1984 Canadian federal election

The **1984 Canadian federal election** was held on September 4 of that year to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 33rd Parliament of Canada.

_All numerical results from Elections Canada's Official Report on the Thirty-Third Election._

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|align="center"|1980|align="center"|<span style="font-size: 75%;">Dissolution</span>|align="center"|**Elected**|align="center"|% Change|align="center"|#|align="center"|%|align="center"|Change|Progressive Conservative|Brian Mulroney|align="right"|282|align="right"|103|align="right"|100|align="right"|**211**|align="right"|+104.9%|align="right"|6,278,818|align="right"|50.03%|align="right"|+17.59pp|Liberal|John Turner|align="right"|282|align="right"|147|align="right"|135|align="right"|**40**|align="right"|-72.8%|align="right"|3,516,486|align="right"|28.02%|align="right"|-16.32pp|New Democratic|Ed Broadbent|align="right"|282|align="right"|32|align="right"|31|align="right"|**30**|align="right"|-6.3%|align="right"|2,359,915|align="right"|18.81%|align="right"|-0.97pp|colspan="2"|No affiliation<sup>1</sup>|align="right"|20|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|**1**|align="right"||align="right"|39,298|align="right"|0.31%|align="right"|+0.29pp|Cornelius the First|align="right"|88|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|99,178|align="right"|0.79%|align="right"|-0.22pp|Parti nationaliste du Québec<sup>2</sup>|Denis Monière|align="right"|74|align="right"|*|align="right"|*|align="right"|-|align="right"|*|align="right"|85,865|align="right"|0.68%|align="right"|*|Elmer Knutson|align="right"|55|align="right"|*|align="right"|*|align="right"|-|align="right"|*|align="right"|65,655|align="right"|0.52%|align="right"|*|Trevor Hancock|align="right"|60|align="right"|*|align="right"|*|align="right"|-|align="right"|*|align="right"|26,921|align="right"|0.21%|align="right"|*|Victor Levis|align="right"|72|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|23,514|align="right"|0.19%|align="right"|+0.05pp|colspan="2"|Independent|align="right"|65|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|22,067|align="right"|0.18%|align="right"|+0.04pp|Ken Sweigard|align="right"|51|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|16,659|align="right"|0.13%|align="right"|-1.56pp|William Kashtan|align="right"|51|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|7,479|align="right"|0.06%|align="right"|+x|Gilles Gervais|align="right"|66|align="right"|*|align="right"|*|align="right"|-|align="right"|*|align="right"|7,007|align="right"|0.06%|align="right"|*|
|rowspan="2"||colspan="4"|Vacant|align="right"|15|align="center" colspan="5"|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|colspan="2"|**Total**|align="right"|**1,449**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**282**|align="right"|**-**|align="right"|**12,548,862**|align="right"|**100%**|align="right"|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|align="center" colspan="11"|**Sources:** http://www.elections.ca—History of Federal Ridings since 1867||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

**Notes:**

"% change" refers to change from previous election.

x – less than 0.05% of the popular vote.

<sup>1</sup> **Tony Roman** was elected in the Toronto-area riding of York North as a "coalition candidate", defeating incumbent PC MP John Gamble. Roman drew support from Progressive Conservatives who were upset by Gamble's extreme right-wing views.

<sup>2</sup> Results of the Parti nationaliste du Québec are compared to those of the Union Populaire in the 1980 election.

The Revolutionary Workers League fielded five candidates: Michel Dugré, Katy Le Rougetel, Larry Johnston, Bonnie Geddes and Bill Burgess.  All appeared on the ballot as independent or non-affiliated candidates, as the party was unregistered.

