1988 Canadian general election

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 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
43.03
31.92
20.38
2.09
2.60
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1984
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-7.00
+3.90
+1.57
+2.09
-0.53
Otherwise.
43
83
169
43 83 169 
A total of 295 seats

The 34th Canadian General Election (English. 34th Canadian General Election , French. 34e élection fédérale canadienne ) was held on 21 November 1988. 295 MPs of the Canadian House of Commons (English House of Commons , French Chambre des Communes ) were elected. The ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Brian Mulroney lost seven percent of the vote, but still achieved a comfortable absolute majority. The Liberal Party managed to recover from its heavy electoral defeat four years ago and more than doubled its number of seats.

The vote

The free trade agreement between Canada and the United States dominated the election campaign. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed it in October 1988, but it had not yet been ratified by Parliament. By John Turner cited Liberal Party spoke out against the agreement, as is the New Democratic Party of Ed Broadbent . After a few scandals, the Progressive-Conservative Party appeared to be weakened and the Liberals had legitimate hopes of regaining power after a four-year hiatus.

The opinion polls showed a mixed picture, the government and the opposition took turns in the lead. The progressive conservatives initially conducted a rather inconspicuous election campaign, but then went on to attack Turner's credibility. Associated with this was an expensive advertising campaign for the free trade agreement. This enabled the government to break away decisively.

Although the progressive conservatives lost seven percent of the vote, they remained by far the strongest force and were able to defend their absolute majority. The Liberals succeeded in more than doubling the number of their seats, thus making up for the losses of 1984; but it was nowhere near enough to win the election. The New Democrats achieved the best result ever, in the provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan they were even the strongest force.

The turnout was 75.3%.

Results

Overall result

Overview of the provinces and territories
Brian Mulroney
Ed Broadbent
Political party Chairman candidates
data 		Seats
1984 		upon
dissolution 		Seats
1988 		+/- be right Share of
voters 		+/-
  Progressive-Conservative Party Brian Mulroney 295 211 203 169 - 42 5,667,543 43.03% - 7.00%
  Liberal Party John Turner 294 040 038 083 + 43 4,205,072 31.92% + 3.90%
  New Democratic Party Ed Broadbent 295 030th 032 043 + 13 2,685,263 20.38% + 1.57%
  Reform party Preston Manning 072 275,767 2.09% + 2.09%
  Christian Heritage Ed Vanwoudenberg 063 102,533 0.78% + 0.78%
  Parti Rhinoceros Cornelius I. 074 52.173 0.40% - 0.39%
  Green party Seymour Trieger 068 47,228 0.36% + 0.15%
  Confederation of Regions Elmer Knutson 051 41,342 0.31% - 0.21%
  Libertarian party Dennis Corrigan 088 33,135 0.25% + 0.06%
  Not partisan 100 001 004th - 01 24,516 0.19% - 0.12%
  Independent 055 22,982 0.17% - 0.01%
  Commonwealth Party Gilles Gervais 058 7,467 0.06%
  Communist Party George Hewison 051 7,066 0.05% - 0.01%
  Social Credit Party Harvey Lainson 009 3,407 0.03% - 0.10%
  vacant 005
total 1,573 282 282 295 + 13 13.175.494 100.0%

Result by provinces and territories

Political party BC FROM SK MB ON QC NB NS PE NL NW YK total
Progressive-Conservative Party Seats 12 25th 4th 7th 46 63 5 5 2 169
Percentage ownership % 35.3 51.8 36.4 36.9 38.2 52.7 40.4 40.9 41.5 42.2 26.4 35.3 43.0
Liberal Party Seats 1 5 43 12 5 6th 4th 5 2 83
Percentage ownership % 20.4 13.7 18.2 36.5 38.9 30.3 45.5 46.5 49.9 45.0 41.4 11.3 31.9
New Democratic Party Seats 19th 1 10 2 10 1 43
Percentage ownership % 37.0 17.4 44.2 21.3 20.1 14.4 9.3 11.4 7.5 12.4 28.3 51.4 20.4
Reform party Percentage ownership % 4.8 15.4 3.3 2.1
Christian Heritage Percentage ownership % 1.1 3.3 1.4 2.0 0.8
Parti Rhinoceros Percentage ownership % 1.2 0.4
Confederation of Regions Percentage ownership % 4.3 0.3
Commonwealth Party Percentage ownership % 0.2 0.1
Totally sit 32 26th 14th 14th 99 75 10 11 4th 7th 2 1 295

Web links

Individual evidence

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

See also