Canada 1972 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 109 of 264 seats with 37.5% of the vote; 76.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 1.1 points on 1968.
- Canada
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Party of Canada | 109 | −46 | 37.5 | −8.0 | 3,718,258 |
| Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | 107 | +35 | 34.1 | +2.7 | 3,383,530 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party | 31 | +9 | 17.3 | +0.3 | 1,713,528 |
| Social Credit Party of Canada | 15 | +15 | 7.4 | +6.6 | 737,972 |
| Independents | 2 | +1 | 0.4 | +0.1 | 35,421 |
| Rhinoceros Party | 0 | 0.0 | 1,565 |
± is the change against the Canada 1968 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Liberal Party of Canada 3,718,258
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 3,383,530
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 1,713,528
- Social Credit Party of Canada 737,972
- Independents 35,421
- Rhinoceros Party 1,565
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
76.7% of the 13,000,778 registered voters cast a ballot (9,974,661 ballots), up 1.1 points on 1968. 9,916,061 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1963 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Liberal Party of Canada37.5% of votes41.3% of seats
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada34.1% of votes40.5% of seats
- Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party17.3% of votes11.7% of seats
- Social Credit Party of Canada7.4% of votes5.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 2.8 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 3.4 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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