## 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"|Progressive Conservative|Seats:|align="right"|19|align="right"|21|align="right"|9|align="right"|9|align="right"|67|align="right"|58|align="right"|9|align="right"|9|align="right"|3|align="right"|4|align="right"|2|align="right"|1|align="right"|211|Popular Vote:|align="right"|46.6|align="right"|68.8|align="right"|41.7|align="right"|43.2|align="right"|47.6|align="right"|50.2|align="right"|53.6|align="right"|50.7|align="right"|52.0|align="right"|57.6|align="right"|41.3|align="right"|56.8|align="right"|50.0|rowspan="2"|Liberal|Seats:|align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|1|align="right"|14|align="right"|17|align="right"|1|align="right"|2|align="right"|1|align="right"|3|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|40|Vote:|align="right"|16.4|align="right"|12.7|align="right"|18.2|align="right"|21.8|align="right"|29.8|align="right"|35.4|align="right"|31.9|align="right"|33.6|align="right"|41.0|align="right"|36.4|align="right"|26.9|align="right"|21.7|align="right"|28.0|rowspan="2"|New Democratic Party|Seats:|align="right"|8|align="right"|-|align="right"|5|align="right"|4|align="right"|13|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"|30|Vote:|align="right"|35.1|align="right"|14.1|align="right"|38.4|align="right"|27.2|align="right"|20.8|align="right"|8.8|align="right"|14.1|align="right"|15.2|align="right"|6.5|align="right"|5.8|align="right"|28.2|align="right"|16.1|align="right"|18.8|rowspan="2"|No affiliation|Seats:|align="right"|-|align="right"|-|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1|align="right"|-|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|-|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1|Vote:|align="right"|xx|align="right"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.8|align="right"|xx|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.4|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.3||||||||||||||||||||||||
|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"|0.4|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|2.4|align="right"||align="right"|0.3|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|1.1|align="right"|0.8|Nationaliste|Vote:|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|2.5|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.7|Vote:|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|2.2|align="right"|1.3|align="right"|6.7|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.5|Vote:|align="right"|0.6|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.2|Vote:|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"|4.4|align="right"|0.2|Independent|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.5|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.4|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.3|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|3.5|align="right"||align="right"|0.2|Vote:|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.6|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.2|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.1|Vote:|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"||align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|align="right"|0.1|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"|0.2|align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"||align="right"|0.0|

### Notes

- **Number of parties**: 11
    - **First appearance**: Confederation of Regions Party of Canada, Green Party of Canada, Party for the Commonwealth of Canada
    - **Final appearance**: _none_
    - **First-and-only appearance**: Parti nationaliste du Québec

## Infobox (election)

- **election name**: 1984 Canadian federal election
- **country**: Canada
- **type**: parliamentary
- **ongoing**: no
- **party colour**: no
- **party name**: no
- **turnout**: 75.3% (6.0Percentage Point, pp)
- **previous election**: 1980 Canadian federal election
- **previous year**: 1980
- **previous mps**: 32nd Canadian Parliament
- **next election**: 1988 Canadian federal election
- **next year**: 1988
- **elected mps**: 33th Canadian Parliament
- **seats for election**: 282 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons
- **majority seats**: 142
- **election date**: September 4, 1984
- **image1**:
- **leader1**: Brian Mulroney
- **leader since1**: 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election, June 11, 1983
- **leaders seat1**: Manicouagan (electoral district), Manicouagan
- **last election1**: 103 seats, 32.45%
- **seats before1**: 100
- **seats1**: **211**
- **seat change1**: 111
- **popular vote1**: **6,278,818**
- **percentage1**: **50.03%**
- **swing1**: 17.59Percentage Point, pp
- **leader2**: John Turner
- **leader since2**: 1984 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election, June 16, 1984
- **leaders seat2**: Vancouver Quadra
- **last election2**: 147 seats, 44.34%
- **seats before2**: 135
- **seats2**: 40
- **seat change2**: 95
- **popular vote2**: 3,516,486
- **percentage2**: 28.02%
- **swing2**: 16.32Percentage Point, pp
- **image3**:
- **leader3**: Ed Broadbent
- **leader since3**: 1975 New Democratic Party leadership election, July 7, 1975
- **leaders seat3**: Oshawa (electoral district), Oshawa
- **last election3**: 32 seats, 19.77%
- **seats before3**: 31
- **seats3**: 30
- **seat change3**: 1
- **popular vote3**: 2,359,915
- **percentage3**: 18.81%
- **swing3**: 0.97Percentage Point, pp
- **map image**: Canada 1984 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**: John Turner
- **after election**: Brian Mulroney