Canadian federal election, 1891
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The Canadian federal election of 1891 was held on March 5 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.
The main issue of the 1891 campaign was Macdonald's National Policy, a policy of protective tariffs. The Liberals supported reciprocity (free trade) with the United States.
Macdonald led a conservative campaign emphasizing stability, and retained the Conservatives' majority in the House of Commons. It was a close election and he campaigned hard. Macdonald died a few months after the election.
John Abbott succeeded Macdonald as Conservative leader and Prime Minister. Abbott's most famous political comment was "I hate politics."
This was Wilfrid Laurier's first election as leader of the Liberals. Although he lost this election, he increased the Liberals' support and returned in 1896 to win a solid majority.
[edit] National results
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1887 | Elected | Change | # | % | Change | ||||
| Conservative | John A. Macdonald | 187 | 87 | 97 | +11.5% | 332,961 | 42.96% | +2.80 % | |
| Liberal-Conservative | 25 | 24 | 20 | -16.7% | 43,557 | 5.62% | 1.64% | ||
| Liberal |
|
194 | 79 | 90 | +13.9% | 350,512 | 45.22% | +2.09% | |
| Independent Conservative | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | 15,045 | 1.94% | +0.38% | ||
| Independent | 4 | 3 | 2 | -66.7% | 6,357 | 0.82% | -0.42% | ||
| Nationalist | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | -1 | 0.00% | -0.66% | ||
| Independent Liberal | 2 | 5 | 1 | -80% | 5,573 | 0.72% | -1.45% | ||
| Nationalist Conservative | 1 | 2 | 1 | -50% | 1,271 | 0.16% | -0.32% | ||
| Unknown | 14 | 1 | - | -100% | 16,890 | 2.18% | -1.15% | ||
| Equal Rights | 2 | * | - | * | 2,455 | 0.32% | * | ||
| Progressive2 | 2 | * | - | * | 468 | 0.06% | * | ||
| Total | 436 | 205 | 215 | +4.9% | 775,089 | 100% | |||
| Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867 | |||||||||
Notes:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
1 One Nationalist candidate was elected by acclamation.
2 The Parliamentary website identifies two candidates in Nova Scotia as being “Progressives”. This may be an error.
Acclamations:
The following Members of Parliament were elected by acclamation;
- British Columbia: 1 Conservative, 1 Liberal-Conservative
- Manitoba: 1 Conservative
- Ontario: 1 Conservative
- Quebec: 1 Conservative, 2 Liberal, 1 Nationalist
[edit] Results by province
| Party name | BC | NW | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Seats: | 5 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 24 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 97 | |
| Popular vote (%): | 71.6 | 81.0 | 12.6 | 42.2 | 45.4 | 48.9 | 41.9 | 48.5 | 43.0 | ||
| Liberal-Conservative | Seats: | 1 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 20 | |||
| Vote (%): | 40.5 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 3.7 | 10.8 | 5.6 | |||||
| Liberal | Seats: | - | - | 1 | 44 | 33 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 90 | |
| Vote (%): | 28.4 | 19.0 | 46.9 | 49.1 | 45.9 | 41.3 | 43.6 | 41.0 | 45.2 | ||
| Independent Conservative | Seats: | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Vote (%): | 1.3 | 5.9 | 1.9 | ||||||||
| Independent | Seats: | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | ||||||
| Vote (%): | 0.7 | 1.2 | 3.2 | 0.8 | |||||||
| Nationalist | Seats: | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Vote (%): | - | - | |||||||||
| Independent Liberal | Seats: | - | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Vote (%): | 2.9 | 10.5 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Nationalist Conservative | Seats: | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Vote (%): | 0.7 | 0.2 | |||||||||
| Total seats | 6 | 4 | 5 | 92 | 65 | 16 | 21 | 6 | 215 | ||
| Parties that won no seats: | |||||||||||
| Unknown | Vote (%): | 2.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.2 | ||||||
| Equal Rights | Vote (%): | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Progressive | Vote (%): | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||||||||
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