In 1941, Canada's 9th prime minister returned to the helm of the Conservative Party that had been badly beaten under the banner of "National Government" in the 1940 general election. Trying to gain back a seat in the House of Commons, Meighen ran in a by-election on February 9, 1942, in the Conservative stronghold of York South. The CCF's
Joseph Noseworthy handily defeated him. By the end of that year, the old Conservative Party became the
Progressive Conservative Party under the leadership of Manitoba's Liberal Progressive premier,
John Bracken.
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