Canadian federal election results (1940-1959)

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For detailed results for an election, including results for each province, see:

• Canadian federal election, 1940 - 19th General Election
• Canadian federal election, 1945 - 20th General Election
• Canadian federal election, 1949 - 21st General Election
• Canadian federal election, 1953 - 22nd General Election
• Canadian federal election, 1957 - 23rd General Election
• Canadian federal election, 1958 - 24th General Election

[edit] Number of seats won

Party		1940	1945	1949	1953	1957	1958
	Liberal	179	118	191	169	104	48
	Conservative/Progressive Conservative1	3	66	41	51	111	208
	National Government1	36
	Cooperative Commonwealth	8	28	13	23	25	8
	Social Credit12	7	13	10	15	19
	New Democracy2	3
	Independent	1	6	4	3	2
	Independent Liberal	2	8	1	2	2
	Bloc populaire		2
	Unity	1
	Labour Progressive		1
	Independent PC		1			1
	Independent Conservative	1
	Independent CCF		1
	Liberal-Progressive	3	1	1	1
	Liberal-Labour			1	1	1	1
	United Reform Movement	1
Total		245	245	262	265	265	265

Notes:

¹ In 1940, the Conservative Party ran under the name "National Government". A few candidates insisted on running under the traditional name, however. In 1943, the Conservative Party became the Progressive Conservative Party.

² In 1940, Social Credit ran in coalition with New Democracy under that party's name. A few candidates insisted on running under the traditional name however.

[edit] Popular vote

Party		1940	1945	1949	1953	1957	1958
	Liberal	51.32%	39.78%	49.15%	48.62%	40.91%	33.50%
	Conservative/Progressive Conservative1	1.17%	27.62%	29.62%	31.01%	38.81%	53.56%
	National Government1	29.24%	0.09%
	Cooperative Commonwealth	8.42%	15.55%	13.42%	11.28%	10.71%	9.49%
	Social Credit2	1.00%	4.05%	2.31%	5.42%	6.57%	2.58%
	New Democracy2	1.59%
	Bloc populaire		3.29%
	Labour Progressive/Communist	0.19%	2.13%	0.56%	1.06%	0.12%	0.13%
	Independent	1.24%	4.89%	2.09%	1.04%	1.06%	0.19%
	Independent Liberal	3.19%	1.79%	0.52%	1.21%	1.41%	0.17%
	Independent PC		0.28%	0.14%	0.03%	0.22%	0.03%
	Independent Conservative	0.23%	0.05%				x
	Independent CCF		0.12%
	Independent SC			0.08%	0.01%	0.04%	0.00%
	Liberal-Progressive	0.06%	0.12%	0.16%	0.16%
	United Reform Movement	0.30%
	Unity	0.27%
	Independent National Government	0.28%
	NDP	0.15%
	UFO-Labour	0.10%
	United Progressive	0.06%
	National Liberal Progressive	0.05%
	National Labour	0.05%
	Anti-Conscriptionist	0.01%
	United Reform	0.01%
	Social Credit-National Unity	0.01%
	Canadian Labour	0.01%
	Trades Union		0.09%
	Democrat		0.05%
	Union of Electors		0.01%	1.47%
	Socialist Labour		0.01%	x	x
	Labour		0.01%	0.01%
	Liberal-Labour		0.01%	0.20%
	Independent Labour		x
	Farmer-Labour		0.07%	0.11%
	National Unity			0.10%
	Nationalist			0.09%	0.13%
	Christian Liberal				0.03%
	Locataire				0.01%
	Anti-Communist				0.01%
	Candidats des électeurs					0.12%	0.11%
	Canadian Democrat					0.01%
	Liberal Conservative Coalition					x
	H-G Grenier (various)					x	0.01%
	National Credit Control					x
	Socialist						0.19%
	Radical chrétien						0.01%
	Parti ouvrier canadien						x

Notes:

¹ In 1940, the Conservative Party ran under the name "National Government". A few candidates insisted on running under the traditional name, however. In 1943, the Conservative Party became the Progressive Conservative Party.

² In 1940, Social Credit ran in coalition with New Democracy under that party's name. A few candidates insisted on running under the traditional name however.

x - party won less than 0.005% of the popular vote