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Canada 1988 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 169 of 295 seats with 42.7% of the vote; 75.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, unchanged on 1984.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada169−4242.7−7.45,667,563
Liberal Party of Canada83+4331.7+3.64,205,072
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party43+1320.2+1.42,685,308
Reform Party of Canada02.1275,767

± is the change against the Canada 1984 federal election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 5,667,563
  • Liberal Party of Canada 4,205,072
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party 2,685,308
  • Reform Party of Canada 275,767

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

75.3% of the 17,639,001 registered voters cast a ballot (13,281,191 ballots), unchanged on 1984. 13,281,191 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Progressive Conservative Party of Canada42.7% of votes57.3% of seats
  • Liberal Party of Canada31.7% of votes28.1% of seats
  • Co-operative Commonwealth Federation / New Democratic Party20.2% of votes14.6% of seats
  • Reform Party of Canada2.1% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 11.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.3 by seats; Progressive Conservative Party of Canada led Liberal Party of Canada by 11.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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