained an involvement in Labor politics at a state level ; in 2011, Hawke publicly supported NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, who was facing almost certain defeat, in her campaign against Liberal Barry O'Farrell, describing her campaign as'' gutsy''.
Tu'uakitau Cokanauto	Following disagreements over the party's nominations to the Senate and the style of leadership, Cokanauto challenged Deputy Prime Minister and Fijian Affairs Minister Adi Kuini Speed for the leadership of the party on 11 September 1999.
Jim Prentice	Consistent with his positions during the leadership race, Prentice was a supporter of the merger endorsed by both the CA and PC parties in December 2003 that formed the new Conservative Party of Canada.
Don Scott (Ontario author)	Scott was chairman of the Canadian Action Party's northern caucus in the 2000 federal election.
Steve Mahoney	Mahoney supported Paul Martin in the 1990 federal Liberal leadership convention, but subsequently opposed efforts by other Martin supporters to remove Jean Chrétien from the leadership position.
William Alexander Baird	In 1926, Baird was duly put up for the nomination by the Conservatives, and handily won an election as the chief opposition came not from the Liberals, but from the Prohibition Party, who advocated province-wide prohibition.
Ron Liepert	Following the 2006 leadership race for the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, newly elected Premier Ed Stelmach appointed Liepert as the Minister of Education.
Jim Peterson	He supported John Turner's successful bid to succeed Trudeau in the 1984 Liberal leadership contest but lost his seat in the 1984 election.
Andr? Boisclair	After Bernard Landry resigned in June 2005, Boisclair entered the race to succeed Landry as the PQ's leader.
Loyola Hearn	Hearn was a candidate in the 1989 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention to replace outgoing Premier Brian Peckford, the eventual winner was Tom Rideout.
Borys Wrzesnewskyj	At a news conference on 25 February 2012, interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae said that Wrzesnewskyj will be going to court on 2 May 2012 to call for a by-election.
Elmer Ernest Roper	On May 4, 1942 Conservative leader David Duggan died, and his Edmonton seat became vacant.
Marcelle Mersereau	She served as co-chair of the successful Liberal campaign as it prepared for the 2006 provincial election.
Julia Gillard	Following her defeat in the leadership vote on 26 June 2013, Gillard congratulated the winner Kevin Rudd and announced that she would immediately tender her resignation as Prime Minister to the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce.
Martha Hall Findlay	However, on May 17, 2005, Stronach crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party caucus, and Hall Findlay stepped down as the candidate to allow Stronach to run under the Liberal banner.
Peter Jenkins (politician)	He held the position as sole MLA and leader until May and June 2002, when Dennis Fentie crossed the floor from the NDP and won the leadership party's leadership, defeating Jenkins and former party president Darcy Tkachuk on the first ballot.
Ed Stelmach	In late 2009, the Conservatives' plunging popularity at the polls and the surge in support for the right-wing Wildrose Alliance led to speculation that Stelmach would receive lukewarm support at his mandatory leadership review, to be held at the November 2009 Progressive Conservative convention.
Stuart Murray	He did not attend the Progressive Conservative leadership convention in April 2006, which chose Hugh McFadyen as his successor.
Rodolphe Lemieux	When Mackenzie King led the Liberals back to power in the 1921 election, he chose Ernest Lapointe as his Quebec lieutenant rather than Lemieux.
John Godfrey	On February 3, 2006, CBC Newsworld's Don Newman announced on air that Godfrey was planning a run for the Liberal Party leadership.
Kathy Dunderdale	On November 18, 2010, Dunderdale and Premier Williams were joined by Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter in announcing a $ 6.
Ray Funk	In 2001, Funk supported Buckley Belanger in his unsuccessful run to lead the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party accesscomm.
Louis St. Laurent	St-Laurent was succeeded as Liberal Party leader by his former Secretary of State for External Affairs and representative at the United Nations, Lester B. Pearson, at the party's leadership convention in 1958.
Mitch Williams (politician)	On 19 October 2012, Martin Hamilton-Smith announced he would be challenging Isobel Redmond for the parliamentary leadership of the South Australian Liberal Party, with Steven Marshall challenging Williams for the deputy leadership.
Norm Sterling	In the 2009 leadership race, Sterling supported the successful candidacy of Tim Hudak.
Dave Taylor (Canadian politician)	In the new legislature, he serves on the following committees ; After the Alberta Liberals lost more seats in the 2008 general election Kevin Taft resigned as leader.
Mark Norris (Canadian politician)	On May 30, 2006 Norris became an official candidate in the race to replace Ralph Klein as Premier of Alberta.
Christian Wulff	Speculation had particularly increased since the December 2004 Christian Democrat federal convention in Düsseldorf, when Wulff was re-elected deputy leader of the federal party with roughly 86 per cent of all delegates supporting him.
Ted Moses	During the campaign for the 2004 federal election, Moses also stated that he was counting on the Bloc Québécois, the PQ's brother party in at the federal level of Canadian politics, to defend aboriginal rights at the federal level.
Terry Donahoe	When Premier Donald Cameron stepped down on election night after the Conservatives' were defeated in 1993, Donahoe was named interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives and leader of the official opposition.
