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1926 Canadian election

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The 1926 Canadian election was called following an event known as the King-Byng Crisis. In the 1925 Canadian election, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party of Canada won fewer seats in the Canadian House of Commons than the Conservative Party of Arthur Meighen. Mackenzie King, however, was determined to continue to govern with the support of the Progressive Party. The combined Liberal and Progressive caucuses gave Mackenzie King a majority in the House of Commons.

The coalition collapsed, however, following a scandal, and Mackenzie approached the Governor-General, Lord Byng, to seek dissolution of the Parliament. Byng refused on the basis that the Conservatives had won the largest number of seats in the prior election, and called upon Meighen to form a government.

Meighen's government was soon defeated in a vote of no confidence, and Byng agreed to dissolve Parliament and call new elections. Mackenzie King effectively campaigned against Byng in the election instead of against Meighen, and won the largest number of seats in the House of Commons. He was able to govern with the support of Liberal-Progressive Members of Parliament. Having been rebuked by the voters, Byng resigned from the vice-regal position.

Results

National

Party	Party Leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular Vote
			Before	After	% Change	#	%	Change
Liberal	Mackenzie King	189		114		1,294,072	42.74%
Conservative	<center> Arthur Meighen	218		79		1,353,869	44.72%
Progressive	<center> T.A. Crerar	28		11		128,060	4.23%
United Farmers of Alberta	<center>	12		11		60,740	2.01%
Liberal-Progressive	<center>	12		8		63,144	2.09%
Labour	<center>	17		4		49,249	1.63%
Independent	<center>	10		2		25,821	0.85%
Independent Liberal	<center>	5		1		18,627	0.62%
United Farmers of Ontario	<center>	1		1		6,909	0.23%
Independent Conservative	<center>	3		0		10,164	0.34%
Progressive-Conservative	<center>	2		0		7,088	0.23%
Liberal-Labour	<center>	1		0		4,187	0.14%
Unknown	<center>	1		0		3,378	0.11%
Labour-Farmer	<center>	1		0		1,441	0.05%
Socialist	<center>	1		0		672	0.02%
Protectionist	<center>	1		0		129	xx
Total	<center>	<center> 502	<center>	<center> 231	<center>	<center> 3,027,550	<center> 100.00%	<center>
Sources: http://www.elections.ca --

n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election

x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote

Province by Province breakdown

Party Name		BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	YK	Total
Liberal	Seats:	1	3	16	4	24	59	4	2	3		114
	Popular Vote (%):	37.0	22.3	51.3	18.4	35.3	61.3	46.1	43.5	52.7	44.1	42.7
Conservative	Seats:	12	1			53	4	7	12	1	1	79
	Vote:	54.2	31.5	27.5	39.7	54.9	34.0	53.9	53.7	47.3	55.9	44.7
Progressive	Seats:			4	4	3						11
	Vote:			17.9	11.2	5.1						4.2
United Farmers of Alberta	Seats:		11									11
	Vote:		38.7									2.0
Liberal-Progressive	Seats:			1	7							8
	Vote:			3.2	19.5	1.4						2.1
Labour	Seats:		1		2	1						4
	Vote:	6.4	4.3		8.7	1.1			2.8			1.6
Independent	Seats:	1					1					2
	Vote:	2.3	0.1			0.5	1.9					0.9
Independent Liberal	Seats:						1					1
	Vote:						2.3					0.6
United Farmers of Ontario	Seats:					1						1
	Vote:					0.6						0.2
Parties that won no seats
Independent Conservative	Vote:					0.8	0.1					0.3
Progressive-Conservative	Vote:				2.5		0.3					0.2
Liberal-Labour	Vote:					0.3						0.1
Unknown	Vote:		2.2									0.1
Labour-Farmer	Vote:		0.9									0.1
Socialist	Vote:						0.1					xx
Protectionist	Vote:						xx					xx
Total Seats		14	16	21	17	82	65	11	14	4	1	231

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote

Preceded by: 1925 Canadian election

Canadian federal elections

Followed by: 1930 Canadian election