Canada 1908 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 135 of 221 seats with 50.5% of the vote.
- Canada
- Held
Result
111 for a majority
- Liberal Party of Canada135
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada85
- Independents1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 135 | 50.5 | 592,596 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 85 | 45.0 | 550,351 |
| Independents | 1 | 1.3 | 14,835 |
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 592,596
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 550,351
- Independents 14,835
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.
Share of the vote
Turnout
1,174,709 votes were valid. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Canada50.5% of votes61.1% of seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada45.0% of votes38.5% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.2 by votes and 1.9 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 5.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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