Canada 1962 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 116 of 265 seats with 37.2% of the vote; 80.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 0.4 points on 1958.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 99 | +51 | 37.3 | +3.7 | 2,874,076 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 116 | −92 | 37.3 | −16.4 | 2,868,295 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 19 | +11 | 13.5 | +4.0 | 1,036,853 |
| Social Credit Party of Canada | 30 | +30 | 11.6 | +9.1 | 896,574 |
| Liberal-Labour | 1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 15,412 |
| Communist Party of Canada | 0 | 0.1 | 6,360 |
± is the change against the Canada 1958 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 2,874,076
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 2,868,295
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 1,036,853
- Social Credit Party of Canada 896,574
- Liberal-Labour 15,412
- Communist Party of Canada 6,360
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
80.1% of the 9,700,325 registered voters cast a ballot (7,772,656 ballots), down 0.4 points on 1958. 7,699,901 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada37.3% of votes43.8% of seats
- Liberal Party of Canada37.3% of votes37.4% of seats
- Social Credit Party of Canada11.6% of votes11.3% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party13.5% of votes7.2% of seats
- Liberal-Labour0.2% of votes0.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.9 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 0.1 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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