Canada 1965 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 131 of 265 seats with 40.2% of the vote; 75.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 4.4 points on 1963.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 131 | +2 | 40.2 | −1.5 | 3,099,519 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 97 | +2 | 32.4 | −0.4 | 2,499,913 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 21 | +4 | 17.9 | +4.8 | 1,381,658 |
| Ralliement créditiste | 9 | 4.7 | 359,438 | ||
| Social Credit Party of Canada | 5 | −19 | 3.7 | −8.3 | 282,454 |
| Communist Party of Canada | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 4,285 |
| Independents | 2 |
± is the change against the Canada 1963 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 3,099,519
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 2,499,913
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 1,381,658
- Ralliement créditiste 359,438
- Social Credit Party of Canada 282,454
- Communist Party of Canada 4,285
- 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
75.9% of the 10,274,904 registered voters cast a ballot (7,796,728 ballots), down 4.4 points on 1963. 7,713,316 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1957 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Canada40.2% of votes49.4% of seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada32.4% of votes36.6% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party17.9% of votes7.9% of seats
- Ralliement créditiste4.7% of votes3.4% of seats
- Social Credit Party of Canada3.7% of votes1.9% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.3 by votes and 2.6 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 7.8 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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