Canadian General Election 1867

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 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
23.45
22.67
11.08
7.92
1.04
33.84
Independent
Otherwise.
62
18th
29
71
62 18th 29 71 
A total of 180 seats

The Canadian General Election in 1867 (English 1st Canadian General Election , French 1re élection fédérale canadienne ) took place from August 7th to September 20th, 1867. It was the first choice of the newly created Canadian House of Commons (Engl. House of Commons , fr. Chambre des Communes ). Its 180 members were elected.

The Conservatives , led by John Macdonald , won a majority of the seats and formed the country's first government.

The vote

The Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald won the majority of seats and votes in the two largest provinces , Ontario and Quebec ; the candidates ran under the designation "conservative" or "liberal-conservative". Ontario and Québec had previously formed the Province of Canada , with Macdonald and George-Étienne Cartier as co-prime ministers.

Officially, the Liberal Party had no chairman, but publisher George Brown was widely perceived as the party leader during the election campaign and would have become Prime Minister if the Liberal had won the election. Brown ran for both the general election and the Ontario Liberal Party in the parallel election to the Ontario Legislative Assembly , but was unsuccessful in both. The Liberals officially remained without a chair until 1873.

Before the creation of the Canadian Confederation , Nova Scotia and New Brunswick did not have any formalized liberal and conservative parties. Political groups in these provinces joined one of the organizations in the former province of Canada. Conservative opponents in New Brunswick joined the Liberals and won the majority of seats and votes in that province. Opponents of the conservatives (and also of the union with the other provinces) in Nova Scotia entered the Anti-Confederation Party under the leadership of Joseph Howe , but after the election they formed a faction with the Liberals. When the British government refused to secede Nova Scotia, the majority of anti-Confederationists (11 out of 18 MPs) switched to the Conservatives.

The turnout was 73.1 percent.

Results

Overall result

Overview of the provinces
John Macdonald
George Brown
Political party Chairman candidates
data 		Seats be right Share of
voters
  Conservative Party John Macdonald 081 071 63,752 23.45%
  Liberal Conservative Party 1 032 029 29,730 11.08%
  Liberal Party George Brown 2 065 062 60,818 22.67%
  Anti-Confederation Party 3 Joseph Howe 020th 018th 21,239 7.92%
  Independent 001 1,756 0.65%
  Independent liberal 001 1,048 0.39%
  not known 141 90.044 33.84%
total 341 180 0268,386 100.00%

1 The Liberal Conservatives and the Conservatives formed a parliamentary group in the House of Commons
2 George Brown was only unofficially party leader
3 The Anti-Confederation Party formed a parliamentary group in the House of Commons with the Liberals

Acclamations

46 MPs were elected by acclamation due to a lack of opposing candidates :

  • Ontario: 3 Conservatives, 3 Liberal Conservatives, 9 Liberals
  • Québec: 14 Conservatives, 5 Liberal Conservatives, 4 Liberals
  • New Brunswick: 1 Conservative, 3 Liberals
  • Nova Scotia: 4 anti-Confederationists

Result by provinces

Political party ON QC NB NS total
Conservative Party Seats 33 36 1 1 71
Percentage ownership % 26.2 28.5 13.8 23.5
Liberal Conservative Party Seats 16 11 2 29
Percentage ownership % 12.5 12.3 11.1 3.5 11.1
Liberal Party Seats 33 17th 12 62
Percentage ownership % 23.7 25.2 49.5 22.7
Anti-Confederation Party Seats 18th 18th
Percentage ownership % 58.2 7.9
Independent Percentage ownership % 1.3 0.7
Independent liberal Percentage ownership % 0.6 0.4
not known Percentage ownership % 35.6 34.1 39.3 24.4 33.8
Total seats 82 64 15th 19th 180

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums. Elections Canada, February 18, 2013, accessed July 3, 2015 .

See also