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The King-Byng Affair | Today in Ottawa's History

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28 June 1926 In the 1921 General Election, the Conservatives under the leadership of Arthur Meighen were pummeled. They lost more than 100 seats, including’s Meighen’s, both to the Liberal Party un…

28 June 1926 In the 1921 General Election, the Conservatives under the leadership of Arthur Meighen were pummeled. They lost more than 100 seats, including’s Meighen’s, both to the Liberal Party under William Lyon Mackenzie King, and to the new western-based Progressive Party led by Thomas Crerar. So bad was their drubbing, the Conservative Party was relegated to third position in the House behind the Progressives. War-time conscription rendered the Conservative Party unelectable in Quebec, while its high tariff economic policy was anathema to free-trading Prairie farmers. Although the Liberal

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