Talk:Federal minority governments in Canada

message: Hmm, the Conservatives have only 40.3% of the seats.  I started looking through historical results, and got back through the 1960's, but still couldn't find a government that had the most seats, but had fewer than 40.3%.  Did I miss something?  This would make this a very weak minority government! Nfitz 07:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there was one.  In fact, there have been minority governments where the second place party led the government and still had a higher percentage than the Conservatives presently do.  Could be the weakest government on record (parliamentary speaking), but I'll keep looking.  --Otter Escaping North 16:10, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at the first couple of elections.  It's an odd situation.  The Conservatives won with less than 40% in 1867 and 1872 (with 31.5%).  The problem is, Macdonald was the leader of the Conservatives and the Liberal-Conservatives, and so controlled both parties.  Anyway, check it out - very weird.  --Otter Escaping North 16:24, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

text: So would it be fair to say (given that Macdonald essentially governed as a majority) that this is the weakest minority government since Confederation? Nfitz 02:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been walking around saying just that.  --Otter Escaping North 13:58, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minority government with smallest percentage of seats 

message: This would require some real live research and citations from reliable secondary sources, but it would be interesting to know why formal coalition governments never really became a part of Canadian political culture, considering that minority governments seem to happen fairly frequently there.  I'm interested in how the election in Quebec will play out in this regard: would there be any way for the second and third parties to form a government if they agreed formally or informally to support one another? --Jfruh (talk) 01:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons for absence of formal coalitions? 

message: I am not sure why the historical Conservative Party of Canada should have the same colour as the Progressive Conservatives rather than the new Conservative Party of Canada. If people insist on differentiating be the historical party and the new party a third colour would be more accurate than lumping all past variations of the centre-right party in Canada with the same colour.
Schoeppe 00:25, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This has been debated at length elsewhere, and consensus was that all the historical Conservative Parties were legally just name changes, whereas the new one is the product of a merge and legally a new party.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:05, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Party Colours

message: Where is Brian Mulroney in this page? How come he is not shown? 99.243.193.64 (talk) 02:31, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Mulroney never led nor was involved with a minority government. - SimonP (talk) 13:47, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Where is Brian Mulroney in this page?

message: Contrary to Stephen Harper's propaganda, the longest minority in Canadian history was King's 1921 minority, followed by Pearson's 1965 minority.  So anyway, I'm taking the part out that says Harper's was the longest.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingerbreadmen (talk • contribs) 14:38, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Longest minority government"

message: According to the Wikipedia article Canadian federal election, 1872, there were 200 seats in the House and the Conservatives won 99; wouldn't this be a minority, then? 24.64.165.129 (talk) 16:22, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Our source does not consider it to be a minority government because there were two Independent Conservative MPs and one Conservative-Labour MP.  However, it might be worth mentioning the 1872 Parliament somewhere in the article.  --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 01:54, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1872 

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