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Canadian federal election, 1908



In the Canadian federal election of 1908, Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party of Canada was re-elected for a third consecutive term in government with a majority in the Canadian House of Commons. The Liberals lost four seats and a small share of the popular vote.

Sir Robert Borden's Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives won ten additional seats.


National results

Party Party Leader # of candidates Seats Popular Vote
Previous After % Change # % Change
Liberal 213 137 133 -2.9% 570,311 48.87% -2.01%
Conservative 207 70 82 +17.1% 524,641 44.95% +0.55%
Liberal-Conservative 4 5 3 -40.0% 14,733 1.26% -0.27%


Independent
15 1 1 - 16,903 1.45% +0.45%
Labour
3 - 1 10,400 0.89% +0.68%
Unknown
7 - - 13,478 1.15% +0.02%
Socialist
5 - - 6,071 0.52% +0.35%
Independent Conservative
2 1 - -100% 5,314 0.46 -0.04%
Independent Liberal
5 - - 5,191 0.44% +0.41%
Total
461
214
220
+2.8%
1,167,042
100.0%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Note:

"Previous" refers to the results from the previous election, and not to the standings in the House of Commons at dissolution.

Results by province

Party Name BC AB SK MB ON QC NB NS PE YK Total
Liberal Seats: 2 4 9 2 37 52 11 12 3 1 133
Popular Vote (%): 35.9 50.2 56.6 45.4 45.0 53.0 56.2 51.0 50.4 40.2 48.9
Conservative Seats: 5 2 1 8 46 12 2 5 1 - 82
Vote (%): 46.8 38.1 36.8 51.5 49.2 39.5 43.8 44.5 49.6 10.8 45.0
Liberal-Conservative Seats:   1     1     1     3
Vote (%):   6.4     1.5     4.5     1.3
Independent Seats: - - - - 1 -         1
Vote (%): 8.9 3.7 0.6 0.1 1.8 1.1         1.5
Labour Seats:         - 1         1
Vote (%):         0.7 2.6         0.9
Total Seats   7 7 10 10 85 65 13 18 4 1 220
Parties that won no seats:
Unknown Vote (%): 1.3       1.4 1.9       49.0 1.2
Socialist Vote (%): 7.1 1.6   2.9 0.2           0.5
Independent Conservative Vote (%):     5.9   0.4           0.5
Independent Liberal Vote (%):     0.1     1.8         0.4
Last updated: 05-07-2005 07:51:56
Last updated: 05-13-2005 07:56:04