Canada 1953 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 171 of 265 seats with 50.0% of the vote; 67.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.9 points on 1949.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 171 | −19 | 50.0 | −0.1 | 2,819,813 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 51 | +10 | 31.0 | +1.3 | 1,751,215 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 23 | +10 | 11.3 | −2.1 | 636,310 |
| Social Credit Party of Canada | 15 | +5 | 5.4 | +3.0 | 305,973 |
| Communist Party of Canada | 0 | 1.1 | 59,622 | ||
| Liberal-Labour | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 11,380 |
| Independents | 4 | −2 |
± is the change against the Canada 1949 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 2,819,813
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1,751,215
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 636,310
- Social Credit Party of Canada 305,973
- Communist Party of Canada 59,622
- Liberal-Labour 11,380
- Independents
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
67.9% of the 8,401,691 registered voters cast a ballot (5,701,963 ballots), down 6.9 points on 1949. 5,641,272 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Canada50.0% of votes64.5% of seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada31.0% of votes19.2% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party11.3% of votes8.7% of seats
- Social Credit Party of Canada5.4% of votes5.7% of seats
- Liberal-Labour0.2% of votes0.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 13.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.2 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 18.9 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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