Canada 1958 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 208 of 265 seats with 53.7% of the vote; 80.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 5.5 points on 1957.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 208 | +96 | 53.7 | +14.6 | 3,910,852 |
| Liberal Party of Canada | 48 | −57 | 33.6 | −8.7 | 2,447,744 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 8 | −17 | 9.5 | −1.2 | 692,398 |
| Social Credit Party of Canada | 0 | −19 | 2.6 | −4.0 | 188,717 |
| Liberal-Labour | 1 | 0.2 | 11,956 |
± is the change against the Canada 1957 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 3,910,852
- Liberal Party of Canada 2,447,744
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 692,398
- Social Credit Party of Canada 188,717
- Liberal-Labour 11,956
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
80.6% of the 9,131,200 registered voters cast a ballot (7,357,139 ballots), up 5.5 points on 1957. 7,287,297 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1945. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada53.7% of votes78.5% of seats
- Liberal Party of Canada33.6% of votes18.1% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party9.5% of votes3.0% of seats
- Liberal-Labour0.2% of votes0.4% of seats
- Social Credit Party of Canada2.6% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 21.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.4 by votes and 1.5 by seats; Progressive Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 20.1 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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