1980 Canadian federal election

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

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|align="center"|1979|align="center"|<span style="font-size: 75%;">Dissolution</span>|align="center"|**Elected**|align="center"|% Change|align="center"|#|align="center"|%|align="center"|Change|Liberal|Pierre Trudeau|align="right"|282|align="right"|114|align="right"|114|align="right"|**147**|align="right"|+28.9%|align="right"|4,855,425|align="right"|44.34%|align="right"|+4.23pp|Progressive Conservative|Joe Clark|align="right"|282|align="right"|136|align="right"|136|align="right"|**103**|align="right"|-24.3%|align="right"|3,552,994|align="right"|32.45%|align="right"|-3.44pp|New Democratic Party|Ed Broadbent|align="right"|280|align="right"|26|align="right"|27|align="right"|**32**|align="right"|+23.1%|align="right"|2,165,087|align="right"|19.77%|align="right"|+1.89pp|Fabien Roy|align="right"|81|align="right"|6|align="right"|5|align="right"|-|align="right"|-100%|align="right"|185,486|align="right"|1.70%|align="right"|-2.91pp|Cornelius I|align="right"|121|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"||align="right"|110,597|align="right"|1.01%|align="right"|+0.46pp|Hardial Bains|align="right"|177|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|14,728|align="right"|0.13%|align="right"|+0.01pp||align="right"|58|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|14,656|align="right"|0.13%|align="right"|-0.01pp||align="right"|54|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|14,474|align="right"|0.13%|align="right"|-0.04pp|colspan=2|Independent|align="right"|55|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|14,472|align="right"|0.13%|align="right"|-0.13pp|colspan=2|Unknown|align="right"|41|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|12,532|align="right"|0.11%|align="right"|-0.07pp|William Kashtan|align="right"|52|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|6,022|align="right"|0.05%|align="right"|-0.02pp|colspan=2|No affiliation|align="right"|14|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|3,063|align="right"|0.03%|align="right"|+0.03pp|
|colspan=3|**Total**|align="right"|**1,497**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**-**|align="right"|**10,949,536**|align="right"|**100%**|align="right"||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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**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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|style="background:lightcoral;width:52.1%;color:white;"|**147**|style="background:#9999ff;width:36.5%;color:white;"|**103**|style="background:sandybrown;width:11.3%;color:white;"|**32**|
|style="color:lightcoral;"|**Liberal**|style="color:#9999ff;"|**Progressive Conservative**|style="color:sandybrown;"|**NDP**|

## Results by province

|align="center" colspan=3|Party name|align="center"|BC|align="center"|AB|align="center"|SK|align="center"|MB|align="center"|ON|align="center"|QC|align="center"|NB|align="center"|NS|align="center"|PE|align="center"|NL|align="center"|NT|align="center"|YK|align="center"|Total|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|rowspan=2|Liberal|Seats:|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|2|align="right"|52|align="right"|74|align="right"|7|align="right"|5|align="right"|2|align="right"|5|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|147|Popular Vote:|align="right"|22.2|align="right"|22.2|align="right"|24.3|align="right"|28.0|align="right"|41.9|align="right"|68.2|align="right"|50.1|align="right"|39.9|align="right"|46.8|align="right"|47.0|align="right"|35.8|align="right"|39.6|align="right"|44.3|rowspan=2|Progressive Conservative|Seats:|align="right"|16|align="right"|21|align="right"|7|align="right"|5|align="right"|38|align="right"|1|align="right"|3|align="right"|6|align="right"|2|align="right"|2|align="right"|1|align="right"|1|align="right"|103|Vote:|align="right"|41.5|align="right"|64.9|align="right"|38.9|align="right"|37.7|align="right"|35.5|align="right"|12.6|align="right"|32.5|align="right"|38.7|align="right"|46.3|align="right"|36.0|align="right"|24.7|align="right"|40.6|align="right"|32.4|rowspan=2|New Democratic Party|Seats:|align="right"|12|align="right"|-|align="right"|7|align="right"|7|align="right"|5|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|32|Vote:|align="right"|35.3|align="right"|10.3|align="right"|36.3|align="right"|33.5|align="right"|21.8|align="right"|9.1|align="right"|16.2|align="right"|20.9|align="right"|6.6|align="right"|16.7|align="right"|38.4|align="right"|19.8|align="right"|19.8|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan=3|**Total seats:**|align="right"|**28**|align="right"|**21**|align="right"|**14**|align="right"|**14**|align="right"|**95**|align="right"|**75**|align="right"|**10**|align="right"|**11**|align="right"|**4**|align="right"|**7**|align="right"|**2**|align="right"|**1**|align="right"|**282**|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan=16|**Parties that won no seats:**|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|1.0|align="right"|xx|align="right"||align="right"|xx|align="right"|5.9|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1.7|Vote:|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.7|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|3.0|align="right"|0.5|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1.1|align="right"||align="right"|1.0|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|xx|align="right"|xx|align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|xx|align="right"||align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|xx|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.5|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Independent|Vote:|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Non-Affiliated|Vote:|align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.5|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.3|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|xx|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|No affiliation|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|xx|

