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Who defeated Clark in the 1983 Progressive Conservative Party leadership election?
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Brian Mulroney defeated Joe Clark in the 1983 Progressive Conservative Party leadership election. Mulroney had been elected to the House of Commons in 1972 and served as Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce and Minister of Finance in the Clark government. Mulroney's victory in the leadership election was seen as a repudiation of Clark's leadership and a rejection of the party's left-wing policies.
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