Canada 1935 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 173 of 245 seats with 44.8% of the vote; 75.2% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Canada
- Held
Result
- Liberal Party of Canada173
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada40
- Social Credit Party of Canada17
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party7
- Other parties (seats only)7
- Reconstruction Party of Canada1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 173 | 44.8 | 1,975,841 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 40 | 29.6 | 1,305,565 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 7 | 8.8 | 387,056 |
| Reconstruction Party of Canada | 1 | 8.7 | 384,095 |
| Social Credit Party of Canada | 17 | 4.1 | 180,301 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 7 |
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 1,975,841
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1,305,565
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 387,056
- Reconstruction Party of Canada 384,095
- Social Credit Party of Canada 180,301
- 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
75.2% of the 5,918,207 registered voters cast a ballot (4,452,675 ballots). 4,406,854 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Canada44.8% of votes70.6% of seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada29.6% of votes16.3% of seats
- Social Credit Party of Canada4.1% of votes6.9% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party8.8% of votes2.9% of seats
- Reconstruction Party of Canada8.7% of votes0.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 21.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 1.9 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 15.2 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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