Canadian General Election 1965
The 1985 Canadian general election took place on November 8, 1965. It was the 27th election of the Canadian House of Commons ( 27th Canadian General Election , French 27e élection fédérale canadienne ). 265 members of the lower house (English House of Commons , French Chambre des Communes ) were elected. The previously ruling Liberal Party led by Lester Pearson was able to gain a few seats, but again narrowly missed an absolute majority and was forced to form a minority government.
The vote
The Liberals pointed to the redemption of their 1963 election promises, particularly job creation, income tax cuts, and higher family allowances and student loans. The next big projects, the introduction of a general public health system and a pension fund system, could also be implemented with the support of smaller parties until the next election.
Despite losing the election, the former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker initially asserted himself as party leader of the Progressive Conservative Party , but was defeated at the party congress in 1967 and had to hand over the office to Robert Stanfield .
The New Democrats of Tommy Douglas recorded the largest increase in voter share, but only four additional seats resulted because of majority voting. After internal power struggles, a French-speaking party, the Ralliement créditiste , split off from the Social Credit Party of Canada and achieved a better result than the English-speaking parent party. The Parti Rhinocéros , a fun party led by the rhinoceros Cornelius I , was elected for the first time.
The turnout was 74.8%.
Results
Overall result
Political party | Chairman | candidates data |
Seats 1963 |
Seats in 1965 |
+/- | be right | Share of voters |
+/- | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | Lester Pearson | 265 | 128 | 131 | + | 33,099,521 | 40.18% | - 1.30% | |
Progressive-Conservative Party | John Diefenbaker | 265 | 95 | 97 | + | 22,500,113 | 32.41% | - 0.39% | |
New Democratic Party | Tommy Douglas | 255 | 17th | 21st | + | 41,381,658 | 17.91% | + 4.69% | |
Ralliement créditiste | Real Caouette | 77 | 9 | + | 9359.258 | 4.66% | + 4.66% | ||
Social Credit Party | Robert N. Thompson | 86 | 24 | 5 | - 19th | 282.454 | 3.66% | - 8.25% | |
Independent | 24 | 1 | + | 152,155 | 0.68% | + 0.61% | |||
Independent progressive conservatives | 4th | 1 | + | 113.198 | 0.17% | + 0.15% | |||
Independent liberals | 10 | 16,738 | 0.22% | + 0.03% | |||||
Communist Party | William Kashtan | 12 | 4,285 | 0.06% | + 0.01% | ||||
New Capitalist Party | 3 | 1.009 | 0.01% | + 0.01% | |||||
Ouvrier indépendant | 2 | 650 | 0.01% | ||||||
Droit vital personnel | 1 | 465 | 0.01% | + 0.01% | |||||
Independent Social Credit | 2 | 422 | 0.01% | ||||||
Independent Conservatives | 1 | 373 | <0.01% | ||||||
Parti Rhinoceros | Cornelius I. | 1 | 321 | <0.01% | + <0.01% | ||||
Parti republicain | 1 | 297 | <0.01% | + <0.01% | |||||
Progressive Workers Movement | 1 | 274 | <0.01% | + <0.01% | |||||
Socialist Labor Party | 1 | 147 | <0.01% | ||||||
Liberal Labor | 1 | - | 1|||||||
total | 1.011 | 265 | 265 | 7,713,338 | 100.0% |
Result by provinces and territories
Political party | BC | FROM | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NW | YK | total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Party | Seats | 7th | 1 | 51 | 56 | 6th | 2 | 7th | 1 | 131 | |||||
Percentage ownership % | 30.0 | 22.4 | 24.0 | 31.0 | 43.6 | 45.6 | 47.5 | 42.0 | 44.1 | 64.1 | 56.2 | 44.8 | 40.2 | ||
Progressive-Conservative Party | Seats | 3 | 15th | 17th | 10 | 25th | 8th | 4th | 10 | 4th | 1 | 97 | |||
Percentage ownership % | 19.2 | 46.6 | 48.0 | 40.7 | 34.0 | 21.3 | 42.5 | 48.6 | 53.9 | 32.5 | 39.1 | 55.2 | 32.4 | ||
New Democratic Party | Seats | 9 | 3 | 9 | 21st | ||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 32.9 | 8.2 | 26.0 | 24.0 | 21.7 | 12.0 | 9.4 | 9.1 | 2.0 | 1.2 | 4.7 | 17.9 | |||
Ralliement créditiste | Seats | 9 | 9 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | 17.5 | 0.4 | 4.7 | |||||||||||
Social Credit Party | Seats | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 17.4 | 22.5 | 1.9 | 4.3 | 0.4 | 3.7% | |||||||||
Independent | Seats | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.7 | ||||||||
Independent progressive conservatives | Seats | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||||||
Independent liberals | Percentage ownership % | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||||||||
Communist Party | Percentage ownership % | 0.2 | 0.1 | <0.1 | <0.1 | <0.1 | 0.1 | ||||||||
New Capitalist Party | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Ouvrier indépendant | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Droit vital personnel | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Independent Social Credit | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | <0.1 | |||||||||||
Independent Conservatives | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Parti Rhinoceros | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Parti republicain | Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
Progressive Workers Movement | 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 |
See also
Web links
- Elections Canada (Electoral Authority)
Individual evidence
- ^ Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums. Elections Canada, February 18, 2013, accessed July 4, 2015 .