John Darby Naismith, a cattleman by profession, ran as the sole candidate for the All Canadian Party in the 1962 Canadian election in the riding of Acadia in Alberta, Canada.
He collected 189 of the 12,867 votes cast (1.47% of the popular vote).
LEvesque resigned as party leader in 1985, and the PQ was defeated in provincial elections later that year.
He resigned as premier and party leader, however, after Quebec voters narrowly rejected independence in a PQ-sponsored referendum in 1995; Lucien Bouchard succeeded him.
Bouchard resigned as party leader and premier in 2001, and Bernard Landry succeeded him, serving as premier until the PQ's loss at the polls in 2003.
The Parti Québécois or PQ is a political party that advocates national sovereignty for Quebec from Canada, as well as social democratic policies and has traditionally had support from the labour movement though unlike other social democratic parties it has no formal ties with labour.
A vote was held during the party's June 2005 convention to determine whether Landry continues to have the confidence of the party membership.
The Bloc Québécois is a political party at the federal Canadian level that was founded in 1990 by future PQ leader Lucien Bouchard.
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