1988 Canadian federal election

The **1988 Canadian federal election** was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 34th Parliament of Canada.

## National results

For a complete list of MPs elected in the 1988 election see 34th Canadian Parliament.

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|align="center"|1984|align="center"|<span style="font-size: 75%;">Dissol.</span>|align="center"|**Elected**|align="center"|% Change|align="center"|#|align="center"|%|align="center"|Change|Progressive Conservative|Brian Mulroney|align="right"|295|align="right"|211|align="right"|203|align="right"|**169**|align="right"|-19.9%|align="right"|5,667,543|align="right"|43.02%|align="right"|-7.02pp|Liberal|John Turner|align="right"|294|align="right"|40|align="right"|38|align="right"|**83**|align="center"|+107.5%|align="right"|4,205,072|align="right"|31.92%|align="right"|+3.89pp|New Democratic Party|Ed Broadbent|align="right"|295|align="right"|30|align="right"|32|align="right"|**43**|align="right"|+34.4%|align="right"|2,685,263|align="right"|20.38%|align="right"|+1.57pp|Preston Manning|align="right"|72|align="right"|*|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|*|align="right"|275,767|align="right"|2.09%|align="right"|*|Ed Vanwoudenberg|align="right"|63|align="right"|*|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|*|align="right"|102,533|align="right"|0.78%|align="right"|*|Cornelius I|align="right"|74|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|52,173|align="right"|0.40%|align="right"|-0.39pp|Seymour Trieger|align="right"|68|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|47,228|align="right"|0.36%|align="right"|+0.14pp|Elmer Knutson|align="right"|51|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|41,342|align="right"|0.31%|align="right"|-0.68pp|Dennis Corrigan|align="right"|88|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|33,135|align="right"|0.25%|align="right"|+0.06pp|colspan=2|No affiliation|align="right"|100|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"||align="right"|24,516|align="right"|0.19%|align="right"|-0.12pp|colspan=2|Independent|align="right"|55|align="right"|1|align="right"|4|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|22,982|align="right"|0.17%|align="right"|-0.01pp|Gilles Gervais|align="right"|58|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|7,467|align="right"|0.06%|align="right"|-0.21pp|George Hewison|align="right"|51|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|7,066|align="right"|0.05%|align="right"|-0.01pp|Harvey Lainson|align="right"|9|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|3,407|align="right"|0.03%|align="right"|-0.10pp|
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|colspan=2|**Total**|align="right"|**1,573**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**295**|align="right"|**+4.6%**|align="right"|**13,175,494**|align="right"|**100%**|align="right"|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

**Note:**

"% change" refers to change from previous election

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|style="color:#9999ff"|Progressive Conservative|style="color:lightcoral"|Liberal|style="color:sandybrown"|NDP|

## Results by province

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|rowspan=2|Progressive Conservative|Seats:|align="right"|12|align="right"|25|align="right"|4|align="right"|7|align="right"|46|align="right"|63|align="right"|5|align="right"|5|align="right"|-|align="right"|2|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|169|Popular Vote:|align="right"|35.3|align="right"|51.8|align="right"|36.4|align="right"|36.9|align="right"|38.2|align="right"|52.7|align="right"|40.4|align="right"|40.9|align="right"|41.5|align="right"|42.2|align="right"|26.4|align="right"|35.3|align="right"|43.0|rowspan=2|Liberal|Seats:|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|5|align="right"|43|align="right"|12|align="right"|5|align="right"|6|align="right"|4|align="right"|5|align="right"|2|align="right"|-|align="right"|83|Vote:|align="right"|20.4|align="right"|13.7|align="right"|18.2|align="right"|36.5|align="right"|38.9|align="right"|30.3|align="right"|45.4|align="right"|46.5|align="right"|49.9|align="right"|45.0|align="right"|41.4|align="right"|11.3|align="right"|31.9|rowspan=2|New Democratic Party|Seats:|align="right"|19|align="right"|1|align="right"|10|align="right"|2|align="right"|10|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|43|Vote:|align="right"|37.0|align="right"|17.4|align="right"|44.2|align="right"|21.3|align="right"|20.1|align="right"|14.4|align="right"|9.3|align="right"|11.4|align="right"|7.5|align="right"|12.4|align="right"|28.3|align="right"|51.4|align="right"|20.38||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan=3|**Total seats**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan=16|**Parties that won no seats:**|Vote:|align="right"|4.8|align="right"|15.4|align="right"||align="right"|3.3|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|2.1|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"|1.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1.4|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|2.0|align="right"|0.8|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1.2|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.4|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.4|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|4.3|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.3|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.3|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.2|align="right"||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"||align="right"||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"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|xx|Other|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.4|

xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

Note: Parties that captured less than 1% of the vote in a province are not recorded.

## Notes

- **Number of parties**: 11
    - **First appearance**: Christian Heritage Party, Reform Party
    - **Final appearance**: Confederation of Regions Party, Social Credit Party
    - **Final appearance before hiatus**: Communist Party (returned in 2000), Rhinoceros Party (returned in 2006)

## Further reading

- Argyle, Ray. _Turning Points: The Campaigns That Changed Canada - 2011 and Before_ (2011) excerpt and text search ch 14

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 1988 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **turnout**: 75.3%
()
- **opinion polls**: Opinion polling for the 1988 Canadian federal election
- **previous election**: 1984 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 1984
- **previous mps**: 33rd Canadian Parliament
- **next election**: 1993 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 1993
- **elected mps**: 34th Canadian Parliament
- **seats for election**: 295 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 148
- **election date**: November 21, 1988
- **image size**: x160px
- **leader1**: Brian Mulroney
- **leader since1**: 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election, June 11, 1983
- **leaders seat1**: Charlevoix (federal electoral district), Charlevoix
- **last election1**: 211 seats, 50.03%
- **seats before1**: 203
- **seats1**: **169**
- **seat change1**: 34
- **popular vote1**: **5,667,543**
- **percentage1**: **43.02%**
- **swing1**: 7.01Percentage Point, pp
- **leader2**: John Turner
- **leader since2**: 1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, June 16, 1984
- **leaders seat2**: Vancouver Quadra
- **last election2**: 40 seats, 28.02%
- **seats before2**: 38
- **seats2**: 83
- **seat change2**: 45
- **popular vote2**: 4,205,072
- **percentage2**: 31.92%
- **swing2**: 3.89Percentage Point, pp
- **leader3**: Ed Broadbent
- **leader since3**: 1975 New Democratic Party leadership election, July 7, 1975
- **leaders seat3**: Oshawa (federal electoral district), Oshawa
- **last election3**: 30 seats, 18.81%
- **seats before3**: 32
- **seats3**: 43
- **seat change3**: 11
- **popular vote3**: 2,685,263
- **percentage3**: 20.38%
- **swing3**: 1.57Percentage Point, pp
- **title**: Prime Minister
- **posttitle**: Prime Minister after election
- **before election**: Brian Mulroney
- **after election**: Brian Mulroney
- **map2 image**: Cdn1988.PNG
- **map2 caption**: The Canadian parliament after the 1988 election