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Canada 1930 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 137 of 245 seats with 48.8% of the vote; 76.1% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada13748.81,903,815
Liberal Party of Canada9145.21,761,352
Progressive Party of Canada122.8109,745
Labour Party21.248,352
Independents30.725,456
Votes by party
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1,903,815
  • Liberal Party of Canada 1,761,352
  • Progressive Party of Canada 109,745
  • Labour Party 48,352
  • Independents 25,456

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

76.1% of the 5,153,971 registered voters cast a ballot (3,922,481 ballots). 3,898,527 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada48.8% of votes55.9% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Canada45.2% of votes37.1% of seats
  • Progressive Party of Canada2.8% of votes4.9% of seats
  • Labour Party1.2% of votes0.8% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.3 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Progressive Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 3.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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