Progressive Conservative leadership convention, 1942

Progressive Conservative Party leadership election, 1942

← 1938 December 9–11, 1942 1948 →
Candidate John Bracken Murdoch Alexander MacPherson John Diefenbaker Party Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Second (Final) Ballot 538, 61.7% 255, 29.2% 79, 9.1% First Ballot 420, 48.3% 222, 25.5% 120, 13.8%   Candidate Howard Charles Green Henry Herbert Stevens Party Progressive Conservative Progressive Conservative Second (Final) Ballot Withdrew Eliminated First Ballot 88, 10.1% 20, 2.3%
Leader before election Arthur Meighen Elected Leader John Bracken

Progressive Conservative leadership election, 1942

Date	December 9–11, 1942
Convention	Winnipeg Civic Auditorium, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Resigning leader	Arthur Meighen
Won by	John Bracken
Ballots	2
Candidates	5
Spending limit	None
Progressive Conservative leadership conventions 1927 · 1938 · 1942 · 1948 · 1956 · 1967 · 1976 · 1983 · 1993 · 1995 · 1998 · 2003

Arthur Meighen

John Bracken

The 1942 Progressive Conservative Party leadership election was held to choose a leader to replace Arthur Meighen for the newly named Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

Meighen had led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 serving two short terms as Prime Minister of Canada. He was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1932 by R. B. Bennett where he served as Leader of the Government in the Senate. The Conservatives were defeated in 1935 and passed through a succession of leaders without being able to improve their prospects. In 1941, the national conference of the Conservative Party voted unanimously in favour of Meighen becoming party leader without a leadership convention. Meighen resigned from the Senate and attempted to re-enter the Canadian House of Commons in a February 9, 1942 by-election in York South but was upset by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's Joseph Noseworthy. Without a seat in the Commons, Meighen's leadership was greatly weakened. In September 1941 he called for a national party convention to broaden out the party's appeal and reportedly approached populist John Bracken, the longtime Liberal-Progressive Premier of Manitoba to seek the party's leadership. On the first day of the convention, Meighen confirmed in his keynote address that he would not be a candidate for the party's leadership.

...
Wikipedia