Canadian General Election 1926

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 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
42.90
45.35
3.93
2.08
1.67
4.07
Independent
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1925
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+3.16
-0.78
-4.52
+1.82
-1.08
+1.40
Independent
Otherwise.
11
12
116
3
91
12
11 12 116 3 91 12 
A total of 245 seats
  • Prog : 11
  • UF : 12
  • Lib : 116
  • Independent: 3
  • Cons : 91
  • Otherwise: 12

The 16th Canadian General Election ( English 16th Canadian General Election , French 16e élection fédérale canadienne ) took place on 14 September 1926th 245 deputies were elected the Canadian House of Commons (Engl. House of Commons , fr. Chambre des Communes ). The election followed the King Byng affair , when the governor-general refused to dissolve parliament at the request of the liberal prime minister and the conservative government he installed was overthrown after just three months.

The vote

In the general election in 1925 that had the Liberal Party of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King won fewer seats than the Conservative Party of Arthur Meighen . However, King was determined to continue to rule and secured the support of the Progressive Party , which gave him a majority in the lower house.

The informal coalition broke up after a bribery scandal and King asked Governor General Julian Byng to dissolve parliament. Byng refused to comply and entrusted Meighen with the formation of a new government. Meighen's government failed after only three months due to a vote of no confidence , whereupon Byng dissolved parliament and called an early election . Although the Liberals got fewer votes than the Conservatives, they won more seats.

An electoral alliance of the liberals with progressive and liberal-progressive candidates distorted the results in some cases massively. The Conservatives in the province of Manitoba obtained almost 40% of all votes, but did not win a single seat. The reason for this was that candidates from three political camps ran against each other in only three constituencies. In the remaining 13 constituencies, the Conservatives were only confronted with the candidate who was predicted to have the highest chance of victory. The other parties decided not to run so that the opposition of the conservative candidate was not split up.

The turnout was 67.7%.

Results

Overall result

Overview of the provinces and territories
William LM King
Arthur Meighen
Political party Chairman candidates
data 		Seats in
1925 		Seats in
1926 		+/- be right Share of
voters 		+/-
  Liberal Party William Lyon Mackenzie King 203 100 116 + 16 1,397,031 42.90% + 3.16%
  Conservative Party Arthur Meighen 232 115 091 - 24 1,476,834 45.35% - 0.78%
  Progressive party 028 022nd 011 - 11 128.080 3.93% - 4.52%
  United Farmers of Alberta 012 002 011 + 09 60,740 1.87% + 1.61%
  Liberal-Progressive Robert Forke 012 008th + 08 63.144 1.94% + 1.84%
  Labor Party 018th 002 004th + 02 55,561 1.71% - 0.10%
  Independent 010 002 002 25,821 0.79% + 0.28%
  Independent liberals 005 001 001 18,627 0.57% - 0.42%
  United Farmers of Ontario 001 001 + 01 6,909 0.21% + 0.21%
  Independent Conservatives 003 001 - 01 10.164 0.31% - 0.22%
  Progressive Conservatives 002 7,088 0.22% + 0.18%
  Liberal Labor 001 4.187 0.13% + 0.13%
  Labor farmer 001 1,441 0.04% - 0.11%
  Socialist party 001 672 0.02% - 0.04%
  Protectionists 001 129 0.01% + 0.01%
total 530 245 245 3,256,508 100.0%

Result by provinces and territories

Political party BC FROM SK MB ON QC NB NS PE YK total
Liberal Party Seats 1 3 16 4th 24 59 4th 2 3 116
Percentage ownership % 37.0 24.5 51.3 18.4 35.3 61.3 46.1 43.5 52.7 44.1 42.8
Conservative Party Seats 12 1 53 4th 7th 12 1 1 91
Percentage ownership % 54.2 31.5 27.5 39.7 54.9 34.0 53.9 53.7 47.3 55.9 45.4
Progressive party Seats 4th 4th 3 11
Percentage ownership % 17.9 11.2 5.1 3.9
United Farmers of Alberta Seats 11 11
Percentage ownership % 38.7 1.9
Liberal-Progressive Seats 1 7th 8th
Percentage ownership % 3.2 19.5 1.4 1.9
Labor Party Seats 1 2 1 4th
Percentage ownership % 6.4 4.3 8.7 1.1 2.8 1.7
Independent proportion of 1 1 2
Percentage ownership % 2.3 0.1 0.5 1.9 0.8
Independent liberals Seats 1 1
Percentage ownership % 2.3 0.6
United Farmers of Ontario Seats 1 1
Percentage ownership % 0.6 0.2
Independent Conservatives Percentage ownership % 0.8 0.1 0.3
Progressive Conservatives Percentage ownership % 2.5 0.3 0.2
Liberal Labor Percentage ownership % 0.3 0.1
Labor farmer Percentage ownership % 0.9 <0.1
Socialist party Percentage ownership % 0.1 <0.1
Protectionists Percentage ownership % <0.1 <0.1
Totally sit 14th 16 21st 17th 82 65 11 14th 4th 1 245

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums. Elections Canada, February 18, 2013, accessed July 4, 2015 .

See also