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1867 Canadian election



         


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The 1867 election was the first election for the new nation of Canada. The Conservative Party won a majority of seats and votes in Ontario and Quebec. (Its candidates ran either as Conservatives or Liberal-Conseratives.) Both provinces had previously been united as The Province of Canada where the Conservative Party was the government.

Prior to Confederation, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick did not have formalized Liberal and Conservative parties. Political groups in those two provinces joined one of the two Province of Canada parties. Both provinces had weak Conservative parties. Opponents of the Conservatives joined the Liberal Party of Canada, which took the majority of seats and votes in both provinces. In Nova Scotia, opponents of the Conservatives (and of Confederation itself) ran as Anti-Confederates, but later sat with the Liberal Caucus.

Elections held in the previous year in the Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia focussed on the issue of whether or not to form a confederation.


Party Party Leader Seats Popular Vote
# %
Conservative Party of Canada Sir John A. Macdonald 70 62,060 23.2%
Liberal-Conservative Sir John A. Macdonald 29 29,730 11.1%
Liberal Party of Canada George Brown 62 60,818 22.7%
Anti-Confederate Joseph Howe 18 21,239 7.9%
Independents   0 1,756 0.7%
Liberal-Independent   0 1,048 0.4%
Unknown      0 90,804 34.0%
Total 179  
Source: http://www.parl.gc.ca
Other elections: 1867 1872 1874 1878 1882
Canadian federal elections
Canadian federal election results (1867-1879)


Province-by-Province results. Seats and Popular Vote.


Party Name Ont Que NB NS Canada/Total
Conservative Seats 33 35 1 1 70
Pop Vote 26.2% 28.5%   13.8% 23.2%
Liberal-Conservative Seats 16 11 2   29
Pop Vote 12.5% 12.3% 11.1% 3.5% 11.1%
Liberal Seats 33 17 12   62
Pop Vote 23.7% 25.2% 49.5%   22.7%
Anti-Confederate Seats       18 18
Pop Vote       58.2% 7.9%
Unknown Seats          
Unknown Pop Vote 35.6% 34.1% 39.3% 24.4% 34.0%
Independent Seats          
Independent Pop Vote 1.3%       0.7%
Independent Liberal Seats          
Independent Liberal Pop Vote 0.7%       0.4%
Party Name Ont Que NB NS Canada/Total


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Riding Results

Elected, Party (won by)

Preceded by:
No prior elections. 1867 was first.
see list of elections in the Province of Canada

Canadian federal elections

Followed by:
1872 Canadian election






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