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Canada 1963 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 129 of 265 seats with 41.7% of the vote; 80.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.2 points on 1962.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Party of Canada129+3041.7+4.43,293,790
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada95−2132.8−4.42,591,614
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party17−213.2−0.31,037,857
Social Credit Party of Canada24−611.9+0.3940,703
Communist Party of Canada000.10.04,234

± is the change against the Canada 1962 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Party of Canada 3,293,790
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 2,591,614
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 1,037,857
  • Social Credit Party of Canada 940,703
  • Communist Party of Canada 4,234

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

80.3% of the 9,910,757 registered voters cast a ballot (7,958,636 ballots), up 0.2 points on 1962. 7,894,076 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party of Canada41.7% of votes48.7% of seats
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada32.8% of votes35.8% of seats
  • Social Credit Party of Canada11.9% of votes9.1% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party13.2% of votes6.4% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 7.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 8.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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