Canadian federal election, 1940

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The Canadian parliament after the 1940 election

The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history. It was held March 26, 1940 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons. William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party was re-elected to their second consecutive majority government.

The election was overshadowed by the Second World War, which caused many Canadians to rally around the government. In response to this, the Conservative Party of Robert Manion ran on a platform advocating the creation of an all-party national unity government and ran under the name "National Government" in this election. Though Manion was personally opposed to conscription, the Liberals faced intense pressure in Quebec on the question and promised not to institute the measure. This promise was to haunt the Liberals as they faced increasing pressure from the military and especially from English Canada to bring in the measure. To release him from his 1940 promise, King called a plebiscite in 1942 on the question. See also Conscription Crisis of 1944.

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.


National results

Party Party Leader # of
candidates
Seats Popular Vote
1935 Elected % Change # % % Change

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Liberal Mackenzie King 242 173 177 +2.3% 2,365,979 51.32% +6.64%

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National Government 1 Robert Manion 199 39 36 - 1,348,260 29.24% +2.28%

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Conservative 1 8 3 53,799 1.17%

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Cooperative Commonwealth J. S. Woodsworth 93 7 8 +14.3% 388,103 8.42% -1.07%

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Social Credit J.H. Blackmore 9 17 7 -58.3% 46,271 1.00% -1.51%

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New Democracy W.D. Herridge 17 * 3 * 73,083 1.59% *

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Liberal-Progressive   4 4 3 -25.0% 27,815 0.60% -0.07%

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Independent Liberal 32 1 2 +100% 147,216 3.19% +1.96%

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Independent 19 1 1 - 57,247 1.24% +0.85%

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Independent Conservative 5 1 1 - 10,431 0.23% +0.21%

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Unity   2 * 1 * 12,337 0.27% *

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United Reform Movement   1 * 1 * 13,868 0.30% *

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Independent National 2 * - * 12,710 0.28% *

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Unknown 2 - - - 4,622 0.10% +0.02%

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Communist Tim Buck 8 - - - 8,699 0.19% -0.27%

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Farmer-Labour   2 * - * 8,126 0.18% *

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National Unity   1 * - * 7,534 0.16% *

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NDP 2   2 * - * 6,761 0.15% *

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United Farmers of Ont.-Labour   1 - - - 4,761 0.10% -0.06%

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Labour   1 - - - 3,916 0.08% -0.25%

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United Progressive   1 * - * 2,727 0.06% *

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National Liberal Progressive   1 * - * 2,434 0.05% *

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National Labour   1 * - * 2,354 0.05% *

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Anti-Conscriptionist   1 * - * 642 0.01% *

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Canadian Labour   1 * - * 398 0.01% *

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United Reform   1 * - * 269 0.01% *

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Social Credit-National Unity   1 * - * 241 0.01% *
Total 638 245 243 -0.8% 4,610,603 100%  
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 (http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/process/house/hfer/hfer.asp?Language=E)

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 Two candidates appear to have run under the "New Democratic Party" banner. It is unlikely that this was related in any way to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation's adoption of this name in 1960. This may be a mis-reporting of party label - these candidates may have been "New Democracy" candidates.

Results by province

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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 3 10 4 - 177

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Popular Vote: 37.4 37.9 43.0 43.5 50.3 64.4 54.6 50.4 55.3 46.4 51.3

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National Government Seats: 4 - 2 1 22 - 5 1 - 1 36

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Vote: 28.8 13.0 14.1 26.2 40.2 18.0 43.4 40.1 44.7 53.6 30.0

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Conservative Seats:     - - 3 -         3

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Vote:     0.2 1.7 2.2 1.1         1.2

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Cooperative Commonwealth Seats: 1 - 5 1 - - - 1     8

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Vote: 28.4 13.0 27.5 19.6 3.8 0.7 0.4 6.0     8.6

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Social Credit Seats:   7   -             7

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Vote:   16.5   0.6             1.0

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New Democracy Seats: - 3 - -   -         3

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Vote: 0.1 18.0 3.3 0.4   0.9         1.6

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Liberal-Progressive Seats:       2 1           3

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Vote:       4.7 0.8           0.6

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Independent Liberal Seats: -       - 2 - -     2

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Vote: xx       1.0 10.2 1.6 3.3     3.3

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Independent Seats: 1 - - - - -   -     1

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Vote: 3.0 0.2 1.0 3.4 0.4 2.1   0.2     1.3

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United Reform Movement Seats:     1               1

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Vote:     3.7               0.3

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Unity Seats:     1               1

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Vote:     3.3               0.3

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Independent Conservative Seats:           1         1

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Vote:           0.9         0.2
Total Seats 16 17 21 17 82 65 8 12 4 1 234
Parties that won no seats:
Independent Nat. Gov. Vote: 0.1         1.1         0.3

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Communist Vote: 0.4 0.3 0.6 xx 0.2 0.1         0.2

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Farmer-Labour Vote:         0.5           0.2

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National Unity Vote:     2.0               0.2

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NDP (?) Vote: 1.6       xx           0.2

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UFO-Labour Vote:         0.3           0.1

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Unknown Vote:     1.2   xx           0.1

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Labour Vote:           0.3       0.1

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United Progressive Vote:     1.0               0.1

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National Liberal Progressive Vote:         0.2           0.1

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National Labour Vote:           0.2         0.1

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Anti-Conscriptionist Vote:           0.1         xx

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Canadian Labour Vote:         xx           xx

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United Reform Vote:     0.1               xx

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote

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