1953 Canadian General Election
The 22 Canadian general election ( english 22nd Canadian General Election , French 22e élection fédérale canadienne ) took place on August 10 1953rd 265 deputies were elected the Canadian House of Commons (Engl. House of Commons , fr. Chambre des Communes ).
The vote
Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent led the Liberal Party to an election victory for the second time, despite the fact that it gained a slightly smaller share of the vote and lost 22 seats to other parties. For the fifth time in a row the Liberals were able to form the government. The Progressive Conservative Party with George Alexander Drew , former Prime Minister of Ontario , at the top it was not possible as early as 1949, to significantly improve and remained in opposition.
The Inuit were eligible to vote for the first time . The turnout was 67.5%.
Results
Overall result
Political party | Chairman | candidates data |
Seats 1949 |
Seats 1953 |
+/- | be right | Share of voters |
+/- | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | Louis Saint-Laurent | 262 | 191 | 169 | - 22 | 2,731,633 | 48.43% | - 0.72% | |
Progressive-Conservative Party | George Alexander Drew | 248 | 41 | 51 | + 10 | 1,749,579 | 31.02% | + 1.37% | |
Commonwealth Co-operative Federation | Major James Coldwell | 170 | 13 | 23 | + 10 | 636.310 | 11.28% | - 2.14% | |
Social Credit Party | Solon Earl Low | 71 | 10 | 15th | + | 5304,553 | 5.40% | + 3.09% | |
Independent | 14th | 4th | 3 | - | 158,458 | 1.04% | - 1.01% | ||
Independent liberals | 19th | 1 | 2 | + | 168.506 | 1.21% | + 0.69% | ||
Liberal Labor 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11,380 | 0.20% | ||||
Liberal-Progressive | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8,958 | 0.16% | ||||
Labor Progressive Party | Tim Buck | 100 | 59,622 | 1.06% | + 0.50% | ||||
Nationalists | Adrien Arcand | 1 | 7,496 | 0.13% | - 0.01% | ||||
Independent progressive conservatives | 3 | 1,636 | 0.03% | - 0.11% | |||||
Christian Liberal | 1 | 1,505 | 0.03% | + 0.03% | |||||
Independent Social Credit | 1 | 422 | 0.01% | - 0.07% | |||||
Locataire (candidat) | 1 | 417 | 0.01% | + 0.07% | |||||
Anti-communists | 1 | 333 | 0.01% | + 0.01% | |||||
Socialist Labor Party | 1 | 130 | 0.01% | + 0.01% | |||||
total | 897 | 262 | 265 | + | 35,640,938 | 100.0% |
1 the Liberal Labor MP joined the Liberal Group
Result by provinces and territories
Political party | BC | FROM | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NW | YK | total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | Seats | 8th | 4th | 5 | 7th | 50 | 66 | 7th | 10 | 3 | 7th | 1 | 1 | 169 | |
Percentage ownership % | 30.9 | 35.1 | 37.3 | 37.0 | 46.0 | 61.0 | 52.7 | 53.0 | 51.1 | 67.2 | 49.4 | 78.7 | 48.4 | ||
Progressive-Conservative Party | Seats | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 4th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 51 | ||||
Percentage ownership % | 14.1 | 14.5 | 11.7 | 27.0 | 40.3 | 29.4 | 41.9 | 40.1 | 48.0 | 28.1 | 38.5 | 21.3 | 31.0 | ||
Commonwealth Co-operative Federation | Seats | 7th | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 23 | ||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 26.6 | 6.9 | 44.2 | 23.6 | 11.1 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 11.3 | ||||
Social Credit Party | Seats | 4th | 11 | 15th | |||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 26.1 | 40.7 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 5.4 | ||||||||
Independent | Seats | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 12.4 | 1.0 | ||||||||
Independent liberals | Seats | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 4.0 | 0.3 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | ||||||||||
Liberal Labor | Seats | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||||||
Liberal-Progressive | Seats | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 3.3 | 0.2 | |||||||||||||
Labor Progressive Party | Percentage ownership % | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.1 | 2.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.1 | ||||||
Nationalists | Percentage ownership % | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||||||||
Independent progressive conservatives | Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Christian Liberal | Percentage ownership % | 0.3 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Independent Social Credit | Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Locataire (candidat) | Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Anti-communists | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Socialist Labor Party | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Totally sit | 22nd | 17th | 17th | 14th | 85 | 75 | 10 | 12 | 4th | 7th | 1 | 1 | 265 |
Web links
- Elections Canada (Electoral Authority)
Individual evidence
- ^ The evolution of the federal franchise
- ^ Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums. Elections Canada, February 18, 2013, accessed July 4, 2015 .