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| Elections and parties in Canada |
List of election results |
The 1940 Canadian election was the 19th General Election in Canadian history. It was held March 26, 1940. William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals were re-elected to their second consecutive majority government.
The election was overshadowed by the Second World War, which caused many Canadians to rally around the government. In part to capitalize on this the Conservative Party of Robert Manion ran under the name National Government in this election.
Social Credit ran jointly with the New Democracy movement of William Duncan Herridge.
Some candidates of the Conservative and Social Credit parties insisted on running under the traditional names, however.
Two candidates appear to have run under the New Democratic Party banner. It is unlikely that this was related in any way to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation's adoption of this name in 1960. This may be a mis-reporting of party label - these candidates may have been New Democracy candidates.
| Party | Party Leader | # of candidates | Seats | Popular Vote | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | % Change | # | % | Change | |||
| Liberal | 242 | 179 | 2,365,979 | 51.32% | +6.64% | |||
| National Government (1) | <center> Robert Manion | 199 | 36 | 1,348,260 | 29.24% | +1.11% | ||
| Cooperative Commonwealth | <center> J. S. Woodsworth | 93 | 8 | 388,103 | 8.42% | -1.07%% | ||
| Social Credit | <center> J. H. Blackmore | 9 | 7 | 46,271 | 1.00% | -1.51% | ||
| Conservative | <center>Robert Manion | 8 | 3 | 53,799 | 1.17% | |||
| New Democracy | <center> W.D. Herridge | 17 | 3 | n.a. | 73,083 | 1.59% | n.a. | |
| Liberal-Progressive | <center> | 4 | 3 | 27,815 | 0.60% | -0.07% | ||
| Independent Liberal | <center> | 32 | 2 | 147,216 | 3.19% | +1.96% | ||
| Independent | <center> | 19 | 1 | 57,247 | 1.24% | +0.85% | ||
| Independent Conservative | <center> | 5 | 1 | 10,431 | 0.23% | +0.21% | ||
| Unity | <center> | 2 | 1 | n.a. | 12,337 | 0.27% | n.a. | |
| United Reform Movement | <center> | 1 | 1 | n.a. | 13,868 | 0.30% | n.a. | |
| Independent National | <center> | 2 | 0 | n.a. | 12,710 | 0.28% | n.a. | |
| Unknown | <center> | 2 | 0 | n.a. | 4,622 | 0.10% | n.a. | |
| Communist | <center>Tim Buck | 8 | 0 | 8,699 | 0.19% | -0.27% | ||
| Farmer-Labour | <center> | 2 | 0 | n.a. | 8,126 | 0.18% | n.a. | |
| National Unity | <center> | 1 | 0 | n.a. | 7,534 | 0.16% | n.a. | |
| NDP (?) | <center> | 2 | 0 | n.a. | 6,761 | 0.15% | n.a. | |
| United Farmers of Ontario - Labour | <center> | 1 | 0 | 4,761 | 0.10% | -0.06% | ||
| Labour | <center> | 1 | 0 | 3,916 | 0.08% | -0.25% | ||
| United Progressive | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 2,727 | 0.06% | n.a. |
| National Liberal Progressive | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 2,434 | 0.05% | n.a. |
| National Labour | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 2,354 | 0.05% | n.a. |
| Anti-Conscriptionist | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 642 | 0.01% | n.a. |
| Canadian Labour | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 398 | 0.01% | n.a. |
| United Reform | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 269 | 0.01% | n.a. |
| Social Credit-National Unity | <center> | 1 | n.a. | 0 | n.a. | 241 | 0.01% | n.a. |
| Total | <center> | <center> 638 | <center> | <center> 234 | <center> | <center> 4,610,603 | <center> 100.00% | <center> |
| Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- | ||||||||
(1) Popular vote compared to 1935 Conservative vote.
n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election
x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote
| Party Name | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | YK | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Seats: | 10 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 56 | 62 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 177 | |
| Popular Vote: | 37.4 | 37.9 | 43.0 | 43.5 | 50.3 | 64.4 | 54.6 | 50.4 | 55.3 | 46.4 | 51.3 | |
| National Government | Seats: | 4 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 36 | |||
| Vote: | 28.8 | 13.0 | 14.1 | 26.2 | 40.2 | 18.0 | 43.4 | 40.1 | 44.7 | 53.6 | 30.0 | |
| Cooperative Commonwealth | Seats: | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| Vote: | 28.4 | 13.0 | 27.5 | 19.6 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 6.0 | 8.6 | |||
| Social Credit | Seats: | 7 | 7 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 16.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | |||||||||
| New Democracy | Seats: | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 0.1 | 18.0 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.6 | ||||||
| Conservative | Seats: | 3 | 3 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 0.2 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 | |||||||
| Liberal-Progressive | Seats: | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||
| Vote: | 4.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | |||||||||
| Independent Liberal | Seats: | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| Vote: | xx | 1.0 | 10.2 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | ||||||
| Independent | Seats: | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 3.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 1.3 | ||||
| United Reform Movement | Seats: | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 3.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||||
| Unity | Seats: | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 3.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||||
| Independent Conservative | Seats: | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Vote: | 0.9 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
| Parties that won no seats: | ||||||||||||
| Independent Nat. Gov. | Vote: | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Communist | Vote: | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | xx | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | ||||
| Farmer-Labour | Vote: | 0.5 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| National Unity | Vote: | 2.0 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| NDP (?) | Vote: | 1.6 | xx | 0.2 | ||||||||
| UFO-Labour | Vote: | 0.3 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Unknown | Vote: | 1.2 | xx | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Labour | Vote: | 0.3 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| United Progressive | Vote: | 1.0 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| National Liberal Progressive | Vote: | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| National Labour | Vote: | 0.2 | 0.1 | |||||||||
| Anti-Conscriptionist | Vote: | 0.1 | xx | |||||||||
| Canadian Labour | Vote: | xx | xx | |||||||||
| United Reform | Vote: | 0.1 | x | |||||||||
| United Reform | Vote: | 0.1 | xx | |||||||||
| Total Seats | 16 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 82 | 65 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 234 | |
xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote
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