1980 Canadian federal election
Appearance
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282 seats in the House of Commons 142 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Turnout | 69.3%[1] (6.4pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Popular vote by province, with graphs indicating the number of seats won. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote by province but instead via results by each riding. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1980 Canadian federal election was held on February 18, 1980, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 32nd Parliament of Canada.
National results
[change | change source]Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
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1979 | Dissolution | Elected | % Change | # | % | Change | ||||
Liberal | Pierre Trudeau | 282 | 114 | 114 | 147 | +28.9% | 4,855,425 | 44.34% | +4.23pp | |
Progressive Conservative | Joe Clark | 282 | 136 | 136 | 103 | -24.3% | 3,552,994 | 32.45% | -3.44pp | |
New Democratic Party | Ed Broadbent | 280 | 26 | 27 | 32 | +23.1% | 2,165,087 | 19.77% | +1.89pp | |
Social Credit | Fabien Roy | 81 | 6 | 5 | - | -100% | 185,486 | 1.70% | -2.91pp | |
Rhinoceros | Cornelius I | 121 | - | - | - | 110,597 | 1.01% | +0.46pp | ||
Marxist–Leninist | Hardial Bains | 177 | - | - | - | - | 14,728 | 0.13% | +0.01pp | |
Libertarian | 58 | - | - | - | - | 14,656 | 0.13% | -0.01pp | ||
Union populaire | 54 | - | - | - | - | 14,474 | 0.13% | -0.04pp | ||
Independent | 55 | - | - | - | - | 14,472 | 0.13% | -0.13pp | ||
Unknown | 41 | - | - | - | - | 12,532 | 0.11% | -0.07pp | ||
Communist | William Kashtan | 52 | - | - | - | - | 6,022 | 0.05% | -0.02pp | |
No affiliation | 14 | - | - | - | - | 3,063 | 0.03% | +0.03pp | ||
Total | 1,497 | 282 | 282 | 282 | - | 10,949,536 | 100% | |||
Sources: Elections Canda,History of Federal Ridings since 1867 |
Notes:
"% change" refers to change from previous election.
Changes to party standings from previous election: Social Credit MP Richard Janelle crossed the floor to join the PC Party. PC MP John Diefenbaker died during the parliamentary session. A New Democrat was elected in the subsequent by-election.
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147 | 103 | 32 | ||
Liberal | Progressive Conservative | NDP |
Vote and seat summaries
[change | change source]Results by province
[change | change source]Party name | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | NT | YK | Total | ||
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Liberal | Seats: | - | - | - | 2 | 52 | 74 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 147 | |
Popular Vote: | 22.2 | 22.2 | 24.3 | 28.0 | 41.9 | 68.2 | 50.1 | 39.9 | 46.8 | 47.0 | 35.8 | 39.6 | 44.3 | ||
Progressive Conservative | Seats: | 16 | 21 | 7 | 5 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 103 | |
Vote: | 41.5 | 64.9 | 38.9 | 37.7 | 35.5 | 12.6 | 32.5 | 38.7 | 46.3 | 36.0 | 24.7 | 40.6 | 32.4 | ||
New Democratic Party | Seats: | 12 | - | 7 | 7 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 32 | |
Vote: | 35.3 | 10.3 | 36.3 | 33.5 | 21.8 | 9.1 | 16.2 | 20.9 | 6.6 | 16.7 | 38.4 | 19.8 | 19.8 | ||
Total seats: | 28 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 95 | 75 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 282 | ||
Parties that won no seats: | |||||||||||||||
Social Credit | Vote: | 0.1 | 1.0 | xx | xx | 5.9 | 1.7 | ||||||||
Rhinoceros | Vote: | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Vote: | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | xx | xx | xx | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
Libertarian | Vote: | xx | 0.3 | 0.1 | xx | 0.1 | |||||||||
Union populaire | Vote: | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||||||||
Independent | Vote: | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | xx | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||
Non-Affiliated | Vote: | xx | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | xx | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | |||||
Communist | Vote: | 0.1 | 0.1 | xx | 0.1 | 0.1 | xx | 0.1 | |||||||
No affiliation | Vote: | xx | 0.1 | 0.1 | xx |
xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.
Notes
[change | change source]- Number of parties: 9
- First appearance: none
- Final appearance: Union populaire
- Final appearance before hiatus: Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada (returned in 1993)
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Pomfret, R. "Voter Turnout at Federal Elections and Referendums". Elections Canada. Elections Canada. Retrieved 11 January 2014.