Canadian federal election, 1945
Elections and parties in
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The 1945 Canadian election was the 20th General Election in Canadian history. It was held June 11, 1945. William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals were re-elected to their third consecutive majority government.
Results
National
| Party
| Party Leader
| # of candidates
| Seats
| Popular Vote
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| Before
| After
| % Change
| #
| %
| Change
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| Liberal
| | 236
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| 117
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| 2,086,545
| 39.78%
| -11.54%
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| Progressive Conservative (1)
| <center> John Bracken
| 203
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| 65
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| 1,448,744
| 27.62%
| -2.79%
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| Cooperative Commonwealth
| <center> M.J. Coldwell
| 205
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| 28
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| 815,720
| 15.55%
| +7.31%
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| Social Credit (2)
| <center> Solon Low
| 93
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| 13
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| 212,220
| 4.05%
| +1.46%
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| Independent Liberal
| <center>
| 20
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| 8
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| 93,791
| 1.79%
| -1.40%
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| Independent
| <center>
| 64
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| 6
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| 256,381
| 4.89%
| +3.65%
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| Bloc Populaire Canadien
| <center>
| 35
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| 2
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| 172,765
| 3.29%
| n.a.
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| Labour Progressive (3)
| <center> Tim Buck
| 68
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| 1
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| 111,892
| 2.13%
| +1.94%
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| Independent PC
| <center>
| 8
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| 1
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| 14,541
| 0.28%
| n.a.
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| Independent CCF
| <center>
| 2
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| 1
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| 6,402
| 0.12%
| n.a.
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| Liberal-Progressive
| <center>
| 1
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| 1
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| 6,147
| 0.12%
| -0.48%
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| National Government
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 4,872
| 0.09%
| n.a.
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| Trades Union
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 4,679
| 0.09%
| n.a.
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| Farmer-Labour
| <center>
| 2
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| 0
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| 3,620
| 0.07%
| -0.11%
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| Independent Conservative
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 2,653
| 0.05%
| -0.18%
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| Democrat
| <center>
| 5
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| 0
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| 2,603
| 0.05%
| n.a.
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| Union of Electors
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 596
| 0.01%
| n.a.
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| Socialist Labour
| <center>
| 2
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| 0
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| 459
| 0.01%
| n.a.
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| Labour
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 423
| 0.01%
| -0.07%
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| Liberal-Labour
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 345
| 0.01%
| n.a.
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| Independent Labour
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 241
| x
| n.a.
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| Unknown
| <center>
| 1
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| 0
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| 70
| x
| x
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| Total
| <center>
| <center> 952
| <center>
| <center> 243
| <center>
| <center> 5,245,709
| <center> 100.00%
| <center>
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| Sources: http://www.elections.ca --
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Notes:
(1) 1945 Progressive Conservative vote compared to 1940 National Government + Conservative vote.
(2) 1945 Social Credit vote compared to 1940 New Democracy + Social Credit vote
(3) 1945 Labour Progressive vote compared to 1940 Communist vote.
n.a. = not applicable - the party was not recognized in the previous election
x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote
