Canadian general election 1972
The 29th Canadian General Election ( English 29th Canadian General Election , French 29e élection fédérale canadienne ) took place on 30 October 1,972th 264 deputies were elected the Canadian House of Commons (Engl. House of Commons , fr. Chambre des Communes ). The Liberal Party of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau did remain strongest, but missed the absolute majority.
The vote
It was the second election with Trudeau at the helm of the Liberal Party. The “Trudeaumania”, which had dominated the media four years earlier, had largely died down. The economic situation was less positive than in previous years, and many Anglo-Canadians also found the official bilingualism , i.e. the equality of English and French at the federal level, to be an expensive waste of money. The Liberal election campaign was poorly conducted. Nonetheless, the opposition progressive conservatives could hardly benefit from it, as their chairman Robert Stanfield was seen as an honest politician, but was also considered clumsy.
On election night it still seemed as if the progressive conservatives had won 109 seats and thus narrowly won the election. When the count was completed the following day, however, it was clear that the Liberals had retained the upper hand despite losses. They were forced to form a minority government and were dependent on the support of the New Democratic Party in the lower house .
The turnout was 76.7%.
Results
Overall result
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| Political party | Chairman | candidates data |
Seats 1968 |
upon dissolution |
Seats 1972 |
+/- | be right | Share of voters |
+/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | Pierre Trudeau | 263 | 154 | 147 | 109 | - 45 | 3,717,804 | 38.42% | - 6.95% | |
| Progressive-Conservative Party | Robert Stanfield | 265 | 72 | 73 | 107 | + 35 | 3,388,980 | 35.02% | + 3.59% | |
| New Democratic Party | David Lewis | 252 | 22nd | 25th | 31 | + 9 | 1,725,719 | 17.83% | + 0.87% | |
| Social Credit Party | Real Caouette | 164 | 14th | 15th | 15th | + 1 | 730.759 | 7.55% | + 2.27% 1st | |
| Independent 2 | 53 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 56,685 | 0.59% | + 0.14% | |||
| Not affiliated to a party 3 | 26th | 1 | + 1 | 23,938 | 0.25% | + 0.25% | ||||
| Parti Rhinoceros | Cornelius I. | 1 | 1565 | 0.02% | ||||||
| Other parties | 93 | 32,013 | 0.33% | |||||||
| Liberal Labor | - 1 | |||||||||
| vacant | 2 | |||||||||
| total | 1,117 | 264 | 264 | 264 | 9,677,463 | 100.0% | ||||
1 Compared to the cumulative results of the Social Credit Party and Ralliement créditiste in the 1968 election
2 Roch La Salle , who was elected as a progressive conservative in 1968, ran as an independent and was re-elected.
3 Lucien Lamoureux was elected liberal in 1968. In order to maintain the independence of his office as Speaker of the House of Commons, he ran as a non-party candidate and was re-elected.
Result by provinces and territories
| Political party | BC | FROM | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NW | YK | total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party | Seats | 4th | 1 | 2 | 36 | 56 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 109 | ||||
| Percentage ownership % | 28.9 | 25.0 | 25.3 | 30.9 | 38.2 | 48.9 | 43.1 | 33.9 | 40.5 | 44.8 | 29.3 | 32.2 | 38.4 | ||
| Progressive-Conservative Party | Seats | 8th | 19th | 7th | 8th | 40 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 4th | 1 | 107 | ||
| Percentage ownership % | 33.0 | 57.6 | 36.9 | 41.6 | 39.1 | 17.4 | 46.8 | 53.4 | 51.9 | 49.0 | 30.9 | 53.0 | 35.0 | ||
| New Democratic Party | Seats | 11 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 31 | ||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 35.0 | 12.6 | 35.9 | 26.3 | 21.5 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 12.3 | 7.5 | 4.7 | 39.8 | 11.6 | 17.8 | ||
| Social Credit Party | Seats | 15th | 15th | ||||||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 2.6 | 4.5 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 24.3 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 7.6 | ||||
| Independent | Seats | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | 0.2 | <0.1 | <0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 3.1 | 0.6 | |||||
| Not partisan | Seats | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Percentage ownership % | <0.1 | 0.1 | <0.1 | <0.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.3 | <0.1 | 0.2 | ||||||
| Parti Rhinoceros | Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | <0.1 | ||||||||||||
| Other parties | Percentage ownership % | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | ||||
| Totally sit | 23 | 19th | 13 | 13 | 88 | 74 | 10 | 11 | 4th | 7th | 1 | 1 | 264 | ||
Web links
- Elections Canada (Electoral Authority)
Individual evidence
- ^ Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums. Elections Canada, February 18, 2013, accessed July 4, 2015 .
