title: Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 1968 Canadian federal election
text: # Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 1968 Canadian federal election
  
  The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada fielded 262 candidates in the 1968 Canadian federal election, and elected seventy-two members to emerge as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons of Canada.
  
  Many of the party's candidates have their own biography pages; information about others may be found here. This page also includes information about Progressive Conservative Party candidates in by-elections held between 1968 and 1972.
  
  ## by-elections
  
  ### Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands, 10 February 1969: Magdalenus Verbrugge
  
  Magdalenus Verbrugge was a physician based in Vancouver, and was fifty years old at the time of the election. Many regarded him as an outsider candidate. He received 1,966 votes (5.68%), finishing third against New Democratic Party leader Tommy Douglas.
  
  