1940 Canadian federal election
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The 1940 Canadian federal election was held March 26, 1940, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 19th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party was re-elected to their second consecutive majority government.
The election was overshadowed by the
Social Credit ran jointly with the New Democracy movement of William Duncan Herridge.
Some candidates of the Conservative and Social Credit parties insisted on running under the traditional names, however.
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) gained its first seat east of Manitoba, with the election of Clarence Gillis from Cape Breton Island. This election was the last one for its ailing leader, J. S. Woodsworth.
National results
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Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | |||||
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1935 | Elected | % Change | # | % | pp Change
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Liberal | W. L. Mackenzie King | 242 | 173 | 179 | +2.3% | 2,365,979 | 51.32% | +6.64 | |
National Government 1
|
Robert Manion
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199 | * | 36 | - | 1,348,260 | 29.24% | +0.57 | |
Conservative 1
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8 | 39 | 3 | 53,799 | 1.17% | ||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | J. S. Woodsworth | 93 | 7 | 8 | +14.3% | 388,103 | 8.42% | -1.07 | |
Social Credit2 | J.H. Blackmore | 9 | 17 | 7 | -41.17% | 46,271 | 1.00% | -1.51 | |
New Democracy2 | W.D. Herridge | 17 | * | 3 | 73,083 | 1.59% | |||
Liberal–Progressive | 4 | 4 | 3 | -25.0% | 27,815 | 0.60% | -0.07 | ||
Independent Liberal | 32 | 1 | 2 | +100% | 147,216 | 3.19% | +1.96 | ||
Independent | 19 | 1 | 1 | - | 57,247 | 1.24% | +0.85 | ||
Independent Conservative
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5 | 1 | 1 | - | 10,431 | 0.23% | +0.21 | ||
Unity | 2 | * | 1 | * | 12,337 | 0.27% | * | ||
United Reform Movement
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1 | * | 1 | * | 13,868 | 0.30% | * | ||
Independent National
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2 | * | - | * | 12,710 | 0.28% | * | ||
Unknown | 2 | - | - | - | 4,622 | 0.10% | +0.02 | ||
Communist | Tim Buck | 8 | - | - | - | 8,699 | 0.19% | -0.27 | |
Farmer-Labour
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2 | * | - | * | 8,126 | 0.18% | * | ||
National Unity | 1 | * | - | * | 7,534 | 0.16% | * | ||
NDP 3 | 2 | * | - | * | 6,761 | 0.15% | * | ||
Labour
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1 | - | - | - | 4,761 | 0.10% | -0.06 | ||
Labour
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1 | - | - | - | 3,916 | 0.08% | -0.25 | ||
United Progressive
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1 | * | - | * | 2,727 | 0.06% | * | ||
National Liberal Progressive
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1 | * | - | * | 2,434 | 0.05% | * | ||
National Labour | 1 | * | - | * | 2,354 | 0.05% | * | ||
Anti-Conscriptionist | 1 | * | - | * | 642 | 0.01% | * | ||
Canadian Labour | 1 | * | - | * | 398 | 0.01% | * | ||
United Reform
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1 | * | - | * | 269 | 0.01% | * | ||
Social Credit-National Unity | 1 | * | - | * | 241 | 0.01% | * | ||
Total | 657 | 245 | 245 | -0.8% | 4,610,603 | 100% | |||
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine |
Notes:
* The party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote
1 "Change" and "% Change% figures compare total of "National Government" and "Conservative" to 1935 Conservative vote.
2 New Democracy and Social Credit ran jointly under the New Democracy banner under the leadership of former Conservative William Duncan Herridge who had founded New Democracy in 1939 to promote his ideas monetary and economic reform, though several candidates continued to run under the old Social Credit name. The 3 New Democracy MPs elected were all Social Credit incumbents, including Social Credit parliamentary leader John Horne Blackmore while Herridge himself failed to win his seat. The party sat in the House of Commons under the New Democracy name until 1944 when its national convention voted to revert to the Social Credit name.
3Two candidates appear to have run under the "New Democratic Party" banner. It is unlikely that this was related in any way to the
Vote and seat summaries
Results by province
Party name | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | YK | Total | ||
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Liberal | Seats: | 10 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 56 | 62 | 5 | 10 | 4 | - | 179 | |
Popular Vote: | 37.4 | 37.9 | 43.0 | 43.5 | 50.3 | 64.4 | 54.6 | 50.4 | 55.3 | 46.4 | 51.3 | ||
National Government
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Seats: | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 22 | - | 5 | 1 | - | 1 | 36 | |
Vote: | 28.8 | 13.0 | 14.1 | 26.2 | 40.2 | 18.0 | 43.4 | 40.1 | 44.7 | 53.6 | 30.0 | ||
Conservative
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Seats: | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | |||||||
Vote: | 0.2 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 | ||||||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | Seats: | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | |||
Vote: | 28.4 | 13.0 | 27.5 | 19.6 | 3.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 6.0 | 8.6 | ||||
Social Credit | Seats: | 7 | - | 7 | |||||||||
Vote: | 16.5 | 0.6 | 1.0 | ||||||||||
New Democracy | Seats: | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | ||||||
Vote: | 0.1 | 18.0 | 3.3 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.6 | |||||||
Liberal-Progressive | Seats: | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Vote: | 4.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||||
Independent Liberal | Seats: | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | ||||||
Vote: | xx | 1.0 | 10.2 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 3.3 | |||||||
Independent | Seats: | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||||
Vote: | 3.0 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 1.3 | |||||
United Reform Movement
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Seats: | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Vote: | 3.7 | 0.3 | |||||||||||
Unity | Seats: | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Vote: | 3.3 | 0.3 | |||||||||||
Independent Conservative | Seats: | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Vote: | 0.9 | 0.2 | |||||||||||
Total Seats | 16 | 17 | 21 | 17 | 82 | 65 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 245 | ||
Parties that won no seats: | |||||||||||||
Independent Nat. Gov. | Vote: | 0.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | |||||||||
Communist | Vote: | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.6 | xx | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |||||
Farmer- Labour
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Vote: | 0.5 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
National Unity | Vote: | 2.0 | 0.2 | ||||||||||
NDP (?) | Vote: | 1.6 | xx | 0.2 | |||||||||
UFO-Labour | Vote: | 0.3 | 0.1 | ||||||||||
Unknown | Vote: | 1.2 | xx | 0.1 | |||||||||
Labour
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Vote: | 0.3 | 0.1 | ||||||||||
United Progressive
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Vote: | 1.0 | 0.1 | ||||||||||
National Liberal Progressive
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Vote: | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||||
National Labour | Vote: | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||||
Anti-Conscriptionist | Vote: | 0.1 | xx | ||||||||||
Canadian Labour | Vote: | xx | xx | ||||||||||
United Reform
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Vote: | 0.1 | xx |
- xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote
See also
- List of Canadian federal general elections
- List of political parties in Canada
- 19th Canadian Parliament
References
- ^ "Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums". Elections Canada. Retrieved March 10, 2019.