Liberal Party of Canada
Electoral performance

Liberal Party of Canada

Section Title: Electoral performance
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Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Government

1867	George Brown	60,818	22.6	62 / 180	62	2nd	Opposition

1872	Edward Blake	110,556	34.7	95 / 200	33	2nd	Opposition

1874	Alexander Mackenzie	128,455	39.4	129 / 206	34	1st	Majority

1878	180,074	33.0	63 / 206	66	2nd	Opposition

1882	Edward Blake	160,547	31.1	73 / 211	10	2nd	Opposition

1887	312,736	43.1	80 / 215	7	2nd	Opposition

1891	Wilfrid Laurier	350,512	45.2	90 / 215	10	2nd	Opposition

1896	350,512	45.2	117 / 213	27	1st	Majority

1900	477,758	50.2	128 / 213	11	1st	Majority

1904	521,041	50.8	137 / 214	9	1st	Majority

1908	570,311	48.8	133 / 221	4	1st	Majority

1911	596,871	45.8	85 / 221	48	2nd	Opposition

1917	729,756	38.8	82 / 235	3	2nd	Opposition

1921	Mackenzie King	1,285,998	41.1	118 / 235	36	1st	Majority

1925	1,252,684	39.7	100 / 245	18	2nd	Minority

1926	1,397,031	42.9	116 / 245	16	1st	Minority

1930	1,716,798	44.0	89 / 245	27	2nd	Opposition

1935	1,967,839	44.6	173 / 245	84	1st	Majority

1940	2,365,979	51.3	179 / 245	6	1st	Majority

1945	2,086,545	39.7	118 / 245	61	1st	Minority

1949	Louis St. Laurent	2,874,813	49.1	191 / 262	73	1st	Majority

1953	2,731,633	48.4	169 / 265	22	1st	Majority

1957	2,702,573	40.5	105 / 265	64	2nd	Opposition

1958	Lester Pearson	2,432,953	33.4	48 / 265	67	2nd	Opposition

1962	2,846,589	36.9	99 / 265	51	2nd	Opposition

1963	3,276,996	41.4	128 / 265	29	1st	Minority

1965	3,099,521	40.1	131 / 265	3	1st	Minority

1968	Pierre Trudeau	3,686,801	45.3	154 / 264	23	1st	Majority

1972	3,717,804	38.4	109 / 264	46	1st	Minority

1974	4,102,853	43.1	141 / 264	32	1st	Majority

1979	4,595,319	40.1	114 / 282	27	2nd	Opposition

1980	4,855,425	44.3	147 / 282	33	1st	Majority

1984	John Turner	3,516,486	28.0	40 / 282	107	2nd	Opposition

1988	4,205,072	31.9	83 / 295	43	2nd	Opposition

1993	Jean Chrétien	5,647,952	41.2	177 / 295	94	1st	Majority

1997	4,994,277	38.4	155 / 301	22	1st	Majority

2000	5,252,031	40.8	172 / 301	17	1st	Majority

2004	Paul Martin	4,982,220	36.7	135 / 308	37	1st	Minority

2006	4,479,415	30.2	103 / 308	32	2nd	Opposition

2008	Stéphane Dion	3,633,185	26.2	77 / 308	26	2nd	Opposition

2011	Michael Ignatieff	2,783,175	18.9	34 / 308	43	3rd	Third party

2015	Justin Trudeau	6,928,055	39.5	184 / 338	150	1st	Majority

2019	TBD	TBD	0 / 338

Sentence(s)

Jean Chrétien won with a majority of 177 seats.

final_sentence: Jean Chrétien won with a majority of 177 seats.