Canadian federal election, 1908

Canadian federal election, 1908

October 26, 1908

221 seats in the 11th Canadian Parliament 111 seats needed for a majority   First party Second party   Leader Wilfrid Laurier Robert Borden Party Liberal Conservative Leader since 1887 1901 Leader's seat Quebec East Carleton candidate in Halifax Last election 137 seats, 50.9% 75 seats, 45.9% Seats won 133 85 Seat change 4 10 Popular vote 570,311 539,374 Percentage 48.9% 46.2% Swing 2.0% 0.3%

Prime Minister before election Wilfrid Laurier Liberal Prime Minister-designate Wilfrid Laurier Liberal

The Canadian federal election of 1908 was held on October 26 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 11th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party of Canada was re-elected for a fourth consecutive term in government with a majority government. The Liberals lost four seats and a small share of the popular vote.

Sir Robert Borden's Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives won ten additional seats.

The voter turnout was 70.3%.^[1]

National results

The Canadian parliament after the 1908 election

↓
133	85	3
Liberal	Conservative	O

Party		Party leader	# of candidates	Seats			Popular vote
				1904	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	Liberal	Wilfrid Laurier	213	137	133	-2.9%	570,311	48.87%	-2.01pp
	Conservative	Robert Borden	207	70	82	+17.1%	524,641	44.95%	+0.55pp
	Liberal-Conservative		4	5	3	-40.0%	14,733	1.26%	-0.27pp
	Independent		15	1	1	-	16,903	1.45%	+0.45pp
	Labour		3	-	1		10,400	0.89%	+0.68pp
	Unknown		7	-	-	-	13,478	1.15%	+0.02pp
	Socialist		5	-	-	-	6,071	0.52%	+0.35pp
	Independent Conservative		2	1	1	-100%	5,314	0.46%	-0.04pp
	Independent Liberal		5	-	-	-	5,191	0.44%	+0.41pp
Total			461	214	221	+2.8%	1,167,042	100%
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Results by province

Party			BC	AB	SK	MB	ON	QC	NB	NS	PE	YK	Total
	Liberal	Seats:	2	4	9	2	37	52	11	12	3	1	133
		Popular vote (%):	35.9	50.2	56.6	45.4	45.0	53.0	56.2	51.0	50.4	40.2	48.9
	Conservative	Seats:	5	2	1	8	46	12	2	5	1	-	82
		Vote (%):	46.8	38.1	36.8	51.5	49.2	39.5	43.8	44.5	49.6	10.8	45.0
	Liberal-Conservative	Seats:		1			1			1			3
		Vote (%):		6.4			1.5			4.5			1.3
	Independent	Seats:	-	-	-	-	1	-					1
		Vote (%):	8.9	3.7	0.6	0.1	1.8	1.1					1.5
	Labour	Seats:					-	1					1
		Vote (%):					0.7	2.6					0.9
	Independent Conservative	Seats:			-		1						1
		Vote (%):			5.9		0.4						0.5
Total seats			7	7	10	10	86	65	13	18	4	1	221
Parties that won no seats:
	Unknown	Vote (%):	1.3				1.4	1.9				49.0	1.2
	Socialist	Vote (%):	7.1	1.6		2.9	0.2						0.5
	Independent Liberal	Vote (%):			0.1			1.8					0.4

Vote and seat summaries

Popular vote
Liberal			48.87%
Conservative			46.21%
Others			4.92%

Seat totals
Liberal			60.18%
Conservative			38.46%
Others			1.36%

See also

• List of Canadian federal general elections
• List of political parties in Canada
• 11th Canadian Parliament

References