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All Floor Crossings
Every documented case of a Canadian MP, MPP, MLA, MNA, or MHA switching parties — federal and provincial, 1867 to present. Filter by level, province, or category.
12 crossings
7B
7 BC United MLAs
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
2/5
As BC United collapsed, seven more MLAs followed Banman to the BC Conservatives throughout 2024.
Party Collapsing
ES
Elenore Sturko
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
4/5
Sturko, BC United MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale, crossed to the BC Conservatives as BC United suspended its campaign in 2024.
Party Collapsing
IP
Ian Paton
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
4/5
Paton, BC United MLA for Delta South, crossed to the BC Conservatives in 2024 as BC United suspended its campaign.
Party Collapsing
LD
Lorne Doerkson
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
4/5
Doerkson, BC United MLA for Cariboo-Chilcotin, individually crossed to the BC Conservatives as BC United collapsed in 2024.
Party Collapsing
Peter Milobar
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
4/5
Milobar, BC United MLA for Kamloops-Centre, crossed to the BC Conservatives as BC United collapsed in 2024.
Party Collapsing
Teresa Wat
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
4/5
Wat, BC United MLA for Richmond North Centre, crossed to the BC Conservatives as BC United collapsed in 2024.
Party Collapsing
TH
Trevor Halford
2024BC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
4/5
Halford, BC United MLA for Surrey-White Rock, crossed to the BC Conservatives as BC United suspended its campaign.
Party Collapsing
Bruce Banman
2023NotableBC United → BC ConservativeMLABritish Columbia
2/5
Banman was the first of many MLAs to leave BC United (formerly BC Liberals) for the surging BC Conservatives. BC United was losing support rapidly as the right consolidated arou…
Party Collapsing
NH
Neufeld, Hanson, Fox, and Weisgerber
1995NotableSocial Credit → Reform Party of BCMLABritish Columbia
2/5
Four Social Credit MLAs left the collapsing party to join the Reform Party of BC as Social Credit became unelectable provincially after years of scandal.
Party Collapsing
RJ
Richard Janelle
1979Social Credit → Progressive ConservativeMPQuebec
2/5
Richard Janelle, one of the last Social Credit MPs, crossed the floor to join the Progressive Conservative Party in 1979 as it became clear that Social Credit had no future in f…
Party Collapsing
Thomas Alexander Crerar
1930NotableProgressive / United Farmers → LiberalMPManitoba
5/5
Thomas Alexander Crerar, the founder and first leader of the Progressive Party of Canada, had resigned the party leadership in 1922 and later sat as a United Farmers of Manitoba…
Party CollapsingGot Cabinet
~P
~12 Progressive MPs join Liberals or UFA
1926NotableProgressive → Liberal / United FarmersMP
3/5
The Progressive Party of Canada, which had won 65 seats in the 1921 election to become the second-largest party in Parliament, gradually disintegrated during the 1920s as Macken…
Party CollapsingGot Cabinet