Canadian federal election, 1904

Canadian federal election, 1904
Canada
November 3, 1904

214 seats in the 10th Canadian Parliament
108 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Wilfrid Laurier Robert Borden
Party Liberal Conservative
Leader since 1887 1901
Leader's seat Quebec East Halifax (lost re-election)
Last election 128 seats, 50.3% 79 seats, 46.1%
Seats won 137 75
Seat change Increase9 Decrease4
Popular vote 521,041 470,430
Percentage 50.9% 45.9%
Swing Increase0.6% Decrease0.2%


Prime Minister before election

Wilfrid Laurier
Liberal

Prime Minister-designate

Wilfrid Laurier
Liberal

The Canadian federal election of 1904 was held on November 3 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier led the Liberal Party of Canada to a third term in government, with an increased majority, and over half of the popular vote.

Sir Robert Borden's Conservatives and Liberal-Conservatives were unable to challenge the Liberals effectively, and lost a small portion of their popular vote, along with four seats, including his own. Borden re-entered parliament the next year in a by-election.

Voter turnout: 71.6%.[1]

National results

The Canadian parliament after the 1904 election
137 75 2
Liberal Conservative O
Party Party leader # of
candidates
Seats Popular vote
1900 Elected Change # % Change
     Liberal Wilfrid Laurier 208 128 137 +7.0% 521,041 50.88% +0.63pp
     Conservative Robert Borden 199 69 70 +1.4% 454 693 44.40% +1.18pp
     Liberal-Conservative 6 10 5 -50.0% 15,737 1.54% -1.34pp
     Independent 6 3 1 -66.7% 10,205 1.45% -0.40pp
     Independent Conservative 2 1 1 - 5,039 0.49% -0.57pp
     Unknown 13 - - - 11,659 1.14% +1.14pp
Labour   2 - - - 2,159 0.21% -0.10pp
Socialist   3 * - * 1,794 0.18% *
     Nationalist   1 * - * 1,429 0.14% *
     Independent Liberal 3 1 - -100% 309 0.03% -0.48pp
Total 443 213 214 +0.5% 1,024,065 100%  
Sources: http://www.elections.ca -- History of Federal Ridings since 1867

Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.

Results by province

Party BC NW MB ON QC NB NS PE YK Total
     Liberal Seats: 7 7 7 37 53 7 18 1 - 137
     Popular Vote (%): 49.5 58.4 49.7 47.5 55.1 51.0 52.9 49.1 41.4 50.9
     Conservative Seats: - 2 3 44 12 5 - 3 1 70
     Vote (%): 38.8 37.8 41.8 46.3 43.0 42.0 44.5 50.9 58.6 44.4
     Liberal-Conservative Seats:   1   3   1       5
     Vote (%):   3.8   2.1   6.8       1.5
     Independent Seats:   - - 1 -   -     1
     Vote (%):   xx 5.8 0.6 1.3   1.6     1.0
     Independent Conservative Seats:       1           1
     Vote (%):       1.2           0.5
Total seats 7 10 10 86 65 13 18 4 1 214
Parties that won no seats:
     Unknown Vote (%): 4.6     2.4 xx         1.1
Labour Vote (%):     2.7   0.7     0.8     0.2
Socialist Vote (%): 7.1                 0.2
     Nationalist Vote (%):         0.6         0.5
     Independent Liberal Vote (%):       xx   0.2 0.1     xx

xx - indicates less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

Vote and seat summaries

Popular vote
Liberal
 
50.88%
Conservative
 
45.94%
Others
 
3.18%
Seat totals
Liberal
 
64.02%
Conservative
 
35.05%
Others
 
0.93%

See also

References

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