Jeremy Thorpe 1,166. After the 1966 election, Grimond confided to senior party officials that he wished soon to step down from the leadership. Thorpe was now the senior Liberal MP after Grimond, and the party's highest-profile member, although Timothy Beaumont, chairman of the party's organising committee, noted in his diary: "I am pretty certain that he has little popularity within the Parliamentary Party". When Grimond finally resigned, on 17 January 1967, an election to replace him was arranged to take place within 48 hours, leaving little time for manoeuvring. The 12 Liberal MPs formed the whole electorate; after the first ballot, Thorpe
British Columbia Liberal Party and provincial counterparts in 1987. After the 1991 provincial election, the BC Liberals displaced the British Columbia Social Credit Party as the province's centre-right conservative party opposed to the centre-left British Columbia New Democratic Party. According to polls, BC Liberal supporters predominantly vote Liberal and Conservative in federal elections. The party commonly describes itself as a "free enterprise coalition". The divided Conservatives faced the Liberals in the election of 1916 and lost. The Liberals formed a government under Harlan Carey Brewster. Brewster had become leader of the opposition, and was elected party leader in March 1912. He lost his seat