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Canada 1925 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 116 of 245 seats with 46.5% of the vote; 68.7% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada11646.51,465,331
Liberal Party of Canada9939.91,256,824
Progressive Party of Canada248.9282,152
Labour Party21.855,330
Independents20.723,235
Other parties (seats only)2
Votes by party
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1,465,331
  • Liberal Party of Canada 1,256,824
  • Progressive Party of Canada 282,152
  • Labour Party 55,330
  • Independents 23,235
  • Other parties (seats only)

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

68.7% of the 4,608,636 registered voters cast a ballot (3,168,412 ballots). 3,152,525 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada46.5% of votes47.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Canada39.9% of votes40.4% of seats
  • Progressive Party of Canada8.9% of votes9.8% of seats
  • Labour Party1.8% of votes0.8% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.6 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Progressive Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 6.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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