Carolyn Stewart-Olsen	In 1993, Stewart-Olsen became a volunteer in the communications office of the Reform Party of Canada under Preston Manning, newly settling in as a major party in the House of Commons.
Buzz Hargrove	The CAW retaliated against the NDP for Hargrove's suspension by severing all union ties with the Party, a move formalized at the CAW's 2006 convention.
Jody Carr	Though he was defeated in that election, he stayed involved in his riding and his party and co-chaired the 1997 leadership convention which elected Bernard Lord.
Wally Downer	Downer was a candidate in the 1961 PC leadership convention, but was eliminated on the third ballot.
Doug Holyday	On September 10, 2013 PC Leader Tim Hudak named Holyday Tory Accountability critic.
Peter MacKay	On October 15, 2003, he and Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper agreed to merge the two parties, forming the Conservative Party of Canada.
Crispin Blunt	He became a party whip under Howard, but on 9 June 2005 he took leave of absence from that role to support the expected leadership bid of Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
Stephen Harper	The Conservative Party's first policy convention was held from March 17 -- 19, 2005, in Montreal.
Elinor Caplan	In 1996, she supported Joseph Cordiano for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party.
Tom Rideout	With Peckford's retirement from politics in 1989, Rideout was chosen Tory party leader and thus became premier of Newfoundland.
Paul Hellyer	In early 2004, after several extensions of the merger deadline, the NDP rejected Hellyer's merger proposal which would have required the NDP to change its name.
Inky Mark	On September 12, 2001, Mark left the Canadian Alliance caucus to sit as a member of the Democratic Representative Caucus, in alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party.
Jim Harris (politician)	In 1993, Harris and other Ontario Greens sought and won a change in the party's constitution allowing for the election of a full-time leader.
Grant Devine	In 2004, Devine announced his intention to return to politics and run for the federal Conservative Party of Canada, but the party ruled he was an undesirable candidate, and denied him the right to seek a nomination.
Charles Wilson Cross	This dispute had repercussions in the Alberta party : Sifton supported conscription, and shortly after winning the 1917 election (in which Cross was re-elected in Edson but did not run in Edmonton) resigned as Premier to move to federal politics and a ministry in Borden's government.
Martin Hattersley	As leader he led an attempt to merge several Alberta parties into the Alberta Political Alliance, which proved to be a short-lived coalition of Social Credit, the Western Canada Concept and the Heritage Party, in 1986 but neither the Alliance nor Social Credit were prepared to run candidates in the 1986 Alberta election.
Maureen Hemphill	She served in the cabinet of NDP Premier Howard Pawley, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the party's leadership in 1988.
Rodney MacDonald	The leadership race culminated in MacDonald winning the party's leadership on a second ballot on February 11, 2006.
Ujjal Dosanjh	There had been speculation dating back to October 2002 that Dosanjh was interested in joining the Liberal Party of Canada.
Monte Solberg	He was also one of four Alliance MPs who agreed to sit with the Progressive Conservative caucus (to preserve their official party status) after the December 9, 2003 creation of the merged Conservative Party, as the Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parliamentary caucuses were not officially merged until a few weeks later.
Barry Campbell	Campbell also worked as a Toronto fundraiser in Paul Martin's bid to lead the Liberal Party in 2003 (Toronto Star, 14 November 2003).
Yvonne Jones	On November 15, 2007, she was named the interim leader of the Liberal Party and Official Opposition Leader, after party leader Gerry Reid was defeated in his own district.
Christy Clark	At the leadership convention held on February 26, 2011, Clark was elected leader of the BC Liberals on the third ballot, over former Health Minister Kevin Falcon.
Greg Byrne	In 2002, he co-chaired the successful leadership bid of Shawn Graham to succeed Thériault.
Michael Ignatieff	In January 2005, as a result of the efforts of Apps, Brock and Davey, press speculation that Ignatieff could be a star candidate for the Liberals in the next election, and possibly a candidate to eventually succeed Prime Minister Paul Martin, the leader of the governing Liberal Party of Canada.
Randy White (politician)	He joined the new Conservative Party of Canada upon the merger of the Alliance with the Progressive Conservative Party in early 2004.
Ross Milne (Canadian politician)	In 1982, as Ontario party president, he cautioned Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau not to interpret a vote of confidence in his leadership from Ontario party members as a message urging him to stay in office.
Randy Hillier (politician)	In March 2008 an article in the Ottawa Citizen reported that Hillier was considering leaving the Progressive Conservative caucus and joining the small Reform Party of Ontario.
Ken Waddell	Waddell ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 2006, following the resignation of Stuart Murray.
Frank Moores	In 1983, he was an organizer of the successful Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign for Brian Mulroney.
Mark Marissen	Most recently, Marissen was very involved in BC Premier Christy Clark's successful campaign in the 2013 BC provincial election.
Ralph Goodale	After the Liberals' defeat, and Paul Martin's election night announcement that he would be resigning as party leader, Goodale initially indicated that he was not interested in succeeding Martin in that post.''