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

## Notes

- **Number of parties**: 9
    - **First appearance**: _none_
    - **Final appearance**: Union populaire
    - **Final appearance before hiatus**: Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada (returned in 1993)

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 1980 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **turnout**: 69.3% (6.4Percentage Point, pp)
- **previous election**: 1979 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 1979
- **previous mps**: 31st Canadian Parliament
- **next election**: 1984 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 1984
- **elected mps**: 32nd Canadian Parliament
- **seats for election**: 282 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 142
- **election date**: February 18, 1980
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Pierre Trudeau
- **leader since1**: 1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, April 6, 1968
- **leaders seat1**: Mount Royal (electoral district), Mount Royal
- **last election1**: 114 seats, 40.11%
- **seats before1**: 114
- **seats1**: **147**
- **seat change1**: 33
- **popular vote1**: **4,855,425**
- **percentage1**: **44.34%**
- **swing1**: 4.23Percentage Point, pp
- **image2**:
- **leader2**: Joe Clark
- **leader since2**: 1976 Progressive Conservative leadership election, February 22, 1976
- **leaders seat2**: Yellowhead (electoral district), Yellowhead
- **last election2**: 136 seats, 35.89%
- **seats before2**: 136
- **seats2**: 103
- **seat change2**: 33
- **popular vote2**: 3,552,994
- **percentage2**: 32.45%
- **swing2**: 3.44Percentage Point, pp
- **image4**:
- **leader4**: Ed Broadbent
- **leader since4**: 1975 New Democratic Party leadership election, July 7, 1975
- **leaders seat4**: Oshawa (electoral district), Oshawa
- **last election4**: 26 seats, 17.88%
- **seats before4**: 27
- **seats4**: 32
- **seat change4**: 5
- **popular vote4**: 2,165,087
- **percentage4**: 19.77%
- **swing4**: 1.89Percentage Point, pp
- **image5**: <div style="width:100%;"><span style="line-height:175px; vertical-align:center; text-align:center; color:; font-size:38px;"> **SC**</span></div>
- **leader5**: Fabien Roy
- **leader since5**: Social Credit Party of Canada, March 30, 1979
- **leaders seat5**: Beauce (electoral district), Beauce _(lost re-election)_
- **last election5**: 6 seats, 4.61%
- **seats before5**: 5
- **seats5**: 0
- **seat change5**: 5
- **popular vote5**: 185,486
- **percentage5**: 1.70%
- **swing5**: 2.91Percentage Point, pp
- **map image**: Canada 1980 Federal Election.svg
- **map size**: 400px
- **map caption**: 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.
- **title**: Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **before election**: Joe Clark
- **after election**: Pierre Trudeau