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Canada 1980 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Liberal Party of Canada won 147 of 282 seats with 44.3% of the vote; 69.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 6.4 points on 1979.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Liberal Party of Canada147+3344.3+4.24,853,914
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada103−3332.5−3.43,552,994
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party32+619.8+1.92,164,987
Social Credit Party of Canada0−61.7−2.9185,486
Rhinoceros Party001.0+0.5110,597

± is the change against the Canada 1979 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Liberal Party of Canada 4,853,914
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 3,552,994
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,164,987
  • Social Credit Party of Canada 185,486
  • Rhinoceros Party 110,597

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

69.3% of the 15,890,416 registered voters cast a ballot (11,015,514 ballots), down 6.4 points on 1979. 10,947,914 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1953 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Liberal Party of Canada44.3% of votes52.1% of seats
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada32.5% of votes36.5% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party19.8% of votes11.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 8.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Liberal Party of Canada led Progressive Conservative Party of Canada by 11.9 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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