1988 Canadian federal election
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| Turnout | 75.3%[1] () | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Canadian parliament after the 1988 election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1988 Canadian federal election was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 34th Parliament of Canada.
National results
For a complete list of MPs elected in the 1988 election see 34th Canadian Parliament.
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | Dissol. | Elected | % Change | # | % | Change | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Brian Mulroney | 295 | 211 | 203 | 169 | -19.9% | 5,667,543 | 43.02% | -7.02pp | |
| Liberal | John Turner | 294 | 40 | 38 | 83 | +107.5% | 4,205,072 | 31.92% | +3.89pp | |
| New Democratic Party | Ed Broadbent | 295 | 30 | 32 | 43 | +34.4% | 2,685,263 | 20.38% | +1.57pp | |
| Reform | Preston Manning | 72 | * | - | - | * | 275,767 | 2.09% | * | |
| Christian Heritage | Ed Vanwoudenberg | 63 | * | - | - | * | 102,533 | 0.78% | * | |
| Rhinoceros | Cornelius I | 74 | - | - | - | - | 52,173 | 0.40% | -0.39pp | |
| Green | Seymour Trieger | 68 | - | - | - | - | 47,228 | 0.36% | +0.14pp | |
| Confederation of Regions | Elmer Knutson | 51 | - | - | - | - | 41,342 | 0.31% | -0.68pp | |
| Libertarian | Dennis Corrigan | 88 | - | - | - | - | 33,135 | 0.25% | +0.06pp | |
| No affiliation | 100 | - | - | - | 24,516 | 0.19% | -0.12pp | |||
| Independent | 55 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 22,982 | 0.17% | -0.01pp | ||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Gilles Gervais | 58 | - | - | - | - | 7,467 | 0.06% | -0.21pp | |
| Communist | George Hewison | 51 | - | - | - | - | 7,066 | 0.05% | -0.01pp | |
| Social Credit | Harvey Lainson | 9 | - | - | - | - | 3,407 | 0.03% | -0.10pp | |
| Vacant | 5 | |||||||||
| Total | 1,573 | 282 | 282 | 295 | +4.6% | 13,175,494 | 100% | |||
Note:
"% change" refers to change from previous election
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| 169 | 83 | 43 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Liberal | NDP | ||
Vote and seat summaries
Results by province
| Party name | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NT | YK | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progressive Conservative | Seats: | 12 | 25 | 4 | 7 | 46 | 63 | 5 | 5 | - | 2 | - | - | 169 | |
| Popular Vote: | 35.3 | 51.8 | 36.4 | 36.9 | 38.2 | 52.7 | 40.4 | 40.9 | 41.5 | 42.2 | 26.4 | 35.3 | 43.0 | ||
| Liberal | Seats: | 1 | - | - | 5 | 43 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | - | 83 | |
| Vote: | 20.4 | 13.7 | 18.2 | 36.5 | 38.9 | 30.3 | 45.4 | 46.5 | 49.9 | 45.0 | 41.4 | 11.3 | 31.9 | ||
| New Democratic Party | Seats: | 19 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 43 | |
| Vote: | 37.0 | 17.4 | 44.2 | 21.3 | 20.1 | 14.4 | 9.3 | 11.4 | 7.5 | 12.4 | 28.3 | 51.4 | 20.38 | ||
| Total seats | 32 | 26 | 14 | 14 | 99 | 75 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 295 | ||
| Parties that won no seats: | |||||||||||||||
| Reform | Vote: | 4.8 | 15.4 | 3.3 | 2.1 | ||||||||||
| Christian Heritage | Vote: | 1.1 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0.8 | ||||||||||
| Rhinoceros | Vote: | 1.2 | 0.4 | ||||||||||||
| Green | Vote: | 0.4 | |||||||||||||
| Confederation of Regions | Vote: | 4.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||||||
| Libertarian | Vote: | 0.3 | |||||||||||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Vote: | 0.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||||||
| Communist | Vote: | 0.1 | |||||||||||||
| Social Credit | Vote: | xx | |||||||||||||
| Other | Vote: | 0.4 | |||||||||||||
xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.
Note: Parties that captured less than 1% of the vote in a province are not recorded.
Notes
- Number of parties: 11
- First appearance: Christian Heritage Party, Reform Party
- Final appearance: Confederation of Regions Party, Social Credit Party
- Final appearance before hiatus: Communist Party (returned in 2000), Rhinoceros Party (returned in 2006)
References
- ↑ "Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums". Elections Canada. 21 November 1988. Archived from the original on 4 September 2024. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
Notes
- ↑ Includes Beaver River MP John Dahmer, who died five days after the election, before being sworn in, with the seat being lost in the subsequent by-election.
Further reading
- Argyle, Ray. Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before (2011) excerpt and text search ch 14