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Liberal Party of Canada candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election the time of the election. Swanson's family has long-standing Liberal roots in Alberta ("Globe and Mail", 29 December 2005). He received 6,553 votes (11.41%), finishing second against Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper, who became Prime Minister as a result of that federal election. Liberal Party of Canada candidates in the 2006 Canadian federal election The Liberal Party of Canada ran a full slate of 308 candidates in the 2006 federal election, and won 103 seats to form the Official Opposition against a Conservative minority government. The party had previously been in power since 1993. Many of the party's candidates have