Peter Cook (Australian politician)	He publicly backed her for the Labor leadership after Mark Latham resigned in 2005.
Allan MacEachen	He was courted to run for leader again in 1984 but opted to support John Turner, the eventual winner.
Chuck Cadman	He was re-elected under the banner of the Canadian Alliance in the 2000 election, and was appointed Justice Critic.
Judith Guichon	Her appointment to the position was announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on October 1, 2012 to succeed Steven Point.
Leo Bernier	Bernier initially supported Dennis Timbrell in the Progressive Conservative Party's January 1985 leadership convention, but crossed to Frank Miller after Timbrell was eliminated.
David Christopherson	Rae resigned as party leader in 1996, and there was considerable media speculation that Christopherson would run to succeed him.
Louis-Philippe McGraw	Louis-Philippe McGraw began his involvement in politics as a Liberal and was youth chair of Bernard Richard's unsuccessful bid for the Liberal leadership in 1998.
Sandra Pupatello	On November 8, 2012, Pupatello announced her candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Ontario.
Justin Trudeau	After the party's poor showing in the 2011 election, Ignatieff resigned from the leadership and Trudeau was again seen as a potential candidate to lead the party.
Robert Curtis Clark	Schmidt led the party to a very poor showing in the 1975 general election, and Clark was chosen by caucus as leader upon Schmidt's resignation following the election.
Alan Pope	In 1985, Pope was a prominent figure behind Frank Miller's campaign to succeed Davis as party leader.
Lawrence Springborg	In the wake of his second election defeat, he announced his resignation as leader of the National Party on 14 September 2006.
Eric Cline	In March 1995, Cline announced that he would support Chris Axworthy for leader of the federal New Democratic Party (Globe and Mail, 23 March 1995).
Brad Wall	At the party's 2007 annual convention, Wall received the support of 98 per cent of convention delegates for his leadership.
Polly Billington	She was the media director for his successful bid in the Labour leadership election, 2010.
Dorothy Dobbie	After Charest's resignation as Progressive Conservative Party leader in 1998, she endorsed Joe Clark to be his successor (Toronto Star, 29 June 1998).
George Hickes (politician)	Hickes supported Lorne Nystrom's bid to lead the federal New Democratic Party in 1995.
Walt Lastewka	Lastewka supported Paul Martin's bid to succeed Jean Chrétien as Liberal Party leader during the 1990s, and was one of the first Liberal MPs to call for Chrétien's resignation in 2000.
Holger K. Nielsen	When Annette Vilhelmsen became new leader of the party in October 2012, Nielsen who had been a strong supporter of Vilhelmsen's candidacy was named new Minister of Taxation in the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt.
Erik Nielsen	Nielsen served as Leader of the Opposition in 1983 between the resignation of Joe Clark and the election of Brian Mulroney as PC leader, and continued to lead the party in the House until Mulroney won a seat in a by-election, at which point Nielsen returned to his previous position as House Leader.
Dave Cooke	In 1996, he endorsed Frances Lankin's unsuccessful bid to replace Rae as party leader.
Billy Snedden	In 1967, following the death of Harold Holt, he was a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party, but his candidacy was not taken very seriously.
Michael Noonan	Noonan resigned as Fine Gael leader on the night of the election, and was replaced by Enda Kenny, the runner-up to Noonan in the 2001 leadership election.
Gary Doer	Doer was the first declared candidate in the Manitoba New Democratic Party's 1988 leadership contest.
Lindsay Thompson	On 5 June 1981, Hamer resigned and Thompson won a Liberal Party ballot to succeed him as Premier.
Norm Sterling	In 2004, Sterling supported Jim Flaherty's unsuccessful bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party.
Jean Charest	When Mulroney announced his retirement as PC leader and prime minister, Charest was a candidate for the leadership of the party at the 1993 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.
Andr? Bachand (Progressive Conservative MP)	Bachand did not sit with the new Conservative Party of Canada Caucus, and became an independent MP until the June 2004 election.
Steven Fletcher (politician)	He later supported the merger of the Canadian Alliance with the more centrist Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and endorsed Stephen Harper's bid to lead the merged Conservative Party of Canada in early 2004.
Robert Beaven	In 1882 Beaven became premier of the province but many of his supporters were defeated in the subsequent July election and Beaven ruled with a minority.
Mario Dumont	On October 23, 2008, two ADQ MNAs, André Riedl and Pierre Michel Auger, crossed the floor to the governing Liberal Party, embarrassing Dumont.
Paul Rose (political figure)	His nomination was controversial, and resulted in the federal New Democratic Party denouncing its former provincial wing (ties between the two parties had been severed in 1989) and seeking legal options in an attempt to force the provincial party to change its name.
Sarah Hanson-Young	Hanson-Young challenged Christine Milne for the Green deputy leadership in October 2010 but was unsuccessful.
Oscar Peterson	Also in 1993 incoming Prime Minister and longtime Peterson fan and friend Jean Chrétien offered Peterson the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, but according to Chrétien he declined, citing the health problems from his recent stroke.
Robert Cliche	In September 1963, he became the associate president of the federal NDP, then under the leadership of Tommy Douglas.