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Canada 1979 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 136 of 282 seats with 35.9% of the vote; 75.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 4.8 points on 1974.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Party of Canada114−2740.1−3.04,594,319
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada136+4135.9+0.54,111,559
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party26+1017.9+2.42,048,779
Social Credit Party of Canada6−54.6−0.5527,604
Rhinoceros Party00.662,601

± is the change against the Canada 1974 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Party of Canada 4,594,319
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 4,111,559
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,048,779
  • Social Credit Party of Canada 527,604
  • Rhinoceros Party 62,601

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

75.8% of the 15,233,653 registered voters cast a ballot (11,541,000 ballots), up 4.8 points on 1974. 11,455,702 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada35.9% of votes48.2% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Canada40.1% of votes40.4% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party17.9% of votes9.2% of seats
  • Social Credit Party of Canada4.6% of votes2.1% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 10.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 4.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

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